Avi Rosenthal

Some assignments carried out by me include: • Defining Roadmap to SOA and architectures evolution for a large Insurance company • Analyzing a new SOA suite released by a large global vendor for a leading software house distributing that vendor's products in Israel. The analysis includes the strengths and considerations of the suite in comparison to other SOA solutions, SOA market and technologies maturity, trends & directions and deeper analysis of the Israeli SOA market. • Consulting to HP on SOA perspective to a bid for a large organization project. The assignment included analyzing SOA support by a leading applications package and complimentary Solutions, integration with other systems and coexisting with current legacy systems during migration period. • Leading the SOA Forum of the Israeli Association of Information Processing. The SOA Forum members are leading managers and technology experts in Israel, trying to expand and update their knowledge and share their experience and ideas about SOA. • Writing articles on SOA and Web Services. • Lecturing on SOA and Web Services in conferences, moderated the SBC SOA & Web Services conference and was interviewed by local technology magazine about • Playing a key role in an assessment of a CRM solution for the largest health care organization in Israel, analyzing their current solution (Siebel), market trends and acquisition of Siebel by Oracle, including Composite Applications and SOA directions in next generation CRM products. • Creating a technological roadmap for a large global integration and outsourcing company. We honor the company’s request to keep the company’s name and the consultancy details secret. • Participating in a consulting project by Gartner Group consulting for a banking company in Greece, Evaluating Security, Technology and Architecture and performing a Penetration Test. • Working for Giga Information Group as a consultant. Assignments included strategic CRM consulting to a mortgage bank, Web-To-Host and Workflow products evaluation, directions for addressing global and local regulation in the banking sector and a lecture on ERP and CRM trends in a conference. • Consulting a large Telecom company in Israel in Integration tools (EAI, Workflow, and BPM) selection process. • Playing a key role in a design team for one of the largest banks in Israel, Evaluating core banking packages and frameworks for rebuilding the core banking application and building new architecture based on the selected integrator framework on new infrastructure (J2EE, Multi tier architecture, including Web Application Server, Thin Client with browser). The framework selected was a Service Based Framework. The integrator selected was EDS. EDS's solution was a general banking framework developed by EDS banking laboratory based on SOA and UML. • Selecting Integration tools, Application Development tools and RDBMS for a software house specializing in solutions for customs agencies. • Configuring the EAI (Enterprise Applications Integration) layer, based on MQ technology, for a large project. • Evaluating IT infrastructure for several companies and government agencies. • Assessing the security aspects (tools & procedures) for several companies and government agencies. • Evaluating new products on behalf of Venture Capital companies.