email: yaron AT goland DOT org

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Objective

Be part of an outstanding team building massively scalable software infrastructures where I can contribute my skills as a software architect, strategic planner and standards expert.

Work experience

04/06

Microsoft

Redmond, WA

Director of Technology

• PM Architect responsible for direction of Live's external web services strategy. Also responsible for leading competitive responses.

• Drive introducing new web service technologies to Microsoft. Examples include Microsoft's control technology and third party permissioning technology.

04/02 – 04/06

BEA Systems

Seattle, WA

Director of Technology

• As a member of the office of the CTO, provided leadership in BEA's cross company/cross product standards and technology strategy including owning BEA's 2-4 year technology strategy & Utility Computing road maps.

• Leading contributor to the Web Services Business Process Execution Language 2.0 (BPEL) standard. Lead author on BEA's web service reliable messaging specification stack. Co-authored first version of BPEL for Java (BPELJ).

2/01 – 3/02

Openwave

Bellevue, WA

Staff Architect

• Founding member of the Liberty Alliance Project, responsible for applying technologies such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, SAML, XMLDSIG, etc. to create a set of open standards to enable using a single identity across multiple websites (single sign on).

• Chief Technologist for the messaging division, responsible for product strategy for e-mail & unified messaging, drove Session Initiation Protocol (SIP a.k.a. Voice over IP) and Multi-Media Messaging Service (MMS) strategies.

2/00 – 1/01

Crossgain, Inc.

Redmond, WA

Product Manager

• Contributed to design and prototype the programming model for a multi-machine, multi-tier network application development/deployment environment.

• Lead company wide effort to define corporate security policy covering physical, data center and software development security issues.

8/96 – 2/00

Microsoft

Redmond, WA

Program Manager

• Lead Microsoft's Universal Plug & Play (UPnP) network design team to ship UPnP in Windows Millennium Edition (ME)

• Lead author on WebDAV standard, coordinated delivery of WebDAV functionality across Microsoft's year 2000 product line.

• Provided design guidance, specifications and leadership for the WinInet team in IE 4.0 & 5.0 resulting in IE being the first HTTP/1.1 compliant commercial browser.

10/94 – 8/96

CoreTech

Los Angeles, CA

General Partner

• Invented the Host Routing Multicast Engine (HRME) to help build robust/scalable/affordable networks of computers for distributing data and chat over the Internet.

Education

1990 – 1995

UCLA

Los Angeles, CA

B.S. – Computer Science and Engineering