Director · Educator · Advisor

Michael Tivin

Ph.D.

Building high quality, stable, large scale products

Israel

Always trying to find the most effective way to build a product or innovate an idea. Leading teams, teaching entrepreneurship, and advising startups.

Experience

Jun 2022 — Present

Director of Software Engineering & Innovation

Akamai Technologies · Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Leading group of talented people developing End Point Security Solutions (SaaS, On Prem, PaaS)
  • Managing distributed teams across IL, Spain, Ukraine, Netherlands, Canada, Ireland
  • Building quality, scale, infrastructure for endpoint security product
  • Managing all BU annual budget; defining quality and delivery KPIs
  • Customer interaction with Fortune 500 leading customers
Jan 2025 — Present

Faculty Lecturer — Information Technology

Ramat Gan Academic College

Nov 2024 — Present

Business and Technology Advisor

Primary Venture Partners

Feb 2022 — Present

Entrepreneurship Lecturer

Bar-Ilan University

Oct 2021 — Present

Senior Lecturer — Executive MBA Program

Ono Academic College · Kiryat Ono, Israel

Innovation and Entrepreneurship lecturer

Jun 2019 — Present

Guest Speaker

eSpeakIn — Learn with Asia's Largest Network of Experts

Dec 2017 — Present

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Mentor

IDC Herzliya · Volunteering

Business and technology mentor

Jan 2018 — Present

Advisory Board Member — Innovation and Startup Development Board

IDU Israel Directors Union · Volunteering

Technology advisor, startup evaluator, process improvement

Jun 2023 — May 2024

Entrepreneurship Lecturer

The College of Management Academic Studies · Rishon LeZion

Mar 2021 — May 2024

Director, Board of Directors

Stealth Mode Startup

Mar 2022 — Aug 2023

Guest Entrepreneurship Lecturer

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Oct 2018 — May 2023

Director, Board of Directors

Skillinn

Aug 2017 — Jun 2022

Advisory Board Member

The Israel Chamber of Information Technologies · Volunteering

Leading Innovation and Entrepreneurship Board activities; startup community development

Oct 2016 — Jun 2022

Cisco — 5 years 9 months

Senior Engineering & Innovation Manager · Service Provider Group

  • Product development, QA, Automation, CI/CD, Lab, Performance & Scale
  • Process excellence, change management, agile implementation
  • Coaching and developing engineers and managers
  • Internal and open innovation activities
Aug 2012 — Oct 2016

Engineering & Innovation Manager

Cisco · Service Provider Group · Netanya, Israel

Product development, QA, Automation, CI/CD, agile implementation and mentoring

May 2019 — Jan 2022

Mentor

8200 Impact · Volunteering

Dec 2015 — Dec 2018

Technology Process and Entrepreneurship Lecturer

The College for Academic Studies · Or Yehuda

Big Data, Agile, Six Sigma, Data Analytics, Clouds, Smart Cities, AI, process optimization; steering committee for BA and MBA programs

Jan 2015 — Jun 2018

Board Member — ITCB Advisory Board

Israeli Testing Certification Board · Volunteering

Leading academic and marketing ITCB areas

Sep 2011 — Aug 2012

Manager — Engineering Operations

Dot Hill Systems (Cloverleaf) · Petah Tikva

Unified Virtual Storage; remote offshore teams; Release Management, QA, Development, Automation

Dec 2008 — Sep 2011

QA and Automation Engineering Manager

EMC · Storage and Replication · Ramat Gan

Managing Front end Development, QA and Sustain groups; direct and matrix managing offshore

Nov 2006 — Dec 2008

Software QA Team Leader

KASHYA (acquired by EMC) · Storage and Replication

Managing Software QA Group, intelligent fabric testing

Jul 2004 — Jul 2006

Senior IT Manager & Networking Consultant

IDF — Israeli Army

Managing IT Department of 20 engineers (3000 end units), 15 Networking instructors (CCNA path)

Aug 2000 — Aug 2002

Senior Networking Instructor

IDF — Israeli Army

CCNA/CCNP certification path

Skills & Certifications

Core Expertise

  • Virtualization
  • Storage
  • Cloud Computing
  • Software Engineering
  • Agile & CI/CD

Certifications

  • ISTQB
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
  • CSM — Certified Scrum Master
  • Green belt Security Ninja
  • CCNA

Languages

  • Hebrew — Native
  • English — Native
  • Russian — Native

Education

2015 — 2021

Ph.D. — Business Administration and Management

Swiss Management Center

2010 — 2012

MBA — Marketing

The College for Academic Studies

2007 — 2010

B.Sc. — Computer Science, Software Development

University of Derby

Contact

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