I am a consultant, MySQL authorized instructor and DBA. I'm a software developer and an instructor.
I can be contacted at: shlomi[at]openark.org

Public awards

• Oracle Technologist of the Year: Developer award
• Oracle ACE
• MySQL Community Member of the Year, 2009 award.

Experience

Owner & CTO At S.F.N.K Ltd.

A business intelligence service provider company, with a large base of customers. I am the chief architect and developer of the company's product.

MySQL instructor at Interbit C&T

Building and delivering original training for MySQL

Past experience

MySQL consultant

Providing MySQL consulting: design, deployment, maintenance, and optimization services.

Software developer, hired and freelance, at various projects and locations.

Extensive experience with building Java/J2EE applications, C/C++ desktop & server applications.

Java instructor at the Open University of Israel.

Education

MSc in Computer Science (pending), The Open University of Israel

BA in Computer Sciences, The Open University of Israel

Specialties

MySQL (design, maintenance, performance tuning)
Java (core, J2EE, Spring framework, Velocity)
C/C++ (gcc, Visual C++/MFC, C++ Builder)
Web (HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, XML)
Python, Unix scripting
Linux, Tomcat.
SQL

Contribution

Author of mycheckpoint and openark kit.

Author of code.openark.org posts.