- Developed a number of organizational behavior change programs to reduce email overload,
which have been deployed with good results across Intel and in a number of other major companies.
- Led pilot evaluations in Intel of "No Email Friday" and "Quiet Time".
- Developed the "Email Effectiveness Coach", a real time software tool that helps users achieve
productive mailing behavior, and the "Email Wizard", a web-based best practices training application.
Both were put to good use in Intel and in other companies.
- Founder and President of the "Information Overload Research Group", an international Industry/Academia
non-profit interest group working on Information Overload solution R&D.
- Published a
seminal paper on the impact of Information Overload.
- Advised numerous companies worldwide on how to apply solutions, including a number of Fortune
500 corporations.
- Drove creation of the "IT Technology Community" across Intel.
- Developed and co-chaired Intel's first global professional IT conference.
- Co-developed and coached a week-long "Leading through Technology" workshop for IT
engineers.
- Created and managed the Engineering Training function in Intel's Jerusalem manufacturing
plant.
- Initiated and mentored the Learning Center of the Intel Jerusalem campus.
- Advised Intel groups in Israel and worldwide on the design of programs for career development
and mentoring for Individual Contributors.
- Coached and mentored numerous individual engineers seeking career advice.
- Lectured on "Technical Leadership career path" to internal audiences and employee development
workshops in Israel and worldwide.
- Developed and delivered a "Global Skills" lecture to workshops on global culture.
- Founded and led Intel's Virtual Collaboration Research Team (VCRT), a cross-organizational
group of visionaries that identified future collaboration paradigms, defined best practices
for effective meetings, and prototyped and patented innovative products for enhancing trust
in global teams.
- Created with the VCRT a web-based training program for Effective Virtual Team meetings,
and deployed it across the corporation.
- Defined a set of best practices and policies for optimal adoption of Instant Messaging in
an enterprise, then developed and deployed the required behavior training program.
- Ran pilot evaluations of a variety of innovative collaboration tools.
- Consulted a number of large corporations about Collaboration technology.
- Initiated, developed and drove adoption of the Telecommuting program that is now an integral
part of HR practices across Intel Corporation.
- Played a key role in the transformation of Intel from a Desktop-tethered workplace to a
fully mobile Notebook-based environment.
- Advised a number of companies in Israel, as well as the Israel Civil Service commission,
on Telecommuting implementation.
- Served on the "Distance Working" committee of the Israel telecommunications ministry.
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Advised Intel product groups on future trends and opportunities in Mobility space.
- Lectured widely on "Work Anywhere" in various external forums and conferences.
- Defined Intel's Internet policy, including the HR/Legal aspects of balanced personal use,
thereby accelerating the company's adoption and harnessing of the Web's potential.
- Drove Internet assimilation into Intel's Israel site, including the development of the site's
Intranet presence and user training development and deployment.
- Increased Internet literacy and employee trust by driving a program of Personal Web page
creation, including development of page creation tools and diverse marketing actions.
- Served on Intel Corporation's global Intranet advisory board.
- Published extensively on the external Intel IT blog.
- Advised various companies on web presence creation.
- Taught a variety of Internet literacy classes at Intel and outside.
- Served as Intel sponsor of the HiTec business incubator in Jerusalem.
- Evaluated startups for Intel's Business Development (VC) arm.
- Mentored five startup companies over time.
- Advised over 20 startups from Israel, Europe and America about their product design and
business strategy.
- Served as a member of the Customer Advisory Council of Microsoft's Innovation Greenhouse.
- Lectured on "The Internet’s impact on ethics and education requirements" to multiple internal
and external audiences, notably high school educators.
- Lectured on "Employee Development in an Online World" to internal and external groups of
HR managers.
- Taught a class on "Data mining on UseNet" at Intel in Israel and worldwide.
- Developed and delivered a variety of lectures on the Microelectronics industry and related
subjects to numerous audiences of educators, students and the community at large.
- Developed
and delivered a "Global Skills" lecture to internal global culture workshops.
- Taught "New
Employee Orientation" at Intel University on a regular basis for over 20 years, always using
self-developed materials, to continued acclaim.
- Initiated and built Intel's Academic and Research relations program in Israel, including
systems for academic research grants, student scholarships, and extended education for Intel
employees.
- Led a program for training Intel engineers to become volunteer assistant high school teachers.
- Helped Intel community relations in the design of visitor centers, visitor presentations,
events and exhibits, and created the "Century of Computing" exhibit displayed by Intel worldwide.
- Led the creation of a computer lab at the Hebrew University's Belmonte center for high school
students.
- Defined and launched a program for drug abuse education in the schools, in cooperation with
the relevant government agencies.
- Advised colleges, schools and science museums on a variety of education subjects.
- Represented Intel in the advisory committee of the High Technology college in Nazareth.
- Led Intel's involvement in the Junior Achievement program, and taught in it personally.
- Initiated and realized ITshareNet, a joint effort of eight companies and universities that
allowed IT practitioners to upload and share complete solutions and research results, and to
form collaborative groups with their peers.
- Participated in the "Millennium Project", a collaboration between Intel and other large
corporations to explore and cooperate on developing knowledge management strategies.
- Advised Intel Israel centers on the preservation of knowledge in the face of employee reassignment.
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Coached workgroups for "The learning organization" in the Jerusalem Intel manufacturing plant.
- Developed and applied a formal "Knowledge Packet" methodology for sharing internal knowledge
among companies.
- Member, Israel KM Managers' Forum.
- Created and managed the Intel Israel site IT training function, serving over 5000 users.
- Invented the "Email Effectiveness Coach", a Just-in-Time training tool integrated with the
email client that helps users improve mailing behavior. Used at Intel and by other companies.
- Developed the "Email Wizard", a lightweight web-based best practices training application.
Used at Intel and by other companies.
- Co-developed "WizGen", an application generator that permits rapid creation of Web based
training wizard tools. This has been used at Intel and commercialized externally.
- Developed a rapid flash-based training concept applied at Intel and elsewhere.
- Developed a Personal Coaching paradigm enabling relatively unskilled personnel to deliver
effective one on one IT Productivity training.
- Led the Intel Israel site "Office 2000+" team that examined new workplace paradigms.
- Led definition and implementation of a meeting center and nomad worker hub in the Tel Aviv
area.
- Defined and implemented a "Virtual Office" solution for location-agnostic mobile employees.
- Initiated and implemented development of a "Unified Inbox" solution for email-integrated
faxing, in support of mobile workers.
- Advised Intel groups worldwide on alternative office options and lessons.
- Started up and managed the Intel Jerusalem plant's Q&R department, which was Intel's first
in-plant QA setup and a model for future plants.
- Introduced the Deming methodology, Baldrige prize requirements and ISO 9000 to Intel's Israel
site.
- Developed and deployed a comprehensive Statistical Process Control implementation in VLSI
manufacturing plant..
- Invented and deployed a Self-Audit system that was then copied across Intel corporation.
- Implemented and facilitated the 7-step problem solving methodology across the Jerusalem
plant.
- Coached Intel Israel groups in Total Quality Management.
- Coached Quality improvement teams ("Quality Circles").
- Served as lab officer and expert witness on tool marks & materials crime scene evidence.
- Developed new technologies and methods for the application of Scanning Electron Microscopy
and X-Ray Microanalysis to criminal evidence.
- Brought up and managed a Scanning Electron
Microscopy laboratory.
- Developed and delivered a training program for Crime Scene Technicians
nationwide.
So - if you've read this far, shouldn't we talk?
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Technical
Leadership Development
Distributed
Team collaboration
Mobility
and Work/Life Balance
Internet
and Web 2.0 adoption
High-tech
Startup incubation
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and Lecturing
Education
and Community Relations
Knowledge
Management
Innovative
Training methods
Alternative
Office paradigms
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Quality Management
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