Highly creative software developer with 6 years of experience in designing and developing Distributed Command and Control systems. Hard worker, fast learner, like new challenges and a strong believer in team playing.

Senior Software Engineer @ From September 2014 to August 2015 (1 year) System Architect & Senior sotware developer @ Designed and implemented a mission critical Command & Control system: The system merge and manipulate data from several sources in a near real time environment and distributes it to a custom geographical based clients. - Designed the entities model and hierarchy. - Managed change requests from the system users. - Designed a research tool. - Designed and implement custom binary and XML based protocols. - Lead performance improvements in the client by redesign of the data access layer. - Performance tuning in TimesTen (in memory DB). - Wide changes in the project JPA infrastructure including provider changing (from OpenJPA to Hibernate). - client architecture. Technologies: Java, Oracle DB, TimesTen, JPA(OpenJPA, Hibernate), JMS, Linux. From September 2011 to August 2014 (3 years) Software Developer @ Design and implementation of tracking solutions in a near real time mission critical software. - Infrastructure maintenance of a complex distributed system. - Research and improve tracking algorithms. - Design custom protocols. Technologies: C\C++, Linux scripting, UNIX (AIX). From February 2009 to September 2011 (2 years 8 months)

Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science @ The Interdisciplinary Center From 2012 to 2015 Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science @ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev From 2005 to 2008 Avihad Menahem is skilled in: Java, System Architecture, Object Oriented Design, Algorithms, C++, Design Patterns, Linux, Hibernate, SQL, Multithreading, Shell Scripting, OOP