Dotan Dimet

Skills:

• Excellent written and oral communications skills, English and Hebrew.
• Deep knowledge of web development, HTTP, CGI, HTML, DOM and CSS.
• Strong programming skills, with focus on Perl, PHP, C/C++, Javascript.
• Strong knowledge of UNIX environment and applications development.
• Solid familiarity with Oracle and MySQL databases.

Work Experience:

February 2002 - present:

Programmer in Evogene bioinformatics team.

• Designed and built a database for comparing gene expression between multiple plant species, for data mining of genes for commercially valuable traits.
• Data mining in collaboration with plant biologists, designing queries (Oracle SQL) and reports (using Perl, HTML, DBI, Bio::Perl).
• Development of data mining tools for biologists

January 2001 - December 2002:

Programmer at Compugen, LabOnWeb and Gencarta products

• Responsible for maintaining and developing LabOnWeb, a Web site providing online bioinformatic services.
• Modified, updated and performed general troubleshooting on iRACE, a distributed sequence extension and analysis service.
• Worked together with a web designer on an overhaul of the Web site's appearance. Created a template-based system to quickly apply design changes to multiple pages. Implemented various improvements to site navigation and to its user management system.
• Maintained and carried out additional required development on a MySQL database-powered support site for the Oligolibraries DNA chips product.
• Served as Technology expert assisting other developers with Web GUI-related issues (HTML, CSS, Javascript).
• Participated in Perl Coding Standards Committee, defining recommended best practices for programming and process for carrying out code reviews.

June 1999 - December 2000:

Programmer at Sungard Business Integration (formerly MINT), in the Knowledge Manager team.

• Profiling and performance improvements of existing C++ application code.
• Ported C++ libraries and applications from Windows NT/MSVC/MFC to Solaris, AIX and HP Unix native compilers.
• Requirements analysis, design and initial coding of a tool for comparing and merging hierarchical data definition objects.

November 1995 - April 1999:

Technical writer, webmaster and pre-sales support assistant at SoftLink Ltd, under Yossi Moriel.

• Wrote and edited full documentation (manuals, online help) for FastCopy, FastLogic and fmonitor products, as well as promotional materials.
• Created and maintained the corporate Web site including HTML, graphics and CGI.
• Designed a system for a customer for automatic, controlled file exchange between UNIX (SCO) and VMS, using shell scripts and the company's FastCopy and FastLogic file-transfer and scheduling products.

Education:

Academics:

1993 - 1996:

Research student, Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Tel-Aviv University. Worked under Dr. Niza Frenkel in mapping the genome of Human Herpes Virus 7, with the goal of isolating the origin of replication.

1990 - 1993:

B.Sc. Biology completed with honors, Tel-Aviv University.

Training:

1996 - 1997:

Vocational training course, Information Systems Software Engineering, IBM. Subjects studied included C/C++ programming, Databases (ACCESS and SQL), UNIX (AIX) development basics and Visual Basic.

Freelance Writing:

1999 - 2000:

Techimage, scriptwriting for animated 3D greeting cards.

1995:

SGH multimedia, scriptwriting for Internet adult multimedia game.

1993 - 1998:

Shocken newspaper network, writing magazine articles, reviews and fiction for "Hadashot", "Zomet HaSharon", "Ha'ir", "Kol Ha'ir"

Military Service:

1986 - 1989:

Military service in the Intelligence corps.