David Movshovitz

Dr. David Movshovitz is an expert in software development and information security. He is teaching academic courses on Information Technology, System Architecture, Developing Secure Applications, and Web-Security in Inter Disciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzalia, in Tel-Aviv University (TAU), in Academic college of Tel-Aviv-Yafo (MTA), and in Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) . Dr. Movshovitz headed a R&D team in the IDF that has earned the Israeli Defense Award for professional excellence. After his departure from the military, Dr. Movshovitz has served in senior R&D positions in the Hi-Tech industry (e.g. Elscint, Taldor Group, F5 Networks). Dr. Movshovitz was a co-founder and VP R&D at Algotec Systems Ltd. that was acquired by Kodak, a CTO and VP R&D of Magnifire Ltd. that was acquired by F5 Networks, and a CTO and co-founder of Navajo Systems Ltd. that has been acquired by Salesforce.com. Dr. Movshovitz earned his doctorate in Physics from Bar-Ilan University.

Courses

• Digital Product Architecture and Design
• Introduction to cyber security
• Introduction to Digital Technology
• Data Science Implementation for Entrepreneurs
• Intelligence and Big Data
• Mobile Application Security
• Introduction to cyber security
• Cyber security
• Technical Aspects of Cyber-Security
• Building Secure Applications

Areas of Effectiveness:

• Information Security and Infrastructure Security
• Application Security and Web Application Security
• Risk analysis and threat modeling
• System & Application Architecture
• Interactive Media Technologies (internet, cellular, interactive TV, etc.)
• Large scale project management (including both R&D and Operation management)
• Financial IT Systems
• Digital signal, image processing (especially in medical imaging)
• Optimization algorithms and techniques
• Software products/projects development & management, including the entire
• product/project life cycle (from product/project definition, requirement specification, design, implementation, integration, Q&A, deployment, etc.)

Employment Record:

• 2008-Current: Independent consultant and teaching academic courses in information security and system architecture at the Inter Disciplinary Center (IDC) Herzelia, Tel-Aviv University, and Tel-Aviv College
• 2011-Current: V.P. Technology, Salesforce.com
• 2009-2011: CTO (Co-Founder), Navajo Systems (acquired by Salesforce.com)
• 2006-2008: V.P. Security Technologies, F5 Networks
• 2004-2006: V.P. Product Development, F5 Networks
• 2002-2004: CTO & V.P. R&D, Magnifire (acquired by F5 Networks)
• 1999-2002: V.P. Product Development, Taldor Group
• 1996-1999: CTO (Founder), NetAccess
• 1993-1996: V.P. R&D (Co-Founder), Algotec Systems (acquired by Kodak)
• 1992: R&D Team Manager, Elscint Ltd.
• 1989-1992: Consultant to IDF, Convex Israel, Robcad, Tadiran, Optrotek, etc.
• 1985-1989: R&D team member and then team leader, IDF