Asher Diamant

Experience

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  Comverse

  Jan 1993 - Oct 2010

  * Led a team of highly professional and experienced solution managers and architects. Planned and organized suitable training for the team.* Answered RFP’s with sales teams and product experts, supported pre-sale activities and presented Comverse’s products and solutions to major telecom operators.* Created custom solutions for visual voice mail and VPIM messaging in major Tier 1 telecom operators in North and Latin America.* Analyzed capacity and traffic requirements of multiple advanced services in telecom operators’ networks, for sizing systems for millions of users in an effective manner and to advance sales of capacity expansions. Show less

  • Solution and Product Management, Director

    Jan 2008 - Oct 2010

  • Director, Handset Software Team

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  • Director of System Engineering and Product Management

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  • Sr. System Engineer

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2004

  • R&D Group Manager

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  • R&D Team Leader and System Architect

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  • R&D Team Leader

    Jan 1995 - Jan 1999

  • R&D Software Engineer

    Jan 1993 - Jan 1995
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  MediaFriends Inc.

  Jul 2011 - Nov 2011

  Director of Business Intelligence

  HeyWire's mobile social messaging platform is connecting people and Brands around the world in better ways using IP messaging, SMS to 45 countries, Facebook Chat and Twitter, synchronized across virtually any Internet-connected device.* Designed and built a data warehouse on MS-SQLserver. Developed tools to automate user and messaging data collection and display in a cloud environment. Aggregated entire historical data archives.* Developed SQL programs to automate data collection and analytics.* Built an ETL infrastructure to retrieve daily messaging data from the operational servers into the DW Show less

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  Comverse

  Sept 2012 - Apr 2013

  Product Sales Expert

  * Developed business case for upgrading existing voicemail system to next generation (~$40M) at a major tier 1 mobile operator* Sizing and tracking of capacity calculations for major US telecom operators’ voicemail systems* Answered RFP’s with sales teams and product experts, supported pre-sale activities and presented

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  Verizon

  Apr 2013 - now

  Distinguished Engineer

  * Built a data analytics pipeline based on Splunk* Developed a capacity model for DNS servers* Developing Quality of Experience(QoE) measurement infrastructure strategy and architecture* Developing models and methods to improve the customer QoE and CDN metrics. Initial results showed improvement of over 20% in rebuffering performance.* Collecting and analyzing QoE data analytics with customer trials and providing directions for performance improvement.* Built a CDN layered capacity model.* Provided architectural support for Advanced Advertising on the CDN. Designed parts of the protocol between the client and the CDN. Show less