Ecommerce, CMS and Digital Projects Consultancy

Providing full cycle software development and delivery of customized eCommerce and CMS systems

New York, USA

Company

2-5 Employees

1 Project

Contact

ABOUT

Over 20-years of international experience with technology and innovation:

⫸ 9-years with eCommerce and CMS software development & implementation of systems as a consultancy practice.

⫸ 10-years with semantic web and computational linguistics, having founded a technology startup endeavor in this field, FocalPursuit.

Some of my accomplishments:

➠ Awarded a grant sponsored by Intel Corporation via Office of the Chief scientist (CSO) for a semi supervised semantic-web and web crawler solutions, unstructured data
➠ Bootstrapped eCommerce software development consulting practice and have led numerous implementations for wholesale and retail businesses.
➠ Contributor to the Zen Cart open source community - Developer of RTL UTF-8 bidirectional language releases for Zen Cart

LANGUAGES

English

Native or bilingual proficiency

Hebrew

Native or bilingual proficiency

SKILL DETAILS

Sales & Marketing

Search Engine Optimization - SEO

international and domestic SEO experience - law firms, heavy industry and retail

Writing & Editing

Business Plan Writing

Professional writer with strong experience in preparing comprehensive business plans in support of the investment funding process... Venture Capital, private investors as well as grant submissions.

Technical Writing

Technical writing in support of patent submissions, technical specs and product manuals

Copywriting

Professional English Copywriter with extensive experience in preparing article submissions to international trade publications.

Software & Programming

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

Software customizations and developing above leading CMS and eCommerce platforms

Product manager

Management of the development and delivery of software solutions

Websites

Ecommerce - PayPal, Magento, Stripe, etc.

Delivery of eCommerce solutions and payment API integrations

Joomla

Content Management Systems based on Joomla

WordPress

Customizations and Solutions

Ecommerce (Amazon, eBay, etc.)

Software development and delivery of customized and integrated solutions

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

December 2010 - Today

Consultant

Ecommerce, CMS and Digital Projects Consultancy , Brooklyn

Ecommerce, CMS and Digital Projects Consultancy, New York, NY and (Israel) 2015 – Present (2010 – 2015)
Self-Employed Consultant/Entrepreneur (www.eranariel.com )
Development & delivery of wholesale/retail solutions from selection of technologies - industries: real-estate, event services, food/beverages, fashion, legal, industrial, and nonprofit.
Current platforms: WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento 2, Joomla, Amazon FBA integration, Zen Cart
• Developing customized solutions on leading platforms covering payment solutions, operations, inventory & Amazon FBA, analytics, CC&B, design, optimization, promotion, and social media shopping integration
• Solution selling in conjunction with hands on development and outsourcing
• Working with business owners and executives as interface between business and technology
• Contract offshore development 3rd parties
• LAMP Stack, PHP, JavaScript, Ubuntu Linux, MySQL/MariaDB, BIRT, Optimization SEO technologies, Elementor
• My projects portfolio page: https://eranariel.com/my-projects

April 2009 - Today

Founder

FocalPursuit Ltd. (Startup) , Brooklyn

FocalPursuit Ltd. (Startup), New York, NY and (Israel) 2015 – Present and (2009 – 2015)
Founder/Entrepreneur (www.focalpursuit.com)
Established initially as an equity partnership with the University of Haifa in Israel, this startup is developing a vertical search platform for professional search applied in the fields of business, technology, scientific and military intelligence: a semi-supervised and iterative ontology guided crawling engine/solution to help professionals’ benefit from unstructured data sources located in the public domain - OSINT(Open-Source Intelligence) solutions for commercial/civilian use
• Developed firsthand the OrbWeaver solution: Java EE, JSP, JavaScript AJAX, Java Servlets, MySQL, Apache Tomcat Coyote, HTML, CSS: full stack development
• Developing algorithms for seed comparison and omission: supporting multiple sources simultaneously as multiple search engines
• Developing algorithms using Term Frequency (TF/IDF), Bayesian statistics, game theory, and patterns of speech/parts of speech assessment
• Vision, technology development, business & marketing strategy
• Led all aspects of the venture, legal & finance with a team of three engineers: head of engineering, senior software developer, junior programmer

COURSES & CERTIFICATIONS

PSM I

Scrum.org

PSM I, Professional SCRUM Master Certification, USA (Scrum.org)

Solution Selling

SPI International

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Business

The College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS)

BBA, Major/Marketing, Minor/Finance, The College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS), Tel Aviv, Israel

Associates

Ben Gurion University of The Negev

University-preparatory, Certificate of Israeli Matriculations, Social Sciences Faculty, Ben Gurion University of The Negev, Beersheba, Israel

VOLUNTEER WORK

2013 - Today

Member of the Internet Committee

The Grand Lodge of the State of Israel, , Tel Aviv, Israel

http://www.freemasonry-israel.org.il

ARMED FORCES

Meteorologist & Forward Observer

Artillery Corps

Staff Sergeant rank in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Artillery Corps Meteorologist, Forward Observer & Operations Sergeant – 3-years of conscripted service and reservist thereafter

LINKS

eranariel.com

eCommerce and CMS Software Development

eCommerce and CMS development and customization using leading technologies as Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, Zen Cart, Joomla, Amazon Integration, JavaScript, PHP and Java - Brooklyn NY

focalpursuit.com

Ontology Guided Focused Crawling Ontologies | Computational Linguistics

FocalPursuit develops a solution applied for unstructured data within the public domain. The application is a semi-supervised ontology guided focused crawler technology that uses computational linguistics to obtain meaninful data from unstructured content It is an OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) technology used for business and scientific research purposes.

eranariel.com

eCommerce and CMS Software Development

eCommerce and CMS development and customization using leading technologies as Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, Zen Cart, Joomla, Amazon Integration, JavaScript, PHP and Java - Brooklyn NY