Valery Arkhangorodsky

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Hi, 

Welcome to my personal page. After living in Israel for almost 8 years we are now living in Maple near Toronto, Canada. Several [web]sites in our vicinity here:

Toronto.com - Toronto's most popular site
Digital City
Toronto Star newspaper
Canadiana Vaughan - "The City Above Toronto"
York Region
Toronto Pearson International Airport (Arrivals)
York Region School Board
McMichael Art Gallery
Movies
Radio
Ontario Ski Patrol
Georgian Peaks
More Skiing in Canada

I could write a long story about our first experiences in Canada, but lot of people already did that and we seem to be just another case of fairly successful re-settlement, so I'll just skip this part.

I was born in St.Petersburg, Russia and moved to Israel with the wave of immigration in late 1990. And now in Canada, my third country, Piter is still the most beautiful city. Here are some sites with the views of The City.


I am married and have probably the niciest daughter  in the world. Here is one more picture of her with the granddaddy Marat, my father. In Israel we lived in Ashdod - a small city near the sea. Here is Michal in the city country club. If you feel ready for more great photos go to our online album. Ashdod enjoys quite an influx of Russian-speaking population recently - look at this site.

I am a computer programmer by trade and a physisist by vocation. I graduated from St.Petersburg Technical University (it was called Polytechnical Institute then and the city was called Leningrad) majoring in semiconductor physics and technology. Some more views of the Alma-Mater are here. I worked for about 3 years in the A.F.Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute before moving to Israel in 1990.

You may always find my resume on this page.

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I started working in Servicesoft, a company "Bringing Customer Service to Life on the Internet". I am responsible for integrating company's award-winning LiveContact® product with customer support call centers.

Before that I worked at Efrat Future Technologies, known by its parent firm Comverse. I specialize in communications software, extensible frameworks and messaging software.

My previous working place is T.i.S. - an Israel-based software house producing high end document imaging solutions and image-enabled data entry systems. It was then that I traveled all over the world helping company's customers and designing custom solutions.

My wife Alexandra studied Physics in Jerusalem University. She then worked for a while for DenX - a small software start-up that is designing an imaging software for dental equipment. She spent nearly two years with Motorola Communications. She also worked at a cool place called i4i (Infrastructures for Information) doing XML tools for large documentation projects. And she is with Metamail now doing even cooler stuff.

We have a boy - Arkady. He was born on Oct. 16 '1996 and is the cutest boy this side of Universe. Keep tuned! His more recent picture here.

Here are some photos from our November 1996 trip to Eilat - a Red sea resort. That's what late November is like in our places. Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3. You may find better quality photos in our Online Photo Album.

I am a great ski fun. Now that we live in Canada, finding a place to ski is easy. We usually go to Mount St. Louis / Moonstone resort. It is just an hour driving north from us. And the kids (4 and 6) are now old enough to join us. Other places in Ontario:

Ontario Ski Resorts - A nice ski portal
Another Ontario Ski page
Ontario Ski Patrol
Georgian Peaks
Mount St. Louis / Moonstone
Blue Mountain
North York Ski Centre - a place in the city
Alpine Ontario South - Ontario's division of Alpine Canada Racing org.
Back in Russia our favorite place to ski was Khibiny hills in the Far North Kola Peninsula. Few photos of that fabulous place. And there is something quite special about the sky there. Look here to discover it yourself.

If you look for more hot Russian alpine skiing stuff don't miss this site (in Russian). One American Skiing site if you don't speak Russian (or managed to forget :).

I will add more here in the nearest future - keep watching on! 

Links to other sites on the Web

The domain of this page - GeoCities
Servicesoft Technologies site
Comverse Technology site
T.i.S. site
my e-mail in this domain

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Last modified February 18, 2000