• Senior Information Technology professional with 15 + years experience
• Experienced in Small Start up and large Enterprise companies
• Reliable and effective leader which provides vision and makes decisions balancing
technology, process, and business aspects of problems
• Enjoys building and mentoring global software development teams
• Experience in Business Development in the organization and outside of the organization
• Strong background in customer escalations and direct interaction
• End to End support for any of the product aspects - Cloud,virtualization, management, networking,performance and scale, stability, security, maintainability, Storage, availability and up to end user experience (GUI level).
• Strong communication and Business development skills
• Leading and Coordinating large scale projects (over 150 men years per project)
• Deep Understanding in the development Agile/Scrum Process
• Managing Large Scale budgets - over 50M$
• Direct and Matrix Management of test and software engineers
• Daily work with Outside Vendor services in Israel and India
• Analyzing and Implementing Big Data
Coordinating and promoting the BU financial activities: - Budget controlling - Quarterly/Annual budget approval - Coordination with Financial department - Coordination with Vendor companies - Coordination with equipment and 3rd party suppliers - Contract management
Leading the NMS/EMS IL Group Agile activities - Implementing the Agile methodology in the group - Agile Tool on boarding - Agile Process/Workflow design - Agile PM for ICF Agile teams
Cisco Systems, Cloud virtualization and Systems Management Technology Group EMS/NMS - Service Provider (Element Management / Network Management) Responsible for Engineering of software product(s): - Storm -- EMS/NMS product focused on providing Network Assurance features for IP networks including core, aggregate, edge and data center/cloud infrastructures, Carrier Ethernet Responsible for delivering Network Management software products for Tier 1/2/3 Services Providers supporting Carrier Ethernet, Mobility, and Data Center/Cloud infrastructure virtual environments. Responsible for leading global software engineering organization - ~ 140 people across 2 sites -- Israel; India. Including Development, QA, IT, Project Management teams. Promoting complex multidisciplinary projects, close interaction with different BU Directors and VP's. Market research and development, coordination with external product companies ( Sonar, HP, Ebay, EMC...) Large Scale Project (150 men years) and large scale budget ( 50 M$) management Direct and Matrix team management, close interaction with outsourcing services in Israel and India, including equipment and HR suppliers Agile/Scrum group master , leading the change in the process cross Israel site Working with Big Data - large scale databases based on Oracle and Pentaho
• Managing the QA, Development, Sustain (PS) , off-shore team of cloud based Unified storage virtual based solution, including implementation and support for all available thirdparty vendors (EMC, IBM, HDS, XIO etc..), with replication and proxy migration. • Remote Offshore teams in India and United States • Release Management , build/compilations management.
Developing the Customer relationship, recruiting potential customers, establishing new partnership. Leading the marketing and the fundraising activities of the automatic troubleshooting system in the software domains, providing low level analysis and automatic corrective actions. - Fully automatic correlations, multi OS support. - Compatible with more than 15,000 resolutions and fixes. - Self learning AI. - Multi DB support
Managing Software QA Group, intelligent fabric testing
• Direct Managing seven teams , four QA Teams (three products), Sustain team, Application team, and remote Dev team (matrix management). • Matrix Managing Offshore teams • Hands on
Software QA Engineer, testing Cisco & Brocade Fabrics
Managing the IT Department of 20 IT engineers (3000 end units) and 15 Networking instructors (CCNA certification path)
Managing 15 Instructors and network experts
