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New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

Managing all aspects of Product and Technology at Aspect-Health

Denver, Co, Us

Worked with business stakeholders to improve a $1Bn/y funnel efficiency, impacting conversion, repeat use, cancellation reduction and lead quality (top-of-funnel) improvements at scale with ~1Mm monthly site visits.Developed a product vision and roadmap around our users (pros and consumers) needs and pain points, by establishing best practices for collecting feedback pre and post conversion. Evangelize the vision and influenced multiple teams to come together and build cross functional (mobile, desktop, pro/consumer) initiatives that would work together to improve our most important metrics across all these teams.Identified an opportunity in mobile web and native mobile and reset the organizational focus to improve those specific experiences - this lead to a 2x improvement in mWeb conversion over a period of 6 months.Collaborated across multiple stakeholders including engineering, design, marketing, business and category managers and analytics teams to ensure all are aligned to the overarching vision, while having the correct level of understanding of the day to day progress being made. Prioritized between competing initiatives, managed tradeoffs and evaluated opportunistic new ideas with stakeholders, driving to consensus while maintaining a clear focus on overarching business priorities.Identified the correct lagging metrics and, through analytical research, came up with multiple proxy leading metrics that helped ensure our validation of the various initiatives.Ran a plethora of short validation experiments and A/B tests at scale, while also using usability studies, research and market analysis in order to ensure the prioritization we set forth is based on data learning from one experiment to the next. Instituted a learning mechanism by which stakeholders come together to ensure any failed experiment has value to the entire organization and to decide on how to attack the issue from a different front.

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

Performed a redesign of the mobile user journey to increase engagement over a 12-14 month journey.Performed user interviews to identify the pain points and reasons for churn.Prioritized various features and removed others based on analytical data (usage, cast, etc) as well as business value (lead generation).Sunset various features and initiatives to increase focus on KPIs and revenue-generating OKRs as defined at the company and team level.Worked with several teams, both local and remote (China, India) with high satisfaction.

New York, Ny, Us

Product Manager on the Marketing and Analytic tools vertical, supporting Squarespace's 1 Million+ customers by providing them the ability to manage their online presence and their customer base in an effective and easy to use way. In charge of multiple projects designed to form the foundation of SQSPs online store management experience. During my tenure, I ran multiple experiments, user studies and employed various validation techniques to ensure our product moves the appropriate needle. Defined OKRs, managed the agile process of the team, created an atmosphere where all voices are heard and considered - from including engineers in early prototyping phases and gathering early feedback, through informing a large swath of stakeholders of our progress and various challenges to creating a go-to-market plan, work out pricing and clear all legal concerns. Delivered high quality products and maintained a high level of CSat along the way, both from internal stakeholders and from external customers.Managed an extensive and ever changing backlog, prioritized (sometimes ruthlessly) in order to deliver the most user value in the quickest way possible. Defined analytic collection methodology to ensure validation of the User Experience as well as the value generated for the user.

Head of mobile product management, in charge of Zipari's Mobile portfolio.Created and launched Horizon BCBSNJ's member portal application and productized it for resale across the healthcare industry.Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.horizonblue.memberportaliOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/horizon-blue/id1356335647Led the product group of 4 engineers, 2 designers, QA and Program Manager from the product and strategy perspective.Managed relationships with clients, vendors and prospective client in an effort to promote transparency and create a collaborative work environment and ensure high stakeholder satisfaction.Introduced new and innovative Product Design methodologies as well as processes for managing the product definition and implementation:* Definition of user stories based on research and competitive analysis* Design validation through user interviews and user testing (Validately.com)* Ensuring high quality, on spec and on time delivery through innovative product design processes (Dual track agile, product discovery)* Dealing with ever-changing requirements and changing backend APIs over a wide breadth of products and customers

New York, Ny, Us

Product Managed the transition of Noom from a B2C company to the B2B market, created the product infrastructure for the current product line offered by Noom in its new iteration.Created a backlog of features and products whose business value validated through process of discovery and ensured a high level of on time delivery over various teams in the organization.Led user interviews, user research, data analytics and other methods to validate and enhance proposed features.Created MVPs, mocks and other wireframes with design using tools like Marvel, Sketch and others to ensure a high quality final design document that will be implemented by engineers.Helped shape the product vision and define the related objectives and metrics for the product department as a whole.Motivated the team and got them excited about the opportunity to encourage dedication and happiness.

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Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Led multiple cross-functional teams, local and remote, in the development of the product. Defined requirements and design for the group, partnering with the product manager and the designer.Motivated, inspired and improved dedication of team members and colleagues by instilling a sense of mission and helping them understand the magnitude of what we were doing and how together we are changing the world!Introduced new and innovative solutions for communication between disparate group members.Mentored developers and test engineers on a personal as well as a professional level.

New York, Ny, Us

R/GA is one of the world’s most awarded digital agencies with clients varying from Nike to Google.Led the project of creating the Nike Fuelband experience for Android while owning and mentoring the Android domain at R/GA to design and management.Led the design and implementation of a mobile app communicating between Nike, the hardware manufacturer, design team and development. Prioritized features and defects to increase product quality. NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:=======================Created and gave a series of lectures about industry standards in the Android eco-system to Visual and UX designers as well as management.Improved productivity and quality by establishing better project practices, such as: pre-commit code reviews, unit testing, enforcing code styling and issue tracking.Achieved 10x increase of device battery life by creating, implementing and maintaining a specialized Bluetooth connectivity stack that was able to work with all devices and BT radios.

New York, Ny, Us

Backend Java development on multiple projects.Developed a robust RESTful API on the backend while pushing the limits of the android platform to provide a cohesive and delightful user experience.Involved in all facets of the design of the user interaction and hardware & software design for an entirely new product.

Xtify (purchased by IBM in 2013) is a platform for geo-location, cloud-based mobile messaging.Designed UX and implemented developer facing website including APIs and metrics.Initiated the product transformation to a portable SDK, to allow developers to easily and seamlessly integrate with the service.Ran ideation and brainstorming meetings to strategize on product directions.Enabled the company to stay ahead of competitors by providing insight from the tech scene as to competitive landscape and current eco-system conditions.Rapidly learned a myriad of new technologies and produced acclaimed results.

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Exzac (purchased by Matrix in 2013) implements Behavioral Learning to improve Fraud Prevention results and reduce related losses.Acted as an intermediary between clients and dev, converting requirements to functional software.Interacted directly with PayPal with consistent high level of client satisfaction.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:=======================Completed multiple projects on time and on budget by improving communication and development procedures.Conceived of, designed and launched multiple automation tools, increasing velocity by 25%.

Houston, Texas, Us

HP Software Israel, formerly Mercury interactive, develops software for SDLC management.Developed and mentored developers in the prestigious Quality Center cross functional Agile team. An enterprise scale application for defect management.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:=======================Successfully led several initiatives with significant customer satisfaction while staying on or ahead of schedule.Improved overall customer satisfaction by collaborating with support officers to support customers and field personnel.

Netanya, Il

Vocaltec is a leader in the Voice over IP field and were the first ever to release a VOIP application.Designed and developed infrastructures for an enterprise VOIP application.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT:=======================Doubled overall performance of the SIP implementation, allowing for a far greater call volume.Boring technical stuff:Software developer in the field of voip protocols - SIP, H323, MegaCo.Programming languages: C, C++, Java2se and J2EE.Software development in VOIP field (Vocaltec BAX).Programming to several VOIP protocol stacks including SIP, H.323, MEGACO and othersServer side design and development in C and C++.Pure JAVA infrastructure development for enveloping J2EE client application

Austin, Tx, Us

Port Authority Technologies developed a solution for accurately detecting and preventing information leaks.Modeled, developed and performed intricate applicative software testing plans.NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:=======================Dramatically improved quality and efficiency by developing several in house test automation apps and scripts in Java and Python that upgraded the testing process and replaced tedious manual testing.Ensured delivery of version contents, and communicated weekly progress reports to field sales personnel.

Customer facing and sales of electronic appliances on both the retail and wholesale markets.Sales of computers, computer peripherals and software.No. 1 salesperson for 5 months

Was in-charge of all personnel transfers in a unit of over 500 people incl. enlisted and standing personnel.in this postion i was in-charge of 3 subbordinates and in-effect ran the entire adjutancy office.

New York, New York, Us

I was an outsourced pc and network technician.in this capacity i worked at 'Bezeq' - Israel only telephone company, 'Motorola' (communications division), 'Klal-Bituach' - a very large insurance firm, and helped in many other projects.Networking projects and Y2K compliance patchingPorting several big IT organizations in Israel from Novell to MS based networksCoordinating several teams over several projects in large geographic location

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Sciences

Ba, Computer Science