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Herzliya Pituah, Israel

- Analyzing business plans, requirements, and processes, and defining recommendations for business expansion, cost control, policy formulation, marketing and personnel. - Working closely with business users to document business requirements, systems functional specifications and project methodologies.- Expanding or modifying system to serve new purposes and improve work flow. - Apprising executive staff and team members regarding goals, project status, and conflict resolution through the facilitation of joint application design sessions, written correspondence, implementation requirements, oral presentations, and other business methodology. - Advising regarding systems selection and design, analysis, implementation and rollout plans. - Analyzing and advising regarding business process improvement, project feasibility and forecasting.

- Responsible for Exchange Traded Derivatives product planning throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with R&D, QA, Sales, Product Marketing, Professional Services and Support. - Customers included world leading financial institutions. - Management of product roadmap, responsible for periodic formal prioritization reviews with the stakeholders to make critical decisions on scope or timeline changes.- Translation of customer needs and product innovations into practical business solutions, working closely with R&D and QA to obtain effort estimates and to ensure knowledge transfer.- Responsible for the product release management, including readiness reviews, formal training and handover sessions with the relevant parties: Support, Integration, Project Management, and Product Marketing.- Guided product related discussions with clients, serving as a domain expert.- Analyzed the competitive landscape of the company's products.

- Responsible for various projects related to payment processing and liquidity management products- Full business ownership of projects from concept to delivery, including identification of customer needs, formulation of market requirements and architectural specifications, determination of required internal development resources, and end-to-end follow-up on technical execution and delivery.- Customers included leading financial institutions in Israel and worldwide. - Worked closely with Project Management, R&D, Support, and QA to ensure the clients’ needs are communicated, understood, and addressed throughout the product lifecycle. - Conducted pre-sale activities as the leading business and product expert on client sites. - Contributed to definition of the company's annual product roadmap.

- Led software development projects from inception to technical delivery, including project sizing, effort estimation and work plan management.- Led architectural design and development of technical solutions according to customer specifications, incorporating novel financial network services to support the market requirements.- Served as the focal point for major customers (including world's largest banks), with extensive interactions (on site and remote) at all project stages – POCs, requirement analysis, design, development, integration, and production launch. - Served as the primary focal point for Product Support, Professional Services, R&D, and QA teams.- Responsible for consulting and tutoring of R&D personnel, design and code reviews, preparation of training and presentation materials for headquarters and field offices.

- Led design of application software for a multitasking real-time embedded system. - Developed and maintained a complex, mission-critical system.