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- Owning the operational aspects of the two departments of roughly 500 employees and the organization as a whole- Managing the annual budget plan of +$300M (HC, expense, Contingency Workers and Capital) in multiple GEOs- Managing end-to-end cost reduction opportunities and efficiency mechanisms from ideation via execution to postanalysis- Define and own department’s recognition process and execution

- Established the first PMO in the Validation organization – Office for processes improvement- Defined and maintained cross organization standards for project management and Validation program managers in theValidation organization- Standardized and followed project management policies, processes and modes of operations based on project postmortems analyses- Responsible for centralize and coordinate the testing of the SW releases project- Responsible for generating and track the department budget (which sums up to $5M).

- A key player in the project team and the program management- Planning, managing and supervising the wireless R&D technological programs or projects in the area of futureprograms planning, Si development, software and hardware, short and long terms to meet specific objections and goals- Deep and detailed multi-disciplinary analysis integration and precise coordination between the different departments- Provided recommendations including red flags to top management, management of project risks, coordinate resourceswith other projects’ constrains in a complex matrix environment- Detailed planning and coordination within and outside the company including the largest suppliers worldwide

- Developed vendor's monthly production plans to meet customers’ demands- Closely monitoring production progression versus pre-agreed production plans given the Taiwanese vendors’ capacity- Represented the company in Customers' source inspections- Served as liaison with Taiwanese customers- Direct communication with customers - Led technical, production and logistics, interface with Taiwanese manufacturer for all M-Systems groups in Israel- Involved & monitored new projects together with Engineering, QA & Marketing groups- Generated monthly financial & logistics reports

- Managed manufacturing for the entire line of production and future inventory status in order to meet the company’ssales and marketing forecasts- Giving recommendations to the company’s top management regarding changes in manufacturing required to meetthese forecasts- Publishing monthly forecasts to vendors- Overseeing cost data, vendor quotations, analyzing production yields and vendors’ yearly performances.- Traveled to vendors’ sites and generated schedule recommendations to R&D project managers