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Haifa District, Israel

Sasa, Hazafon (North) District, Israel

Seasoned Sr. Programs and Business Development Director: Driving Business Development & Program Management in Survivability Systems for North American & East European MarketsBusiness Development: Spearheading integrated efforts to secure projects with key North American and East European OEMs and companies, while analyzing market trends, assessing competition, and devising winning strategies. Cultivating partnerships, gathering business intelligence, and executing plans for growth and market expansion.Program Management: Leading multimillion-dollar programs in North America and East Europe, ensuring successful execution, overseeing operational performance, managing budgets, and enhancing profitability and customer satisfaction.P&L Management: Driving financial success by managing project P&L, identifying optimization opportunities, and creating growth engines for enhanced profitability.People Management: Empowering teams to solve challenges, building trust with customers, and collaborating with executives to ensure smooth delivery and risk management.Key Achievements:Secured $11 million long-term project with GDLS-Canada.Expanded backlog from $11 million to $70 million through unified technological solutions.Implemented new work methods, resulting in significant profitability improvements.Oversaw manufacturing transfer to Canada, establishing strategic relationships.Won $6 million contract amidst Ukraine conflict for armored capsule development

Haifa Area, Israel

Driving Business Development & Program Management for Indian Market: Strategic Planning, Campaign Leadership, & Program ExecutionStrategic Planning and Business Development: Spearheading market analysis and penetration strategy formulation for the Indian market. Developing and implementing strategic and tactical plans, managing customer relationships, agent deployment, budgeting, and subcontractor relationships. Building global strategic partnerships and integrating new technologies to support business strategy.Leading Campaigns: Orchestrating complex campaigns with major Indian organizations like Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) and Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL), exceeding $100 million in value. Leading financial negotiations, stakeholder engagement, and aligning all elements for campaign success.Proposal Management: Setting goals, defining requirements, and leading P&L preparation with risk management emphasis. Guiding bid approval processes and integrating required data into commercial offers to safeguard company interests and maintain competitive pricing.Program Management: Directing Indian programs worth over $60 million, managing large multidisciplinary projects, program planning, risk analysis, and P&L management. Leading multicultural teams and facilitating technology transfer to local production.Leveraging Ongoing Projects: Upselling additional products/services, expanding project scopes, and identifying new opportunities within customer bases. Building strategic relationships, identifying customer needs, and proposing new projects to add value.Key Achievements:Led business development efforts for ALH and LCH Helicopters' Helmet Mounted Display system upgrade for HAL, securing a $60 million contract.Negotiated and signed a $100 million contract for advanced avionics systems development and production in India for the Indian Navy, establishing relationships with BEL and facilitating technology transfer.

Aerospace Devision – Helmet Mounted Display Devision

Leading the Display and Sight Helmet (DASH) engineering department. Managing a team of Technical Project Managers and multidisciplinary matrix teams to achieve multi-million programs goals, while defining priorities, scope approach, product scheduling and risk management Head of Engineering: Steering technical development of HMD systems from conception to deployment, supervising engineers in hardware design, software development, and system integration. Defining technical direction, engineering processes, and ensuring product meets performance, quality, and regulatory standards.System Engineering Department Management: Leading system engineering teams in project planning, design, and verification. Managing Technical Managers to enhance competency in system engineering for current and future HMD systems. Implementing Lean thinking principles for efficiency.Customer Satisfaction: Managing HMD systems deployment in fighter jet fleets worldwide, serving as a senior point of contact for customers, industry partners, and end users. Leading customer conversations, providing solutions to engineering issues, and ensuring ongoing customer support.Key Achievements:Built cohesive work teams tailored to individual strengths.Successfully executed complex development projects on schedule, budget, and quality.Completed multidisciplinary projects with innovative technologies.Expanded existing projects and increased company revenues through customer satisfaction

Aerospase - Helmet Mounted Display Devision

Identifying the most suitable and cost effective solution that meets the customer requirements and desiresLeading processes of requirements analysis, scope definition and performance requirementsManaging multi-disciplinary development team to prepare a full technical solutionIn charge of preparation and leading Design Reviews ( internal and with customer participation)Execution of engineering surveys and integration activities on the platformCoordinating multiple engineering activities with engineering teams of customer (OEM)

Helmet Mounted Display Devision

Electro-magnetic tracking systems development Line of Sight specialist, diverse experience in HMD system integration with various avionic systems including failure analysis and interfaces design and testing

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.) In System Engineering, Systems Engineering

B.Sc In Electronics Engineering, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Practical Eng, Electronics, Electrical, Electronic And Communications Engineering Technology/Technician