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Israel

● Led Datacenter and Engineering lab consolidations and restructuring.● Worked with internal customers to define IT needs and develop strategy to support them.● Led large software and hardware implementations, including: Microsoft SCCM, VMWare vRealize Operations and hardware upgrades.●Managed datacenter fit-out, move and day to day operations.● Managed the IT Change Management process.● Managed a budget of ~$20M and IT procurement.● Managed security audits.

Jerusalem

Program Manager in the integration of NDS into Cisco.● Analysis of development needs, identifying and defining the available solutions for each development group.● Planning and scheduling migration of development infrastructure into the Cisco network.● Project scheduling and resource planning using a team of system engineers.● Data analysis of detailed mapping of the current environment and development of automation tools to deal with the bulks of data collected during the infrastructure mapping.

Tel-Aviv

Team Manager in the Advisory division:• Managed a team of consultants.• Led and performed diverse IT advisory project: o Information Security Audits o System Design Review o Software Licensing usage and improvement o ITIL Maturity Analysis o SOX and IT Governance o Process Improvement• Developed automated tools for data analysis.

Rehovot

● Ensured IT infrastructure availability through Monitoring and Control Software.● Developed automation processes for management, backup and maintenance of diverse IT environments.● Planned DRP procedures and infrastructure.● Managed 3rd party vendors and contractors.

● Responsible for IT operations of Mainframes, Linux, Unix and Windows environments including backups, DRP, performance and problem management.● Management of the unit datacenters’ physical infrastructure - Access control, HVAC and Power. Commander of a team of datacenter operators.● Development of training programs for new recruits. Responsible for IT operations of Mainframes, Linux, Unix and Windows environments including backups, DRP, performance and problem management.● Management of the unit datacenters’ physical infrastructure - Access control, HVAC and Power.● Commander of a team of datacenter operators.● Development of training programs for new recruits.

● Managed development of a Knowledge Management product.● Designed and modeled the product according to user and organization's requirements.● Managed the implementation and training stage.● Coordinated user feedback and development of new features.