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Israel

Helping companies Scale-up by embracing a Product management mindset & culture

Rosh Haayin, Select A State, IL

Lead, mentor and build empowered product culture and teams.

Rosh Haayin, Select A State, IL

• Leading the company’s strategic SaaS scaling products, customized payment solutions.
• Leading expansion to new global markets
• Launched a scaling BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) product.

Plano, Texas, US

• A technology accelerator program within Siemens Digital Industries division, dedicated for startups offering cloud solutions.
• Managed a program that incubated 5 startups (in the first year), by providing guidelines, solutions and resources to Siemens' cloud startups in various fields, such as: VR, AR, Electronics, Manufacturing, Simulation.
• Created from scratch a clear process and infrastructure to seamlessly integrate startups with SaaS solutions into the product portfolio pipeline
• Managed the program's budget, allocating it to the startups supporting shared services (UX, DevOps, Marketing, etc.) and introducing external SaaS solutions integration.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

CloudAlly (Acquired by Zix) is a global cloud to cloud backup and recovery software for business and enterprise, serving 20K organizations and 1100K users in 40 countries.Provides automatic backups for your entire organization, manage your archives, and recover lost or corrupt data from any point in time.

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

• The world’s largest diamond and jewelry marketplace (B2B/B2B2C), serving 80% of worldwide transactions by delivering the best diamonds, prices, & market intelligence for buyers, dealers and diamond manufacturers.
• Created and led a product management department, managed the company's platform, products and services.
• Translated vision from C-Level into an actionable roadmap to become the worldwide leaders in diamond transactions, by creating product management department from scratch, developing strategy, business goals, and.
• Created “eBay” for diamonds, an infrastructure that facilitates B2B and B2B2C trading through its website and mobile platforms, enabling data collection and analysis of transactions, becoming the benchmark for all.
• Managed a PM team and orchestrated implementation working with 30 in house development, 10 mobile (iOS & Android), 20 external integrator architects and 3 UX team

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

Expanded business from B2B to B2B2C, by creating MVP from concept to launch to a new product, which became the cornerstone serving 80% of worldwide transactions (iOS & Android, Web),

• A start-up that provides an exciting experience to millions of participants in conferences and exhibitions all over the world with a B2B2C hybrid platform (web and mobile), designed to improve interaction among.
• From concept to launch, Led the ideation, technical development, and launch by developing robust roadmap through market fit validation and customers insights
• Increased brand awareness by representing the company in conventions, exhibitions & investors pitch

• Corrigon (Acquired by ebay) is a startup company, providing visual search technology (B2B/B2C) across the globe.Translated visual search technology into three main line of products by hiring and leading a team of 35.
• Optimized solutions for search results based on image recognition for eBay
• Detection of items within image with a focus on fashion and home design, correlating them to an online product, and converting them to a sale on the vendor’s website
• Automated recognition of images on the web, infringing copyright from customer’s database (copyright management)

Hauppauge, NY, US

• Vicon Industries is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of video systems, components and IP-based solutions, used for security, surveillance, safety and control purposes.
• Lead all product delivery and provided R&D solutions, interfacing with senior management, operations and sales to transition product from concept, through development to production.
• Ran beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples at customers sites internationally; wrote and released product documentation; managed version control; distributed & installed new releases of company.
• Performed Pre / Post sale activities and trainings to ww customers, integrators, and management.

Hauppauge, NY, US

• Relocated by company to New York HQ
• Orchestrated and carried out product demonstrations for customers throughout the US.
• Performed as the technical focal point between the company's various departments worldwide- R&D, Sales, Marketing and Support.
• Engaged with and collected feedback from global customers, towards improving customer experience.

Hauppauge, NY, US

• Managed a series of embedded IP Cameras integrated with a video surveillance application.
• In charge of system engineering, integration and implementation.
• Installed, configured and maintained a broad range of systems for various test environments.
• Analyzed existing system modules and designed testing processes and documentation (Manual\Automated).
• Supported field engineers around the world, monitoring Beta sites progress.
• Maintained the QA lab HW including network equipment (Switches, Hubs), Databases and other security related equipment (Cameras, Monitors, Microphones, Relays, Sensors).

Herzlia Pituach, Israel, IL

• Integration team leader at customer site
• System Implementation within customer sites
• Customized and integrated between working and implemented systems according to customer demands
• Demonstrated and instructed customers on company systems
• Performed UI tests, software functionality, reported bugs and tracked their process through a tracking system

Msc, Technology Management

Bsc, Computer Science