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Center District, Israel

Modi'in, Israel, IL

Fun & Disruption

Newton, MA, US

Newton, MA, US

• Built and led a group of product managers and designers.Worked closely with engineering, cyber research, and DevOps teams to create disruptive solutions and execute the company’s disruptive innovation strategy.Worked.
• Built and led a team of IP Managers.
• Defined the Patent portfolio strategy.
• Budget management, vendor selection, and process enforcement.

Newton, MA, US

• Built and led a team of technical and business analysts, covering market and technological trends around the core and adjacent areas of the company's business.
• Served internal teams across the company including business, sales, finance, product, and marketing.
• Prepared, developed and executed strategies and tactical campaigns for market and technology analysts around new products, peer reviews, MQs, Waves and more.
• Influenced roadmap and GTM plans as well as executive level decisions.

Consultant to entrepreneurs and founders of Cyber Security initiatives during the early stages of ideation and concept development.

San Jose, California, US

Built and managed a global team focused on collecting, analyzing and disseminating competitive intelligence information across the enterprise security business units. Focused on end to end decision making support information that helps technical and business decision makers to take the right decisions. Provided the following services internally: * Tactical.

San Jose, California, US

• TAM (Technical Sales) of the Finance and Government sectorsIn this role focused on Government and major Banks driving innovative solutions in the Cyber Security area. Working with key stake holders and decision makers.
• Working with 2 Sales Managers and covering 2 of the 3 sectors in the Enterprise sales team
• Driving new sales initiatives to achieve sales quota.
• Qualifying opportunities and driving it to closure.
• Working with customers to define criteria and success factors.
• Responsible for all technical aspects and customer satisfaction from existing solutions.

San Jose, California, US

• Pre-Sale Specialist for Endpoint Security in EMEA Emerging Region (Israel, South Africa, Russia, South-East Europe, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus). Main aspects:
• Responsibility for the Emerging Region Endpoint Security product family opportunities
• Serving as a focal point for internal and external pre-sales queries.
• Engaged in opportunities as a Specialist for hands on and deep dive.
• Driving POC’s/Demo’s/Reference meetings to ensure deal closure.
• Delivering Partner Enablement, Internal Sales Enablement and Trainings for the region

San Jose, California, US

• Pre-Sales Consultant – Israel, Cyprus. Main aspects:
• Acting as a Pre-Sale for Mid-Enterprise opportunities in the Security area.
• Covering Symantec Security products and mainly Endpoint Security solutions (Endpoint Security, NAC, Gateway / Server AV Solutions).
• Participating in Account and Opportunity planning.
• Driving local product launches and consolidating cross functional efforts.

• Information Security Expert for ICT – Information Security System Integrator. Main aspects:
• Design, implementation and support Information Security solutions for Enterprise customers.
• Pre/Post sales for Enterprise products.
• Vulnerability assessments for customers.
• Training customers regarding New Products, Technologies and Security Awareness.

Haifa, IL

• Network and Security Integration Engineer in an ISP and Service Provider company. Main aspects:
• Implementing Internet Communication solutions.
• Implementing Information Security solutions including: Endpoint solutions, Firewalls, SSL-VPNs, IPS/IDS, Web Accelerators, Security Gateways, Encryption, Web Proxies etc.
• Pre/Post sales meetings regarding Symantec products.

Haifa, IL

• Main aspects:
• Integrator of Symantec and McAfee products in Enterprise scale environments (Banks, Military Industries, Government offices and more).
• Participating as Technical Supervisor in Pre/Post - Sales meetings.
• Projects – Planning, Guiding and implementing Symantec and McAfee products
• Answering RFI/RFPs regarding Antivirus solutions.
• Development of special technical solutions for customers.