Yehuda Drori Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Design end-to-end solutions based on business needs for both long and short time that include various disciplines and aspects (Technology, Infrastructure, Security, Budget, Timelines, Support structure, etc..).Increase productivity and lower operational costs taking into consideration future growth and technology benefits and constrains (based on the maturity of parties and technology). Create holistic and pragmatic solutions that will become standards and easy to follow methods which brings in all best practices to answer the business needs. Influence the direction each party is heading to and assist in focusing them to achieve best coordinated results.Test new approaches and building the trust of all partners to work together towards an identified result.- Map Engineering architecture design and workflows to introduce IT solutions and services, helping them to focus on actual engineering work.- Lead IT strategic architecture discussions addressing Engineering needs (technical PoC).- Negotiate technical options between Engineering and IT for optimal ROI.- Supervise complex project execution on the technical side.- Interact with Engineering teams to appropriately utilize IT services in their environment aligning them with ‘best practices’.- Learn new technologies other IT towers develop including what is ‘out there’ that can help.- Find unsupported areas that may answer Engineering needs and work toward resolving them.- Enhance IT understanding on Engineering ecosystems (discovery/processes/mapping).- Identify fields IT can forward expend into for providing better services for Engineering.- Work with the professional IT teams to connect them to the business for better collaboration and utilizing their expertise.- Enrich knowledge references for Engineering by documentations and presentations (References docs, ‘road-shows’).

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Build and manage IT’s DevOps team to work closely with Engineering as the liaison between IT and Engineering- “Translate” Engineering needs into IT “language” working with IT and Engineering functional teams to execute them- Architect ecosystem solutions balancing Engineering and IT needs and capabilities- Conduct methodic PoC for new environments- Introduce and apply best practices to Engineering groups increasing productivity, stability and shortening time to market.- Define and create documentation standards to get all parties in alignment (common 'source of truth')- Enhance security methods, monitoring, and compliance - Triage complicated multi-disciplinary issues toward resolution (last escalation tier)

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Managing WDC Systems Management team responsible for global SCCM/SCOM/Corporate OS images- Extending previous role activities to all WDC subsidiaries- Standardize procedures globally- Consolidation of active-directory- Migrating legacy domain systems and user’s accounts- Upgrade legacy end users Windows systems into Windows 10- Consolidation of management systems

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Managing SanDisk's Desktop Engineering team responsible for hardware specs for end-users and support the following platforms in the corporate environment: Windows, Mac and Linux OS. The team is responsible for the management systems (SCCM, JAMF, Puppet) that manages the end-user’s laptops/desktops- Automation of support tasks (tier 0/agent-less approach) including architecture design and integration with Service-Now and SCCM- Building support model for Mac on the corporate network + bring up of a central management system (JAMF)- Architecture a Linux managment system based on Open Source Puppet- Active member in the SanDisk Open-Source relevant committees in both compliance and contributions- Managing Git/Gerrit code revision & review systems including defining workflows for engineering teams and POC for Git related issues- Build and support continuance-build-systems (Hudson/Jenkins) and help new teams to start automate processes

Milpitas, Ca, Us

- Building support model for Linux on the corporate network- Resolving Linux compatibility with a Windows oriented environment- Defining standards for Linux productivity setup and integration- Support engineering teams with Linux related issues- IT's End-Users project manager of integration of a SanDisk acquired company (over 1000 users over multiple sites)- Active member in SanDisk's Open-Source relevant committees in both compliance and contributions

Milpitas, Ca, Us

- Build (with Legal) compliance program for Open Source to be used by engineering- Train & support engineering teams to run compliance test tools on SanDisk products- Introduce the benefits of Open Source usage in SanDisk's products and encourage contributions

Milpitas, Ca, Us

- Android builds Kernel framework and applications integration in continuance build systems (Hudson)- Testing boards bring-up (OMAP, BegelBoard, Review phone platforms), with first internal customized Android systems- Code revision and review system bring up (Gerrit/Git)- Manage branches and access control of external 3rd party development teams- Train & support engineering groups during switch over from different code revision systems into Git- Build server set up for APK builds & sign-up- Project management based on agile scrum methodology including introducing an on-line scrum system for remote teams

Milpitas, Ca, Us

- Build customer support structure for SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise (data secure drives and management). - Set up support tier levels and work relations (both internally and externally) - Implant customers feedback in to current and future products - Backup technical pre-sale and FA engineers- USB Mass Production Israel site service - Daily operation of new products upload to production sites - Testing material assembly and sanity tests

- Infrastructure and integration project management- Setting up generic engineering standards and methods to achieve time to market optimization (effects on R&D, QA, Operations and Product Managers)- Mass Production architecture definition and build for DiskOnKey (including developers’ guidance MRD, FRS) on a Linux based environment.- Process definition and training of Mass Production Engineers and Operators (China, Japan, USA)- Setup and support Mass Production lines around the globe for USB products including customer’s OEM sites

Whatsup.org.il is the largest Linux and Open source community site located in Israel.Started as a hobby during my University years and still up and running since...It hosts News, wiki, and support forums as well as other activities.

Small businesses IT consulting

Initiating and managing customer support department in one of three largest ISPs in Israel.