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Central, Israel

• Successfully brought the Innoviz iONE LiDAR for its "Point-Cloud Freeze" milestone with BMW and MAGNA - Owned the full R&D cycle and delivery of more than 20 monthly SW releases, and 4 HW generations.
• Directly managed 2 system teams, owning the product's core functions: ASIC, MEMS, Lasers, Detectors (APD, SiPM), and RT SW features.
• Led daily technical leadership of the whole R&D domains: System and SW Arch, Algo, Embedded SW, DevOps, System integration, HW, ME, Optics, MEMS, Calibration setups, V&V, eye-safety regulation, and production.
• Owned the E2E product life cycle: Customer requirements, Architecture, Development, System Integration, V&V, calibration processes, production transition, bugs/defects, and IP registration, under automotive standards.
• Formed and integrated the R&D development and quality processes: features and issues in JIRA, design gates, development, and delivery success criteria, production transition analysis, customer info, and supporting SW.
• Managed the strategic customer (BMW+MAGNA) – Built, managed, and delivered the scaled work plans and milestones. Created a common language that abstracted complex tech issues, and derived high-focus topics to the.

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

• Successfully delivered from scratch a new TVWS radio system for rural areas including BS, SU, Antennas, and SW suite.
• Led the E2E project's R&D aspects both Technical: Design, Requirements, Arch, Integration, Regulation, and Managerial: customer, scope, cost, schedule, and risks, including Hands-on participation in System architecture.
• Managed and participated in the Mechanical, Board, FPGA, and RF design, bring-up, and integration, Networking architecture, and FCC/ETSI regulation and certification.
• Managed SW development by creating, planning, and tracking JIRA items, PIs/sprints-planning, Traceability, and documentation in Confluence, Jenkins for CI, and Bitbucket for source control. Actively participated in the.
• Integrated quality methods and processes including documentation, traceability, CI pipeline, and field-testing methods.
• Communicated and mediated across the whole stakeholders: Customer, R&D, BizDev, and Executive/C-Level Management

Airport City

• Led and took part in a team of 4 experienced architects with a wide area of expertise: System, HW, SW, RF, Regulation, in a global matrix organization with SAFe Agile method
• Led the DEV teams, analyzed alternatives, verified POC, Defined requirements, and finally led the development for: 1. Public-safety automotive device utilizes Qualcomm's SoCs, Customed Android OS, LTE-A, IP routing.
• Led Tech scouting for LTE modules and chipsets suppliers and capabilities for exotic regions (e.g. B31), Public-Safety (LMR P.25&TETRA) solutions design and convergence with BB devices.
• Managed FCC/ICC Regulation, GCF, PTCRB, and BB carries certification.

Israel

• Led R&D systems' development with Boeing, IAI, Elbit, Rafael, MOD, and Aeronautics.Assumed full responsibility for the entire project's life cycle in an uncertain environment. From initiating ideas, validating needs.
• 2013-2016: Led an R&D project of an aerial SON of thousands of edge devices. Dealt with immunity, encryption, low power constraint, narrow bandwidth, low-cost planning, data prioritizing, wireless network.
• 2008-2013: Took a position as a system engineer of a UAV's immune communication system. Dealt with RF design, immunity, satellites comm., reliability, LOS terminals, LAN design, RT apps, tests' definition, and analysis.
• Held the Regulation and spectrum-licensing role in front of the Israeli Ministry of Communications.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 88

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Accounting And Finance, 85

Finance, Funding, Investments

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.), Law, 86

Intellectual property, Contracts

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, 84

Activities and Societies: Basketball, Gaming, Gadgets, Traveling Coomunication, VHDL, Embedded Systems engineering, Analog systems.