Baumgarten Zohar

Program manager

Israel

About

Program and R&D manager, Experience in the planning, Execution and implementation of development and Business Operations projects. Ability to think analytically in order to solve complex problems with a high level of creativity. Extensive experience working in cross-functional groups consisting of Customers, Product, R&D, Marketing, Sales departments while adhering to tight timelines Manager with extensive experience, plenty of initiative & negotiation skills. Leader with excellent teamwork & human management expertise.

Experience

  • Program Manager at Claroty
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Cognyte (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Director Of Infrastructure
      May 2022 - Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      - Managing 20 software engineers working toward a common goal of transforming Cognyte's products to adopt cloud-native practices. - The group develops infrastructure tools to run and manage development components' overall development lifecycle, beginning with CI\CD, E2E automated system tests, deployment and installation automation, and continuous monitoring - Managing group PI Planning, execution and delivery - The Infra group implements all the above capabilities over large deployments of projects on local labs and remote production sites

    • Infrastructure & DevOps Program Manager
      Jan 2021 - Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      - Leading the Infrastructure & DevOps group to new generation products - Responsible for Infrastructure & DevOps delivery on time and budget, from requirement definition, planning till delivery to customer - Responsible for Infrastructure & DevOps implementation internal and external customers - Work with groups across the organization to gather inputs and define the deliverable, resource requirements and work-plan for the project, using Agile methodology - Proactively manage changes in version scope, identify potential risks and crises, and devise contingency plans

  • Verint (4 yrs 2 mos)
    • Infrastructure & DevOps Execution Manager
      Sep 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

      - Leading the Infrastructure & DevOps group to new generation products - Responsible for Infrastructure & DevOps delivery on time and budget, from requirement definition, planning till delivery to the customer - Responsible for Infrastructure & DevOps implementation internal and external customers - Work with groups across the organisation to gather inputs and define the deliverable, resource requirements and work-plan for the project, using Agile methodology - Proactively manage changes in version scope, identify potential risks and crises, and devise contingency plans

    • Senior Business Operations Manager
      Dec 2016 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      - Agile methodology implementation lead in R&D - Manage Cross generic work plans (Content, Budget, Timelines, Dependencies between units and more...) - Lead cross organization processes (with all relevant interfaces: R&D, HR. Finance, IT, Operations, Service etc...)

  • Verint (9 yrs 8 mos)
    • PMO & Program manager -Customer Success Division
      Jan 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

      - Responsible for execution, coordination, planning and communication between all projects in the division and between all project partners to ensure that projects are completed on time, on budget and with high quality. - Managed priorities between projects, while maintaining synchronization with company management and revenue targets - Managed resource allocations between the various corporate bodies according to priorities - Supervised and managed quality gates - Responsible for work plans, budget control and monitoring schedules - Prepared of quarterly, median and annual pipeline forecasts -Responsible for Unit yearly KPIs

    • PMO R&D
      Jan 2011 - Dec 2014 · 4 yrs

    • QA TL Verint
      2007 - 2011 · 4 yrs

  • QA TL at Dassault Systèmes
    2005 - 2007 · 2 yrs