Jerusalem District, Israel
Experienced project manager, who has successfully delivered B2B2C, FinTech(Compliance, User Experience), TV Technology and SaaS AdTech projects ($100K-$4M) to customers around the world. Keeping customers informed, cared-for and happy is my biggest strength. - I push to get stuff done. - Program Manager - Customer-facing and internal - Cross border team management - Change Evangelist - Full life-cycle project management - Excellent communications skills - written, presentations and F2F - Highly proactive - American mentality with 20+ years Israeli experience - Constantly learning and with "Dirty Hands"
I take the grand, macro level visions and translate them to concrete activities - hackathons, AI rollout, large monthly meetings, purchasing, etc. - "Project Bulldozer" - I'm asked to get involved in stuck projects to get them moving. - Discover and fix issues of poor communications, dysfunctional processes, "squeaky wheels".
I lead a Project Management team, and manage multiple projects myself, covering: - Acquisitions of companies in Options Trading and Market Portfolio presentation. - Compliance with national trading restrictions (KYC, AML) and other Compliance-led projects. - User experience (Retention and Acquisition) - initial entrypoint to eToro user journey. My team of 3 manages projects done by 18 development teams in Israel, Ukraine and Poland. I split my time between managing key projects (high visibility, complex and/or cross-domain), people management and enhancing the development process following the philosophy of "Relentless Improvement". On the Project Management leadership team. Thought leader. Current areas of improvement are moving Quarterly Planning to "Continuous Planning", demos and iteration grooming.
- Program Manager of 30 person Agile development team. I initiated Quarterly Planning, Risk Reviews, Sprint Planning, System Demos, etc. - Relentless process improvement, based on the Scaled Agile methodology (SAFe). - Local Jira expert and developed reports (Python, Jira, Excel, Splunk) measuring technical KPIs. - PMO - defining processes to coordinate local teams as part of 1600+ engineer worldwide development effort. - Technology environment is fully orchestrated cloud (AWS, OCI), Spark, enormous data sets and billions of transactions each day.
- Managed full lifecycle of TV over IP("OTT") projects for customers around the world. - Projects deployed on cloud servers with Android, iOS devices and web front ends. - Managed schedule, bug fixes, phasing and customer expectations. - Agile teams includes designers, developers, QA engineers and integrators.
- Managed full life-cycle technology projects: requirements gathering, development planning and phasing, test planning, execution monitoring, integration, customer delivery and acceptance, and on-going support. - Communications - handled all communications to management, with the customers, with 3rd parties and within the project teams. Includes status reports, presentations and periodic meetings. - Risk assessments and mitigation strategies. Key projects include: - Two Scandinavian Television Operators – “Companion Device” applications, enabling TV control and viewing, on iOS and Android platforms. - US Supermarket Coupon Publisher – End to end system to replace newspaper coupon distribution with electronic delivery to iPads/iPhones, and interfaces to supermarket loyalty card systems. (team of 18) - Two Mexican and Brazilian Satellite TV Operators – managed development and delivery of various set-top box software platforms, including both new set-top boxes and incremental releases on existing platforms. (Numerous projects, team of 15) - US Satellite TV Operator – Advertisement substitution, which placed customized ads on users’ DVRs and inserted them seamlessly in live and off-disk TV viewing. (team of 12 and 4 3rd party partners) - US Satellite TV Operator – Audience Measurement System. The system tracked users’ activities – program viewing, playback off-disk, interactive application usage – and system health information – signal strength, set-top box reboots. Data was reported back to servers for mining. 2 patent proposals
Led NDS' marketing activities for Audience Measurement, Data Broadcasting and Small Systems. One-man Bus Dev show on Digital Cinema, including defining the niche, developing partnerships, technical specifications and development of the business model.
As NDS was entering the US Cable market, I was NDS' "man on the ground" attending US standards activities (SMPTE, NCTA, CEA, Open CAS) events. Took an active part in writing OpenCAS spec and lobbying for its passage.
Designed a variety of database systems and managed a small group of developers