Director - Program Management

• Nov 2022 - Present

Sr Staff Program Manager

• Apr 2022 - Nov 2022

Director of Program Management

• Oct 2017 - Apr 2022

• Oversee portfolios of programs. • Manage and coordinate projects for strategic and global enterprise accounts. Monitor service delivery, budgets, ensure customer success, invoicing and track acceptances. • Lead, mentor and coach cross functional project teams: project managers, engineers and architects. • Establish innovative procedures and best practices to improve project delivery using Agile / Scrum. • Provide ongoing status reports to customer at the management level as well as to account's executives.

Principal Sales Consultant - Americas

• Aug 2015 - Aug 2017

Technical Architect / Pre Sales for Oracle Content and Storage Management Systems. Focus on Private Cloud, Public Cloud, SaaS, On Premise, Proof Of Concepts, Clustering, Virtualization. Lead for all aspects of technical sales process for North, Central and South America - Pre Sales, Solutions Consulting - Solution Architecture: Software, Storage, Cloud - Professional Service Contracts - Solution Strategy and Product Definition - Maintain Relationship with technology partners, resellers and integrators

Business Development Manager - Avid Global Services

• Sep 2014 - Aug 2015

• Developed relationship with sales. Managed and delivered proof of concepts resulting in two large MAM deals.• Technical Lead for delivery team to review RFPs/SOWs for potential deals. Approved scope, created estimates and timelines for deal quotations. Created templates, improved accuracy of sales quotes and project estimations.• Provided creative leadership in business development for introducing new packages to market.• Successfully managed and grew key accounts, building strong relationships resulting in 100% increase of the MAM service business in the Americas ($7M booking in 2014).

Development Manager (Agile Project Manager) - Professional Services

• Mar 2013 - Aug 2014

Delivery Manager for the Americas - Designed and delivered digital media solutions• Proposed, designed and developed customized media solutions in hybrid networks (IT/Video).• Managed team of Solution Engineers, software developers and field engineers.• Worked with Pre Sales team to review RFP/SoW for potential deals. Approved scope and created estimates and timelines for deal quotations.• Led multiple client engagements (Americas, Europe) simultaneously• Coordinated effort to group series of similarly structured projects. Developed reforms for project delivery and create best practices. Introduced new project methodology, reporting and scrum framework. Chosen to ensure Scrum adoption across the organization and to close projects.• Managed onshore and offshore resources (US, Europe)

Senior Solutions Engineer

• Jun 2011 - Feb 2013

• Analyzed customer requirements to find the best solution to fulfill the business processes based on the product Avid Interplay Media Asset Manager (MAM).• Specified the overall system architecture as well as the system design specification in highly customer specific environments.• Managed the complete development process from design to implementation up to the final deployment on customer site.• Managed deployment, installation, configuration• Wrote System documentation. Designed and provided custom training of solution delivered.• Product Owner (Scrum/CSPO) for global development team

Managing Consultant - Media & Entertainment - Application Innovation Services (AIS)

• Nov 2008 - May 2011

Provided strategic and technical consulting. • Developed strategic plans and implemented MAM solutions for broadcasters leading their transition from analog to digital. Wrote and answered RFPs. • Managed digital workflow transformation initiatives and deployed new digital infrastructures (+$4MM revenue). • Developed high quality deliverables including executive level presentations, case studies, business requirements and marketing materials. • Recruited contractors and led team of 6 engineers.

Pre Sales Engineer / System Architect

• Sep 2007 - Aug 2008

Harris: provider of end to end technology integration and software solutions to broadcasters worldwide. Provided technical expertise to the North American sales team from virtual office. • Led pre-sales technical consulting effort with major accounts. Identified workflows and prepared statements of work (SOWs). Wrote business, test cases and acceptance documents. • Delivered product presentations to customers, evaluated customer needs and answered RFPs. • Acted as a gateway for the pre-sales engineers and regional sales managers in North America with Product Management and Engineering in Europe (France and Hungary). • Initiated and organized internal training to promote the digital content management products.

Solution Integration Manager

• Feb 2007 - Aug 2007

Digigram: Supplier of digital audio network devices, sound cards and audio processing software. Designed digital infrastructures using distributed audio processing and networking middleware. • Managed projects and specified software architecture for program syndication, content distribution, remote field contribution, automated IP streaming feed recording. • Led and coordinated training and support for OEM accounts, distributors and system integrators of EtherSound, the open standard for networking digital audio.

Senior Project Lead / Sales Engineer

• May 2006 - Feb 2007

Dalet: Provider of Media Asset Management and Digital Broadcast solutions to TV and radios stations.Provided ongoing project management, pre and post sales support in North and South America.• Developed project plans and executed them on schedule and within budget.• Gathered technical and functional requirements and conducted business analysis• Designed software architecture and deployed media asset management systems. Wrote workflow analysis to describe the content delivery chain from ingest through transmission.

Senior Project Manager

• Jun 2004 - May 2006

Provided project management and liaison between CBC and R&D / QA teams in Israel.• Managed, from pre-sales to delivery, a $2.5M media asset management project for CBC.• Led and coordinated testing, installation and deployment of 2000 workstations across 60 CBC sites including database replications and exchange of material with Avid NewsCutter.• Provided CBC journalists the capability to edit/create new media clips directly at the desktop.• Composed and executed acceptance documents resulting in sign-off and revenue recognition.• Managed 5 concurrent initiatives and project teams of over 15 professionals.• Integrated with Avid (iNEWS, Unity, Transfer Manager, NewsCutter) and Harris / Encoda automation.

Project Manager

• May 1997 - Jun 2004

Managed multiple projects at major broadcast networks and newsrooms worldwide.• Directed and supervised installations of MAM and newsroom computer systems.• Established installation procedures and developed technical training programs for distributors.• Planned product development and testing with software engineers and QA team in Israel• Managed implementation of ABC ePrep, an electronic distribution system for ABC New York allowing subscribers and affiliates to download exclusive news and interviews.• Led a $1.5M project for WorldSpace. Implemented playout and digital content management systems in Washington DC, London, Johannesburg and Singapore to transfer music schedules (XML files via FTP) and associated MPEG audio files between broadcast facilities.

Feld Engineer

• Feb 1996 - Apr 1997

Traveled extensively in Europe to perform software installations and provide training to customers• Performed installations of digital audio systems and resolved network and software problems.• Provided phone and remote support to customers worldwide.• Chosen to handle most difficult service problems and train new employees.

Software Engineer

• May 1993 - Oct 1993

SCOR: Medium-sized reinsurer with worldwide operations • Designed and developed database application using FoxPro and SQL. • Processed information from AS/400 and produced reporting for SCOR underwriters. SCOR: Medium-sized reinsurer with worldwide operations • Designed and developed database application using FoxPro and SQL. • Processed information from AS/400 and produced reporting for SCOR underwriters.