Experience

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  Finastra

  • Herzliya Area, Israel

  • Product owner | Lead Business Analyst | Inbound Product Manager

    • May 2016 - Present
    • Herzliya Area, Israel

    Lead a team of business system analysts, responsible for large-scale multi-region clients, working on B2B fintech systems. Working in agile methodology.• Working closely with financial customers to gather and analyze business requirements and convert them into functional requirements and solution documents.• Managing a team of product owners/business analysts.• Professional mentoring of the team members.• Managing work allocation, effort estimates and commitments.• Acting as a product owner in scrum teams, supporting DEV and QA throughout the sprints.• Responsible for use cases and story writing, as well as grooming backlog activities.

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  Fundtech - now part of D+H

  • Israel

  • Senior Business Analyst

    • Sep 2012 - May 2016
    • Israel

    Business analyst for payment solutions.• Working closely with financial customers to gather and analyze business requirements and convert them into functional requirement documents.• Providing gap analysis and solution design documents.• Monitoring DEV and QA teams during the coding and testing phases.• Attending customer workshops and presenting detailed solution design.• Working with various large scale banks, including Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, OCBC, and others• Implementation of industry standards related to ISO20022, 3G, SEPA Direct Debit, SEPA Credit Transfer and High Value Payments.

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  Amdocs

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Business and Solution Analyst (Relocation)

    • Jun 2008 - Sep 2012

    Liaison between the customer (T-Mobile USA) and the Amdocs delivery and testing organizations of an Ensemble project. Located on customer site.• Active participation in scoping and requirements gathering sessions with the customer.• Capture and document the functional requirements of impacts to the billing system.• Timely delivery of high level estimations and solution design for new requirements.• Lead and manage development activities according to customer business requirements.• Active participation in design sessions with the customer (T-Mobile).• Focal point for other analysts, offshore development teams and customer mainly on CSM issues.

  • Business Analyst

    • Sep 2007 - Jun 2008

    Participating in a large scale, innovative Enabler project for a North American account.• Active participation in scoping and requirements gathering sessions with the customer.• Active involvement in design sessions.• Manage the level of effort and resource allocation for requirements, across applications.• Effective support for development in understanding and implementing the requirements and clarifying open issues.• Coordinate between the different teams participating in the project: Development, QA, Infra, Implementation, Conversion, R&D, and the customer site.• Manage interfaces and dependencies between the development teams.

  • SCM and Implementation Manager

    • Jan 2005 - Sep 2007

    Part of the Customer Delivery Unit of North American accounts. • Establish and maintain SCM Plan: Builds Management, Environment Management, Service Pack and Hot Fixes Installation Management, Database Upgrade Management, Version Baseline, Defect Tracking and Software Configuration processes.• Define internal account procedures and methodologies and plan deployment plans on-site.• Coordinate all deliverables to site (code drops, documents).• Prepare High Level Plan and major contractual milestones.• Manage Business parameters and Data Gathering Implementation.• Coordinate between development, QA and infrastructure teams.• Lead the implementation of DOORS (requirement gathering and change requests management tool). • Manage and monitor project KPIs (Key Process Indicators).

  • Group Leader

    • Feb 2000 - Jan 2005

    Member of the Amdocs Ensemble competency group. Managed a CSM back-end development team. Handled projects in many accounts all over the world and traveled on site for customer support in a number of occasions.• Analyze and estimate requirements, design solutions and write technical specifications and test cases.• Manage a development team of 5-8 developers, perform design and code reviews.• Build and maintain work plans including budget & resources monitoring • Participate in status and planning meetings with managers.• Provide customer support on customer site.

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  MAMRAM (Israel Defense Forces' computing system unit)

  • Israel

  • Developer and Team Leader

    • Sep 1994 - Jul 1999
    • Israel

    Part of a team that developed and maintained operational systems for the Israeli field troops.• Analyze requirements, design technical solutions and write development specifications and test cases.• Manage a development team of 4 developers, perform design and code reviews.• Handle ongoing release management and urgent production issues.• Lead the team ISO9000 certification process.