Experience

KayHut

• Israel
• Computer and Network Security
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sr. Director of IT and Operations

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  • Ensuring that management and IT are aligned on policy and strategy.• Nurturing relationships with external providers. Negotiating the best terms for contracts and services.• Managing annual IT budget. Responsible for reviewing, auditing and prioritizing IT tools including sourcing and acquisition of new technology to replace current solutions.• Shows critical thinking, time management and organizational skills. Implements agile methodology.

• Head of IT, DevOps and Purchasing

  • Jan 2014 - Mar 2018

  • Understanding customer requirements and responsible from project planning to solution implementation.• Maintaining excellent relationships with stakeholders, by building trust and delivering on execution.• Built the first DevOps/SRE team in the company• Adopted industry best practices such as Infrastructure as Code, continuous integration and delivery.• Oversaw the first project based on microservices architecture.• Promoted the DevOps ‘mindset/culture’ by cultivating collaboration between DevOps, IT and developer teams.• Implemented monitoring solutions, giving observability of resource usage to plan future hardware procurement.• Performed retrospections and used technical incidents as an opportunity for learning and improvement.• Provided honest feedback to participants while creating a ‘blameless’ environment. Show less



OnPage®

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of IT & Operations

  • Oct 2005 - Dec 2013

  • Manage the company’s overall Technical Services in Israel and North America. • In charge of the IT and Technical Support departments including performance, identifying and resolving potential problems and enforcing corrective actions.• Manage daily assistance and solutions to employees and also to the company’s Customers.• Manage the relationship with a broad variety of IT vendors.• Assisted the R&D department from the planning phase into the implementation phase regarding hardware, software and network upgrades.• Responsible for evaluation impact of new systems integration.• Design, purchase and implement physical architecture. • Experience in (Hands on) : operating Systems- Windows/Windows servers,Linux (Centos6) Smart phones operating Systems-Blackberry,IPhone,Symbian,Windows mobile , Hardware Assembling and Troubleshooting Experience, IBM /HP/Dell PC/Laptop/Servers platforms, Virtual environment –HyperV,VMWare, Database applications-MSSQL Server,MySql,Networking- Design Network Topology, Network Administration, Deploy Firewalls, Network Protocols (Tcp/Ip, NetBIOS, Etc...), Internet Experience- Messaging, Internet / Intranet Setup, Mail Setup, Proxy Server Setup, web site. Show less

• International Presales and Postsales engineer

  • Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  • Managed the Technical Sales Services of Resellers/ Channel Partners in Western Europe.• Managed the product implementation at customer sites.• Provided pre and post sales technical consultation for corporate customers.• Assisted the Business Development team in negotiating and closing deals.• Liaison between Reseller/Partners and the R&D department at Onset Mobility.• Provided ongoing assistance to channel partners, including sales and technical trainings, and managing product version updates and upgrades.• Installed Blackberry Enterprise Servers at customer sites and provided ongoing support Show less