Hadas Koren
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Seth Winerman
I have worked with Hadas at McGraw-Hill Education over the past two years. She is a very talented program manager who can be relied upon to get results. She is proactive and works well with stakeholders at all levels of our organization. Our team is responsible for integrating the many learning platforms at McGraw-Hill Education with 3rd party systems, which requires coordination across many different teams and platforms. Hadas, was instrumental in aligning timelines and deliverables, identifying risks and making sure we stayed on track. Additionally, Hadas spearheaded initiatives for our team such as infrastructure cost saving initiatives, automated testing, and a move to CI/CD to name a few. Furthermore, Hadas is very knowledgeable with regards to agile methodology. Using feedback from sprint retrospective and her own experience, Hadas adapted the methodology to find what worked best for our team and helped create a highly efficient team that always delivered on its commitments. Working with Hadas has been a pleasure and I hope to have an opportunity to work with her again in the future.
Seth Winerman
I have worked with Hadas at McGraw-Hill Education over the past two years. She is a very talented program manager who can be relied upon to get results. She is proactive and works well with stakeholders at all levels of our organization. Our team is responsible for integrating the many learning platforms at McGraw-Hill Education with 3rd party systems, which requires coordination across many different teams and platforms. Hadas, was instrumental in aligning timelines and deliverables, identifying risks and making sure we stayed on track. Additionally, Hadas spearheaded initiatives for our team such as infrastructure cost saving initiatives, automated testing, and a move to CI/CD to name a few. Furthermore, Hadas is very knowledgeable with regards to agile methodology. Using feedback from sprint retrospective and her own experience, Hadas adapted the methodology to find what worked best for our team and helped create a highly efficient team that always delivered on its commitments. Working with Hadas has been a pleasure and I hope to have an opportunity to work with her again in the future.
Seth Winerman
I have worked with Hadas at McGraw-Hill Education over the past two years. She is a very talented program manager who can be relied upon to get results. She is proactive and works well with stakeholders at all levels of our organization. Our team is responsible for integrating the many learning platforms at McGraw-Hill Education with 3rd party systems, which requires coordination across many different teams and platforms. Hadas, was instrumental in aligning timelines and deliverables, identifying risks and making sure we stayed on track. Additionally, Hadas spearheaded initiatives for our team such as infrastructure cost saving initiatives, automated testing, and a move to CI/CD to name a few. Furthermore, Hadas is very knowledgeable with regards to agile methodology. Using feedback from sprint retrospective and her own experience, Hadas adapted the methodology to find what worked best for our team and helped create a highly efficient team that always delivered on its commitments. Working with Hadas has been a pleasure and I hope to have an opportunity to work with her again in the future.
Seth Winerman
I have worked with Hadas at McGraw-Hill Education over the past two years. She is a very talented program manager who can be relied upon to get results. She is proactive and works well with stakeholders at all levels of our organization. Our team is responsible for integrating the many learning platforms at McGraw-Hill Education with 3rd party systems, which requires coordination across many different teams and platforms. Hadas, was instrumental in aligning timelines and deliverables, identifying risks and making sure we stayed on track. Additionally, Hadas spearheaded initiatives for our team such as infrastructure cost saving initiatives, automated testing, and a move to CI/CD to name a few. Furthermore, Hadas is very knowledgeable with regards to agile methodology. Using feedback from sprint retrospective and her own experience, Hadas adapted the methodology to find what worked best for our team and helped create a highly efficient team that always delivered on its commitments. Working with Hadas has been a pleasure and I hope to have an opportunity to work with her again in the future.
Credentials
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PMP®
Project Management InstituteFeb, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Experience
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Skybox Security
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United States
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Computer and Network Security
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200 - 300 Employee
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Director Program Management
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Sep 2021 - Present
Leading the R&D operations groupManager of 3 team leaders - release management team, technical writers and business analysts.Full ownership of release life cycle , including scope validation .bugs tracking, communication and moreResponsible for quarterly planning and accountable for execution , especially for integration work. Responsible for communication and cooperation with all other organization departments, especially product management and customer care.Lead an ongoing effort of promoting training initiatives across R&D , including building a new onboarding plan. Lead process improvements efforts within R&D and with other departments.Continuously helping my team leaders to promote their activities.Handle all managerial related activitiesHandling budget related needs. Show less
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Senior Program Manager
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Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
Leading all program management activities within Skybox security R&D organization, highly involved in all R&D day-to-day mattersHelping development team focus on development work and delivery while helping remove all bottlenecks and anticipating and handling risks as they arise• Leading the quarterly planning efforts with all groups managers and product managers and handling ongoing communication with R&D stakeholders within the organization• Facilitating integration activities between different R&D groups to lead integrative features to their successful completion • Leading R&D project management efforts in a strategic SaaS transformation project • Act as R&D organization Agile and scrum champion, working closely with product owners, scrum masters and the scrum teams to improve their development processes• Act as JIRA expert – train users and work closely with Information systems group to customize JIRA and develop additional capabilities as needed • Define working processes for R&D and other Skybox groups such product management and customer car • Working closely with QA around all release delivery related activities • Define measures , KPIs and dashboard based on JIRA data to help C level management to get an insight into R&D progress and also provide R&D managers tools for leading improvement • Managerial position – 1 direct report Show less
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General Motors
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United States
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Project Manager
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May 2018 - Aug 2019
Leading all global expansion project management efforts of the Israel development Center (to China and South America), while maintaining current product in EU serving GM car holders. •Working closely with local development, testing and product teams on release planning and execution. •Daily communication with peer development and testing teams in the USA, China and UK responsible for all integrations and coordination. •End to End responsibility for release delivery, including ongoing problem solving and decision making in order to optimize working processes and focus the teams on delivery of quality software. •Leading the transition to usage of TFS for work and testing management by ISR teams. Show less
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McGraw Hill
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Program Manager
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Oct 2017 - May 2018
On top of continuing to lead the ISR office scrums team as their Scrum Master and program lead I handled the following:I am part of a the site management team lead by the general manager responsible for running day-to-day activities , prioritization of work between the different projects and problem solving (such as resources, dependencies)CI / CD release deployments - leading the teams in their efforts to implement CI/CD practices and deliver quality products in min' time by developing automated testing and deployment practices.As part of a program that aimed to reduce operational costs I have led my teams to bring savings to the company by improving code efficiency / using different hardware needs / change of architecture etc.Handling all contracting needs, reading through contracts making sure our needs are covered and bringing them to signature by both sides. Show less
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Program Manager & Scrum Master
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Aug 2014 - Oct 2017
Serving as the only PMO representative in MHE ISR office therefore responsible for implementing all project management related processes.• Leading the development, QA DevOps and support teams in the transition to agile mode of work.• After the transition to Agile -Serving as the scrum master of four multi-disciplinary scrum teams with team members on and off shore. Managing their day to say work using JIRA.• Holding Cycle, release and sprint planning sessions. Managing dependencies and integrations.• Leading projects of six products serving the education industry to their successful delivery within quality, scope and time. • Serving as the focal point of the teams in all integrations efforts with other company / third party companies' teams (mainly working with USA) Show less
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AT&T
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United States
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Process Improvements Project Manager
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May 2013 - Jun 2014
Deep understanding and vast knowledge of every stage of software development life cycle - from requirements definition till implementation I cooperated with senior management to reflect current situation and discuss optional working methods to improve the teams' performance I have defined and implemented KPIs to measure performance , the KPIs were used for efficiency and productivity improvements Reports and presentation for senior management Coaching development teams on a daily basis according to Scrum methodology in order to improve teams’ performance and increase productivity (Agile coaching) Project managers training on projects tracking and monitoring in Agile world Product managers training on requirements definition in user stories format Extensive knowledge in Rally tool for requirements management – including users support Show less
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Amdocs
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Product & Project Manager
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Jan 2011 - May 2013
I have defined the requirements to the project management tool of Amdocs product team (supporting Agile and Lean mode of work) . The tool was built in house and supports over a 1000 users. The majority of the requirements focused on UI, UX and performance elementsI have built , prioritized and tracked the work plans of the dev teamTracked and monitored the work progress according to Scrum methodology and the overall progress against product’ road mapI wrote and executed the user acceptance tests (UAT) of each release I was in charge of all new release communication – release notes , training materials etc.Defined and implemented BI reports based in the system’s data using Cognos tool Show less
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Agile Coach
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Oct 2008 - Jan 2011
As an Agile coach I worked closely with the managers and dev teams to implement the agile mindset in the day to day workThe daily work done with the team and managers was aimed to improve the working processes to increase efficiency and productivity.I was part of a team that led major transformation of Amdocs’ product team (over a 1000 employees worldwide)I developed working materials and provided frontal / web training for large groups worldwide on both Agile / Lean methodology and supporting tool and reportsI provided ongoing support to the project management tool that supported the transition to Agile Show less
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Project Manager
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Jun 2006 - Oct 2008
DOORS implementation project manager (IBM’s requirements management tool) Managed about 10 implementation projects in parallelI was in charge of the work of a team of 2 membersTracked and monitored the entire project life cycle from project initiation to requirements definition, customization, implementation and all the way to training and escorting the users in productionThe project’s customer were both company employees and company’s external customersI was nominated excellent worker for this job Show less
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Matan Consulting
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Israel
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Management Consultant
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Sep 2004 - May 2006
Project server 2003 implementation for several clients As a consultant I have defined the project management working process with the management according to the organizational needs , customized the tool accordingly and instructed the users in the field The clients were both high tech companies as well as other industries (Israel Electricity Company, Tel Aviv municipality and more) Project server 2003 implementation for several clients As a consultant I have defined the project management working process with the management according to the organizational needs , customized the tool accordingly and instructed the users in the field The clients were both high tech companies as well as other industries (Israel Electricity Company, Tel Aviv municipality and more)
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Education
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2007 - 2009
Tel Aviv University
MBA, Marketing -
2001 - 2005
Tel Aviv University
BSc, Industrial Engineering
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