Experience

Strauss

• Israel
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT and Organizational Strategy Consultant

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  Strategic consulting and building a strategic IT plan to various organizations, including: - Analyzing the business environment and refining the organizational strategy - Defining IT's strategy and goals matching the business strategy - Analyzing the the gaps between the existing organizational structure, working processes, infrastructure, and operational efficiency - Define recommendations to address the above gaps with emphasis on working processes, effective interfaces to the business units and proper organizational structure Leading strategic processes to search and evaluate alternatives to replace organizational core systems, including: - Defining methodology for the process - Evaluating possible alternatives - Working with the business and strategy units to map the business needs that will match the business strategy - Writing an RFI document in English - Managing the selection process including: review suppliers' proposals, analyzing them in terms of technical contents and financial aspects and score them according to predefined criteria - Prepare final products to the organization's management team and the board of directorsן Show less



Self Employed

• Consultant

  • Jul 2007 - Jul 2017

  Managing large software and integration projects for one of the HMOs in Israel. Define organizational processes for managing enhancement requests for operational systems. Develop and teach internal project management course. Couch younger project manager in managing software development projects. Managing large software and integration projects for one of the HMOs in Israel. Define organizational processes for managing enhancement requests for operational systems. Develop and teach internal project management course. Couch younger project manager in managing software development projects.



Amdocs

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director - Customer Support

  • Feb 2002 - Dec 2004

  Managerial, technical and business responsibility for supporting the production operation of a customer care and billing system for a leading US based Wireless Telephone Company. I was the site manager.Managing a support team of 150 software specialists.Business plan development as well as ongoing tracking.

• Director - Software Development

  • Jul 1999 - Mar 2002

  Managerial, technical and business responsibility for the development of a customer care and billing system for a large US based Wireless Telephone Company. Managing a development team of 100 software specialistsJob functions included businesses plan development, functional design, project planning and tracking, recruiting and team building.

• Project Leader, project manager - Customer Support

  • Jul 1995 - Jun 1999

  Managerial and technical responsibility for supporting the implementation and production of a billing system for a large US based Wireless Telephone Company. Done on customer's site.The system supported in production around 5 million subscribers.Managing a support team of 20 software specialists.Job functions include requirement analysis, coordination with the development teams, customer relationship management, production support, marketing activities.Environment - UNIX (HP) - Oracle. Show less



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Consultant

  • Nov 1986 - Feb 1995

  Pre-sale activities for prospective customers in Israel such as proposal preparation, presentations and training. Post-sale activities to existing customers, such as technical support, training and presenting new products. Managing turn key projects including proposal preparation, negotiation and tracking of third party companies and overall implementation activities. Pre-sale activities for prospective customers in Israel such as proposal preparation, presentations and training. Post-sale activities to existing customers, such as technical support, training and presenting new products. Managing turn key projects including proposal preparation, negotiation and tracking of third party companies and overall implementation activities.



Projecta LTD

• Software Consultant

  • Feb 1984 - Oct 1986

  Consulting for large communication systems based on CICS. The activities included performance tuning, trouble shouting and technical training. Developing a prototype for a large data processing system for; Environment - IBM - MF, CICS, PL/1, Cobol Consulting for large communication systems based on CICS. The activities included performance tuning, trouble shouting and technical training. Developing a prototype for a large data processing system for; Environment - IBM - MF, CICS, PL/1, Cobol



Israel Defense

• Programmer

  • Nov 1979 - Jan 1984

  Planning and developing a distributed system for new soldiers' job assignments. Environment - IBM - MF, CICS, PL/1, Assembler 370 Planning and developing a distributed system for new soldiers' job assignments. Environment - IBM - MF, CICS, PL/1, Assembler 370