Led cross functional groups through the definition, design and formal proposal of an innovative autonomous airborne guidance sensor system, which navigates and tracks extreme velocity objects. This new product is the first of its kind to provide robust quality in highly challenging environmental conditions and is expected to generate $10M within 24 months from launch
Product Manager in a $60M program jointly developed by IAI and Raytheon. Worked directly with the client on the entire project life-cycle, from designing the first KPIs, through the planning of the project, prioritization and resource allocation to the implementation of the first MVP
Evoked and directed a strategic partnership with another business unit addressing an extremely tight budget and limited development time. Collaboration led to a new sensor design that met all of the requirements, reduced time-to-market by 20% and displaced the incumbent
Professional Experience
IAI - A global leader in the development & production of air , land & sea systemsProduct Manager & Project Manager01/2012 to 09/2014
Directed 15+ engineers in software, algorithm, firmware and control teams developing an airborne RF sensor system through all phases of product development life cycle. Maintained product road map while driving design, implementation, debug, verification and deliverables through effective teamwork,communication and mentoring
Contributed to product's differentiation by conducting competitors analysis and suggesting new conceptions and technological features
Initiated and carried out a risk mitigation plan by introducing a system simulation & validation that provided the client with first proof of concept of the product performance
Assembled an innovative simulation group composed of multi-disciplinary talent. The group created a common platform for company's products, enabling early assessment of product's performance
Communicated with senior management about product milestones, risks, budget, progress and timelines
Defined a new company standard for system integration methodology including Agile concepts reducing components integration time by 40% while raising software quality by 60%
Invented a patent for mounting two types of sensors on a common airborne platform
Received Employee Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding performance of inception and delivery of an RFI response and SOW of a new sensor product line
Omnisys - Provider of end-to-end solutions for system design, simulation and analysis Senior Systems Engineer03/2009 to 07/2011
Characterized and implemented an SDK entitled for optimal deployment of a collection of sensors for object detection. Worked closely with customers effectively coordinating the system's requirements and suggesting metrics for performance evaluation. Delivered software product and demonstrated system's performance
Designed and realized an interface between customer simulation system and company's product for the first time using advanced Matlab conversion toolboxes. Facilitated a software infrastructure which was used from this point on for integration of cross company products with customer system
Contributed to software architecture design by recommending a model based approach to cross-company products
Directed a project life cycle from requirement specification through deployment and integration at customer sites
Trained engineers with interfacing high level coding language to scientific language
Cellmax Systems - Speaker recognition solutionSoftware and Algorithm Developer07/2004 to 02/2008
Created a speaker identification system for an early-stage startup
Developed first R&D engineering model which was the base for later product developmemnt
Performed research, development & implementation of speaker identification algorithms
Implemented speaker identification and separation using statistical inference algorithms - e.g., statistical models (HMM, GMM, etc.), classification & clustering methods
Interfaced speaker recognition system with state of the art speaker databases and presented high performance of product
Scitex Vision - Digital printingFirmware Engineer 02/2001 to 03/2003
Developed and defined firmware device architecture entitled to control data flow and timing requirements of a digital printing system
Performed simulation verification and lab testing identifying code bugs and timing malfunctioning
Implemented specifications using VHDL
Technical Skills
Languages: C,C++,SQL,HTML
Tools: Matlab,Simulink,ModelSim
Applications: MS Office/Project, Visio
OS: Windows
Education
B.Sc:Electrical Engineering Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Expertise in signal processing, communication systems and software
Received scholarship from Israel's Ministry of Science,Technology and Space
