Head of BFSI Devion, overseeing P&L and driving growth strategies for the banking, financial services, insurance, and industry sectors (Managed Services, Off/Nearshore, Remote, Hybrid, On-Premises).
Organization & Business - Modernization & Digital transformation leader, with proven record of mid to enterprise successful projects.
Leading global Legacy systems Managed Services operation (Mainframe, AS400 etc.) , Application Modernization (Cobol, PL/I, .NET, Java)
Managed global offshore operations, optimizing efficiency and ensuring seamless operations across multiple locations.
Spearheaded Liacom M&A Synergy, facilitating successful mergers and acquisitions to enhance CodeValue's market position.
CIO of Core Banking Modernization
Bank Hapoalim
01.2004 - 01.2023
Lead organization digital transformation to renew legacy core systems by implementing a state of the art modern architecture based on cloud native environment and migrate business products to the new platform.
Manage MF & Modern : infrastructure, software, product, pmo and business units, over 200rd employees including Managers, Infrastructure & Software engineers, System Analysts, QA teams etc…
Working closely with Board of directors, Board and regulators
Leading tens of teams to meet business goals, deadlines, large scale and nationwide system maintenance
Managing large scales of operations in Financial Product lines, Core & Data Systems, Storage and Backup, Mainframe, AS400, Monitoring & Control.
Annual budget management of 500 million ILS (PNL)
Negotiation with leading IT contractors, building RFI and RFP documents
Managing the bank's core systems availability
Initiating, building and operating processes of business continuity and disaster recovery (hardware and logical failure)
Initiation and planning of complex SW/HW architectures
Lecturer
The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo
01.2008 - 01.2013
Lecturer at Organizational Computing course and IT in Enterprise organization as part of B.Sc. Computer Science courses.
Senior Mainframe Infrastructure Programmer and Project Management
Isracard
01.2002 - 01.2004
Project manager - disaster recovery site
Organization central storage management, backups, availability and survivability
Database management – responsibility for organizational data resources
Planning and implementation of complex SW/HW projects
Mainframe Infrastructure Team Leader
IDF – Air Force
01.1995 - 01.2002
Compulsory and permanent service
Team Leader of operational Mainframe infrastructure at the Israeli Air Force (Mainframe and Unix)
Education
Board Directors Curse - Director
Lahav, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, TA
01.2022 - 03.2022
MBA - Technology, Entrepreneurship and innovation
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, TA
01.2014 - 01.2015
B.Sc - Computer Science, Bioinformatics
The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo
Tel Aviv, TA
01.2003 - 01.2008
Skills
Lead an IT Division responsible for MF Core Digital Transformation, including Infrastructure, Software, Product, PMO and Business units of over 200 employees and hundreds of millions ILS yearly (PNL)
Extensive experience managing tens of IT Software development teams (Agile & Waterfall)
Extensive experience with MF, Digital, Public Cloud and On Prem technological systems based on nationwide comupting sites
Over 25 years of experience managing advanced IT in finance and regulatory environment
Lead decision making processes working closely with Board of directors, Board and Regulators
Excellent knowledge with to the IT domain globally and in Israel: leading vendors, service providers and outsourced activities
Supporting technological,MF and digital systems of customers in and out side of the organization
Deep knowledge with IT infrastructure: MF, data security, storage, servers, communication, System, backups
Specialized in IT Crisis management, risk management and Business Continuity processes implementation
IT procurement management of over 500M ILS
Leading complex and cross organization processes of system disaster and recovery ability
Supporting technological and digital systems of customers in and out side of the organization
Timeline
Chief Digital Officer (CDO)
CodeValue
01.2023 - Current
Board Directors Curse - Director
Lahav, Tel Aviv University
01.2022 - 03.2022
MBA - Technology, Entrepreneurship and innovation
Tel Aviv University
01.2014 - 01.2015
Lecturer
The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo
01.2008 - 01.2013
CIO of Core Banking Modernization
Bank Hapoalim
01.2004 - 01.2023
B.Sc - Computer Science, Bioinformatics
The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo
01.2003 - 01.2008
Senior Mainframe Infrastructure Programmer and Project Management