Smadar Paradise-Avinir

• Development and management of a new SaaS security SIEM product Main responsibilities include: Define Go To Market strategy while validating product-market fit Plan product roadmap and execute it Introduce innovative features and solutions to create key differentiators Define features’ requirements and create specifications Create use cases and user stories; work closely with UX designer and technical.
• Headed the security product supporting rapid expansion and program proliferation from concept to reality.
• Created and implemented new business opportunities through a roadmap adjustment,
• Creation of all product's demos and enablement and training the field.
• Increased KPIs by adding Self Service free trials capabilities.
• Defining product-market fit creating value
• Managing a team of security analysts Adding traction through security out of. the box content. Redefining product-market fit.
• Single owner of product innovations, design and roadmap, coordinated all aspects of development and launch.
• Created product strategy and roadmaps according to market data and research.
• Owner of product features requirements, setting priorities. to RnD, UX and documentation, communication internally and externally to customers.
• Increased productivity using innovative solutions while remaining conservative with resources.
• Advocated for and advertised products in field.
• Coordinating all security product related moving parts across the company.
• Extensive work with customers, sales, marketing, support and CS.
• Created SalesForce and Amplitude dashboards to closely monitor customers' behavior and collect data to improve the product.
• Decreased churn by creat
• Product usage dashboard, list of accounts and usage
• Created competitor lab and. battle cards
• Liaised with customers, management and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions
• Simplified product's pricing model for the benefit of both customers and the field
• Worked diligently to resolve unique and recurring complaints, promoting loyalty and enhancing operations.
• Increased sales volume by 200% in 2020

• Part of RnD agile process, monitor progress and risks, define priorities and trade-offs in order to meet timelines Validate feature completion; plan and execute gradual deployment Define APIs for smooth integrations and metrics for customer behavior analytics Initiate business partnerships to enrich integrations with security products Define product’s onboarding, create demos and training for effective adoption Work closely with customer success and sales operations for product adoption Director of Cyber Security Protection Manage an RnD department of 80 developers of cyber security protection for all the Threat Prevention product lines Main responsibilities include: Improve security effectiveness through the product’s IPS, Anti-Bot, Threat Emulation and Application Control technologies Protect customers from cyberattacks with over 200 yearly releases, immediately enforced by tens of thousands of gateways and endpoints around the world Major improvement to success rate of the products through innovative security research and detection solutions Manage the interaction with NSS Labs security tests for over 5 years; lead Check Point to win the best Breach Prevention Security vendor in 2017 and NSS recommended in every category Manage hiring and retention and successfully build strong and independent teams.

• Managed 3 teams responsible for developing protections against cyber attacks increasing IPS product’s security effectiveness.

• Established a new dedicated organization inside the larger corporation.
• Played a critical role in creating the endpoint security product and integrating new technologies from several newly acquired companies into a unified client and management server.
• Main responsibilities included: Project and product management Led the teams responsible for the deployment code and the client I/S code.

• Managed the FW-1 APIs and SDK
• C, C++ network security code design and development.
• Protocol parsers, user mode daemons for client/server implementation, kernel code.

Software Engineer and Team Leader positions at:Applied Materials , Interphase Corporation , ICL North America (Fujitsu), Tadiran