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Tel Aviv University

Stevens Institute of Technology

Holon Institute of Technology

high school

VP - Operations at Rakuten Mobile

San Francisco, California, United States

Rakuten mobile building a greenfield mobile service using the cutting-edge technologies, all the network is cloud-native, segregating Hardware from Software, applying AI and ML to operate the network with less than 120 engineers, cloud-native is the future and Operation is the new frontier•	Building Seven Ops support organizations from scratch, including the hiring process, budget allocation, and technologies.•	Managing over $150 Million budget, life cycles, roadmaps, and growth prediction to balance the budget.•	Operate and manage an international team over Three time zones (Japan, USA, and India)•	Create and define the operation process for Change management, Incident management, performance management – all in the cloud environment. •	Manage a team of 150 engineers from L1 to L3, including vendor management and escalation, adopting the Google SRE (Site Reliability Engineers)•	Leading the Architecture Advisory Board which supervise every project into production•	Develop AI ops team which focuses on a proactive approach, supporting auto TT creations and identify trends, FCAPS models and operation triage. •	Supporting universities  by giving fresh graduates to work and learn the most advanced technologies in cloud and networking•	Public speaker prompting the idea of ‘Operation is the new R&D’

Rakuten

VP - Operations

A technology visionary, technical engineering with finance awareness, responsible for managing a portfolio of security and infrastructure products with revenues of over $1B annually, leading (forecast, life cycles, budget) one of the world’s largest wireless infrastructures.•	Designed and implemented the 5G network - complete Fixed and Mobile Wireless on virtual infrastructure. Delivered the network design Six mounts ahead of time.•	Key intermediary between Operations, Project Management, and Sales, resulting in Seven patents and recognition by the Mobile industry standards body (3GPP).•	Team lead on the transformation from appliance packet core to virtual infrastructure based on OpenStack and Docker, improving the infrastructure cost by $50M.•	Spearheaded a unique High-availability solution, supporting no failure domain, reducing network outages by 70%•	Managing over $100 Million budget, life cycles, roadmaps, and growth prediction to balance the budget.•	Service orchestration offering DevOps teams flexibility with Day 1 operation, minimize the move to production by three weeks•	Designed and implemented the Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) solution to support AR/VR, known as the ‘wavelength’ project with Amazon.•	Founded the company management (FCAPS) discipline using ONAP and VES, contributing to the opensource community Ten procedures for open management interfaces. •	Partnering with McKinsey & Co to improve the process for software cycles, purchasing, and reduce CAPEX by $150M

Verizon

Senior Manager, Wireless Access Core, HQ network planning

Manager of an engineering team in Verizon HQ wireless access . Primary contact for the contract and General Purchase Agreements between Verizon and various vendor supply companies. Oversee, coordinate, and manage budget related activities for the R&D, equipment expansions, technologies trials, capital improvements, and software upgrade programs between VzW and its suppliers. Negotiate pricing structures as well as strategic business, tactical, and technical aspects of the Verizon/Vendor relationships resulting in the achievement of product implementations, design decisions, and financial goals. Lead a group of engineers who are the de-facto experts on the Verizon wireless core data infrastructure. Team serving as the subject matter expert and company leaders on the core data platforms including:•	All MITG Cisco products , DNS – Bind, SGW,MME, OSS, Security GW, eMBMSKey Roles and Responsibilities: - Develops and evaluates network performance criteria and measurement methods. - Prepares the analysis of the short term and long term capacity needs for wireless core infrastructure. - Conduct network architecture design, feasibility and cost studies. - Studies and forecasts traffic drivers to determine short and/or long term capacity needs. - Recommends strategic network architecture planning and network evolution policy decisions in support of corporate initiatives, customer demand, technology changes,and service reliability criteria.- Evaluates new and emerging technologies for addition and/or application to existing network systems.- Conducts population growth studies to determine impact on network capacity and development plan projections.- Creates deliverables such as reports, business cases, infrastructure deployment guidelines, 3 Year Plans, Plans of Record , and Serving Plans.- Works with key internal stakeholder and vendors to determine future business and customer needs.

Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff

- Data system performance task force lead ,support 5 west area regions, for day by day usage , long/short term performance, guidelines and hands on support.- Educate VZW engineers (enginering/ops/SP teams) for the network basics. (TCP,IP,Mobile-IP, and much more)- Extand the network tools usage and  build the discipline behind  data performance.- Actively supported executive staff in planning and budgeting activities - Part of the team that makes VZW the industry-leading high-performance network.- Supported sales and customer services in critical customer accounts

Member Of Technical Staff, Performance

- Budget planing.- Network architecture.- Service margin and capacity support (achieve sufficient packet data network capacity to support year end targets) including IP pool capacity, Call Events per second capacity, concurrent PPP session capacity- Manage IP addressing for wireless data network elements and IP address pools for data network subscribers.- PoC- Push to Talk over Cellular service/network design for the PTT nation wide deployment and tested and deployed CALEA for PTT.- Design and implement IDS/FW , this include layer 1/2/3 low level design and creating a detailed test plan.

Area data planning

- Network architecture (network protocols, IP addresing,WAN links, network policies, optimization scheme and security architecture).- Operational aspects of converting trial users and obtaining new users.( By mid-2004 the EV-DO network was the largest in the world, with more than 20,000 clients)  - Design and implementation review meetings involving network architects, technicians and project managers and provided network rollout analysis to upper management.- Out-of-band network management infrastructure.(TCP/IP infrastructure and SNMP services).

pelephone

Senior Network Architect

Spearheaded Cisco's Mobile world wide sales in both managing in-house team of consultants and coordinating partner activities. Engaged in pre-sales/sales activities helping to up-sell into existing accounts- Supported Cisco’s premier accounts- Managed and developed technical staff- Ensured account coverage on identified Major Accounts- Interfaced on a routine basis with the sales account teams to proactively resolve problems on behalf of the customers used that knowledge to prevent recurrence of such problems at other- Responsibility for all mobile technology and 2.5G network designs in Israel for Cisco, including  the following technologies: GSM, CDMA, iDEN, GPRS,WLAN-802.11, and Mobile-IP.

Cisco

Senior Consultant Engineer

- Lead the design team for the core network backbone based on a collapsed layers concept, this include AAA, rootDNS, Firewall, and dat center design concept.- Lead the design and analyze IP addressing schemes for various technologies IPv4, and restricted pools, RFC1918).- IP routing (SGSN-GGSN traffic type,AAA, firewall).- Create evolution of mobile networks to enable IP multimedia services (2.5G) which include circuit-switched (HSCSD) to packet-switched network evolution.- Analyze the functioning of TCP/IP major transport protocols (include TCP, UDP) in the context of wireless communications.- Develop a trainning design (IP,GPRS)  for all network level staffing(include Packet data , web-based mobile content).- lead the vendors negotiation for the the design and implementation(Cisco/Ericsson/checkpoint)- Active member on the GSMA, involved with the data roaming standard development.

Orange

Manager, GPRS Engineering

In charge of building the WAP based service provider in Israel, background in iDEN network design with IP protocols, BGP4 and HSRP, IP addressing schemes, - Installed and configured Check-Point Firewall One on Solaris based Sun Servers.DNS servers - Managed five system administrators- Analyzed and procured computers and communications equipment according to company needs- Coordinated work with international branch offices- Managed Y2K compliance work

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