Product Director at SAP
Greater Atlanta Area
Product Director at SAP
Greater Atlanta Area
MBA, M.Sc, trilingual (English, Hebrew, Russian) Product Director/Solution Lead with 13+ years of international leadership experience in professional services, software development, and new product introductions. Demonstrated proficiency in identifying customer-originated needs and in defining, establishing, and directing corrective resolutions. Combines solid technical background with target-oriented business experience. Track record of producing proven growth and success in determining paths for strengthening new and continuing initiatives.
master data management, MDM, enterprise data management, EDM, enterprise architecture, integration, SOA, product management, product definition, consulting, software design, software development, program planning, team management, coaching, teaching, mentoring.
(Computer Software industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Responsible for internal MDM solution development, including product integration with SAP Business Suite and new applications. Served as a liaison of the development in engagements with other application groups, driving projects from conceptualization to completion. Oversees all stages of development, quality control, and field roll-out. Mitigates high-profile customer-facing situations from the development side.
(Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Led a global team of architects and experts in the solution office in NPI group, focusing on MDM (master data management) product introduction. Targeted indicators: customer success, scalable readiness, and solution completeness. The group participated in a number of projects at Fortune 100 enterprises, prepared and performed a numerous courses and workshops, identified and provided solutions for product gaps due to its immature phase. The group drove a few unique initiatives directed to streamline field execution, increase product awareness, and provide success for early product adopters.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAP; Computer Software industry)
March 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Championed and evangelized the most advanced technologies and philosophies of SAP such as ESA (enterprise service architecture) and MDM (master data management). A permanent speaker at domestic and international conferences, a constant contributor to SDN (software development network of SAP). The targeted indicators of success were: ensuring project success, building show cases, obtaining reference customers, securing solution trust, and increasing product awareness.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2003 — March 2004 (10 months)
Strove for the startup success with a cross-functional international team, comprised of product marketing, scientists, engineering and quality assurance experts. Streamlined the existing architecture accentuating on the modern industry standards and performance issues. Devised internal code standards and source project management policy. Partook in refactoring the whole system architecture to achieve J2EE compliance. Originated a solid structural automated building/testing framework.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2001 — June 2003 (2 years)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 2000 — June 2001 (9 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 1 month)
(Computer Software industry)
August 1996 — September 1999 (3 years 2 months)
MBA , Finance , 2007 — 2008
3-week training , Economics, sales, consulting , 2006 — 2006
Master of Science , Applied mathematics , July 1989 — June 1994
CTM,
SCEA,
SCJD,
MCSD