Ann Sharon

Current

• Director Product Management at Aprigo, Inc.

Past

• Senior Manager - Portfolio at EMC Corporation
• Manager, Application Development and Portfolio at EMC
• Development Manager, IT at EMC

• Project Manager at Ergo Consulting

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Education

• Northeastern University - Graduate School of Business Administration
• Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

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Information Technology and Services

Ann Sharon’s Experience

• Director Product Management

  Aprigo, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Aprigo is about data and the people that manage it on a daily business. To quote Albert Einstein, “You can’t solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it.” Aprigo is all about solving data management issues with a different kind of thinking. Stay tuned as we explore SaaS and data management from a new perspective, with a fresh approach, not bound by conventional thinking.

• Senior Manager - Portfolio

  EMC Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMC; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 3 months)

  Leader of a staff of 20 Program Managers, Project Managers and Business Analysts. Grew the team from 5 business analysts in just one year. Directing programs and projects through all phases of software development life cycle in a highly cross functional and cross divisional environment. Lead the team through implementing new processes and systems.
  
  Execution to accomplish business goals. Proven record of working effectively under pressure and tight timelines. Created a sustainable group culture and structure.
  
  People Management of a direct staff of 10 including all aspects of management. Provided day-to-day guidance, mentoring, and personal development.
  
  Technological experiences included design, build and production support for mission critical IT systems. Coordination across application developers, architects, storage administrators, OS administrators, networks and datacenter operations to build systems with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR).

• Manager, Application Development and Portfolio

  EMC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMC; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 9 months)

  Responsible for all aspects of product life cycle.
  
  Offshore planning, implementation and remote team management - established an off-shore development cell in India and grew it to be a third of the development team. Transitioned most of the break fix activities and application enhancements. Traveled to India to train the team and worked on solving communication and cultural differences to gain the most effectiveness of this low cost model.
  
  Formalized communication channels with our cross divisional business community. Established and lead an Operational Decision Team to drive requirements and prioritization.
  
  Grew the team from 6 to 30 through approved business cases that called for expanding support and services for EMC products.

• Development Manager, IT

  EMC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMC; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 2004 (6 years )

  Responsible for all aspect of development from conception through design, implementation, deployment and support. Liaison with our business partners, and internal IT infrastructure groups.
  
  Grew the application to support all of EMC’s hardware products. Established a process to use this application as part of a standard product regression cycle to minimize the customer impact due to defects in supportability

• Project Manager

  Ergo Consulting

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)

  September 1996 — February 1998 (1 year 6 months)

  Ergo is a management consulting firm. Conducted numerous projects in leading Israeli service companies in various areas. The projects included process and systems analysis, process improvement and reengineering, Activity Based Costing (ABC), etc. The companies ranged from banks to insurance providers and telecom.

Ann Sharon’s Education

• Northeastern University - Graduate School of Business Administration

  MBA , 2000 — 2003

• Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

  BSc , Industrial Engineering , 1992 — 1996

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