omer shechter

מנהל מוצר בכיר

מודיעין מכבים רעות, ישראל

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צור קשר

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🔷 Innovative Product Manager 🔷 Strategy 🔷 Leader
🔷 Multi-Disciplined Technical skills 🔷 Team Player
An Innovative Executive Product Manager, with ten years experience in various product management roles.
Ability to listen to customers, translate the market needs into technical requirements, self-learner, a people person, practical and with multi-tasking skills. Track records of leading products which bring value, from idea to launch and successful deployment, in various startup and corporate companies.
Strong multi-disciplined technical skills, served in various role of Product and Project roles, with different seniority levels including VP Product and Head of Product Management
Product Management skills and experience:
✔ Hands-on system architecture
✔ Product Definition (PRD/MRD Writing, Template)
✔ Competitive and Market Analysis
✔ Product Strategy and Roadmap Planning
✔ Product Content Creation (Whitepapers, Datasheets, Web Pages, Market flash, SharePoint designs )
✔ Agile/Scrum methodology
✔ Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both in English and Hebrew
Achievements :
✔ Created a new product management infrastructure (e.g., New Product Introduction process, Customer facing documents templates, trade-offs, and product prioritization process)
Defining the product owner (agile-scrum) methodology
✔ Leading the security and data privacy product technical response and negotiation with European governance official
✔ Leading the company re-branding project, managing the entire activity from selecting an external company, defining New brand, new WEB site
✔ Took the lead and facilitated the entire management team to develop a business marketing plan
Management Experience: Leading Product Management and R&D Teams
Technologies: Video, IoT, Security, Management Applications, Telecommunications, Cable networks, Networking, Large platforms, Enterprise Solutions, Management application, Data Base, BI, Mobile Applications, GPS, devices, UI/UX.

Telecommunications

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עברית

שפת אם

אנגלית

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תחומי התמחות

בכירים

350 ₪ לשעה

מנהלי מוצר בכירים

I am an experienced Product Manager, Skilled at analyzing market trends and customer needs to develop highly-effective product strategy both inbound and outbound.
I Served in various companies, startups as well as large corporate and I have vast experience with R&D, project management, Product Management, and Product marketing roles related to large-scale solutions and products which included different modules of SW and HW components.
I am very experience with Agile-Scrum process, writing user stories, adjusting the process to different companies and scenarios.
My main benefits and experience include:
• Ability to lead manage and mentor, both as a product manager in a matrix structure (interface with another department) and also as a manager of a product management group
• A hands-on person, who know how to combine business requirements into technology requirements
• Professionals product management knowledge, with all aspects, roadmaps process, agile development, pricing, full life cycle process of the product, as well as the prioritization process
• Ability to help sales in promoting the products, as well as developing tools, and presentation to aid the sales and pre-sales team, which includes customer’s meetings and tender negotiation with government officials
• Pricing and ROI analyzes.
• I Keep close touch with SW technologies, by participating in online courses to keep my programming knowledge (e.g., Java, Android, and Python)
• Lately:
• dealing with security, cybersecurity and data privacy requirements
• Deeply involved in planning the next generation platform of the company, evaluating new technologies such as IOT platforms, cloud and SAAS models.

נסיון תעסוקתי

אוגוסט 2018 - היום

Senior Product Manager

ASSA ABLOY , Yavne IL

Senior Product Manager in the IoT smart home living industry
Managing a portfolio of IoT devices, with a Mobile application and a SAAS cloud solution
For the Smart home living market.
Global ownership of product requirements, roadmap, leading the Product Strategy of a consumer product which includes Digital Lock, Mobile Application, and SAAS cloud services.
Drive strategy and future vision of a complex IoT Smart living solution, which provides for HW components, Firmware, Mobile Application, and Cloud SAAS solution.
Analyze the Smart living and smart door market and competitive analysis to build a roadmap and a clear priority of features and product plan.

ינואר 2015 - ינואר 2018

Head of Product Management

Attenti , Tel Aviv

 Managed a team of Product Managers, Technical Writer, and a Marketer.
 Leading and creating a market and a domestic violence solution, based on a data-driven product market work and research. As a result, the company is the number one international player in this domain, with more than 5M$ annual revenues. Lead the Product Strategy and Roadmap through a set of inbound and outbound process and tools, managing multiple new products in different disciplines like a new GPS tracking device, Mobile Application for officers and Data Analytics tools.
 Lead the development process of building a set of mobile applications for variance type of users for the law enforcement agency, resulting in a set of mobile apps offer.
 Lead and managed the strategy and definition for the next generation products, including new IOT platform, new database, Business Intelligence (BI). This process included recruiting a CTO to the company and joint work on all the technical aspects.

אפריל 2011 - נובמבר 2015

Senior Product Manager

3M Electronic Monitoring , Tel Aviv IL

Developed and launched two new platforms for electronic monitoring for the law enforcement
market, which is already deployed worldwide, and brings more than 20M$ revenues per year
Lead the Agile/Scrum process in the company
Won corporate (3M) award for the product and the product launch
Wrote materials such as manuals, presentations, training to present the product advantages and
benefits Interact with top customers to understand their needs and build out these capabilities
to identify points of product differentiation and positioning and develop future product
roadmaps.
Developed and defined the MRD and PRD documents templates for the product group
Designed simple and intuitive user interfaces for the WEB Application –using examples through
wireframes and mockups
Conducted winning government tenders

ינואר 2005 - דצמבר 2010

Senior Product Manager

Bigband Networks , Tel Aviv IL

Developed and launched a broadband multimedia video platform which included multi-disciplinary area (HW, Embedded Firmware, Communication, Video, Networking and Element, and Network Management systems), leading to revenues of 150M$ annually
Led the design and development and launched a new product for the international market which required a video encryption component
Wrote MRD’s and PRD’s based on market analyzes, competitive company's analyzes and
feedback from customers.
Increased revenue and margin’s of the product by developing profitable pricing structures
Plan and executing product Go to Market and sales strategy
Prepared for product training materials, and performing the actual training for the sales staff
Produced and directed strategy for the launch of a new pricing model which was based on new SW licenses Designed sales presentations and product demos for training sales team on product benefits and offerings

פברואר 1992 - דצמבר 1999

R&D Project Manager

Optibase

Managed external (OEM) projects
Overall responsibility for project development, from the technical negotiation with the customers up to the field deployment
Project definition and writing specifications for customers (system engineering)
Managed the project budget, schedule and the work with the customer during the different phases of the project

קורסים, הסמכות, לימודי תעודה

היום

Analytics: Essential Tools and Methods

Georgia Tech (Gtx)

Learn fundamental, in-demand analytics skills to maximize business impact and advance your career as an analyst

מרץ 2019

Applied Data Science with Python

University of Michigan - Coursera

The 5 courses in this University of Michigan specialization introduce learners to data science through the Python programming language. This skills-based specialization is intended for learners who have a basic python or programming background, and want to apply statistically, machine learning, information visualization, and text analysis techniques to gain new insight into their data. In the final course, students will work on real-world data analysis projects, building a portfolio which showcases their work while at the same time helping real clients gain a better understanding of their data
https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/specialization/BEJW7UC4VPJ4

ינואר 2019

Data Science

Johns Hopkins University Coursera

The Data Science Specialization covers the concepts and tools for an entire data science pipeline. Successful participants learn how to use the tools of the trade, think analytically about complex problems, manage large data sets, deploy statistical principles, create visualizations, build and evaluate machine learning algorithms, publish reproducible analyses, and develop data products. This certificate does not confer academic credit toward a degree or official status at the Johns Hopkins University.

יוני 2018

Deep Learning

Deeplearning.Ai

The Deep Learning Specialization is designed to prepare learners to participate in the development of cutting-edge AI technology, and to understand the capability, the challenges, and the consequences of the rise of deep learning. Through five interconnected courses, learners develop a profound knowledge of the hottest AI algorithms, astering deep learning from its foundations (neural networks) to its industry applications (Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, etc.)

ינואר 2015

Mobile Cloud Computing with Android

Coursera

A sequence of 3 courses with an accompanying 8-week long final project. This 26-week long sequence of courses teaches the core concepts of mobile cloud computing on the Android platform. It starts with user-facing applications, then covers middleware, then services running on Android devices, and concludes with integration with network-accessible cloud services.

תארים אקדמיים

פברואר 1988 - פברואר 1992

B.Sc Electronic Engineering

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

B.Sc degree in Electronics Engineering

שירות צבאי

אוגוסט 1984 - אוגוסט 1987

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