Noa Harel Bazak
Vice President Information Systems
Voula
Summary
An accomplished, results-oriented Information Systems Executive with a demonstrable record of success in carving and leveraging strategic vision and incisive direction, to spearhead operational efficiencies across a major global services group, and expertise in securing, developing, and driving cloud infrastructure, networking, database and application functions.
A notable capacity for implementing cutting-edge open and close source technologies to optimize SLAs and maximize budgets is underpinned by an aptitude for influencing senior decision-making through insightful C level Board meeting participation.
Keen communication and interpersonal skills facilitate the maintenance of strong, mutually beneficial relationships and engender a leadership environment that is conducive to motivation, target-attainment and professional excellence.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Chief Technology Officer
Two different pre-seed startup
London
10.2020 - Current
- Leading technology in newly funded startups
- Achieving development readiness based on founder's ideas
- Running as one (wo)man show - providing product and programme management, choosing technology stack and writing necessary documentation
- Visioning, Strategizing, negotiating, and procuring software and infrastructure solution by using external vendors
- Pitching to investors and relevant stakeholders
- Supported current and emerging programs through interactions with high-level customers, business partners and external vendors
Vice President of Infrastructure Operations
Crossix (a Veeva Company)
Kiryat Ono
10.2019 - 02.2021
- Established new group of professionals almost from scratch: visioned, recruited and coached global group of DevOps, Developers, Database experts, Operational teams and SREs to support ever growing cloud and on prem environment.
- Initiated re-platform and re-factor of company's highly complex Big Data application and database solutions
- Played key part in site management and product technological design
- Established new SLAs and operational processes such as Jira based scrum methodology to improve internal and external service.
- Improved global communication and transparency across company
- Increased systems availability and resiliency
Vice President of Information Systems
Traiana (A CME company)
Tel Aviv
09.2016 - 10.2019
- Spearhead day-to-day operations, ensuring optimal efficiencies, target-attainment and quality service provision at global company level
- Responsible for all aspects of effective management of high-performing teams of multidisciplinary professionals; monitoring performance, supporting professional development and allocating workload in accordance with expertise to maximize outputs
- Executed major 30-month project to revolutionize R&D requirements through introduction of an innovative AWS-based deployment platform with CI/CD tools; facilitating re-platforming of traditional solutions to microservices based services, whilst ensuring high standard SLAs for both business and development; Re-engineered managed services group to support development
- Full ownership of post-implementation maintenance and improvements
- Record of success in aligning group/outputs with business requirements and service levels; significantly reducing high severity incidents and system data breaches, whilst also delivering overarching organizational objectives
- Full accountability for IT budget of 20M$ (increasing both OPEX and CAPEX by 20% per annum due to growth); optimizing resource allocation and ROI to support financial goals
- Drive procurement process; sourcing and managing vendors, and engaging in robust negotiation to drive down prices, whilst running RFPs, managing vendors’ risk level and maintaining healthy and productive relationships with partners
- Specialty in cloud cost reduction; delivering notable 50% decrease in cloud consumption costs.
- Drive procedural/policy compliance and enhancement at a companywide level, ensuring consistent and quality outputs, whilst also maintaining ISO-27001 certification
- Record of success in timely execution of transformational initiatives and projects
IT & Delivery Manager
The Israeli Phoenix
Petach Tikva
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Lead multi discipline group of 7 teams: Virtualization, OSs, Application and Infrastructure DBAs, Applicative Infrastructure, Backup & Storage, and Network & Security.
- Established significant delivery improvements through development of incisive strategic plan, and achieving consensus amongst team to execute it
- Managed Annual budget of 10M$
- Planned and executed multi-year strategy to upgrade company’s infrastructure
- Reducing Sev1s dramatically
- Revolutionized group’s service level for internal and external customers and enhanced team’s reputation within internal customers and management
- Coached team leaders and single contributors to improve their professional and managerial skills through culture of continuous professional development
Engineering Department Manager
Migdal Insurance Corp
Petach Tikva
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Acting as Data Center Architect, achieving notable success in planning, designing and managing 15M$ project to roll out two data centres from scratch; winning 2013 IT Awards.
- Established project goals to carry out directives of top management
- Formed and managed skilled four-team group tasked with coordinating all aspects of computer infrastructure and DC maintenance
- Budget and technological procurement management
- Development of documentation for DR practices to achieve ISO 27001 certification
- Leading technical procurement at management levels to positively influence decision-making and select optimal technologies, vendors and IT concepts
Education
MA - Social Studies
Raichman University
Herzelia, Israel 09.2013 - 08.2015
BA - Social Studies
Open University of Israel
Israel 09.2003 - 10.2008
Skills
Technology Strategy
undefinedCertification
Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner
03-2022
Chief Technology Officer
Two different pre-seed startup
10.2020 - Current
Vice President of Infrastructure Operations
Crossix (a Veeva Company)
10.2019 - 02.2021
Vice President of Information Systems
Traiana (A CME company)
09.2016 - 10.2019
IT & Delivery Manager
The Israeli Phoenix
01.2015 - 01.2016
MA - Social Studies
Raichman University
09.2013 - 08.2015
Engineering Department Manager
Migdal Insurance Corp
01.2011 - 01.2015
BA - Social Studies
Open University of Israel
09.2003 - 10.2008
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