Tony Schvekher

Tony Schvekher

Experienced Lead Project Manager. International large-scale projects

Israel
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Lead Project Manager with over 10 years of experience managing large-scale projects. Worked mostly in the fields of video security (Conditional Access), large system migrations (banking, insurance, gov, etc.), and Telecom

Areas of Expertise: Project management, Innovation, Getting the job done

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Experience

  • Applied Materials - Israel Graphic

    Project Manager

    Applied Materials - Israel

    - Present 2 years 6 months

    Israel

  • Synamedia Graphic

    Lead Project Manager

    Synamedia

    - 3 years

    Jerusalem, Israel

    • Primarily responsible for creating & upholding project plans, budget overview, and internal & customer-facing communications
    • Planned and executed 4 parallel development and migration projects for Vodafone Germany
     Got a company award for one of them
    • Participated in the deployment effort of cutting-edge cloud-based video technology for UAE countries
    • Coordinating E2E system integration and 3rd party vendors

  • Cisco Systems Graphic

    Project Manager

    Cisco Systems

    - 5 years

    Jerusalem Area, Israel

    • Was primarily responsible for coordinating between the various project teams and deploying new releases, on time, at the customer’s five production sites in Europe
    • Deployed new cutting-edge data-grid technology across 5 countries in 4 weeks
    • Created and managed deployment plans for all 5 customer sites, in parallel
    • Coordinated 3rd party vendor communications

  • Founder and CEO

    Foresight Intelligent Technologies (Startup)

    - 2 years

    Israel

    Dilemma resolution - Crowd wisdom
    U.S. Patent No. 9,483,527 | GK Ref No. FORE-P-001-US
    handled architecture, technology, and commercial aspects.
    Lots of sleepless nights ...

  • Anubex Graphic

    Project Manager

    Anubex

    - 1 year

    Tel Aviv Area, Israel

    • Managed the conversion of Israel’s national telephone company (Bezeq) from Mainframe to Linux
    • Supervised and guided 40 developers

  • BluePhoenix Solutions

    BluePhoenix Solutions

    6 years

    • BluePhoenix Solutions Graphic

      Project Manager

      BluePhoenix Solutions

      - 2 years

      Herzliya Area, Israel

      Managed a rehosting project for one of the largest insurance companies in Israel (Natural/ADABAS from MF VSE to SUN Solaris).
      Redesigned the conversion process to reduce downtime from 3 weeks to 3 days
      Implemented same by automating the entire process E2E

    • BluePhoenix Solutions Graphic

      Technical project manager

      BluePhoenix Solutions

      - 1 year

      Herzliya Area, Israel

       Design and implementation of a Data Migration automatic tool, for the ADABAS LIFE-2000 insurance database, from IBM M/F VSE to SUN M8000 Solaris.
       Design and implementation of the Data Rollback solution for the ADABAS LIFE-2000 insurance database, from SUN M8000 Solaris back to IBM M/F VSE.

    • BluePhoenix Solutions Graphic

      Team Leader

      BluePhoenix Solutions

      - 3 years 5 months

      Herzliya Area, Israel

      Design, implementation and on-site support of data migration and conversion tools, for various custumars around the globe, including Israel, Canada, Norway, Denmark and Australia.
      Worked with Oracle, DB2, ADABAS and SQLServer, on MVS, VSE, Unix, Linux and Windows.
      Was fun.

  • Matrix Graphic

    Software engineer & System analyst

    Matrix

    - 2 years

    Amdocs Billing Company - Bezeq’s (national phone company) upgrade project.
     Designed, wrote, tested, and implemented a MF-Unix interface, using IBM MQSeries and BEA Tuxedo Client/Server.

    Banking support system, Spain - MF/DB2 to Unix/Oracle Conversion.
     Analyzed and Designed a MF/DB2 to Unix/Oracle Conversion, including approximately 1,500 programs, 11,000 Oracle tables and 4TB of data.

  • Ex Libris USA Graphic

    Implementation programmer & R&D Team Leader

    Ex Libris USA

    - 2 years

    Greater Boston Area

     Designed, wrote, tested, and implemented cross-module software linking acquisitions, cataloguing, and circulation modules within library automation package (ALEPH).
     Supported conversion of five major U.S. library systems from existing systems to ALEPH.

  • Amdocs Graphic

    Programmer & Team Leader

    Amdocs

    - 3 years

    Ramat Gan Area, Israel

     Created functional specification, designed, implemented, sub-systems for billing using ORACLE SQL, PRO-C, C under UNIX.
     Managed a team of three.
     Trained overseas customers in U.S. and Korea.

Education

Patents

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECISION REASONING

    US U.S. Patent No. 9,483,527

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Russian

    Elementary proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

  • Hebrew

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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