Bentzi Abramovitz

+972-528904222 ⎪ bentzi55@gmail.com

Leveraging 25+ years of experience, including 15 years of senior-level leadership—spanning IT infrastructure, unified communications and network management, system operations and service management.

• Combining technical expertise with strong business acumen and operational understanding. Ensuring all technical strategies and activities align with corporate goals. Developing solutions to meet business needs, while conforming to company and regulatory policies. Creating relationships to drive results with peers, external partners and customers.
• Managing large scale IT projects, networks, and infrastructures—from initial planning and development to implementation and enhancements.
• Building and motivating diverse technical teams in order to achieve outstanding results and to complete projects on time and within budget.
• Negotiating and managing vendor contracts.

Company                             Bank Leumi
Role                                       Vice President, Head of Communications and Infrastructure
Dates                                    2006 – 2016
Responsibilities:

• Leading three groups comprised of 150 employees, developing and supporting the business critical network, data center, network security and telephony systems essential to the daily business operations of the company. Developing strategy for long-term system growth and development.
• Directing IT projects and technical activities across multiple platforms to support bank network operation. Identifying business needs to achieve organizational goals. Managing strategic planning to optimize resources, improve throughputs, and enhance system performance KPIs.
•  Leading high-performing technical teams of enterprise architects, network engineers, security engineers,and systems integration specialists. Developing and implementing operating procedures and key processes to ensure reliable and efficient technical services throughout the organization.
• Optimizing operations by continuous improvement initiatives to the existing infrastructure, applications, systems, and software. Planning and implementing IT infrastructure requirements and upgrades to improve overall system performance and ensure high levels network performance.
• Managing the design and implementation of 2 data centers and 300+ branches, ensuring performance, security and high-availability. Implementation of a large-scale network based on Cisco switches and routers and Checkpoint firewalls.
• Managing a $10m+ IT operations budget for all hardware, software, and IT staffing requirements.

Selected Achievements:

• Leading the development and implementation of the bank's first web site and internet stock trading platform.
• Leading the design and implementation of the transition from SNA to IP Network.

Company                             Bank Leumi
Role                                       Department Manager – Internet and Communications
Dates                                    1998 – 2006
Responsibilities:

• Established Bank's first Internet services.

Company                             Bank Leumi
Role                                       Team leader – Control and Management Infrastructure
Dates                                    1986 – 1998

Company                             Bank Leumi
Role                                       System Programmer
Dates                                    1983 – 1986

2006  B.A. in Business Administration, Ono Academic College

Eli Halperin

Eli Halperin is a professional senior  manager in ICT industry, specialized  in infra-structure, IT development and management, for more than 37 year. All those year as a manager in a leading bank in Israel (Bank Leumi).
Amongst Eli's big projects:

• Bank Leumi's main computer center transference (from Tel Aviv to Lod), in which the main mainframe technology center moved physically to a new data center.
• Multi servers' data center transference to a new modern location, in which more than 5,000 servers were involved, in a non-disruptive policy to the daily organizational operation.
• Managing of  integrating external companies into Bank Leumi (Leumi-Card, Mortgage Bank etc.) in a very short  period of time.
• Managing and directing of  a Technical Consolidation Project.

Most of Eli's roles experience included professional and direct staff  managing of more than 200 professional experts in ICT industry.
Eli has intensive knowledge and experience in complicated, multi-platform and multi-generation integrating systems, which serves more than 1 Million clients.
More than that, Eli's has wide and intensive knowledge and experience in Information Security systems and  policies.
Eli is most experienced in negotiating and working with international corporation as well as budget  planning and  conducting.
Working in infra-structure technology management in Leumi bank, gave him strategic, political, technological and tactical way of thinking.
Eli holds a Master of  Degree in Business Administration (Tel-Aviv University).
Eli is married to Leah and has 3 son s.