Chen Parnes

Experience

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  Israel Defense Forces

  Jul 2014 - Oct 2021

  2nd in command at Product & Research department; Budget & Acquisitions OfficerLed a full products life cycle in a cross-organizational system which include: o Building, prioritizing, and executing roadmaps. o Defining customer needs while gathering feedback, prioritizing requirements and writing PRD's. o Writing detailed user stories for engineering team. o Negotiate timelines with Lead Engineer / CTO, helped making engineering trade-off decisions. o Landed and provided feedback to the design team. o Products A/B testing and leading implementation and performance monitorization. o Presenting progress to and integrating feedback from senior management and other stakeholders.Managed 3 groups consisting of 60 members: o 6 Product teams. o Design group. o Manufacturing & Research group.Established goals, policies, and work standards to boost multiple cross-functional teams' performance and to achieve organizational KPIs.Successfully led technology projects to meet macro-level goals under strict budget and time constraints.Recommended and planned strategic initiatives.Managed a $4.5M project-based budget and a $1M ongoing budget.Main Achievements: o Promoted to Captain a year ahead of time with distinction. o Optimized my teams work process by defining a unique process which relied on data. o Accomplished to get my unit into leading a major army-level project by building a multidisciplinary team and develop a product to a POC stage. o Managed to increase the unit budget balance in 1 year from -150k to +450k, by doing organizational internal optimization and by fundraising, and by 2 years to double it. o Based on my performance, received approval to triple the quota of department personnel. Show less

  • Head of Product

    Jun 2018 - Oct 2021

  • Research Officer

    Nov 2017 - Jun 2018

  • Commanding Officer of a Recruits Platoon

    Mar 2017 - Nov 2017

  • Officer course

    Aug 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Special Ops

    Jul 2014 - Aug 2016
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  Moveo Group

  Nov 2022 - Sept 2024

  Product Manager & Squad Lead
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  Bringoz

  Sept 2024 - now

  Product Manager