Lea Aharonovitch

Current

Management member & Director of events at UPA Israel
Senior Product Manager at Answers.com

Past

Director of events at Ila
Project Manager & ITsystems analyst at Matrix

Education

Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University
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Recommended

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Connections

214 connections

Industry

Internet

Lea Aharonovitch’s Summary

Professional:
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* Senior Product manager, Answers.com
* Management member & Director of events - UPA Israel (Usability Professionals Association)
* Member of the Usability Technical Committee at the Israeli Standards Institute. Head of the expert committee that works to adopt ISO 20282 "Ease of operation of everyday products".
* Former Management member - ILA (Israeli association for information technology)
* Council member - MOACH (Israeli association for computers in education)
* Member of ILPMA (Israeli Product Managers Association).

My blogs:
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Usability and personal stuff: http://www.notes.co.il/lea
Eco-management, Eco-design and more: http://www.greenproducts.co.il/blog

Lea Aharonovitch’s Specialties:

Usability expert; Strong Product Management & Project Management skills; Web applications, Social applications and websites; DWH & BI; Educational technology; Eco-management; Eco-design; Green products.

Lea Aharonovitch’s Experience

Management member & Director of events

UPA Israel

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Initiating and coordinating the organization events throughout the year. In addition I initiate other projects and activities that will interest our members.
I help with marketing and promoting each of our activities.
Senior Product Manager

Answers.com

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ANSW; Internet industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

Report to VP of Product Management as Senior product manager of Answers.com and WikiAnswers.com.
Implemented best practice UX and community management standards.
Worked with team and consultants to optimize SEO and Monetization.
Initiated and handled new sub-products while optimizing existing products.
Analyzed competitive product offerings in terms of features and benefits.
Met internal stakeholders and community representatives to define new product requirements. Worked with product development to document requirements in product specifications.
Led a cross-functional team with representatives from Marketing, Content, Tech-support, Engineering, QA and Product Management.
Professionally managed web-designers, webmasters; Mentored and coached an associate Product Manager. Encouraged them to develop their performance to best practice standards.
Managed all product launches for Answers.com since November 2006. Managed all product launches for WikiAnswers.com since July 2007.
Director of events

Ila

(Internet industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years )

Initiated and organized many professional events about different areas of IT. Including finding the speakers, designing invitations and promoting the events.
Project Manager & ITsystems analyst

Matrix

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2001 — May 2006 (4 years 7 months)

Project manager and IT systems analyst , 2005-2006
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Managed Intranet portal project, web applications and web BI (DWH) projects, enhancing executive’s use of BI applications.
Wrote Specs for small web applications.
Handled project marketing and quality management.

Account Manager , 2001-2005
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Managed numerous websites for the Israeli Ministry of Education (http://www.education.gov.il) through content editing, web design and user experience.
Initiated and organized many internal conferences about web trends and existing projects.