 | DETECON International | Place: Munich, Germany  | From: July 2016 | To: Now | | Position: Senior Consultant | | |
| Summary of activities: project management, enterprise architecture and technology consulting. |
 Reference |  DETECON |
 | Varengold Bank AG | | Place: Hamburg, Germany | From: December 2014 | To: June 2016 | | Position: Senior IT project manager and business analyst | | |
| Summary of activities: In December 2014 I started working at Varengold Bank AG as an IT project manager (one year later I was promoted to senior project manager). Varengold Bank offers variety of services including Asset Management, Commercial Banking and Capital Markets Brokerage. My job is to identify, analyze, optimize and develope internal business processes (BPM), to manage interdisciplinary IT projects (e.g. CRM consolidation) and enhance the IT landscape of the bank by integrating systems through proper interfaces. These include business intelligence, business analysis, project planing, market analysis, inter-departmental communication, requirement analysis, business process management and conceptualization of complex models. |
| Reference | Varengold Bank |
 | Iran's Telecommunication Research Center | Place: Iran, Tehran  | From: March 2014 | To: November 2014 | | Position: Management consultant and project leader | | |
| Summary of activities: For about nine months, I was working at Iran's Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) as supreme consultant (to CEO) and project leader (practically the non-existing role of CIO at the time). ITRC is he most experienced research entity in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Iran, acting as the primary consulting body to the Ministry of ICT. As a memeber of the consulting committee (to CEO's aid), I revise strategic plans, management processes and research policies as well as manage certain interdisciplinary internal projects. |
| Reference | ITRC |
 | Interhyp AG | | Place: Germany, Munich | From: March 2013 | To: November 2013 | | Position: Project manager (Business Development Division) | | |
| Summary of activities: From March 2013 until November 2013 I worked at Interhyp as project manager for interdisciplinary projects. Interhyp is the market leader in real estate financing (consulting) in Germany. The competitive advantage of Interhyp is its sophisticated information processing system that connects with more than 300 banks and finds the best offer for loan-seeking customers. My job was to handle and coordinate interdisciplinary projects including the introduction of live consulting via screen-sharing. |
| Reference | Interhyp |
 | World Vision Deutschland | | Place: Germany, Munich | From: May 2012 | To: February 2013 | | Position: Project manager and system developer | | |
| Summary of activities: Analyzing the requirements for a web platform for idea crowd-sourcing and developing it based on Liferay. |
| | World Vision |
 | Technical University of Munich (JAST Project) | | Place: Germany, Munich | From: June 2006 | To: May 2008 | | Position: Software developer and researcher | | |
| Summary of activities: In April 2007, I started to work on the same project, however on the Gesture Recognition module. The objective of the research, which was also what my master's thesis was about, was to compare and modify different classification methods, like K Nearest Neighbors, and find the best and most efficient way to recognize and categorize gestures. A paper about this task was presented and published at CSICC08 conference in Iran, Kish-island (here). I also wrote another paper which uses two different sets of invariants for the classification and combines the results of each to get the best result. The paper can be downloaded here. |
| Reference | TUM- JAST |
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 | Infosys (Internship) | Place: India, Bangalore  | From: October5 2008 | To: December 2008 | | Position: Intern (software project management) | | |
Summary of activities: From Oct. 2008 until the middle of Dec. 2008, I attended the Instep program offered by Infosys Technologies in Bangalore, India. I was assigned to the Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCoE) and the topic of my work was how to reuse the existing accumulated knowledge to train project managers.
My project was to design a framework and propose solutions in order to enhance use of experiential knowledge of Project Management in projects. To collect data on tacit knowledge of project managers, 13 interviews with award-winning project managers were conducted. .
The findings were structured as a scientific paper which was accepted at AMCIS'09. The paper can be downloaded here. |
| Reference | Infosys |
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 | Avanquest (Novadevelopment) | Place: Los Angeles, USA  | From: June 2008 | To: September 2008 | | Position: Intern (Market analysis) | | |
Summary of activities: I did an internship at Avanquest Software for three months, starting from the 15th of June 2008. My task was to do market analysis and prepare a report on the trends, opportunities and challenges in the field of photo editing and management software.
My internship was at Nova Development Co. in Los Anageles. The assignment was to conduct a study and research on photo editing and management softwares and address the trends and technologies in order to identify the requirements of the next generation of the photo editing product of the company. |
| Final Report | Avanquest- Nova Development |
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 | Mehdi Karroubi's 2009 Presidential Campaign | | Location: Tehran, Iran | From: February 2009 | To: June 2009 | | Position: IT-strategist | | |
Summary of activities:Four months before Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009, I started to work as IT-strategist for Mehdi Karroubi's campaign (Mr. Karroubi one of the two opposition candidates). I was responsible for the design of campaign88.ir, one of campaign's main website and also prepare Mr. Karroubi' IT plans for the country. As a senior member of the IT committee, we were also responsible to define a IT strategy and to develop apt tactics for the success of the campaign. According to official polls provided by the government, we lost badly; however, nobody really knows how they counted the votes and the evidence provided by the regime to ensure its reliability was inconclusive and questionable.
I also conducted several interviews with well-known IT experts and prepared a report on the deficiencies and issue of ICT in Iran (here, in Persian). |
| Reference | campaign88.ir(blocked and shut down in the post-election events) |
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 | Advanced Information and Communication Technology Research Center (AICTC) | | Location: Tehran, Iran | From: June 2001 | To: March 2006 | | Position: Software developer and project manager | | |
Summary of activities: I have three years of work experience at the Advanced Information and Communication Technology Center (AICTC), an institute in Iran focusing on IT research, development and consulting in Tehran, Iran. My work there, mainly in the fields of software development and project management, can be devided into three phases of programming, project management and coordination. Technical Coordinator (Oct. 2005 - Mar. 2006) After returning from Japan, I was offered the position of technical coordinator at AICTC. My task was basically coordinating the project managers of small IT-projects to improve the efficiency and increasing the amount of knowledge sharing between individual teams.. Project Manager (Jan. 2003 - Sep. 2004) After working about a year as junior programmer and working in quality assurance section, I was promoted to project-manager, to accomplish the development a Farsi web-based searching application. The application was proposed by myself and was implemented using J2EE Platform. A detailed information on the system as well as its documentations can be viewed here: Persian Poems Portal |
| Reference | AICTC |
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