Ara Faridi Email & Phone Number

Working as senior consultant in roles such as business analyst, information architect and project manager.Current assignment at Volvo Group Truck Technology-Software Factory- Supporting the business in implementation of the SW build, continuous integration and test operations in the Cloud Platform.- Supporting the business by modeling the IT landscape and information flows related to SW build, continuous integration and test operations.

Gothenburg, Sweden

 Lead IT projects with high complexity in the areas of SW architecture & development, SW release & deployment for production, aftermarket, and remote scenarios. Main responsible for the projects’ budget, time, and deliveries. Lead cross functional teams including vehicle systems’ owners, IT architects, application owners, process owners and other stakeholders for concept development.  Close collaboration with agile development teams to plan and monitor the solution implementation.  Manage stakeholders, compile the requirements, conduct demos and workshops Change management, roll-out of the new methods, and tool solutions  Successfully delivered several large-size (2-3 years) IT projects with high complexity of both the technical solution and the involved stakeholders Experience from different phases of ESW development, such as, function modeling incl. ISO-26262 fulfillment, SW architecture rules and frameworks, configuration management, baselining, product data management, SW release and deployment.

Gothenburg, Sweden

 Manage the complete set of stakeholder requirements in large size truck projects  Secure the identification of stakeholder needs and documentation of the high-level requirements and verification activities Secure the requirement breakdown and traceability  Systems engineering process development Coaching the vehicle projects and facilitate requirement analysis workshops

Gothenburg, Sweden

 Sourcing of active safety system components (SW, ECUs, cameras, radars) Manage supplier negotiations and agreements, e.g. price agreements, development agreements, statement of work, etc. Create purchasing strategy and roadmap for active safety segment in aligned with product and technology roadmaps.  Manage supplier relations to contribute to quality, delivery, cost, and feature targets

Covered all aspects of the development of the system of responsibility from advance engineering to handling production and maintenance phase. Integration of HW and SW components in vehicle, related to active and passive safety systems, e.g. adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning system, vision camera, airbag electronics. Functional and technical specification of the components and systems Function and system verification. Having the truck driving license gave me the opportunity to test-drive the systems which was a significant factor in understanding the customers’ needs Lead advance engineering projects

Gothenburg, Sweden

Working in a team responsible for integration and verification of the instrument cluster in Volvo trucks

Master Of Science, Physics-Sound And Vibration

Course "Digital Signal Processing"

Course “Electronics And Semiconductors”, 10 Credits

Bachelor Of Science In “Applied Physics”

Education record

- Business Analysis in Practice, 2021 - Modeling in Sparx Enterprise Architect, 2021 - SAFe for Architects and SAFe for OP/PM, 2021.