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Iran

Golestan, Iran

Arezoupardaz provides executive management consulting services primarily focused on helping technology companies grow in the marketplace.

Zanjan, Iran

Houshaafrin is focused on creating AI-based products and companies for entering the Asian, European and North American markets.

Tehran Province, Iran

Amin Raay is one of Iran's premier service providers in the field of enterprise-class information security services. The company is currently working on a number of product platforms for enterprise information security technologies.

Zanjan, Iran

I manage the Park's Long-Term Business Skills Enrichment Program for technology-based startups headquartered in the Park. The Program aims at creating a two-year curriculum that allows CEO's of technology startups to develop the core business and management skills they need in order for a successful exit from the Park. These CEO's are generally highly accomplished in engineering and sciences, but have had little exposure to the business world. Through a highly-interactive, workshop-oriented… Show more I manage the Park's Long-Term Business Skills Enrichment Program for technology-based startups headquartered in the Park. The Program aims at creating a two-year curriculum that allows CEO's of technology startups to develop the core business and management skills they need in order for a successful exit from the Park. These CEO's are generally highly accomplished in engineering and sciences, but have had little exposure to the business world. Through a highly-interactive, workshop-oriented program, we work with them to develop skills in sales, marketing, negotiations, strategic management, business scaling, team-building, creating business plans and fundraising. Show less

Golestan, Iran

Consultant to the Executive Director of the Park, focused on developing the Park's long-term road map for enrichment and empowerment of member companies' business and management skills.

Tehran Province, Iran

Helped with the design and execution of IT strategies.

Tehran Province, Iran

I built the 100-member Mahan Software Team from scratch over seven years and managed its rise as one of the largest and most effective in-house, private-sector, corporate software development teams outside of the banking industry in Iran. The Team's domain of activity covered virtually the entire breadth of the airline's needs for secure, scalable, enterprise-grade information systems. The Mahan Sotware Team delivered over 50 mission-critical applications in such areas as ground… Show more I built the 100-member Mahan Software Team from scratch over seven years and managed its rise as one of the largest and most effective in-house, private-sector, corporate software development teams outside of the banking industry in Iran. The Team's domain of activity covered virtually the entire breadth of the airline's needs for secure, scalable, enterprise-grade information systems. The Mahan Sotware Team delivered over 50 mission-critical applications in such areas as ground handling, airport services, flight scheduling and planning, flight operations, electronic flight bag, electronic document management, remote learning, travel agent support, commission payments, sales accounting, proactive preventative maintenance, reactive and emergency maintenance, logistics, parts supply chain & purchasing, parts storage and warehousing, human resource management, finance, accounting, treasury, and corporate portals and web sites, among others.Some applications were developed from scratch using a range of core technologies such as .Net, Java Enterprise, JavaScript, SQL Server, Oracle, Neo4j, and Python (for AI applications). Some were built on top of platforms such as SharePoint and Moodle. Still others were implemented on top of the ERP technology from Atra Vision. Regardless of their underlying platforms, the entire set of applications formed a single, fully-integrated, ERP-centric system that automated nearly all of the airline's key business processes. Show less

Tehran And Sarcheshmeh (Krman Province), Iran

Helped define and implement corporate IT strategies.

Tehran Province, Iran

Provided executive coaching targeted at enhancing company finances through improving product and service quality by improving team work and instituting a formal software development process.

Tehran Province, Iran

Provided executive coaching targeted at enhancing company finances through improving team work.

Tehran Province, Iran

Provided executive coaching targeted at enhancing company finances through improving product and service quality by improving team work and instituting a formal software development process.

Tehran Province, Iran

Provided executive coaching targeted at enhancing company finances through improving product and service quality by improving team work and instituting a formal software development process.

Tehran Province, Iran

Provided database architecture services and training to manage SQL Server performance issues.

Tehran Province, Iran

Provided executive coaching targeted at enhancing company finances through improving product and service quality by improving team work and instituting a formal software development process.

Tehran Province, Iran

Provided executive coaching targeted at enhancing company finances through improving product and service quality by improving team work and instituting a formal software development process.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Migrated the firm’s Management Dashboard application from MS SQL 2000 to MS SQL 2005. Modified all necessary stored procedures, user defined functions, and triggers. Designed and executed an automated test suite that verified the accuracy of over 30 million data points under the new code. Helped design and execute a strategy for manual testing by a pool of end users. Moved all SQL Agent tasks, including maintenance plans, backups, and nightly data processing.

Newport Beach, Ca, Usa

Chosen by PC World magazine as one of the Top 25 New Websites to Watch only a few months after its launch in early 2007, startup www.circleup.com offered an innovative new way for social groups to communicate and collaborate on projects. By late 2007, however, the company’s phenomenal success in attracting new members was starting to put pressure on the MS SQL Server 2005 database system underlying its technology. At this point, I was retained by CircleUp to help resolve certain immediate… Show more Chosen by PC World magazine as one of the Top 25 New Websites to Watch only a few months after its launch in early 2007, startup www.circleup.com offered an innovative new way for social groups to communicate and collaborate on projects. By late 2007, however, the company’s phenomenal success in attracting new members was starting to put pressure on the MS SQL Server 2005 database system underlying its technology. At this point, I was retained by CircleUp to help resolve certain immediate performance bottlenecks and provide long-term SQL query optimization and database performance tuning services. I built an automated data collection system that allowed tracking individual queries' performance over time, enabling us to identify and resolve all immediate performance concerns. My work in targeted query refactoring allowed up to 60 times speed improvement for some key queries. Show less

Warren, Nj, Usa

This topic-oriented legal research site counted among its clients some of the world’s largest and most prestigious law firms. I was retained by Lawyer Links to provide ongoing design and implementation services for custom reports delivered to the company’s clients using the MS SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services platform.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Morgan Samuels has a mission-critical MS SQL Server database application which went online in 2003. The system stored data for more than 40 million transactions executed in the intervening time. In late 2006, the company discovered a subtle but fundamental error in the financial accounting of those transactions within the system. I was retained by the prime contractor to identify the causes of the errors, fix the code, and retroactively execute all transactions in the same chronological order… Show more Morgan Samuels has a mission-critical MS SQL Server database application which went online in 2003. The system stored data for more than 40 million transactions executed in the intervening time. In late 2006, the company discovered a subtle but fundamental error in the financial accounting of those transactions within the system. I was retained by the prime contractor to identify the causes of the errors, fix the code, and retroactively execute all transactions in the same chronological order in which they had occurred in order to generate corrected financials in the live system. Through extensive forensic analysis, I was able to identify the source of the problems and design a solution. I then built a comprehensive set of automated tests and a test harness that enabled execution of tens of millions of individual test cases at a time, implemented all code changes, and successfully tested, delivered and integrated the solution into the live system. Show less

San Mateo, Ca, Usa

Founded by Craig McCaw, John Scully, Jeff Pulver, and Michael Price, Tello aimed at bringing a next-generation, VoIP-based workgroup, business collaboration system to market. Following the closing of the startup’s second round of financing for $10M in July 2006, the company decided to replace its management team on the technology side. I was part of a four-member executive team brought in to provide interim leadership and oversee the transition to new management. I took charge of a nine-member… Show more Founded by Craig McCaw, John Scully, Jeff Pulver, and Michael Price, Tello aimed at bringing a next-generation, VoIP-based workgroup, business collaboration system to market. Following the closing of the startup’s second round of financing for $10M in July 2006, the company decided to replace its management team on the technology side. I was part of a four-member executive team brought in to provide interim leadership and oversee the transition to new management. I took charge of a nine-member QA department spread between two offices in the US and Bulgaria, put together a company-wide Strategic Plan for Software Quality Management, helped the on-time rollout of the company’s next product, and participated in the process of hiring a permanent QA Manager. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

According to Fortune Magazine, Bear Stearns was at the time the "Most Admired" securities firm in America. The Los Angeles unit of Bear Stearns was developing a customized Microsoft Access application to automate the task of tracking and reporting account performance for high-net-worth individual investors ($100M and above investment portfolios.) It was imperative that the complex financial reporting of this system be 100% accurate. Following the development and testing of the initial… Show more According to Fortune Magazine, Bear Stearns was at the time the "Most Admired" securities firm in America. The Los Angeles unit of Bear Stearns was developing a customized Microsoft Access application to automate the task of tracking and reporting account performance for high-net-worth individual investors ($100M and above investment portfolios.) It was imperative that the complex financial reporting of this system be 100% accurate. Following the development and testing of the initial data-input modules, I was brought in by the prime contractor to produce the system’s central report, enhance usability, and complete the application’s remaining functionality. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

With annual revenues of over $100 million, PDP is the top manufacturer and distributor of accessories for consumer game consoles, such as the Xbox and PlayStation, in the United States. I carried out two projects for PDP:• Navision ERP Business AnalysisAs part of an accelerated implementation process for its Microsoft Dynamics Navision Enterprise Resource Planning system, PDP needed to identify and document the entire set of workflows comprising both the revenue and… Show more With annual revenues of over $100 million, PDP is the top manufacturer and distributor of accessories for consumer game consoles, such as the Xbox and PlayStation, in the United States. I carried out two projects for PDP:• Navision ERP Business AnalysisAs part of an accelerated implementation process for its Microsoft Dynamics Navision Enterprise Resource Planning system, PDP needed to identify and document the entire set of workflows comprising both the revenue and disbursement cycles of the company’s operations and map these to post-Navision workflows. Reporting directly to the COO, I conducted several rounds of interviews with about 30 staff members responsible for functions ranging from executive management to financial and operational management, outsourced manufacturing, accounting, warehousing, invoicing, packing, shipping, receiving, logistics, EDI, quality control, customs clearance, sales, customer support, purchasing, forecasting, and data entry, gathered and reviewed hundreds of pages of internal documents, and produced a set of Visio documents that captured both the “as-is” and “to-be” states of the company’s workflows.• PLM EvaluationPDP needed assistance in investigating packaged Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. I was retained by the prime contractor to manage the vendor evaluation process. I conducted interviews with all internal stakeholders to identify and articulate the project’s requirements, researched the market, created a vendor short list, and arranged for vendor presentations. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

The Dolphin Group is one of the nation’s top political consultancy firms in the area of grass root organizing on behalf of US corporations. The company was retained by Walmart to help organize local support throughout California for the store chain’s expansion plans. I was retained by the Dolphin Group to design and build a comprehensive database system in Microsoft Access to produce thousands of pages of documentation needed to support this coordination effort.

Greater Los Angeles Area

ISG was a boutique software development and consulting firm. I provided consulting services on behalf of the firm to a number of its clients, including:Confidential Client AThe Client is one of the earliest online poker sites on the internet. They were experiencing a great deal of business pressure as a result of certain technology deficiencies. I was retained to provide an assessment of the architecture of the company’s MS SQL Server database system – hosting hundreds of… Show more ISG was a boutique software development and consulting firm. I provided consulting services on behalf of the firm to a number of its clients, including:Confidential Client AThe Client is one of the earliest online poker sites on the internet. They were experiencing a great deal of business pressure as a result of certain technology deficiencies. I was retained to provide an assessment of the architecture of the company’s MS SQL Server database system – hosting hundreds of Gigabytes of data – to the company’s management and assist management in mapping out a technology strategy to resolve past problems and support future business initiatives.Confidential Client BThe client is a market leader in Sothern California in its field, with revenues in tens of millions of dollars. I was retained to provide an assessment of the firm’s information security policies, practices, and systems to help management mitigate risks associated with potential compromise of the firm’s information assets. Show less

Greater San Diego Area

I was retained by a prime contractor to put together a strategic roadmap for transitioning an internal development team at the company towards the use of integrated testing and quality assurance software development methodologies. The team, managed by one of the company’s Vice Presidents, was responsible for production of highly visible internal web applications using Java, Oracle, and the Struts framework. Quality problems had severely reduced the team’s productivity. I researched and designed… Show more I was retained by a prime contractor to put together a strategic roadmap for transitioning an internal development team at the company towards the use of integrated testing and quality assurance software development methodologies. The team, managed by one of the company’s Vice Presidents, was responsible for production of highly visible internal web applications using Java, Oracle, and the Struts framework. Quality problems had severely reduced the team’s productivity. I researched and designed a mentoring strategy for evolving the team’s software development practices through building JUnit-based automated testing frameworks, deploying a continuous integration infrastructure, and selectively adopting specific instantiations of several of the practices normally associated with Agile software development methodologies, including TDD with Mock Objects. Show less

Greater San Diego Area

United Tote was at the time the third largest provider of real-time, backend transaction processing systems for the pari-mutuel industry, including race tracks. Theirs is a data-intensive market requiring systems that can handle hundreds of millions of dollars in wagers placed in the last few minutes before a race like the Kentucky Derby. United Tote needed to build a data warehouse to expose its racing transaction database to a top client through an XML feed captured in real time into a SQL… Show more United Tote was at the time the third largest provider of real-time, backend transaction processing systems for the pari-mutuel industry, including race tracks. Theirs is a data-intensive market requiring systems that can handle hundreds of millions of dollars in wagers placed in the last few minutes before a race like the Kentucky Derby. United Tote needed to build a data warehouse to expose its racing transaction database to a top client through an XML feed captured in real time into a SQL Server database, against which a C# ASP.NET application would run Crystal Reports. I was retained by the prime contractor to manage the project, design the system architecture, and develop all of the SQL code. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

Morgan Samuels has achieved the distinction of being one of the top 25 executive recruiting firms in the US in terms of revenues through application of the six sigma quality management principles and the gathering and analysis of detailed information about all aspects of its searches. To allow effective management and use of this vast quantity of data, Morgan Samuels embarked on a project to create an Engagement Management Dashboard application, using C#, ASP.NET & SQL Server. I was retained by… Show more Morgan Samuels has achieved the distinction of being one of the top 25 executive recruiting firms in the US in terms of revenues through application of the six sigma quality management principles and the gathering and analysis of detailed information about all aspects of its searches. To allow effective management and use of this vast quantity of data, Morgan Samuels embarked on a project to create an Engagement Management Dashboard application, using C#, ASP.NET & SQL Server. I was retained by the prime contractor to manage the project, design the system architecture, and write over 10,000 lines of T-SQL code that used triggers to enhance a Goldmine database. Show less

Aurora, Canada

With annual revenues exceeding $730 million, Magna Entertainment (a fully-owned subsidiary of the Stronach Group) was the largest owner and operator of Race Tracks in the United States, as well as one of the world’s leading suppliers of racing content via simulcasting. To increase the reach of horse racing to wider audiences, Magna launched a project to create a kiosk that looks like a modern slot machine but acts as a front end for placing wagers on horse races. The solution called for a… Show more With annual revenues exceeding $730 million, Magna Entertainment (a fully-owned subsidiary of the Stronach Group) was the largest owner and operator of Race Tracks in the United States, as well as one of the world’s leading suppliers of racing content via simulcasting. To increase the reach of horse racing to wider audiences, Magna launched a project to create a kiosk that looks like a modern slot machine but acts as a front end for placing wagers on horse races. The solution called for a network of thousands of kiosks around the world, controlled from a single location, allowing users to wager on a constantly updated series of horse races streamed to each kiosk. I was retained by the prime contractor to manage the QA process of the front-end C# application for the final months before the project’s successful delivery. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

Futuristic Entertainment was a startup that developed the core technology which was eventually licensed by Magna Entertainment (see above.) I was retained by the company’s prime contractor to:• Build a C# / MS SQL system that could record and playback real-time messages on a TIBCO bus.• Develop a C++ interface module to a real-time financial transaction tote system.• Re-architect the entire wagering backend system to enable asynchronous operations, boost performance… Show more Futuristic Entertainment was a startup that developed the core technology which was eventually licensed by Magna Entertainment (see above.) I was retained by the company’s prime contractor to:• Build a C# / MS SQL system that could record and playback real-time messages on a TIBCO bus.• Develop a C++ interface module to a real-time financial transaction tote system.• Re-architect the entire wagering backend system to enable asynchronous operations, boost performance, and increase reliability.• Implement a Quality Assurance program that eliminated the longstanding defects plaguing the system through the combined use of re-factoring, automated tests and manual QA, and obtain regulatory certification for the product. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

I co-founded rTrust in 1997, led its operations for about two years, and oversaw the company’s sales, business development and product development efforts through to its acquisition by ICEsoft Technologies (www.icesoft.com).• Raised $5 million in both debt and equity financing over a period of six years.• Took a technology from its inception as advanced mathematical cryptographic algorithms in a university laboratory to a high-performance embedded software product licensed to… Show more I co-founded rTrust in 1997, led its operations for about two years, and oversaw the company’s sales, business development and product development efforts through to its acquisition by ICEsoft Technologies (www.icesoft.com).• Raised $5 million in both debt and equity financing over a period of six years.• Took a technology from its inception as advanced mathematical cryptographic algorithms in a university laboratory to a high-performance embedded software product licensed to security hardware manufacturers in the US and abroad.• Created and managed the company’s patent strategy. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

Time Warner was working on a $35 million financing deal to spin out its Entertainment Music Services (EMS) division into a separate company providing backend ecommerce transaction processing services for the entertainment industry. EMS management identified information security as a potential showstopper in the deal. I was retained by EMS and charged with ensuring that the company passes the scrutiny of the interested investors, which included two national banks. I put together and led a team… Show more Time Warner was working on a $35 million financing deal to spin out its Entertainment Music Services (EMS) division into a separate company providing backend ecommerce transaction processing services for the entertainment industry. EMS management identified information security as a potential showstopper in the deal. I was retained by EMS and charged with ensuring that the company passes the scrutiny of the interested investors, which included two national banks. I put together and led a team of security consultants that over a period of nine months transformed the company’s security systems, policies, and procedures. Consequently, the company passed its investors’ tests, closed its funding deal, and is now known as the B3 Corporation (www.bthree.com). Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

Bank of America was developing for offer to all of its small and medium sized merchant customers an eCommerce product known as the Internet Order Center (IOC) to enable those merchants to create and operate storefronts on the web. A key component of the IOC was nightly batch processing of all of the credit card transactions generated by the online stores. I was retained by the prime contractor to produce this component in its entirety, using Microsoft SQL Server. I designed, developed, and… Show more Bank of America was developing for offer to all of its small and medium sized merchant customers an eCommerce product known as the Internet Order Center (IOC) to enable those merchants to create and operate storefronts on the web. A key component of the IOC was nightly batch processing of all of the credit card transactions generated by the online stores. I was retained by the prime contractor to produce this component in its entirety, using Microsoft SQL Server. I designed, developed, and delivered the system on time. It functioned without a single runtime error after delivery and, over the years, processed over a billion dollars in transactions through it. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

YouBet was the premier provider of legal online wagering on pari-mutuel events to consumers in the United States. The company’s applications were driven by complex data feeds provided by backend transaction processing companies known as totes. As YouBet had decided to switch its tote vendor for business reasons, it was faced with the task of adapting all its existing applications to work with completely different data formats. I was retained by the company to develop a data translation layer in… Show more YouBet was the premier provider of legal online wagering on pari-mutuel events to consumers in the United States. The company’s applications were driven by complex data feeds provided by backend transaction processing companies known as totes. As YouBet had decided to switch its tote vendor for business reasons, it was faced with the task of adapting all its existing applications to work with completely different data formats. I was retained by the company to develop a data translation layer in Visual Basic and Transact-SQL that would make this task transparent to all applications above it. I delivered the module on time to meet the hard deadline of the vendor switch. Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

I was retained by the bank’s Daily Valuation Department in 1995 to perform requirements definition, system analysis, design, and prototype development for an internal system to handle the daily balancing of the Department’s 401(k) portfolios in Delphi and SQL Server.

Greater Los Angeles Area

I was retained by First Interstate to automate the entire function of the Bank’s Law Division. The three-year project allowed Division staff to handle thousands of legal cases and manage over $10 million a year in outside counsel fees, as well as the time of over 30 in-house attorneys. The average training time upon deployment was about 20 minutes per person for the users, who ranged from legal secretaries and in-house attorneys to the Bank’s General Counsel.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Sheppard Mullin is consistently ranked as one of California’s top law firms. I was retained by the firm in the late 1980’s to develop a time and billing system to replace a package that was losing some invoices and double billing other clients. I delivered the system on time and on budget in six months. It operated for over a decade without a single bug after deployment, processing close to a billion dollars in the firm’s revenues.