Pouya Farahbakhsh, Mba Email & Phone Number

Beverly Hills, California, US

Beverly Hills, California, US

• Worked as Product Delivery Consultant & Project Manager from January 2014 – March 2015. Hired as full-time Senior Manager, IT Project in March 2015 to lead implementation and launch of Department-wide SAP Business One.
• Currently tasked with managing all IT Projects for Live Nation Merchandise including maintenance of current systems in legacy platforms, as well defining and implementing short and long term strategies for moving.
• Current systems include Counterpoint, Filemaker, Lotus Notes and Excel-based solutions across 5 lines of business
• Informing and educating stakeholders and end users on new systems and processes

Beverly Hills, California, US

• Discovery and Assessment of all existing IT Systems for Live Nation Merchandising
• Leading effort to upgrade or 21 existing IT systems, including moving several systems to cloud-based alternatives
• Simplification of existing IT Architecture by deprecating and replacing older systems, including existing Inventory Management, Data Warehouse and Reporting, Lotus Notes and multiple File and Information Repositories
• Managing implementation of department-wide Enterprise Resource Planning system for Apparel Management to replace multiple legacy systems
• Inform and educate employees on new systems and processes

Beverly Hills, California, US

• Responsible for implementation, launch and training of Office 365/SharePoint Online to all worldwide employees
• “Moving Live Nation and Ticketmaster to the cloud”o Migration of all company documentation & intranet from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint Onlineo Implementation, launch and training of Office 365, SkyDrive Pro and Yammer
• Re-launch of company intranet home page including wireframing, design, and management of development vendoro Analysis of existing site analyticso Included surveying of Live Nation and Ticketmaster employees to.
• Assessment of internet and network bandwidth of all Live Nation and Ticketmaster offices and venues
• Work with Live Nation IT Infrastructure team to ensure single sign on for all employees across multiple domains
• Report findings and acquire sign-off from Live Nation CTO, CIO and other executives

Los Angeles, California, US

• FBC Project Manager for the American Idol Season 12 iOS and Android Mobile Apps
• FBC Project Manager for The X Factor USA Season 2 Website and iOS and Android Mobile apps
• Simultaneous Management of nine internal Fox teams, nineteen vendors, three production companies and multiple show sponsors for The X Factor USA Season 2 and American Idol Season 12
• Responsible for analysis and reporting of Omniture and Localytics Analytics data
• Work closely with multiple mobile vendors to deliver iOS and Android handsets and tablets complete with, Live Sync to audio, streaming Video on Demand, Social Login and Integration, Entry of X Factor-related content.
• Responsible for communicating project status within the team, to Fox upper management, vendors and clients

Century City, CA, CA, US

• Project Manager for multiple projects working with multiple Fox properties, Fox partners and vendors
• Own all Project Plans, Schedules, Action Item Lists, and Document Repositories,
• Scheduling and running all necessary meetings and distribution of meeting notes and action items
• Manage projects handling: - Building of New iOS and Android apps for internal Fox properties - Airing of live Fox events on the web - Providing video players for the web and mobile apps with consideration for Content.

• Localization/International
• Content Programming for Myspace Canada in English and French
• Translation of all Myspace Site, Mobile and Marketing pages
• Leading Localization team in effort to translate Myspace Futura Project in 34 cultures
• Analysis of Localization expenses over last two fiscal years in effort to cut costs
• Revamping of company Localization process to achieve shorter turnaround time

• Coordinated QA and Development effort across multiple teams and verticals for deployment of dependent front-end and back-end web builds
• Coordinated multiple test environments for new feature, regression and integration testing
• Rewrote main process for MySpace code promotion from Developer check-in to QA to deployment to production
• Received feedback and signoff from members of all department involved in the chain before getting approval to run new deployment process from CTO
• Doubled number of monthly deployments without increasing number of monthly rollbacks
• Allowed MySpace.com to make regular daily (instead of weekly) deployments

• Quality Assurance Manager for Desktop Applications, Infrastructure, International, Mobile, Security, Karaoke Teams
• Provided supervision and technical guidance to a team of 12 engineers and 2 interns on 6 teams
• Ultimately responsible for the production quality of several major areas of the MySpace.com website, MySpace Karaoke website, and MySpace Mobile websites and applications
• Directly supervised Quality Assurance Team Lead, Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers including staffing, HR support, preparation and delivery of staff performance evaluations and career development activities
• Wrote accepted proposal for new deployment process of entire MySpace site taking into consideration code and build dependency issues, resourcing of multiple teams, and the business needs of product and project.
• Plus I still tested

• Quality Assurance Lead for Desktop Applications, Infrastructure, Security, Karaoke Teams
• Engineering Lead for separate, simultaneous web front-end, back-end, web security, and Windows and MacOSX projects with 3-4 reports
• Managed teams, assigning tasks and calculating metrics analyzing the quality of the product
• Alternated working on teams when needed
• Wrote test cases and test plans, performed black box and white box testing of web pages, server and client components
• Performed functional, compatibility, internationalization, localization, and load/stress testing

Simi Valley, California, US

• QA Engineer for Diskeeper 2007 and Diskeeper 10 Localization projects
• Assigned test cases and gave instruction to team of four testers
• Projects consisted of testing Windows and DOS based Defragmentation server and client applications on all Windows platforms from 98 to Vista

• QA Engineer for Symantec Mobile AntiVirus major and inline releases
• White Box and Black box testing of Symantec Antivirus for PalmOS, PocketPC and SymbianOS
• Wrote simple tools to assist in Quality Assurance manual and automated testing
• Continued previous tasks of Technician including identification and logging of bugs
• Also worked on Symantec Antivirus Corporate Security Suite for Windows OS's and Novell Netware

• Identified and wrote defects for Symantec Antivirus for Handhelds Software
• Performed many tasks including bi-weekly build acceptance and various test cases to ensure proper operation of software
• Wrote test cases and Visual Test Automation Scripts to make testing easier and more efficient
• Made suggestions on how product could be better for company and for consumer

• Built and maintained office computer systems and network
• Maintained Chamber's website
• Edited and laid out monthly 16 page newspaper including advertisement layout and writing of many articles
• Managed all office computer tasks such as database maintenance, word processing and spreadsheets
• Ran most event day operations and created all event flyers and advertisements
• Handled most of Accounting work using QuickBooks

Palo Alto, California, US

• Documented the Bluetooth driver API
• Gained experience with the Host Controller Interface (HCI) and the Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) layers of the Bluetooth protocol stack
• Also assisted in testing of protocol stack for UnPlugFest 4

• Tutored students, ranging in ages from 10 to adult, in various subjects such as math (basic to calculus), physics, chemistry, and computer skills such as web design, basic computer skills and programming

Mba, Entrepreneurship

Bs, Mathematics Of Computation

Csm, Certified Scrummaster