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Northfield, Il, Us

Manage the full product lifecycle including sourcing, marketing, new product development, sales support and financial growth of Medline connected devices and diagnostic capital, such as Vital Signs monitoring, within the Diagnostics Division.

Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Us

Lead large scale and strategic commercialization projects, including but not limited to new platform innovation initiatives and highly visible capital projects. Provide support to Business Development for customer communications. Collaborate closely with Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering and Pricing to ensure success.- Launch an enhanced Project Management process and tools for complex engineering projects over $1MM. - Manage commissioning and start-up of a new packaging line leading a cross-functional effort to full commercialization. - Manage the commercial execution of assigned strategic and complex new projects, leading a cross-functional group from project proposal through full commercialization.- Work closely with the Business Development team on capital budgeting and to perform capital investment analysis to determine long-term economic and financial profitability of the project.

Chicago, Il, Us

Lead the product development initiatives and support in ceilings products and systems through the entire stage-gate and product life cycle, including concept generation, design, prototyping, evaluation, manufacturing, and commercialization. Transform market needs and voice-of-customer into product requirements and quality measures.- Launched a new enhanced version of the product to reduce labor time by 50% and installed cost by 30%.- Lead technical development and enhancement projects to support the Ceilings business. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver low-cost initiatives aligned with strategic goals.- Provided technical support to sales/marketing/customers, including manufacturing support and jobsite investigation.

Chicago, Il, Us

Institutionalize a discipline (process, tools and capabilities) across the product life cycle to ensure optimal pipeline of growth ideas, to accelerate time to market of de-risked growth initiatives, and to accelerate time to peak sales to deliver on business goals.- Developed and implemented a comprehensive sales playbook for 70+ sales reps to enhance customer engagement and accelerate the growth of a $13MM business- Conducted voice-of-customer studies to identify critical pain points across the value chain and shape the go-to-market strategies for USG’s growth platforms- Partnered with USG’s business units and sales & marketing organizations to build and implement go-to-market strategies and sales pipeline management to achieve their 2019 business goals- Helped establish commercialization as a core competency across USG to enable faster time to market and time to peak sales of new products

Chicago, Il, Us

- Achieved a $800,000 cost improvement through implementation of new raw materials and/or product development without sacrificing the performance.- Provided technical leadership to develop and help rejuvenate business and defend market leadership position by developing a portfolio of projects aligned with business counterparts. - Technical Lead and inventor of a novel lightweight gypsum composition with internally generated foam. (US Patent US2018/0099908).- Provided operational support by maintaining, enhancing, and executing projects for Manufacturing and Marketing resulting in increased customer satisfaction.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Provided analytical and technical support in identifying a proprietary method to perform particle size analysis for USG's Dry Products.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Provided analytical and technical support to USG businesses; Performance Surfaces, Performance Substrates and Ceilings.

Evanston, Il, Us

Responsible for creating a vision and a strategic plan to develop an intuitive software product solution in healthcare that allows for faster test turnaround times, better data management and integrity. Manage product line life cycle and development; Ideation, voice-of-customer research, design, prototype/wireframe development, testing and management of the first-generation solution.- Organized and Facilitated daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings- Coordinated cross-functional activities to execute plans- Conferred with customers to assess customer needs, pain points and to validate hypotheses- Created an MRD (Market Requirement Document) to identify unmet market needs and a PRD (Product Requirement Document) for the development team to understand the capabilities, functionality, and features- Developed and implemented a roadmap and go-to-market plan- Developed an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) using digital wireframes- Managed development of UI/UX designs

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Formation and Evaluation of Protective Layer coating over Magnesium Melt during Casting Processes.Melted pure magnesium cubes in a TGA system equipped with vertical resistance furnace and developed a kinetics model of growth of protective layer over magnesium melt exposed to different atmospheres such as SF6/Air , SO2/Air , CO2/Air and SF6/CO2/Air. Experimental Design and Data analysis were performed.Samples were also characterized using XRD and SEM/EDS (Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy microanalysis). Thermodynamic evaluation was also performed using HSC software.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

-High Temperature Chemical Reactions-Rate Processes (Heat & Mass Transfer)

Conducted feasibility studies on the production of advanced materials and technologies proposed by the researchers in academia (Universities and Research Centers). Supervised and controlled progress of two projects in conjunction with Materials Science department of Tehran University. • Solar evacuated tube collector with heat pipe.• Production of Magnesium by Pidgeon method.• Production of Aluminum Cans by Backward Extrusion method.• Production of NiTi Orthodontic Wires.• Production of Al/SiC composite break disc of automobiles.

Researched novel welding methods to apply in industry. • Explosion welding.• Underwater welding.

Held and managed technical metallurgical courses for the industrial section.

Tehran, Ir

Heat Treatment Methods (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran).Teaching Physics, chemistry and mathematics to high school students.

* Metallographic lab. * Casting section. .* Mechanical testing lab.* Chemical Characterization lab.

Master'S Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management

Ph.D., Metallurgical Engineering

M.Sc, Materials Science And Engineering

B.Sc, Materials Science And Engineering;

High School Diploma, Mathematics And Physics