Sirous Soltanolketabi, Eit Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Consulting SMEs on teaching and scaling their knowledge as a business from $0 to $10,000,000/yr.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Directed a cross-functional team of 30+ professionals in Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations, spread across multiple time zones worldwide, within our Marketing Agency program. Transformed an unstructured bootstrapped startup by producing org. structure and OKRs to streamline performance tracking.• Successfully drove organizational change to a $16M portfolio of MarTech programs to reduce redundancies and cut operational costs by 30%.• Developed a business case and strategically aligned the development of a $1,000,000 custom CRM for our customers reducing churn by 25%.• Led a team of 10 developers, designers and testers from two companies from design to implementation using Agile Methodologies through full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) resulting in an additional $20,000 MRR.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Provided technical and business consulting (digital transformation) across multiple-solution portfolios such as: Telecommunications, Mobility, Unified Communications, Security, Cloud and IT Hosting Solutions to 500+ businesses with 100-500 employees.• Led technical sales conversations with 30+ Sales Executives to bring TELUS $4million+ of yearly revenue with top sales for 2 consecutive years in the Mid-Market segment.• Collaborated with Product Management to find new revenue streams for 2 main products (SaaS and NaaS products) supporting increased revenue by 10%.• Volunteered and owned the design and quotation process for Cisco Meraki designs reducing RFQ times from 14+ days to 5 days increasing closing rates by 12% team-wide.• Coordinated with all relevant groups including building and steering committees to facilitate rational facility planning, budgeting, and scheduling.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Developed and maintained key vendor relationships, including contract negotiations, pricing, and evaluation of current and potential partnerships and vendor management. Ensured compliance with internal Telus standards for all design job packages - Worked with the standards team on 4 different device standards while performing First Office Application designs.• Achieved cost savings through effective negotiation of contracted out design work saving 1,800 hours of employee time during peak season.• Designed and optimized the utilization of space, power, cabling, floorplan updates, ironwork, and other inside plant infrastructure equipment reducing functional space usage by 80%.• Strategically designed the interconnection of Datacentre hardware (ie. firewalls, servers, routers)• Delivered engineering design job packages related to resource development plans - Ensured on-time completion with a turnaround design time of less than 2 weeks.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Spearheaded the design, build, and maintenance of large-scale metro, transport, and joint TELUS/BC Hydro aerial and underground infrastructure. I produced redline drawings, As-Constructs, keeping GIS systems (Autocad, SpatialNet) up to date with the latest records. Additionally, I managed the workload of internal technicians and external vendors ensuring work pressurization as per company standards.• Liaised with internal/external PMs, Engineers, Municipalities, Developers, and Contractors for the 400 sites/projects from start to finish. • Contracted, negotiated and reviewed design projects to completion with vendors, saving 320 employee hours per month.• Managed team of 10 On-Shore Design Technicians increasing average productivity by 30%.

Vancouver, Canada Area

-Develop relationships with students to increase awareness of resources and to foster community and inclusion-Facilitate discussions during advising interactions to help students translate learning resources / opportunities into tangible and applicable goals for their success-With the Engineering Peer Advising Team and ESS Marketing and Communications Officer, researched and helped facilitate an Online Communications strategy for incoming students to UBC Engineering-Provide logistical assistance and utilize student record tools to carry out workshops and administrative tasks

Calgary, Canada Area

- Implemented Tracking system in excel to monitor progress of project- Assisted with development of new SPIM (ADEM) Engineering Management work processes, Standards, and Templates- Developed new Guideline documents for Engineering Execution Plan to reduce document size and improve clarity and safety- Support Senior Piping P.Eng with calculations in project audits

- Plan, organize, lead and monitor the activities of theproject team while maintaining overall control of the schedule and the delivery of all the expected deliverables, seekingapproval when necessary.- Planning and submitting recommendations to resolve discrepancies, takingaction on issues of non-compliance, keeping lines of communication open among all project stakeholders, meeting minutes,Project Management administration, tracking deliverables, and milestones with JIRA-Led sprint planning and scrum for duration of project

-Industry Night Team Lead-Increased IGEN program club funding-Liaised with UBC program administrators to create awareness and accessibility to the IGEN program

Vancouver, Canada Area

-Develop relationships with students to increase awareness of resources and to foster community and inclusion-Facilitate discussions during advising interactions to help students translate learning resources / opportunities into tangible and applicable goals for their success-With the Engineering Peer Advising Team and ESS Marketing and Communications Officer, researched and helped facilitate an Online Communications strategy for incoming students to UBC Engineering-Provide logistical assistance and utilize student record tools to carry out workshops and administrative tasks

Richmond, Bc

- Provide exceptional Customer Service- Conduct Workshops to increase customer product knowledge of technology- Provide consumer and business client solutions- Maintain visual store standards- Support Inventory team- Complete iPhone activations for various Canadian Wireless providers- Troubleshooting devices

- Provide customer service- Activate cellular devices- Troubleshoot devices- Complete account modifications for customers

Applied Science, Integrated Engineering

Activities and Societies: UBC Sailbot Team, IGEN Council - VP External

Ib Diploma