Resume
Armin Nehzat
CONTACT DETAILS
Mobile: +61 403 888 777
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS and WORK EXPERIENCE
January 2009 – Present
Project Manager (Contract)
Sharp Corporation of Australia
Key area of Responsibilities:
Sharp Corporation of Australia are manufacturers of consumer electronic goods. While employed as a Project Manager I was in charge of various eCommerce redevelopment initiatives.
Duties:
- Detailed planning, work scheduling and estimating of required resources to ensure effective completion in a timely manner.
- Providing technical assistance and evaluations to the operations team on project related issues and new product development.
- Demonstrate safety leadership behaviour with commitment to Company policies and compliance to national and international standards.
- Clear communication with customers, suppliers, employees and auditing authorities.
Accomplishments:
- Successfully managed projects ranging from $60,000 through to $1,500,000.
- Successfully implement projects that integrated with global SAP templates.
- Increase visitors, increase the time spent, reduce bounce rates and ultimately increase sales for Sharp Australia and Sharp New Zealand (sharp.net.au & Sharp.net.nz).
- Managed full project life cycles from wireframes, proof of concepts, project plans, testing and go live.
- Negotiate with internal and external stakeholders both nationally and internationally.
April 2003 – May 2008
IT Manager (Full-time)
New Directions Aust Pty Ltd
Key area of Responsibilities:
New Directions Australia is a wholesaler and manufacturer of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. They are a multinational company with offices in Australia, US, UK, Japan & Canada.As the IT Manager I was responsible for managing and auditing the IT requirements of a multi-national company.
Duties:
- Defining functional and technical requirements with end users
- Analysis, design and testing of high quality IT solutions.
- Technical documentation to verify compliance with business requirements and established architectural standards and guidelines.
- Researching and recommending multiple solutions that meet the business needs ensuring they are technically feasible and within budget constraints.
- Communication of any cross-area or cross-release issues that affect other areas of the project.
- Building strong relationships with key IT and business stakeholders to ensure that the solutions provided by IT, meet the requirements of the business.
- Managing multiple projects and priorities to meet business expectations.
Accomplishments:
- Successfully implement and manage 5 global ecommerce websites with system integration and multi-language accessibility:
- essentialoils-and-aromatherapy.com
- newdirections.com.au
- newdirectionsuk.com
- newdirections.co.tw
- newdirectionspackaging.com.au
- Build an online presence on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
- Create online ads using google adwords and other pay per click advertising solutions.
- Designed and implemented an e-commerce solution to be used in conjunction with remote application deployment.
- Coordinated and developed business specific applications and systems.
- Designed and maintained systems over three international and two national sites using technologies like VPN and VOIP.
- Developed business specific applications for online marketing and newsletters.
- Developed business reports that helped the company establish a benchmark in the industry.
- Organic search engine optimization on specific keywords.
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EDUCATIONAL and PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
2003 Bachelor of Business - University of Sydney
Other Professional Training
- Prince 2
- PMBOK Guide
- Planning Project Scope
- Conflict Management
- Business Skills Training
- Managing Performance
- Quality Management for Project Managers
- Project Cost and Schedule Management
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INTERESTS
- iPhone application development (I have published several apps)
- Web applications and solutions
- Self-education & documentaries
- Photography
- Bike riding
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SKILLS and STRENGTHS
- Computer Skills
- Programing Languages - JavaScript, ASP.NET, php, jQuery, xcode, ActionScript 2 & 3.
- Database – SQL Server, MySQL & Oracle.
- Web Design – HTML, XML, Flash & CSS.
- Network – TCP/IP, TSL/SSL.
- Productivity tools - Microsoft Office Suite, Access, Projects & Visio.
- CS5 Suite – Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, In Design & Light Room .
- Desktop Operating Systems – Win2000, Win XP, Win Vista, Windows 7 & Mac OSX.
- Server Operating Systems – Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2010 Server, Windows SBS Server & Ubuntu apache server.
- Accounting Systems – SAP (B1 & R3), Sage, Quicken, MYOB.
- Team Work
- Work and contribute as member of a team
- Accept responsibilities for authorised level of decision making
- Problem Solving
- Ability to apply critical analysis to complex problems
- Ability to apply alternate solutions to problems
- Can ‘think outside the square’
- Planning and Coordination
- Project management using Price 2 and PMBOK environments
- Experience in implementing projects ranging from $50k to $500k
- Ability to delegate tasks and manage projects
- Ability to manage staff expectations and set KPI’s
- Product planning and staff training
- Project coordination and documentation
- Communication and Presentations
- Prepare business reports, manuals and instructions
- Confident public speaker
- Ability to make professional presentation
- Leadership
- Self-motivated
- Self-reliance
- Task and milestone orientated
- Enthusiastic & Optimistic
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REFEREES
Supplied on request