Sales Manager

Ardalan Zandian

Status: Green Card Holder

Residency: Sacramento, California Area Cell Phone: 408-***-**** E Mail: *******@*****.***

Career Summary

MBA with expertise in Social Media

Marketing and three years of

experience in Marketing and

Customer Relationship

Management.

Pioneered an effective strategy in

Social CRM for the first time in

Iran with published paper about

“Critical Success Factors of

Social Networks”. Accomplished

Social CRM projects in three

companies with promising

results.

Hard working Team Leader, managed

over 50 employees at the age of 24 with

appreciation letter from Dr. E. Ekhtiari

(member of Iranian Parliament) and Dr.

M. Sepehri (Former Assistant Professor

of Stanford University and Current

Assistant Professor of SUT).

Related Skills

Sales Force.com and SAS Business

Intelligence (int) Business Plan Pro,

Palo Alto Software (pro) Programming

Languages (C++, MATLAB and Java)

(pro) Reporting skills and Microsoft

Office (pro) Presentation skills and

Prezi.com (pro)

Education

Sharif University of Technology

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Ardalan Zandian

Status: Green Card Holder

Residency: Sacramento, California Area Cell Phone: 408-***-**** E Mail: *******@*****.***

Career Summary

MBA with expertise in Social Media

Marketing and three years of

experience in Marketing and

Customer Relationship

Management.

Pioneered an effective strategy in

Social CRM for the first time in

Iran with published paper about

“Critical Success Factors of

Social Networks”. Accomplished

Social CRM projects in three

companies with promising

results.

Hard working Team Leader, managed

over 50 employees at the age of 24 with

appreciation letter from Dr. E. Ekhtiari

(member of Iranian Parliament) and Dr.

M. Sepehri (Former Assistant Professor

of Stanford University and Current

Assistant Professor of SUT).

(SUT), Tehran, Iran Sep 2009 –

Jul 2012

Master of Business Administration

(MBA) GPA: 3.72

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Sep

2004 – Jul 2009

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical

Engineering

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Ardalan Zandian

Status: Green Card Holder

Residency: Sacramento, California Area Cell Phone: 408-***-**** E Mail: *******@*****.***

Related Experiences

CRM and Marketing Analyzer at Farir Asa Teb Jan 2012 – Sep 2012

Responsibilities: Designing an effective system that let the company understand the end user behavior

Accomplishments: The designed system saved $35k in the first year of launch (2012) and increased total revenue by 7%

in 9 months.

Social Network Analyzer at GDEA (Gabric Diabetes Education Association) NGO Aug 2011 – Sep 2012

Responsibilities: Increasing the number of clients (~70,000) by 2% per month (Customer Attraction)

Accomplishments: More than 4,000 clients joined them in Sep 2012 (an increase of 5.7% per month)

Social Network Analyzer at Society of Zoroastrian Students NGO Aug 2011 – Sep 2012

Responsibilities: Increasing the growth rate of new members from 0.1% to 1% (Customer Acquisition)

Accomplishments: The new systematic model caused an increase of ~5% in the member’s growth rate.

Sales and Marketing Manager at AshenaTech Oil Equipment Sep 2009 – March 2010

Responsibilities: Managing sales and marketing department, increasing sales by 5%

Accomplishments: Signed an important contract and increased sales by 14%

Executive Manager of Zoroastrian Schools Improvement Project1 Sep 2009 – Sep 2010

Responsibilities: Managing a team of 54 employees in order to promote more than 300 students’ GPA

Accomplishments: The student’s average GPA among Zoroastrian Schools is reported to be 10% more

Main Characteristics and

Competencies

Hard worker, Fast Learner, Innovative,

State of art knowledge of IT, Out of the

box business solutions, Detail Oriented

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Ardalan Zandian

Status: Green Card Holder

Residency: Sacramento, California Area Cell Phone: 408-***-**** E Mail: *******@*****.***

Responsibilities: Managing a team of 54 employees in order to promote more than 300 students’ GPA

Accomplishments: The student’s average GPA among Zoroastrian Schools is reported to be 10% more

Other Skills

Management: Managerial applications

of CRM, e CRM and Social CRM (using

social networks), E business strategies

– Business Plan designer – Knowledge

Management strategies – Applicable

general business solutions

Computer: Programming Languages

and Applications (FORTRAN, Delphi,

Basic, Visual Basic, CSS, SPSS, Maple,

Vensim) (int) Adobe CS5 (int)

Languages: English (full professional

proficiency) – Farsi (Native)

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1 Under supervision of Educational Commission of Iranian Parliament

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