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Soraya Ostowari

**** *. ******* **. **** Beach, CA 90815; 562-***-****: **************@*****.***

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Results-driven manager with global experiences in developing support groups for large-scale projects.

Demonstrated ability to improve a process to increase cost efficiency, develop solutions, motivate teams and win major project goals.

Directed Technical Support team to optimize value-added operations and project initiatives.

Coordinated with different departments to decide upon strategies and engineering specifications for a project and ensure smooth execution within the company.

Proven ability to drive successful international products and service launches by developing compelling plans, building teams and forming strategic relationships with key industry partners.

Performed overall product management and strategic focus solutions for various markets and customer segments, both domestic and international.

Played key role in developing competitive and industry analysis, marketing strategies, and launch plans for new and enhanced products.

Worked directly with senior VPs across the business to collaborate and contribute to the future product vision for multiple product solutions.

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Focused, collaborated leadership and demanding but supportive approach results in exceptional organizational performance.

Superior knowledge of business development and sales principals.

Outstanding abilities for leadership and team building.

High strength in strategy, business development, improve efficiency of engineering resources and relationship building.

Strategic planning, teambuilding, coaching and motivation.

Solid work ethics and a unique combination of strategic vision, resourcefulness and deep team commitment.

Extensive experience in engineering crisis management. PP rr oo ff ee ss ss ii oo nn aa ll EE xx pp ee rr ii ee nn cc ee ss : Application Engineering Manager

CTC Global Corp. Irvine, CA 2014-Present

Report to VP of Operations.

Direct a large team of engineering, consultants in developing sales initiatives.

Oversee all design generation and implementation, identified and resolved any non-compliance issues.

Direct project bidding reviews and made final approval decisions.

Direct annual preparation of overall projects budget, engineering budget and cost for submission to Board of Directors.

High-level problem solving and decision making, combined with extensive knowledge of technical and financial analysis.

Conduct recruitment interviews and hiring for senior engineering positions.

Overall team leadership which includes setting individual/team goals, ensuring employee development, providing on-going coaching and feedback, recognizing employees for their contributions, enabling meaningful career experiences and creating an inclusive and safe work environment.

Develop training material and standards on engineering requirements and provide the necessary coaching and training to personnel along with the upskilling of existing personnel.

Plan and direct all aspects of engineering activities and projects within an organization.

Ensure all engineering projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with organization's established policies and objectives.

Incorporates components, materials, and tools that result in cost-effective and high-quality output.

Develop major goals to support broad functional objectives.

Develop and execute a plan to manage the technical evaluation and diligence for new opportunities in global offices, providing the Sales department design and deliverables to support utilities.

Consider international solutions in product development strategy and takes into consideration global market dynamics, trends, regulatory impact, and risk management Senior Application Engineer

CTC Global Corp. Irvine, CA 2005-2014

Provided product solutions to electric utilities with selecting, designing, and analyzing high- voltage power lines for new line installations or reconductor upgrades.

Provided engineering and technical support for Sales, Manufacturing and Distribution team.

Provided detailed engineering and design for transmission lines including new lines and reconductor projects.

Lead cross-functional teams supporting capital/maintenance projects from preliminary engineering through construction.

Worked closely with Business Development group, external vendors, and Engineering group to order material for various projects.

Responsible for defining, and controlling the project scope, schedule, and costs.

Created customer specific solutions. This included but not limited to pre-sales and post-sales technical support, feasibility verification and on-site technical training.

Used programs such as PLS-CAD and Sag10 for Line Design, Sag Analysis and tension calculations and used the in-house program regarding IEEE-738 and NESC standards for analyzing Overhead Transmission Line Design capacity and optimizing the power loss to save cost for the customers and utilities.

Senior Field Application Engineer

Ikos System, Inc., Seal Beach, CA

Acted as a technical liaison to customers in pre-sales and post-sales efforts, made product presentations, reviewed and edited customer documentation including proposals communicating customer requirements to product management and engineering.

Provided technical support for acceleration products and memory generation for customer’s library using Verilog and Synopsys for the design and verification of their projects.

Participated in product planning efforts by providing technical feasibility analysis to product roadmaps, drafting product requirements (functional specifications), communicating those requirements to engineering, ensuring engineering design plans adequately and realistically meet requirements.

Provided handling and tracking calls from customers, logging issues for the engineering and QA teams and providing a prompt response to customer issues. Education & Membership

UCI, University of California, Irvine, B.S. EE, IEEE Member

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