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QUALIFICATION SUMMARY

Leadership Capabilities: Led and managed cross-functional teams to deliver products despite hard deadlines. Entrepreneurial Sprit: Started and joined new startups to create innovative and disruptive solutions. Management Skills: Managed development teams through Agile Methodologies. Crises Management: Managed and delivered projects in highly dynamic and change intensive environments. Research and Analytical Skills: Architected systems and solutions applied in multiple products. High Communication Skills: Collaborated in various teams in different countries to deliver projects. Technical Skills: Used experiences as software engineering in product development and managing projects. Problem Solving and Self-Starting: Applied in design and develop products with passion for simplicity. EDUCATION

WESTERN UNIVERSITY (2011-2015)

PhD in Cooperative Distributed System

• Research Field: Privacy Protection Framework for IoT (Internet of Things) Applications. CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (2008-2010)

Masters of Science in Networks and Distributed Systems

• Research Field: Security in Routing Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks. SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY (2001-2006)

Bachelors of Engineering in Software Engineering

• Research Field: Performance Analysis on Network Monitoring Tools. EXPERIENCE

Digital Engagement Xperience Inc

Product Manager (2012-Present)

Leadership: Led a cross-functional team to launch products from concepts to implementations resulted in increase of the sales rate by 15 %.

Product Validation: Conducted customer interviews and processing customer data for the product validation resulted in identifying new features for the product. Product Roadmap Management: Managed the roadmap of an e-learning product delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS) to customers within North America, Africa and Middle East. Customer Strategy Implementation: Designed projects for implementing the customer strategy by orchestrating 4 main units led to increasing the customer adoption and satisfaction by 20 %. Product Demonstration: Led product presentations in executive sessions with investors and customers leading to deals over 1M dollars for the company. Crisis Management: Managed projects and the product life-cycle successfully despite the hard deadlines by coordinating the customer activities and the required time in the release process. Project Manager

Team Management: Managed a scrum team including 8 engineers and increasing the product release by 40 % through a modified release process to include operations within the scrum team. Complex-Project Management: Managed a joint-project with the academia and scrum coaching 18 engineer teams to develop an engagement solution for e-learning on Android mobile devices. Progress Management: Provided weekly, monthly and quarterly plans of the unit and reporting the progress at weekly, monthly and quarterly bases by synthesizing activities of 4 acting units. AFSHAN SAMANI

Western University

PhD Research Assistant (2011-2015)

Privacy Expert: Designed and developed a Java-based privacy framework for IoT applications to capture “Privacy” as a computation concept and introducing a privacy-aware computation system. System Architect: Designed and developed a privacy protection framework applied in an IoT test- bed in which agents were actively participating in reaching solutions that serves their privacy. Research Laboratory Coordinator

Research Group Management: Managed the direction and roadmap of CDS-Eng research group containing 5 PhD and Master students resulted in a test-bed for experimenting IoT applications. Community Manager

Board Member and Acting Manager: Managed “Entrepreneurship for Iranian Students” community in 2014 and scheduled educational sessions for the members with entrepreneurial training and advices. Klarna AB

Quality Analyzer (2010-2011)

Product Analysis: Designed and developed test plans for analyzing products and orchestrating with the business department, which led to 20% growth in the productivity of the team. Ansari GmbH

Software Developer (2006-2008)

Middle Service Programmer: Designed service oriented architecture within the product that preserved 20 % of the hardware memory.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, C++/C, and familiar with SQL, Python, Nodejs and Erlang. Tools and Services: Git, JIRA Agile, JIRA Administration and Jaspersoft Studio. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Certification: Technology Entrepreneurship from Stanford Technology Entrepreneurship Program. Membership: Board member of Iranian Student Association in Chalmers (ISAC) community in 2009. Languages: English: Fluent, Farsi: Native, Arabic: Basic, Swedish: Basic. PUBLICATION

A. Samani, H. H. Ghenniwa and A. Wahaishi, Privacy Aware Smart Objects in Internet of Things, Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, November 2015. A. Samani, H. H. Ghenniwa and A. Wahaishi, Privacy in Internet of Things: A Model and Protection Framework, ANT 2015.

A. Wahaishi, A. Samani and H. H. Ghenniwa, SmartHealth and Internet of Things, ICOST 2015. A. Samani, R. Aburukba, A. Bienkowski and H. H.Ghenniwa Privacy Framework for Open Environments, PASSAT 2013.

A. Samani and H. H. Ghenniwa, Privacy expansion in contract net protocol, Trust in Agent Societies – AAMAS 2013.

A. Hussain, A. Samani and H. H. Ghenniwa, A Personal Smart Assistant for Open Environments ICAI 2013 A. Samani, H. H. Ghenniwa and J. Samarabandu, Risk-based modelling for managing privacy protection, CCECE 2012.

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