+420-***-***-*** Kaveh Kalantar acv14y@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

• 14 years of project management experience in multicultural environment on variety of information technology (software and hardware infrastructure), marketing and process improvement projects.

• 7 Years of ScrumMaster experience, 4 years of leading Kanban implementation experience, and +2 years of experience in Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD).

• Acting as Product Owner on various Start-up projects since 2005. (Such as Digitalisation of Real Estate Market, Online Education, Offer Management for Small Businesses, Sport Fan Based Community Application, Sport Trainers & Trainees App, Project Management Software For Creative Knowledge Workers.)

• Entrepreneur Personality, with focus on and interest in emerging business models; disruptive technology and process innovations. Working Experience

7/2013 - Present: Acting as Product Owner at Next Kickoff s.r.o - Czech Republic Prague: NextKickoff is a Startup, We are always in experimentation and learning mode. Lots of Learnings. In the past, We have tested and experimented ideas and products in multi-sided eCommerce and Offer Management Systems, Online Education, Project Management and enterprise solutions, Sport Social Media and Fan Based Networks. In the Past 2 years our focus was around knowledge workers workspace. We are probing, sensing and responding continuously (Well, as much as we can) to find emerging ideas or novel practices at knowledge workers domain. My Main focus is to find empowering innovations in services, business models and technological products and evaluate our capabilities, assemble team, test and execute, meet potential users and partners and attend related conferences and events. 4/2015 - Present: Lead Project Manager & Agile Coach (Contractor) at Actum s.r.o - Czech Republic, Prague: Leading & Coaching a team of Agile project managers (my team grew from 6 people to 13 in Q1 & 2 of 2016 and will grow to 18 by end of the year), I work with various clients based on different Lean/Agile Project Management Process Frameworks (e.g. Kanban, SCRUM, DAD). I also work closely with different departments in transforming Actum to a Lean and Agile organisation. Coaching is the main day to day activity, I help and work with project team members and clients on Agile & Lean Values, Principles and Practices. Beside Coaching and Leading a team of 13 Agile Project Managers, I also act as Scrum Master for two teams at the moment. Since, I started this role:

• I helped Actum to completely transform to a Lean & Agile organisation with continues improvement in all areas of the company.

• Such a transformation allowed the company to create a reliability competitive edge (all projects on time with satisfied customers)

• Such a competitive advantage and the fact that the company was able to present itself as an agile organisation, allowed us to win several large projects and scale further

• Currently (Q2 2016), we are growing more than 100% and in many departments over 300%

• This growth also increased revenue in a way that we met 2016 goals in Q1 16. I also coach product owners at Actum and Clients, especially when we are building applications that have direct impact on client’s company P&L, These type of products,that we sometimes help clients to build, are driven from Digital Transformation or Innovation Centres at large corporates that we work with. They are built with Start-up and Entrepreneurship mindset, and apply techniques and practices from Lean Start-up, Business Model & Value Proposition Canvas, Design Thinking, Lean UX, Cynefin framework & Sense Making and of course Lean and Agile Engineering. My Role in these type of projects is:

• to coach Clients on mentioned practices,

• to train, support and help internal or client side product owners on applying these techniques.

• to facilitate large workshops such as Inception Workshop and Business Model Workshops. Education and Certification

Kanban Coaching Professional Masterclass (Certificate of Completion), LeanKanban University 2016; Certified Disciplined Agilist (CDA) 2015; Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, Project Management Institution 2011; MBA in Project Management, University of Northern Virginia, 2011; Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) 2010, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance, 2009 ; ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate, IT Service Management 2009; Bachelor of Science in Information System Management, Girne American University 2007; Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) 2003; Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) 2002 Microsoft Corporation. Social Media

https://cz.linkedin.com/in/kavehkalantar

twitter.com/KavehKalantar

Blog

http://kavehkalantar.blogspot.cz

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+420-***-***-*** Kaveh Kalantar acv14y@r.postjobfree.com Working Experience (Cont.):

9/2013 - 4/2015: Acting as Project Director (Contractor) at RedFuse Communication - Prague, Czech Republic: Responsible for all digital and offline projects at RedFuse Prague Office for EMEA clients (+25 countries and growing). Added to my daily project management activities, I am also responsible to establish an integrated project management office (PMO) across all partner agencies and all efforts, a centralised project governance in Prague office for EMEA region. As part of the integration efforts and continues improvement activities;

• I have managed to implement Kanaban for creative and account team in Prague (20 people). As result visibility of work load increased dramatically and bad multi tasking reduced. 7/2011 to 9/2013: Senior Digital Project Manager (Contractor) at RedFuse Communications & Actum Member of WPP - Czech Republic: Initiating and managing digital projects, in a multi-project-multi-sponsor environment, for EMEA clients, with a distributed team of more than 30 people located in 6 countries and three time zones. My other responsibilities are defining scope, estimating level of effort and budget, monitoring and controlling budget across teams, managing risk, and communicating with stakeholders across EMEA region. Also, I am responsible for allocating and managing resources across all EMEA projects, in cooperation with other PMs at USA (2 offices), Czech Republic

(3 offices), Bangladesh, Colombia, and UK. Technologies, languages and platforms that we use for digital projects, just to name a few, are: Java, .Net, PHP, Ruby, HTML/CSS/XML, OracleDB, MySQL, SiteCore and OpenText content Management Systems. Tools and Services I use for managing projects and supporting stakeholders’ requests are: MS Project, Basecamp, Mantis, Jira and several other in-house built tools. I also improved overall processes based on Theory of Constraint and Agile frameworks, and below are couple of my achievements:

Dropped resolution lead time from an average of 3 months to less than 2 weeks, by implementing cross-regional Kanban workflow for digital sustainment and maintenance services.

Improved Project Management Process, as result 90% of projects have been delivered on time and on budget.

Established foundation of Digital PMO office, and enhanced communication and planning across partner agencies. Projects at RedFuse are all supported by Marketing Department, therefore they are either campaigned based or they are campaign supportive projects such as standalone websites, coupon platform, Facebook Applications, CRM Programs, Tablet and Smartphone Applications, Knowledge Centre and eLearning Platforms and many more. 1/2011 - Present: Founding Member of Agilia community in Czech and Slovakia. At Agilia, we organise events in regards to Innovation, Agile, Lean, Scrum, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Software development and Process Improvement. We provide a platform for businesses and industry experts to meet other enthusiast to debate and share experience. 2/2012 to 8/2012: Executive Business Consultant (Contractor) at Victoria University - Switzerland: I cooperated with VU to restructure the new campus in Neuchatel in order to improve its position in the European market. I had full authority to act as Executive Director on behalf of president to implement and drive change. I have defined and prepared processes, procedures and policies; Trained Staff on best practices and processes; Prepared Marketing Research, business plan; Implemented of approved plans and evaluation of performance; Monitored, controlled and evaluated day to day operations; Ran weekly one-on-one meetings with subordinates (4 people).

After first phase of process improvement implementation, I managed VU Accreditation project and achieved EduQua Accreditation certification for University.

10/2009 to 7/2011: Project Manager & Marketing Consultant (Contractor) at The University of Northern Virginia - Prague Campus, Czech Republic: I joined the UNVA team as a consultant and got responsibility for various briefs as Project Manager and Senior Marketing Executive. Among the projects that I initiated and I was involved in were: Preparing and executing marketing plan (online and offline campaigns), and increased recruitment performance by more than 100%; Planning and Implementing the Academic Quality Enhancement Plan based on EQUIS and SACS accreditation standards; Implementing new IT Infrastructure (Designing and Developing new series of University websites; Implementing Google Apps for Education as one of the first Universities outside of USA; Replacing the previous email system to improve communication and collaboration between students, faculty and staff; Updating University computers and network system; Implementing university web based ERP system, CAMS) ; Planning and implementing student services and re-organising Student Council to increase engagement and student participation.

5/2009 – 8/2009: Project Management & Business Analysis (Contractor) at iMagic – Prague, Czech Republic: I have helped iMagic, a local software development company in Czech republic, to improve their Project Management, Software Development and Support Processes to be able to expand to other international markets.

4/2008 to 5/2009: During this period, I was starting a new business, which I had to terminate after a couple of months due to 2008 financial crisis and lack of project funding. The business was related to a complex real estate website across different regions. 12/2005 - 4/2008: Co-founder & Consultant at 24/7 Consultancy – Cyprus, Kyrenia; A company with new business model for international Real Estate Market with focus on digitalisation of real estate market. We were a team of five generalise-specialists working on transforming online real estate market and providing a digital platform to individual clients, investors, property developers and Real Estate Agents across the globe. Our offices in Kyrenia and Dubai, focused on providing real estate investment solutions to investors and buy-to-let clients. Later, we expand our portfolio and partners to south Cyprus, Turkey, Croatia, UAE, Morocco, Brazil, and Central Europe. During this time and added to all other operational activities, I consulted client on real estate projects from 200,000 USD to over 10,000,000 USD. 9/2004 - 12/2005 Real Estate Consultant (Contractor), REMAX Golden Estate Agency Ltd - Kyrenia, Cyprus: During my studies in northern Cyprus. I joined Remax as an independent real estate consultant. However, It was a good chance for me to improve my communication skills as well as business related competencies. I had to create my own marketing plan, develop my own website and attract my own customers. I soon become one of the best in our team of consultants and Realtors and got several bounces. 8/2002 - 8/2004: Project Manager and Software Developer (Co-Founder) at MTA Ltd: I initiated MTA due to the availability of new IT infrastructure governmental funds for organizations and the urge to upgrade IT infrastructure in 2002 in Iran. I led several medium to large size projects: Manufacturing in-house built ERP Systems to Networking Infrastructure projects (from 500 active nodes projects to over 6000 active nodes projects - LAN & WAN). As a multidisciplinary person, I led projects and worked as analyst and programmer in ERP development projects

(mainly Accounting and Inventory systems).

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