Golbarg Khajavi, MBA, CSM®

Senior IT Project Manager

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Northridge, CA 91324

+1-310-***-****

adalj4@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/golbarg

IT Professional with over 10 years of experience specializing in IT Project Management and Business Analysis. I'm able to implement effective IT strategies at local and global levels. My greatest strengths are business awareness, strategic thinking and detail oriented character which enables me to permanently streamline infrastructure and applications. Ability to manage performance and motivate staff on an individual and team level and an inventive thinker who could work outside comfort zone. Able to plan and manage million-dollar projects aligning business goals and led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

Experience

2014-01 - 2018-12 Senior IT Project Manager

GEM Group / Los Angeles, CA

Started on 2014 and expanded and lead a cross-functional team which I was in charge of hiring and training them.Delivered major OTT projects with over $2 Million budget. Launched and developed mobile and smart TV applications, IPTV and TV Boxes project successfully. Worked with both internal and external stakeholders and sponsors for TV box project. Fully in charge of the organization Trademark management process and continuously managed On Demand project since 2011. I Managed the customized development of company's CRM & ERP on Bitrix24 platform. We developed websites for all our 40 TV channels as the portfolio for the channel including the channel live streaming.

I worked in both Waterfall and Agile environments. I’ve started implementing Agile in my team starting 2015. Managed the successful completion of software development projects over a range of software utilizing

.NET, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and SQL components, with budgets ranging from $10k to Million Dollars. As a Project manager in broadcasting media I'm adapted to fast paced environments and could perfectley manage frequent change requests coming along the project. 2010-12 - 2014-01 Project Manager (VOD/OTT)

GEM Group / Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

GemGroup is a large broadcasting media company with over 40 satellite channels. Started as VOD project manager. Developed and launched SVOD platform on 2011 and as of today it has over 1 million subscribed users all around the world. Managed a team of developers, UI/UX designers, content creators and customer support team. Worked with the most popular CDN providers like Akamai, create and maintain a long lasting perfect relationship with them.

I was in charge of analyzing the business needs for this project all the way from technical aspect to budgeting the project, determine system structure and design and developed the business model. Always generated workflow diagrams and user stories for each and every business process through our projects and worked with 3rd party vendors for our content delivery and our physical data storage. Frequently performed UAT and QA during the project life cycle. As SVOD provider UAT was one of the most important processes of our projects. UAT were implemented as a free beta trial version and through an in-house testing team.

2010-01 - 2010-12 Business Analyst

Sterling Global Solutions / Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia A digital agency with full-Cycle servicing covers every aspect of software development and branding with team of experts in web development, animation and graphics, E-commerce and content writing. As business analyst I worked directly with our clients to determine their business needs and operational objectives by studying their business functions, gathering information, evaluating output requirements for them. Analyze business processes and write system process specifications to be used. 2009-01 - 2009-12 IT Consultant

Evolab Technologies / Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Startup in Website Widgets and Gadgets Development. Working directly with CEO in all technical aspects and requirements.

2008-04 - 2008-12 Back End Developer

Radical Box / Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Working on E-Learning backend platform in a software development company. 2008-01 - 2008-03 Internship

Billadam / Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Spent my 3 months bachelor Internship in mobile application development firm. I was assigned to UK map application development project.

Education

2008 - 2011 Multimedia University

Master of Business Administration (MBA), IT Management 2004 - 2008 Multimedia University

Bachelor of IT, Information Systems Engineering

Industry and Technical Skills

Project Management

Business Analysis

SDLC

Agile Management

Scrum

Waterfall Project Management

Entertainment & Streaming Media

VOD & OTT

Media Content Distribution

Content Ingestion & Delivery

Content Management

Linear & Non-linear Broadcasting

Data Analytics

Lean Six Sigma

Email Marketing

CRM Integration

ERP Implementation

Interpersonal Skills

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Problem Solving

Detail Oriented

Stakeholder Management

Time Management

Budget Management

Schedule Development

Decision Making

Negotiation

Resource Management

Change Management

Client Management

Hiring

Training

Tools and Technologies

Jira

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Microsoft Suites

MCP

Encoders

Cloud

Google Analytics

Mobile Applications

HTML

Windows Server & Hosting

Wordpress

MailChimp

Publications

2013-01 Impact of ERP Implementation at Malaysian SMEs: Analysis of Five Dimensions Benefit / International Journal of Enterprise Computing and Business Systems Volume 3 Issue 1 2012-09 Benefit Analysis of ERP Implementation in Malaysian SMEs / The 2012 IACSIT Conferences/International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering Phuket, Thailand. Certificates

2019-04 Certified ScrumMaster (CSM®)

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