Project Manager Development

Kevin Ehsani (PhD)

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Education:

****-**** **.*.: Computer Science.

University of Ulster, Jordanstown, N. Ireland, U.K.

Thesis Topic: Computer simulation of the electrical wave propagation within The heart cardiovascular system and its arrhythmia diagnosis using parallel Processing techniques (transputers).

1986-1987 M.Sc.: Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland, U.K.

Dissertation Topic: Pulse distortion prediction model for applications in microwave communications. Including wireless communications.

1982-1986 B.Sc.: Electronics.

University of Ulster, Coleraine, N. Ireland, U.K.

Project Topic: Remote communication device for PCs (portable data logger). Creating network connection between a computers and external devices using serial ports.

Training:

IBM, Silicon Graphics, Oracle, Sybase, Cisco, Motorola, San Jose College, UCLA.

Summary:

Equity and derivative trading in Europe, America and emerging markets.

Converting Business Plan into System Design / Development / Implementation Plan.

Full Life Cycle project development.

Planning and scripting of test scenarios.

Business Continuity Planning.

Desktop support and Application support for all levels of users. Managed up to 10 people.

Liaised with a diverse group of cross-functional users and technology professionals, internally and externally within the States and globally.

User training and technical presentations.

Software/Hardware Development.

Database and User Interface development.

Unix, Linux, Windows, Apple operating systems.

Vendor assessment & negotiations, and Client interactions.

Lecturing, research, technical presentation at universities, events and to tech executives.

Personal Skills:

Detail/action-oriented, follow up skills on own projects and on others, high energy, strong delegation skills, well organized, able to multi-task, analyze information and draw conclusions quickly, communicate succinctly in meetings, experience building a team, mature and professional appearance. Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Strong problem solving, interpersonal skills and client interaction. Take personal accountability for actions and results.

Skills:

Finance: Actively trading European stocks, options, and ETFs (mostly British) since 1980s.

Actively trading US derivatives(including writing options), ETFs, fixed income, equities (including shorting) since 1990s. Over 100 trade and investment positions per year. Familiar with credit rating agencies and their ratings (Moody's, Standard & Poor's). Research of quarterly statements of companies and the latest events. Working with client managers. Researching IPO stocks and potential takeover targets, specially in the late 90s.

Programming:Java & applets, C++, C, Perl, Occam, java script, HTML, VBA, assembly, Fortran.

Object Oriented: OMT, UML, Rational Rose, OOA, OOD, Domain Analysis.

Internet & connectivity: Active Server Pages(ASP2.0), IIS, Oracle web server 3.0.x,CORBA, JDBC, RMI, Netscape, IE, Mozilla, Google Chrome.

Dev. Tools: Oracle developer 2000 (forms 5.0 & reports 2.5), PVCS, CMVC, MS_studio developer, visual C++.

Database: Oracle 8.0.3. Lotus notes 4.x. Sybase 10.x. Filemaker pro. Courses in fast track SQL and advance Oracle.

Project Management: MS Project and PMI methodology. PMI member.

Wireless: WAP, WML, bluetooth.

Network: IP multicasting, tunneling, TCP/IP, NFS, RPC, UUCP, Firewall, bridges, routers (Cisco), hubs, novel, cartridges, mosaic, Netscape, DNS, NIS+, chameleon NFS/x, token rings. SGI network

administration classes. HP SNMP course for openview.

Graphics & Multimedia Houdini, OpenGL, Inventor, Rapidapp, Gain momentum, Xdesigner.Microprocessor CAD.

Windows & MS: Vista, Office 2010, Windows 7, XP, 2000, NT(4.0), XWindows(R5),Motif (1.2), Windows 95.

Hardware & OS: SGI, AIX, PCs, Mac, Sun Sparc, Transputers. Iris 6.x, SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, Macs 7.x, AIX 4.x, VMS. SGI

Advance system administration course.

Debuggers: Insight, Case vision Debugger(CVD), dbx.

Modeling & simulation (Finite Element Modeling)

Tutoring in Physics & Mathematics.

Presenting at International conferences & symposiums.

Software Documentation.

Experience:

2008 – Present: Working and researching on clean energy and setting up partnership in the field both with European partners and within Texas. Continuous traveling to Europe to follow up with companies and partners. Worked with Austin Utility, Texas land, Austin energy, Austin chamber of commerce, Solar and wind OEM companies both within the states and overseas. Keeping up to date with the latest political changes in the field. Actively participating with organizations that are promoting clean energy within the states and government branches including the Congress and the Senate.

2007 – 2008: Motorola (contracting)

Satellite and cable; client interaction on weekly basis: DAC, Astria, RADD, OM, ….

Sept. 2004 – 2007:

Saudi Arabia (short project): Accompanied a business delegation for developing business and trade ties.

Tehran stock market, Tehran Iran

Position: Principal advisor and investigator.

Responsibilities: Advising and investigating on converting Tehran’s bourse to online trading

by internationalising the bourse trading procedures and technical mechanism. Created documentation for user and trader needs and gathered specific technical and business needs with the clients for approval.

Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Position: Lecturer

Responsibilities: Lecturer, teaching computer courses to Phd and Msc students.

Feb. 2004 – Aprl. 2004:

Japan, technical project.

2003 – 2004: Dana A food and chemicals. Londonderry, N. Ireland.

Project: Product development, business development, project development.

Responsibilities: Interfacing and obtaining new clients and businesses. Marketing of products and pricing negotiations. Strategic Planning. Dealing with new requirements. Best practices and decision making. E-procurement and E-sourcing technologies. Purchasing, Technical architecture and database design. Technologies used, Linux (red hat), Windows XP professional, Oracle 9i.

2001 – 2002 Austin, TX.

Research Activities: Investigating and researching nano-science. US patent filed. Global patent worked on along with marketing and manufacturing investigations.

Other Responsibilities: Business development, practice development, client and project management. Identify project requirements and resource requirements. Making leadership role on design or application development projects. Perform system architecture design through logical and physical requirements. Identify problems and recommend appropriate solutions for clients in a wide variety of circumstances. Strong emphasize on e-commerce, Oracle, and emerging technologies. Setting up links between North America and Europe for low cost fixed rate fixed date sub-contract project delivery. Over all dealing and discussing partnership with IT companies, government

agencies and educational establishments.

2000-2001 Registered product for patent, device to device concept. As well as a new business model and technical approach for IT industry within ERP/CRM/HR.

1999-2000 Cisco Systems

Project: E-support.

Responsibilities: Architecting and evaluating online requirements for support group. Including vendor relationship, budget considerations, multi-departmental and multi-project integration, and technical upgrading such as servlets, JSP, oracle8i, ….

1998-1999 Design, Architecture and Development of the capitalk. Along with business contact/partnership build-up.

1997-1998 Digital Development Manager.

Twentieth Century Fox (Bluesky|VIFX).

Project: Project management and development of digital management

&asset tracking database.

Responsibilities: Full life cycle three tier architecture project. Developing both server side, oracle 8.x, database for SGI & Nt 4.0 and client side interface using web browser, Java 1.1, java script, and java applet. Gui front-ends for data entry and web based access (oracle web application Server 3.x) with corba connectivity. Developer 2000 (2.x) Gui for both SGI and NT platforms. Converting static HTML pages to dynamic ones using Java scripts and JDBBC for database connectivity. Taught in house java 1.1. Using Emass tape Robot for meta data and archival and tera byte data transfer. Working directly with movies post-production to analyze needs and generating reports. Evaluated 3rd party software. Investigating other technologies such as RMI, ODBC, java beans, JFC.

1996-1997 Advisory Programmer.

IBM, Sanjose.

Project: Client/Server Development (ADSM).

Responsibilities: Overseeing projects completion. Internationalization of client code for cross platforms. Including unicoding, MBCS, DBCS, APIs such as XPG4 and code pages such as ucs2

& utf8. Developed 64-bit support for file handling and data transfer on all supportable Platforms. Domain analysis for converting and building C++ on to the C application. Java interface for the application. Object Oriented specialist certification From Santa Cruz college including analysis Design and patterns.

1995-1996 Lead Programmer and System Manager/Project manager.

Steven Spielberg's Foundation, Universal Studios.

Project: Development of a digital library system.

Responsibilities: Managing and developing projects ranging from Mac & PC all the way to Unix (SGI). Writing GUI interfaces for accessing Sybase using power builder. Programming in C for porting data from Filemaker pro to Sybase. Writing APIs for porting data from Sybase to multimedia system including programming in OpenGL. System and network administration using indigo2, windows and Mac. Dealing with MPW, codewarrior and magic cap. Writing gain momentum scripts and

applications for accessing and playing video and audio. Dealing with novel network and modems for both internal and external communications. Setting up of DNS and sendmail and Microsoft mail for

communication between Unix-box and pop-mail. Socket programming, setting up PPP server, managing UUCP, running cron jobs for routing tables and backups, FDDI setup and administration. Setup of video conferencing and web tools, security, and hard disk replacement and partitioning on SGI systems. Designed an ftp-client using rapidapp and C++. Writing Java applets for down loading images and sounds into the web pages.

1992-1994 Post_Doc Fellow & Programmer Analyst.

UCLA: Medical Center (radiology, Head & Neck Surgery, Brain Research).

Responsibilities: Implementation of picture archiving and communication system for X-ray and MRI images for the radiology department. Programming and debugging in C, and windows. Designing GUI using Motif, Xdesigner and Xview. Networking for over 30 Sun Computers. Developed perl scripts for HTML under Mosaic for network and system management. Assisting with transplantation and research on larynx and nerve responses for the head & neck surgery department. Converting brain wave data for sleeping cats from PDP11 format into optical discs, at the brain research department.

1992-1993 Programmer/Project manager (Space Plasma Project).

Carmel Research Center (NASA).

Responsibilities: Processing incoming data from Pioneer 10,11 and Venus satellites. Also dealing with administrative aspects such as dealing with day to day operations of the office.

1988-1989 Sole proprietary Business

Installing/selling/Repairing/trouble shooting software/hardware computer components.

87-91 Principal Investigator.

University of Ulster, Bio-Eng. Center.

Responsibilities: Developed and debugged C-programs for utilizing Xwindows under Unix. Conducted studies of cardiology, bio-medical and computing journals. Developed research grants. Presented at international scientific symposiums and conferences.

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