Saeede rahimi damirchi darasi. PMP

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Assessment of the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science

The qualifications combined are comparable in level to a Danish Bachelor of Engineering in Manufacturing Engineering as well as a Master of Science in Engineering (in Danish: en dansk professionsbacheloruddannelse til diplomingeniør, produktion, samt en dansk kandidatuddannelse til civilingeniør).

EXPERIENCE

Risk Management lecturer

Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Remote July 2019- Present

  • Teaching risk management

  • Teaching Primavera Risk Analysis software

  • Designing course content

  • Evaluating the students' homework

  • Supervising the students' projects

Project Assistant R&D

Project Management Professional Group of Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Part-Time, Hybrid Aug. 2018 - Present

After getting PMP certification: I initiated a group under the supervision and mentoring of one of the professors of Amirkabir University of Technology as the project manager to apply the potential of Industrial Engineering graduate students to propose and execute management projects from Industry and/or university to improve their management system. My main activities in the group:

  • Coordinator in designing and developing games and tools to enhance the understanding of project management concepts based on the case studies

  • Writing the marketing plan for the developed risk management game

  • Responsible for organizing the documents and tracking the projects on Trello

  • Providing content for Iran Project Management Association (IPMA) E-Bulletin

  • Writing proposals for new service or product developments and presenting these to organizations that may fund them

  • Project planner and business development manager at the 11-month project for the strategy center of the university to improve its graduate employability factor started on Aug. 2018

Freelancer and Entrepreneur, Innovation Center

Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran December 2018- May 2020

  • Developed a business plan and business model canvas for a clinical decision support system for spinal cord disorders

  • Identified key business participants for the developed healthcare system and discovered new business opportunities

  • Closing the master thesis project by delivering the documents to an international health company

Project Planning & Controlling Manager

TABA Engineering and Service Co., Tehran, Iran

Hybrid Aug. 2017-Apr. 2018

It was a 9-month R&D project with 11 mechanical engineers:

Development of technical knowledge of compressor inlet-air cooling systems for efficiency enhancement in gas-turbine powerplants

I managed 6 months of this project remotely during my stay in Canada from Dec. 2017 to May 2018

  • Responsible for determining and defining the project’s scope and objectives

  • Extracted Work Breakdown Structure and planned & scheduled the work plan

  • Responsible for developing and managing a detailed project schedule and work plan

  • Monitored progress and made adjustments as needed using MSP

  • Responsible to report the progress to the project manager, the system engineer/technical manager, and the project management office of the industry partner

  • Responsible to register and document the lessons learned

Business Development Specialist

Open Educational Program Center, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Jun. 2016-Aug. 2017

The newly initiated center's goal was to present complementary programs with academic programs to train managers in the industry. My main responsibilities were:

  • Supporting and executing the designed programs

  • Designing and planning new programs

  • Developing a WordPress website for the center

Outcomes:

  • Designed an MBA program in project management suitable for junior managers in the industry

  • Planned & Executed DBA in supply chain management

Research Associate

Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Sep. 2014- Feb. 2016

  • Collaborated with a research team to develop a rule-based fuzzy inference system to predict multi-phase transport phenomena in a mechanical engineering problem

  • Collaborated with a physician to extract psycho-social rules of spinal cord disorders

  • Collaborated with a yoga trainer and physiotherapist to identify the yoga exercise related to each of the identified spinal cord disorder

  • Developed the knowledge-driven clinical decision support system for spinal cord disorders by adding new product features

  • Wrote the business plan and business canvas for commercializing the developed clinical decision support system

  • Was teaching assistant of system analysis and design course and got experience in HTML, Access, and SQL

Outcomes: a clinical decision support system, two peer-reviewed papers on healthcare expert systems to diagnose spinal cord disorders, one paper on developing a rule-based fuzzy inference system to predict multi-phase transport phenomena

EDUCATION

Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran

M.S. Industrial Engineering- Socio-Economic Systems; GPA: 3.88/4.0, October 2014

  • Gained experience in developing a multidisciplinary decision support system and data analysis

  • Gained experience in Artificial Intelligence projects and agile project management methodology

Outputs:

  • Developed a fuzzy type-2 rule-based expert system to diagnose spinal cord injuries as the master's thesis

  • Two international conference papers, one on a healthcare expert system to diagnose spinal cord disorders and one on a healthcare expert system to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) diseases

B.S. Industrial Engineering- Planning and System Analysis, September 2011

  • Academic excellence in project management, operation management, etc

  • Gained experience in project management by doing student work as an executive assistant

Additional activities

  • Member of the Students' Union

  • Executive assistant of the annual conference of Industrial Engineering

  • Member of the Futsal team

  • Member of the Basketball team

Academic Service

Amirkabir Journal of Science and Research, Tehran, Iran

Member of Literary and Technical Editing Team

Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Dept. of Industrial Eng. & Management Systems, Tehran, Iran

  • Board Member of Faculty Student Union, 2010-2011

  • Organizing & Executive Committee Member, Annual Industrial Eng. Conf., 2008-2010

  • Executive Committee Member, 1st Data Mining Conference, 2007

Scholarships & Achievements

  • Scholarship: B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology of Iran, 2007-2014

  • Rank 18 on Iran university entrance examination in M.Sc. among 9279 applicants, 2012

  • Rank 1384 on Iran university entrance examination in B.Sc. among 273911 applicants, 2007

  • Graduating from National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET) High School, Ardabil, Iran, 2007

Licenses & Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP)®: London, ON, Canada, March 2018- renewed in April 2022

Data Science, 120 hrs. interactive and practical training, Tose’e Institute of Higher Education, Tehran, Iran, 2022
Global MBA, 156 hrs project management courses, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, 2019

HONORS

Rank 18 on Iran university entrance examination in M.S. among 9279 applicants, 2011

Rank 1384 on Iran university entrance examination in B.S. among 273911 applicants, 2007

SKILLS

Languages

English (Advanced); Azerbaijani (Mother language); Persian and Turkish (Native), Danish (Beginner)

Industry Knowledge

Project Management, Risk Management, Project Planning & Scheduling, Stakeholder Management, Business Development

Soft skills

Leadership, Motivation, Communication, Conflict Management, Trust-Building, Decision-Making, Organization

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Primavera, Primavera Risk Analysis, Taskade, Trello, Jira, SSMS, Python, R, Matlab, HTML, WordPress

Personal Interests

  • Reading

  • Yoga and workout

  • Volunteering in social activities