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With over 10 years of successes as an IT Business leader, Consultant, and Sales rep, Adam Riazinia has dedicated his professional career to ensuring that organizations are succored by their technology infrastructure, and not burdened by it. For Adam, this means taking the time to really understand the processes, priorities, people and goals that the technology is...
With over 10 years of successes as an IT Business leader, Consultant, and Sales rep, Adam Riazinia has dedicated his professional career to ensuring that organizations are succored by their technology infrastructure, and not burdened by it. For Adam, this means taking the time to really understand the processes, priorities, people and goals that the technology is meant to support, and ensuring that every IT investment is strategically driven by business needs. It also means putting in place the governance structures, quality controls, business plans and KPI tools to ensure that evolving technology keeps pace with evolving demands. Adam started his IT career as an independent consultant, and grew his first company, illmakeyourwebsite.com, from a part-time interest into a full-time operation. With his background in art and technology, Adam has a very pragmatic understanding of how design and technology can be leveraged to increase company revenues, and recognized that economic pressures focused business needs to be efficient in the way they approached their IT investments. As a result, Adam has worked for IBM as an Account Executive and Salesforce as a Sales Engineer, to develop and maintain relationships with top Fortune 500 companies and small emerging businesses. A passionate believer in life long learning, Adam has made continuous professional development a high priority. In addition to understanding programming languages and design, he has obtained a Master of Business Administration degree in Leadership and Technology, and has leveraged his entrepreneurial skills in starting up his mobile application company, Charge Haven.UX Consultant / Collaboration Consultant @ As a UX and collaboration consultant, I am involved in reviewing customer engagements and working on the delivery of the UX creative and collaboration deliverables. These roles focus on design-oriented work and partially responsible for ensuring that deliverables and solutions meet clients and users specified goals with efficiency, effectiveness, and a quality client experience. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) San FranciscoCo-Founder @ With an increase in mobile devices, users need to find charging stations nearby without their phone shutting off and asking people where to go to recharge. Our solution is simple. Charge Haven will allow users to set a minimum threshold for battery power and alert them with charging station locations nearby. From 2013 to Present (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaSales Engineer @ Develop, present and demonstrate solutions to prospective customers based on detailed customer requirements to highlight broad solution areas with emphasis on key differentiators to both technical and non-technical audiences that meet client’s stated requirements Partner with Account Executives by providing the necessary support to compete effectively in the marketplace by assessing the requirements and uncover the needs for a complete solution Act as an integral member of the sales team contributing to the formulation of strategies and technical approaches, including planning for presales campaigns and strategize with the Account Manager on the next best activities to move deal further down the sales funnel Conduct discovery sessions to completely understand prospect's business and technical requirements, Expertly handle customer questions on functional / technical capabilities during meetings / presentations, and if needed, adapt presentation / demo to customer's line of questioning Work with the product management teams to provide feedback on current and future product requirements and communicate competitive intelligence from the field From April 2014 to September 2014 (6 months) Territory Sales Leader @ Overachieved quarterly revenue 2013 targets by over 100% for 4 consecutive quarters Promote an array of products and value-added services to key accounts in a growing territory Identify requirements and propose solutions to meet with IT and operational needs Signed renewals to effectively retain 100% of clients and achieved territory growth Maintain competitive advantage by helping clients to drive down requisition and inventory costs Successfully positioned IBM as a leading provider of complete, end-to-end solutions, and mitigated challenges of Third Party Maintainers From August 2012 to April 2014 (1 year 9 months) san francisco bay areaBusiness Analyst @ Assisted development team through the lifecycle of Philips mobile applications used by 3,000+ users. Consolidated with development team to design decisions based on user feedback and Philips best practices. Worked closely with the project management team to put in processes and procedures to be more self-sufficient. Facilitated teleconference bridges engaging appropriate parties to determine business impact and decisions regarding next steps to ensure minimal impact to business community. Liaised between the business and performed checkpoints with developers and other technology groups on ensuring objectives being met with projects budgeted at approximately $1 million. Worked closely with project management teams and development groups to coordinate plans and activities to ensure service level agreements are upheld. Implemented cross-functional strategies to improve company-wide internal communication from IT to the business, created incident communication templates and escalation workflow diagrams using SharePoint. From April 2007 to January 2012 (4 years 10 months) Product Manager @ Developed , designed, and maintained e-commerce site to meet sales goals and objectives. Successfully produced cost savings of $500K by creating an application to frame artwork. Generated sale leads by refining search ranking optimization for company. Continued to act as a consultant and managed capital spending budget of $100K. Worked with Sales Reps to ensure smooth delivery and implementation of product presentations. Associated with Marketing and Sales professionals to develop and implement effective marketing plans. Hired and managed staff of subcontractors including graphic designers, programmers and photographers. From August 2003 to March 2007 (3 years 8 months) MBA @ University of Georgia - Terry College of Business From 2008 to 2011 Bachelor of Science, Computer Science @ Georgia State University From 2001 to 2006 Adam MBA is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Consulting, Cross-functional Team..., SharePoint, Project Management, Budgets, Negotiation, Start-ups, Telecommunications, E-commerce, Process Improvement, Business Process..., Business Development, Cloud Computing, Sales, Business Planning, Leadership, Product Development, Sales Operations
Avanade
UX Consultant / Collaboration Consultant
October 2014 to Present
San Francisco
ChargeHaven
Co-Founder
2013 to Present
San Francisco Bay Area
salesforce.com
Sales Engineer
April 2014 to September 2014
IBM
Territory Sales Leader
August 2012 to April 2014
san francisco bay area
Philips Medical Systems
Business Analyst
April 2007 to January 2012
Creative Fine Arts Inc
Product Manager
August 2003 to March 2007
As a UX and collaboration consultant, I am involved in reviewing customer engagements and working on the delivery of the UX creative and collaboration deliverables. These roles focus on design-oriented work and partially responsible for ensuring that deliverables and solutions meet clients and users specified goals with efficiency, effectiveness, and a quality client experience. As a UX and collaboration consultant, I am involved in reviewing customer engagements and working on the delivery of the UX creative and collaboration deliverables. These roles focus on design-oriented work and partially responsible for ensuring that deliverables and solutions meet clients and users specified goals with efficiency, effectiveness, and a quality client experience.
What company does Adam MBA work for?
Adam MBA works for Avanade
What is Adam MBA's role at Avanade?
Adam MBA is UX Consultant / Collaboration Consultant
What industry does Adam MBA work in?
Adam MBA works in the Logistics and Supply Chain industry.
Who are Adam MBA's colleagues?
Adam MBA's colleagues are Emiliano Giaquinta, Thomas Bhatia, Lukas Larsson, Premanand Thangamani, Mikael Lixenstrand, Stefan Strigler, Piotr Nosek, Michał Piotrowski, Konrad Zemek, and Mikhail Uvarov
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