Kathy Hadizadeh

Los Angeles, CA 90066

424.750.6165

Kathy@Kathymehr.com

 

Qualifications

 

E-commerce Project Manager and Business Analyst: Enthusiastic, multilingual, and team-oriented professional with success in facilitating process improvement projects, leading global roll-out of new applications, and working with cross-functional teams. Progressive experience in defining scope, resource tracking, and change management throughout project life cycle (full cycle SDLC). Solid background in creating deliverables such as business requirements, functional specifications, and flow diagrams. Expertise in designing and conducting training as well as developing reports via Business Intelligence solutions. Highly developed research, communication, and analytical skills.

 

Professional experienceg

 

International Rectifier, El Segundo, CA                                                 2001- 2008

A $500M global semiconductor manufacturer with more than 5000 employees.

 

E-commerce Business Systems Manager (2005-2008)                        

Managed and facilitated the development and execution of projects to support and improve e-commerce department business and process improvement requirements.

 

·   Managed design, development, and implementation of a web-based system which decreased time to market of new parts by 78%. Utilized full system development life cycle. Supervised a team of three programmers in a dotted-line relationship.

·   Organized & conducted training of 90 engineers in Europe, America, and Asia on how to use the web-based systems to share new parts data with 38 distributors.

·   Defined a strategy for roll-out of business intelligence (BI) software. Designed Universe and defined data schema using Business Objects (BO) XI. Restructured SQL based e-commerce reports using BO resulting in decreased report production time from several weeks to less than one day.

·   Administered user profiling for ERP system access to comply with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) audit in 33% of the time planned by audit group.

·   Evaluated 18 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions and recommended an XML based authoring tool for parts datasheet generation which would cut the datasheet generation cost by 50%.

 

E-commerce Systems Analyst (2003-2005)

Analyzed business processes in a cross-functional setting to identify potential improvement points and collaborated with stakeholders to implement changes.

 

·   Enhanced marketability of parts by integrating 18 additional fields and measures into New Product Development (NPD) process as well as ERP system.

·   Improved allocation of manufacturing capacity to new parts by 75% through negotiating a deal with a lead distributor to order parts as they became available.

·   Defined new metrics and processes for Marketing Communications in release of new parts which decreased the time to generate marketing campaigns by 25%.

Kathy Hadizadeh                424.750.6165                                                              

 

Worldwide Rotation Engineer (2001-2003)

Delivered three global projects involving eight different departments within two years.

 

·   Managed the implementation of award winning web-based Opportunity Tracking System within six months for 500 sales engineers providing the first-ever tracking of potential leads from conception through the final order.

·   Decreased time to add new parts to ERP system across nine design centers by 75% through automating processes using MS Access and the document management platform (Documentum ECM solution).

·   Developed an algorithm for budgetary pricing using Value Pricing to introduce

   e-commerce direct sales resulting in more than 50% profit margins.

 

University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA              2000 – 2001

Viterbi School of Engineering and Marshall School of Business

 

Supervisor of Blackboard Technical Support Team, IT Services

Supervised a team of five providing support for Blackboard online system.

 

Research and Teaching Assistant of Knowledge Management

 

Shetabkar Corporation, Tehran, Iran                                                       1998 – 2000

Leading automotive component manufacturer with five facilities.

 

Total Quality Management Consultant

Facilitated use of TQM principles to improve manufacturing processes.

 

·   Reduced the number of defective parts by 65% via leading a team of ten engineers to implement Statistical Process Control (SPC) methods in three plants.

 

Education

 

·   M.S. Industrial & Systems Engineering, Information management, USC

 

·   B.S. Statistics, Melli University

 

Technical Skills

 


  • Business Intelligence (BI): Business Objects Universe Design, Web Intelligence Reporting, Crystal Reports 
  • Databases: MS Access, Oracle 8i
  • Enterprise BI: MicroStrategy
  • Query language: Intermediate SQL          
  • CRM Software: RightNow Tech., Azerity ProChannel 
  • Web Analytics: Google Analytics
  • Microsoft Office: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS FrontPage, SharePoint Server  Portal
  • Languages:  Familiar with HTML, ASP,   Java, XML, VB, JavaScript
  • Statistical Packages: SAS, SPSS 
  • ERP System: Mac Pac AS400  
  • OLAP Reporting Tool: Hyperion

 


Languages and Other Skills

 

·   English, Farsi, French, and Spanish. Comprehension command of German.

·   Professional training in Project Management, Process Mapping, TQM, Product Management, and Marketing of Technology Products(NPI & NPD)