Amir Y. Mirarefi

About Amir Y. Mirarefi

I\'m seeking a Director role at a service focused company and am the perfect fit for this role because I am able to thrive in both fast-paced lateral and hierarchical environments, with highly developed leadership and mentorship skills. I have the ability to multitask with numerous roles, projects, and collaborators at the same time. I am a motivational, influential leader experienced in planning and managing all phases of various projects and research initiatives from data collection, to sampling, analysis, and reporting to support program development plans. Expertise in defining project scope, requirement gathering, mobilizing, and interfacing with different project teams and stakeholders through the project lineage to ensure quality delivery within specifications and budget. Reputed for meticulous attention to details and facilitating continuous process improvement by ensuring integrity of data, providing workable methodologies, via Lean Six Sigma methods, process validation and process scale up. An analytical thinker committed to making continuous improvements in product quality and leveraging emerging technologies to reduce costs and enable growth. Specializing in thinking out of the box and taking on new challenges, I have spent my career taking on problems and coming up with solutions no one else has thought of. • Strong communication skills and mentorship skills as evidenced by guiding a team of scientists in creating early-stage technology concepts for the encapsulation of high-value food ingredients for health & wellness under rigorous timelines leading to 10 publications and trade secrets. • Cross functional team leadership and collaboration skills with extensive experience running multiple teams resulting in facilitating the delivery of $10MM in procurement contracts as part of a $1B procurement initiative, across globally dispersed teams to enhance business value for iconic brands like Oreo and Mac & Cheese. • Ability to work professionally with leading minds in the industry with an ability to interpret customer insights demonstrated by leading the seamless commercialization of a $12MM/year beverage product. I am able to utilize my own experience and R&D knowledge to bring a different perspective to explore an array of topics. In addition to my leadership experience, other areas that interest me stem from my extensive experience in program management, product development and engineering. I would love to join a company with a fast paced culture focused on growth. Please connect with me here: a•••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Sr Application Engineer Consultant

   Tekleen Automatic Filters, Llc

   Jan 2022 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Construct a global engineering team on 24/7 design cycle to build product pipeline, minimized design submittal turnarounds, and enhanced contract wins by increasing sales by 20% in Year 1. • Spearhead the implementation of Salesforce workflows, focusing on enhanced customer profiling and better understanding of customer requirements which drove a 20% surge in new customer acquisitions. • Manage the overall direction, coordination, execution, and control of programs, ensuring consistency and alignment with business objectives, showcasing expertise in project management and implementation to increase customer satisfaction by 25%. • Establish a Bids department to hunt for engineering opportunities from the $1 billion Municipality sector, averaging 5 bid submittals monthly with an annual target of 100 bids at a 75% win rate.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Ph.D., Biophysics & Computational Biology

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  B.S., Bioengineering