Samar Emami

About Samar Emami

Senior Product Manager with extensive new product development and commercialization experience in industrial products, as well as, excellent team and project management skills. Combining voice-of-customer and voice-of-technology to accelerate time to market and time to peak sales of new products. Working with different functions across the organization to create and execute on strategy and to identify opportunities to build competitive advantage by spotting gaps and developing value added solutions to meet end-user needs in the market. Familiar with Sprint planning, Scrum framework and Agile, as well as, Waterfall methodologies.Having an extensive technical background and experience in R&D and new product development, I have an understanding of the complete product cycle from innovation followed by the stage-gate process on new product development to commercialization which enables me to quickly uncover process/customer pain points and identify a strategic solution.Pursuing a Master’s degree in Engineering Management at Northwestern which has enabled me to develop a broad skill set that drives an innovative and inventive mindset. Having a diverse background, I strive to solve technical and business problems.

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager - Essential Wound Care

   Medline

   May 2025 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

Education

• University of Utah

  Ph.D., Metallurgical Engineering

  2009 — 2013

• Kooshesh High School

  High School Diploma, Mathematics and Physics

  1997 — 2001

• Northwestern University

  Master's degree, Engineering/Industrial Management

  2017 — 2022

• Sharif University of Technology (S.U.T)

  B.Sc, Materials Science and Engineering;

  2001 — 2005

• Sharif University of Technology (S.U.T)

  M.Sc, Materials Science and Engineering

  2005 — 2008

Skills

• Chemistry
• Experimental Design
• Oral & Written Communication Skills
• Heat Treatment
• Engineering
• Powder X-Ray Diffraction
• Characterization
• Smelting
• Materials Science
• Hydrogen Storage
• Electron Microscopy
• Electrochemistry
• Research
• Milling
• Tga
• Nanomaterials
• Magnesium
• Leaching
• High Temperature Materials
• Nanoparticles
• Thin Films
• Materials
• Experimentation
• Xps
• Heat Transfer
• Laboratory Skills
• Tem
• Afm
• Comsol
• Numerical Analysis
• Nanotechnology
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Sol-Gel
• Sem
• Optical Microscopy
• Titration