Farzad (Fred) Mohebi

Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

+358 40 628 2823

frzdmhb@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/frzdmhb/

Summary

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Strategic product and service development leader with over 15 years of international experience in coordinating and delivering large global complex service and development projects in collaboration with multi-national cross-functional teams. An individual contributor with strong knowledge in IoT and software development, next to solid management and value-driven service delivery skills. Successfully delivered 8 different program initiatives, including 4 contractors next to 64 in-house employees with a budget of €14.3 million, ensuring on-time product launches that increased €24 million in portfolio revenue from Q3 2023 to Q4 2024.

Work Experience

Project Manager

Topcon Positioning Systems
Espoo - Finland
May 2023 – July 2025

  • Managed with a novel strategy to deliver projects on time and achieve development cost savings, which generated additional portfolio revenue of €24 million and increased customer retention over 8 projects in close contact with architects, testers, business units, and external vendors.
  • Acted as the main point of communication across all teams for a successful project launch of a SaaS Service Ecommerce and Network Management Solution for the GNSS correction services project worth €6.3 million.
  • Continuously championed to simplify processes, reduced costs by €1.6 million for a product’s profitability, while maintaining quality, revenue targets, marketing and service delivery KPIs.
  • Enhanced user experience in collaboration with design team through design thinking method and applied incremental delivery through Scrum framework, ensuring scalable, secure, repeatable delivery models for sustainable service-based offerings.
  • Recommended product trade-offs and a combination of overlapping IT service developments focused on customer identification, access management, and notification services to reduce costs and increase the profitability of each project from 17% to 42%.

Project Manager

Centria University of Applied Sciences
Kokkola - Finland
Jan 2023 – May 2023

  • Accomplished €1.5M EU funding through horizon grant application for the IoT lab for educational use. The lab’s outlines and requirements emerged by EU standards and university standards during building, equipping students with a project-oriented mindset for the pedagogical European endeavor.
  • Trained and assisted spin-off companies to develop their own staff through training, which subsequently resulted in €800K more generated by the university.

Solution Architect

Centria University of Applied Sciences
Kokkola - Finland
Mar 2020 – Jan 2023

  • Responsible for five innovative solutions in DigitalTwin, Situational Awareness, and industrial IoT spheres, including the Biline2 project at Kokkola Industrial Park in B2B setting, improving operational safety by 46%.
  • Designed a Chemical Warehouse Management system that raised revenue by 80% for the customer in Q3 2022 to Q1 2023.
  • Worked on innovative military-grade vital wireless communications, energy efficiency, and integration software solutions in technology transfer initiatives with industry leaders.
  • Supported academic education, shared knowledge, and motivated next generations of engineers.

Corporate Business Advisor

TechClass
Helsinki - Finland
Jun 2018 – Mar 2020

  • Executed a program raising €1.7 million in seed investment through an international initiative by Educapital.

IoT Product Manager

ZAMAN Tech
Istanbul - Türkiye
Feb 2016 – May 2018

  • Steered the development and launch of 73 new product features for a Smart Home B2B solution, increased over $18M in projected cumulative sales by 2019 with a 62% profit margin.

Project Manager

Asia Petro Gas (ASPRO regional vendor)
Tehran - Iran
Apr 2013 – Dec 2015

  • Managed an $8.2 million budget to increase the profitability of 93 CNG station equipment sales and service delivery.
  • Implemented ERP systems and a new warehouse solution. Coordinated ISO 9000 certification and PMO implementation.

Skills


Interpersonal & Management Skills:

  • Leadership in cross-functional and multicultural teams
  • End-to-end product lifecycle management experience
  • Business development and proposal drafting
  • Agile project management with a focus on iterative delivery and stakeholder value
  • Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving and data-driven decision-making skills
  • Excellent communication and presentation capabilities across all organizational levels
  • Experienced in change management and process improvement initiatives
  • Skilled in resource and schedule planning, including risk and budget management
  • Strong documentation, reporting, and client/stakeholder engagement skills.


Technical Skills:

  • Project/Product methodologies: PMBOK, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, ERP, Design thinking, JTBD, ODI, OKRs, RICE, MoSCoW, Kano Model
  • Compliance and standards: GDPR, ISO
  • Software System expertise: System level Non-Functional requirement (NFR) definition, SaaS, full-stack web development, Cloud infrastructure, Solution architecture and system integration/migration, D&B, Data transformation, Database design (RDBMS), ACL and identity management, Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Hardware system expertise: Electronics design, PCBA, semiconductors, FPGA, microcontrollers (MCU), IoT, IIoT, Machine control,  wireless communication systems (LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, Sigfox, LoRA, Zigbee, Bluetooth, NB-IoT)
  • GIS expertise: GIS, remote sensing, GNSS, and BIM technologies.


Software Tools:

  • MS Office 365
  • MS Projects
  • MS Planner
  • MS PowerBI
  • Salesforce
  • SAP S4 HANA
  • Arena PLM and QMS
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Slack
  • Darw.io
  • Figma
  • Miro
  • Clickup
  • Trello
  • Git
  • MS VScode
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Apache Kafka
  • MS Azure
  • Amazon AWS
  • Windows Core
  • Ubuntu Server
  • Ubuntu Core
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Altium Designer
  • AutoCAD
  • ArcGIS
  • Topnet Live
  • Topnet+.


Programming Skills:

  • C++
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • MATLAB
  • Ladder


Language Skills:

  • English (Full Professional)

  • Azerbaijani (Native)

  • Turkish (Full Professional)

  • Arabic (Elementary)

  • Finnish (Elementary)

Education

Master of Engineering, Communication Engineering
Aalto Univesity, Espoo
Aug 2023 - Current

Master of Engineering, Cloud-Based Software Engineering
Centria University of Applied Sciences, Kokkola
Sep 2022 – Feb 2025


Link to Thesis work

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology Engineering
Centria University of Applied Sciences, Kokkola
Aug 2018 – Nov 2020


Link to Thesis work

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering
IAU, Ardabil
Jan 2009 – Aug 2011

Hobbies

  • Jogging

  • Swimming

  • Movies

  • Books

  • Video Gaming

  • Cooking

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