Arash Barirani - Resume

ARASH BARIRANI
3409 Picadilly Dr. San Jose, CA 95118
408-655-0524

Dear Recruiter / HR / Hiring Manager,

Please note my Product/Product Manager work experience below where I provided product leadership as well as business-marketing and sales work directly interfacing business stakeholders and customers
( And this as I ran my own website-building business: Empower800.com )

Product Manager / Project Manager Experience:
- Product manager/Sales and marketing lead / Artima.com / 1-year:
Artima.com online developer community website:
Supported and championed advertising platform (Pavilion) where key companies such as Sun corporation promoted and advertised online. I reported on the latest software trends for (JavaOne) and posted best practice articles and contributed content - further sharpening my communication and product delivery skills.

- Project manager/Product manager/lead / Empower800.com / 2-years:
Empower800.com - online Internet consultant,
Project lead: built and successfully delivered business websites. Lead developers, graphic artists, and marketing to complete and deploy websites. I directly interfaced with business, provided SEO and competitive online and web-presence insight to customers.

- Startup projects -- creative/out-of-box projects / 1-year
Empower800.com online internet consultant led and contributed as part of two startup projects:
(1) video upload program in context of a social media application.
(2) designed and implemented a Python prototype test case automation framework - documented
design work for IP process / patent application.

- Training:
Please note, I have successfully completed three formal project management and quality training programs --
(Cadence, Rummler-Brache, and Crosby - please see my resume below for more details.)
With a solid technical background as an experienced SDET software QE lead, and in combination, with past product manager/ project manager experience, I am prepared and motivated to take on a product or project lead role -- and be a part of a much bigger experience.

- Technical / e-Commerce Experience:
to share my background, provide clarity and purpose as to why I am pursuing a product manager/lead or a project manager path at this point in my career. (Please refer to my resume below for further details.) For the past ten years I have been involved in QE/QA/SDET work where I have been testing and automating APIs for various apps, services and UI applications — last six years at Apple, and prior to Apple, four years at Walmart.com/ SamsClub.com. As part of every project that I have worked on I have consistently been a key contributor to product development process.

Please note, I worked for over six years (2018-2024) at Apple exclusively testing and supporting various e-Commerce API development as a lead SDET. I provided key input to the project management team and developers in terms of the API functionalities. I've developed and supported various infrastructure APIs as a lead developer and have extensive experience with API development that provides me with a keen product knowledge to support and maintain mobile, web services, or infrastructure functionalities. (I will gladly provide project managers, lead developers as my reference if asked for as my reference. )

Please note, I've racked up well over three years of experience as a product manager, and a project manager/lead in my career. (Two years directly interfacing with web developers, graphic artists, and business owners in building professional online e-commerce websites. I worked as a lead sales/product manager at Arima.com supporting and managing Artima's Pavilion feature online advertising platform -- while directly interfacing with customers and software technology leaders/owners.

Look forward to hearing from you! – and thank you for your consideration/checking my application!