CYRUS TAGHEHCHIAN

(925) 200 2201 ▪ cyrus@bioparse.com ▪ @cyrusinc ▪ Los Angeles, CA 90069

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Seven years of progressive management experience in consultative type projects. Results-oriented leader with

passion for business, technology and people. Familiar with leading teams in large-scale enterprise projects,

specifically in an Agile and SCRUM environment. Proficient in requirements management, product management,

business experience development, process flow analysis, QA test strategy, Adobe AEM (CQ), JIRA and Rallydev.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Deloitte Consulting

Aug 2011 - Present

Lead Consultant

Positions Held: Project Manager, Product Owner, SCRUM Master, Functional Lead, QA Lead, Business Analyst

  § Increased firm eminence by leading teams and contributing to Deloitte’s Adobe CQ5 Playbook, Web Content

Management System (CMS) trainings and Agile mentorship for organizations adopting SCRUM.

  § Actively involved in building Deloitte’s brand by leading UCI recruiting events, acting as an On-Boarding Advisor

and mentor for new hires and creating a local Deloitte Digital community for pr actitioners to network and meet.

  § Created proposals and responded to RFPs for Fortune 500 Companies as part of the Deloitte Digital pursuit team.

  § FY’12, FY’13 received “Exemplary Performance” and “Applause Awards” with highest year -end (1) review ratings.

Select Project Experiences

Intel Corporation

  § Worked with an international team to “Re-Imagine” a new Intel.com, consolidate partner sites, increase site

visitor traffic and reduce the time-to-market for publishing content and campaigns globally for their authors.

  § Demonstrated leadership through teaming well with both colleagues and client alike creating a collaborative crossGEO

SCRUM team and acting as SCRUM Master. The team enjoyed attending DSUs, sprint iteration planning

sessions and retrospectives boosting productivity and team cohesiveness.

  § Managed to results by leading weekly meetings for KPI (Key Performance Indicators) and BA story prioritization to

ensure ROI on development and completing user stories in alignment with user acceptance criteria. As a result,

increased Intel.com page views by 2.8 million unique visitors per month (5%), added 17 million new OEM and

partner referrals, reduced campaign production costs by 50%, and increased organic search results by 30%.

  § Extracted technical assessments from the development team and communicated them to key stakeholders in a

non-technical manner. Ensured that all technical dependencies and/or risks were identified and communicated to

the Intel project leadership team before they became issues, improving project quality and fluidity.

  § Played an active role in mentoring Deloitte’s US India team members by leading daily sync calls for solution

architecture design, quality assurance, requirements definition and techniques on client communication. The extra

time spent being patient the India team resulted in meeting timelines faster and with higher quality.

  § Intel.com won multiple awards including “Best Computer: Hardware Website” by the Web Marketing Association

Wave by Deloitte Digital

  § Worked with an international team to create an interactive Adobe CQ accelerator from best practices used in

previous projects including knowledge gained from the Intel project.

  § Connected with creative agencies in designing user experience workflows, wireframes, interface design,

responsive web design and process flow analysis, which resulted in a clean-designed final product.

  § Held workshops with stakeholders to acquire requirements and functional specs to ensure the quality of user

stories. This enabled the development team to quickly progress in user story completion.

  § Ensured quality by leading QA resources to create test cases and scripts in accordance to requirements. Leveraged

test cases into an enterprise-level regression suite for continuous integration, which led to better project quality.

Cal Coast Financial

Team Leader-Manager, DRE License #01725840

  § Created, resourced and trained real estate teams to increase sales portfolio. Closed over $30M in new revenue per

annum, which yielded over 10% of Cal Coast’s cumulative sales as top producing team.

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

NapkinScholar, CEO and Founder

US Bank, Banker

AT&T Wireless, Sales Consultant

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENCES

University of California, Irvine ▪ B.A. Economics 2011

GPA: 3.7 - Cum Laude, Deans Honor Roll, Lead Research Assistant: Origin of Bank Panics

SCRUM Alliance ▪ Certified SCRUM Master (CSM)

License #000275434

AIIM ▪ ECM Master IA (Information Architect)

License Pending

Mar 2012 – Present

Apr 2008 – Dec 2008

Mar 2003 – Jul 2004

Oct 2004 – Dec 2007