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Farzad Pargar

Farzad Pargar

Inventory Analyst

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Solution Consultant- Project & Product Management | PhD, PMP, PSPO

  • Education

    • World Class Maintenance Summer School

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      Maintenance Management & Engineering

      • Design for Maintenance• Asset portfolio management• Life cycle costing• Condition and Risk-Based Maintenance• Smart sensoring / Degradation models

    • Twente University

      2013 - 2015
      Maintenance Engineering

      Design and Developing an Asset Life Cycle Plan for Railway TrackThis project focuses on developing an asset life cycle plan that specifies for all components of the infrastructure what type of maintenance to perform, and when to do that, such that the life cycle costs are minimized. An integrated optimization tool is developed to schedule preventive maintenance and renewal activities by grouping them and simultaneously finding the optimal balance between them.

    • Mazandaran University of Science and Technology

      2008 - 2010
      M.Sc Industrial Engineering Socioeconomic Systems

      M.Sc. Thesis: "Multi-Criteria Production Scheduling with Learning Effect of Workers"This master thesis deals with scheduling set of jobs in a hybrid flow shop manufacturing environment that includes a series of production stages with parallel machines in each stage. Sequence-dependent setup times such as changing tools and removal of failures were considered between the processing of two successive jobs. Since the human factor has an important effect on setup, by the processing of… Show more M.Sc. Thesis: "Multi-Criteria Production Scheduling with Learning Effect of Workers"This master thesis deals with scheduling set of jobs in a hybrid flow shop manufacturing environment that includes a series of production stages with parallel machines in each stage. Sequence-dependent setup times such as changing tools and removal of failures were considered between the processing of two successive jobs. Since the human factor has an important effect on setup, by the processing of similar tasks frequently worker skills improve and she/he can perform the setup at a greater pace. Several mathematical programming models that incorporates these aspects of the problem are developed to represent the manufacturer and consumer concerns in real world problems. Several exact, heuristic and meta-heuristic methods are proposed to solve the developed models and compared their efficiency in a set of well-designed experiments. Show less

    • Mazandaran University of Science and Technology

      2004 - 2008
      B.Sc Industrial Engineering Systems Planning & Analysis

      B.Sc. Thesis: "Developing Decision Support Systems in Microsoft Excel"This thesis is published as a text book which describes how to use Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and Visual Basic to build decision support systems (DSS). This book presents several functional topics for Industrial Engineering and Operation Research students. It includes statistical analysis, modeling with Excel solver, optimization and simulation with several case studies of DSS in different application settings… Show more B.Sc. Thesis: "Developing Decision Support Systems in Microsoft Excel"This thesis is published as a text book which describes how to use Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and Visual Basic to build decision support systems (DSS). This book presents several functional topics for Industrial Engineering and Operation Research students. It includes statistical analysis, modeling with Excel solver, optimization and simulation with several case studies of DSS in different application settings. These case studies include warehouse layout, facility layout, forecasting, inventory management and etc. Show less

    • University of Oulu

      2015 - 2017
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Industrial Engineeing and Management Received grade passed with distinction from all the pre-examiners and opponents.

      Ph.D. Thesis: "Resource Optimization Techniques in Scheduling"Optimizing the use of resources plays an important role in today’s modern organizations. Scheduling, involving setup times/costs, leads to better allocation of resources over time to perform a collection of required tasks. This dissertation examines how the learning effect of workers and a combination of setup activities can be used to optimize resource utilization in manufacturing systems and maintenance services. The… Show more Ph.D. Thesis: "Resource Optimization Techniques in Scheduling"Optimizing the use of resources plays an important role in today’s modern organizations. Scheduling, involving setup times/costs, leads to better allocation of resources over time to perform a collection of required tasks. This dissertation examines how the learning effect of workers and a combination of setup activities can be used to optimize resource utilization in manufacturing systems and maintenance services. The results show that the proposed techniques perform well in reducing setup times/costs and eliminate the need for setups through proper scheduling. For practitioners, this dissertation work provides optimization techniques and tools through scheduling that can help keep costs down and allows companies to operate according to budget and time constraints. Show less

    • Summer University of Jyväskylä

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      Data-driven optimization via search heuristics

      • Fundamentals of optimization, decision-making, and search heuristics• Simulation meets optimization• Experimental and expensive optimization• Using data only to conceptualize and optimize a problem• Uncertainty and constraint-handling• Multiobjective and mixed-integer optimization• Data-driven real-world applications of search heuristics

  • Experience

    • Mazandaran Wood and Paper Industries

      Jan 2008 - Jan 2008
      Inventory Analyst

      • Establishing and controlling optimum product inventory level based on previously agreed inventory plans, demand plan, agreed service levels and the supply strategy• Developing a spreadsheet-based decision support system for warehouse layout design

    • Mehrastan University

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2013
      Head of Industrial Engineering Department

      • Teaching a wide variety of courses such as Project Management, Statistical Quality Control, System Analysis, Supply Chain Management, Decision Making Theory, Principles of Simulation, Computer Applications in IE, Technical English for IE students, Applied Theory of Probability, Training and Final Project• Performing professional service at the department level, including active involvement in the department/university programs and supervising bachelor projects

    • Payame Noor University - PNU

      Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
      Lecturer

    • Iran's National Elites Foundation . . . بنیاد ملی نخبگان

      Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
      Project Manager

    • ProRail & University of Twente

      Jul 2013 - Jan 2016
      Project (Maintenance) Planner and Scheduling Analyst

      • Resource management with integrated planning of railway traffic and network maintenance• Grouping maintenance projects by considering different dependencies between system components• Developing an asset life cycle plan for Dutch railways by determining the optimal renewal time of track components• Contributing in spare part logistics by scheduling preventive maintenance projectsTools and Methodologies: Cplex optimizer, Lingo, Matlab, SAP, IRISYS, BBMS monitoring system, Life cycle management tool. Show less

    • University of Oulu

      Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
      PHD Researcher- Industrial Engineering and Management

      • Applying mathematical optimization and statistical analysis to use resources efficiently. • Developing optimization tools to increase the performance of production systems and maintenance services• Applying simulation-based analytics to study project-related business. • Writing a compilation dissertation on optimizing resource utilization through proper scheduling• Lecturing in the following courses: simulation, operations research, project business, operations and supply chain management Show less

    • University of Oulu

      Dec 2017 - Aug 2023
      Postdoctoral Researcher- Project & Product Management

      • Developing a simulation tool to analyze the underlying mechanisms during the project life-cycle to decrease project costs and increase project benefits.• Modeling management principles and safety culture in nuclear power plant projects• Analyzing integration and value creation mechanisms in multinational investment projects• Responsible lecturer for operations research, and operations & supply chain management courses

    • Utrecht University

      Jan 2019 - Aug 2023
      Assistant Professor

      • Providing business solutions in managing companies' operations and supply chain issues, and applying data-driven analytics to generate business insights. Using agile methodology, lean practices and principles to minimize waste and create the maximum value for the customers.• Teaching operations management, business analytics courses, and supervising master theses and internships for International Management, Business & Economics programs.

    • Graydon Nederland

      Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
      Product Manager

    • Tata Steel Nederland

      Mar 2023 - now
      Product Manager- Digital Transformation

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Farzad Pargar
      Member of Iran's National Elites Foundation -
    • Awarded to Farzad Pargar
      Program committee and reviewer of international conferences and journals -
    • Awarded to Farzad Pargar
      Receiving incentive grants from Tauno Tönning Research Foundation, Merenkulun säätiö, and University of Oulu Graduate School. -