
Timeline
About me
Vice President at Kroll
Education

Texas a&m university
2013 - 2018Doctor of philosophy (ph.d.) civil engineering, construction engineering and management programconducted exploratory research, designed an experiment, created fictitious experiment materials, recruited 120 participants, and performed an online 2 by 2 experiment to compare the persuasiveness impact of static vs dynamic presentations when used to communicate the failure mechanism in a building before lay jurors.

Springboard
2020 - 2021Data science career trackSpringboard Data Science Career Track - StudentDescription: 550+ hours of hands-on course material, with 1:1 industry expert mentoroversight, and completion of 3 in-depth capstone projects. Mastered skills in Python,SQL, data analysis, data visualization, hypothesis testing, and machine learning

Amirkabir university of technology - tehran polytechnic
-Bachelor’s degree civil engineering
Experience

Azarsimab
Apr 2006 - May 2012Project engineer/assistant project managerStarted as a Project Engineer and was promoted to Project Manager shortly. Contributed to several maritime and pilling projects in the oil and gas and electric power industry. • Scheduled and controlled the project progress • Prepared budget and estimating • Prepared cost and adjusting statements • Prepared ad hoc and executive reports• Assisted the project manager with developing and managing the contracts with subcontractors • Assisted the project manager with the construction administration phase• Coordinated more than ten direct technical personnel and 50 indirect construction contractors• Developed construction procedures • Prepared bid packages• Developed construction procedures of Secant Concrete Piling in a subway project• Contributed to claim management, prepared the supporting documents for claims, and pursued the resolution process Show less

Kayson inc.
May 2012 - Jul 2013Pmo expert• Assisted with designing the Integrated Project Management System • Implemented the Risk Management Plan in the construction of a 60 million dollar road and facility project in Cameroon• Developed the Cost Management Plan for a 500 million dollar housing project in Venezuela• Monitored the project progress using Earned Value performance Management technique in a 170 million dollar cultural complex project in Tehran

Texas a&m university
Sept 2013 - May 2014Teaching assistant• Course CVEN349 (Civil Engineering Project Management)• Course CVEN405 (Construction Planning, Equipment and Methods)

Christopher b. burke engineering - chicagoland
May 2015 - Aug 2015Construction observation• Reviewed contractors’ submittals such as As-Built, Data Sheets, calculations, and drawings• Controlled contractor’s progress against Project Baseline• Prepared Resident Engineers' Daily Diary (REED)• Supervised the retaining walls and pavement subcontractor’s job to ensure their conformance to the drawings and specifications.• Prepared Change Orders and Extra Work Orders in Bridge Reconstruction and Widening Project of Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90)

Texas a&m university
Sept 2015 - Dec 2018Experimenting the persuasiveness impacts of Building Information Models versus PowerPoint as two different presentation tools inside courtrooms CVEN 333-Engineering Project Management
Research Assistant
Jan 2016 - Dec 2018Lecturer
Sept 2015 - Jan 2016

Exponent
Nov 2018 - Mar 2024Senior associate• Provided Project Management and Project Control Analysis services in utility projects in Northern California • Managed the database for Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA) of gas distribution facilities using SQL Server, Northern California • Performed user studies of electronic devices• Analyzed the delays in light rail transit project using the as-built versus as-planned technique on behalf of the trains manufacturing subcontractor for an arbitration, Canada• Performed schedule and performance analysis in the construction of a four-story residential complex on behalf of the owner for a mediation, North Carolina• Assisted the ownership team in reviewing the change orders and overseeing the Change Management for a sports arena, Northern California • Investigated the impact of adverse weather and safety and environmental issues on schedule performance of pipeline projects• Analyzed the schedule performance of the General Contractor in the construction of the Sewage Treatment Network Show less

Springboard
May 2020 - Aug 2021Data science fellowSentiment Analysis of Amazon reviews on musical instruments with Natural Language Processing• Performed Exploratory analysis, Text Processing, and Feature Extraction • Developed predictive models using various Machine Learning algorithms in classification such as Multinomial Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, XGBoost, Random Forest Classifier, and tuning hyperparameters on selective models• Visualization of word frequency using Word_Cloud House Price Prediction using Ames dataset • Utilized Linear Regression and Random Forest algorithms in Python (scikit-learn package) to predict a house price in Ames, IOWA • Performed a full market analysis including data cleaning, exploration, visualization in Python using NumPy, Pandas, Seaborn, and various librariesCrime Prediction using San Francisco crime dataset • Utilized KNN (K Nearest Neighbors) algorithms in Python to predict the chance of crime • Performed full analysis of the dataset, Feature Engineering, and visualization in Python using NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib Show less

Kroll cyber apac
Mar 2024 - nowVice president
Licenses & Certifications
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Project management professional (pmp)®
Project management instituteNov 2017 
Business management
Mays business school - texas a&m universityAug 2017
Professional engineer
Texas board of professional engineers and land surveyorsJan 2019
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Zohreh Soltani, Ph.D., PMP, PEAwarded travel fund “Annual Conference of the European Society of Construction Law” - Nov 2017
- Awarded to Zohreh Soltani, Ph.D., PMP, PEAwarded travel fund “ASC 2017 Conference”, Seattle, WA, US - Apr 2017
- Awarded to Zohreh Soltani, Ph.D., PMP, PETeaching Fellowship for Doctoral Candidates Texas A&M University Sep 2015
- Awarded to Zohreh Soltani, Ph.D., PMP, PE“Edward Theodore Ziller” Scholarship Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Sep 2014
- Awarded to Zohreh Soltani, Ph.D., PMP, PETop ranked student award in Construction Management graduate program College of Engineering Jul 2008
Volunteer Experience
Organizing Committee Member in ASC 51st Annual International Conference
Issued by Texas A&M University on Apr 2015
Associated with Zohreh Soltani, Ph.D., PMP, PECoordinator of the Creative Constrcution Lab
Issued by Texas A&M University on Jan 2017
Associated with Zohreh Soltani, Ph.D., PMP, PEMember of the BIM SIM Research Group
Issued by Texas A&M University on Jan 2016
Associated with Zohreh Soltani, Ph.D., PMP, PECommittee Member in 9th National Conference of Civil Engineering
Issued by Amirkabir University of Technology on Sept 2002
Associated with Zohreh Soltani, Ph.D., PMP, PE
Languages
- enEnglish
- pePersian
- tuTurkish
- arArabic
- frFrench
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