Armond Mehrabian

“For those of you looking for an executive coach, Armond's the one-stop shop. He builds others up, but without the fanfare and bravado one might expect. He’s not out to make a name for himself; rather he wants to make a difference in your life. I know this because I have witnessed it first hand. Whether it be building enterprise software, leading technology teams, or my current role consulting to major corporations, Armond has been there for me as a trusted advisor. ”

“If you are searching for an executive coach, don't look any further: Armond is as good as they get. He is a rare blend of broad experience working with clients in various industries, deep knowledge of human nature, cultural sensitivity, and focus on your personality and your goals. Armond works with you to take a look at the big picture and then works with you on items, which help you in your professional career. He helped me tremendously mastering my latest transition. And I am sure he will enable many more people to succeed with their aspirations. ”

“Armond was integral in my learning the Scaled Agile Framework. We were first introduced at a workshop and I subsequently completed three different training sessions taught by Armond, SPC, PO, and RTE. In all of these interactions, he presented the material in an approachable manner and listens to understand when a student is working through how to apply the concepts to their role and world. During the time that my teams were transitioning to the Scaled Agile Framework, Armond continued coaching and assisting with ideas on how to best approach a situation for a positive outcome for the team.”

“I've known Armond a long time and have enjoyed working with him in a variety of situations. His broad perspective and strategic approach are a great asset in his coaching work. He brings a structured yet flexible framework to the challenge which has proved incredibly helpful in guiding me through my personal and professional analyses. Armond's insights and coaching have helped me clarify my career goals and develop strategies and tactical plans to achieve them. Even in the short time he's been helping me I've noticed positive benefits from his guidance. I look forward to continuing to work with Armond and finding out how many of my professional dreams can become reality.”

“Armond is a very knowledgeable and adaptable leadership coach. He doesn't come to the relationship with a one-size-fits-all formula. Rather he works with you to determine what your goals are, and then create a plan to make progress towards them incrementally. Discussions and shared content are centered around ensuring you know what it means to achieve those goals, and validating they continue to fit your values as you execute your plan. Sometimes deeper investigation into your goals may result in finding that you're on the path that you're "supposed" to be on, but not necessarily the one you truly want. Your goals change. Armond is able to easily adapt the coaching to align with changes. ”

“Armond introduced and trained us in Scaled Agile framework for various roles and modules. The reason we had over and over again for our trainings across our global locations is because he himself comes with a strong product and software development background and is able to relate to our organization requirements and provides relevant examples. He also does a lot of due deligence and pre work to prepare for the sessions. Thanks for training and certifying many of us in SAFe at Honeywell!!”

“Armond a true craftsman and a strategic thinker. He has the unique ability to nurture relationships ranging from the technical developer up to the chief executive officers. I had the pleasure of teaming with Armond despite being on a stressful project for a major bank. We were a good team. While I provided some database support in the moment, Armond mentored me on effective object oriented design for a career. What I learned from Armond those many years ago has served me well to this day. Thanks "Armo!"”

“Armond is very good at SAFe concepts and does a very good job in orientation of putting these concepts to practice in the form of various games, case studies, analogies, real time examples such that the concepts are well understood and makes the team at ease to put them for implementation. I personally learnt lot of new stuff with respect to SAFe and vow to take it further in building and developing great agile teams to increase company's productivity and organizational goals.”

“At Audatex, we brought Armond in as a consultant to jump-start our Agile journey, train key employees in Agile/Scrum, and actually lead some teams. He mentored our scrum masters through their first sprints and did an excellent job. Armond is a superb teacher, experienced practitioner, and very knowledgeable. I look forward to our next engagement together.”

“Armond has provided Agile Training and Coaching services to our company in more than one occassion; he has conducted training to multiple teams at a time (sessions of about 25-30 employees). His personable and professional approach has addressed the diverse audience needs for learning; and, certainly achieved the desired training results. Armond's knowledge and experience are appropriate and balanced to offer very good and relevant training/coaching in Agile/Lean principles and practices. I would not hesitate in recommending Armond for future work, as needed. Please feel free to contact me in case you may need additional details.”

“I have known Armond for many years. We have worked side-by-side on many projects across several companies as fellow employees and consultants. Armond brings a focus and passion to his work that foster continuous improvement and innovation for his clients. He is a change agent to product development and IT organizations with a mind for business to increased ROI through lean principles and agile methods. Armond leads agile transformation of software intensive organizations through instruction, coaching and mentoring of product delivery teams, is a champion for user experience and insures that the voice of the customer is realized in all the software’s user interactions. Armond is always a consummate professional and a joy to work with. I look forward working with Armond on many more projects in the future.”

“Armond listens carefully to his clients and is very detail oriented - those attributes paired with his knowledge of best methods to employ and how to implement those methods empower an organization to build great products. Everybody likes being around Armond because he's easy going and reliable.”

“In working with Armond, I found him to be a true professional and effective collaborator. Armond is one of the few Development Managers I've worked with who is equally adept at leading new product development initiatives and optimizing performance on existing product lines. He is a consistent champion of user centered design and agile methodologies.”

“I worked with Armond when we were at Mitchell. I was always impressed by his professionalism and his ability to motivate his teams. He was well-liked and respected by his team members and delivered under what were often very tight timelines, something made easier by his adoption of Agile methods. He would be a great asset to any software organization.”

“I had a very good experience working with Armond. He easy to communicate with and had deep technical knowledge. He had excelent design skills and as a Dev Manager he had good control on projects and excelent relationship with his employees. I would recommend Armond for hire at any company I work in.”

“I have worked with Armond over the years, both at Kofax and other companies as well. In his current role as development manager he hired and motivated a team of highly-skilled engineers to build a world class software application. He tapped into his technical background to establish good engineering practices such as continuous builds and regression testing. He has also been effective at promoting company-wide initiatives, such as User-centered Design and Scrum. Armond has a good sense of balance, tailoring processes and making practical adjustments when necessary. I would definitely recommend him for technical management.”

“Armond is a very senior manager, who has great skills to build high performance dev teams to achieve company's business goals. Armond is experienced in leading Agile development teams using Scrum process, working with remote teams, establishing effective communications between sites. I would definitely recommend Armond - he knows how to manage people and bring value to the company.”

“Armond and I have worked together at Kofax as peers implementing the adoption of Scrum and in improving the practices by which we manage our distributed projects. I found Armond easy to work with, very forthcoming with new ideas, and willing to carry out the decisions of the competency teams within which we worked. I would recommend Armond for a leadership and/or a change agent role without hesitation.”

“I have worked now together with Armond for more than two and half years. From the very beginning Armond impressed me with his management skills. Armond turned an engineering team that lacked motivation and suffered from a high attrition rate into a high performance team. Armond is highly efficient in hiring top engineers, keeping them motivated and forming a team that truly works together. In addition, Armond's leadership qualities have been instrumental in building a strong and effective collaboration between the engineering and research group. In summary, Armond is a highly professional and outstanding manager. Working together with Armond has been a great experience for me on a professional as well as on a personal level.”

“Armond worked for me as a Systems Engineer at Alcoa. He had responsibility for developing software solutions that improved the productivity of our manufacturing operations. Armond is strong in systems analysis and architecture, he manages to develop the optimal solution based on needs and budget. He also adheres to the defined development methodology and processes to ensure the developed code is controlled and documented. Always a strong team player that works well in a self managed team environment. Armond is also good at conflict resolution and manages to help the team focus on the objectives and goals. To put it simply, I would work with him again.”

“Armond is a good, hands-on manager with a great work ethic. He embraces agile development and builds strong teams to effectively produce high quality products. I would work with Armond again in an instant.”

“Armond is an effective leader with strong skills at recruiting and building high performance teams. He also successfully collaborates across teams to drives product development initiatives such as configuration management, scrum, and multi-site development. Armond’s skills as a systems analyst and architect and his extensive knowledge and commitment to Agile development strategies and user centered design best practices have proven to develop optimal solutions.”

“I've worked and collaborated with Armond for over two years at Kofax. Above all, he's a very good people manager. He rebuilt an expert software development team almost from scratch and used his leadership abilities to keep it motivated. He is also a strong proponent of agile engineering processes (scrum) and implemented it for his team to support rapid software development across sites. He identifies the best practices, for instance user centered design for GUI development, performs the right staffing, and gets things rolling in the right direction.”

“Armond is a "think outside of the box" manager - who accepts challenges and makes them happen. He is a leader and demonstrated his ability to hire and retain the best employees, while keeping his eye on the target of completing the work on time and budget. His desire for excellence makes him someone I would hire and/or work with again.”