Aamer Ashraf Email & Phone Number

Manchester, Gb

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Part of the Data Science function at UK's largest car buying service. As the bridge between the Data Scientists and the core IT teams; I built data pipelines to assist with model building and retraining as well as defining the integration between ML models and business systems. Key experience and achievements include: > Set up Azure environments with enforced policies to ensure governance and best security practice based on Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework. > Delivered Azure Landing Zone to standardise deployments across environments. > Designed and delivered the company’s first integration of ML into the Pricing Engine, enabling dynamic pricing capability. > Built Logic Apps to automate the process for optimised lotting of vehicles at auction. > Built ADF pipelines to orchestrate the training of models built by Data Scientists. > Delivered High Level Designs for machine learning projects.> Established a close working relationship with Microsoft technical experts to help define the architecture and build prototypes using latest resources available in Azure for proof of concepts.> Organised Executive AI Briefing for members of Microsoft’s AI and Data Specialist Team to present to our board of directors, AI capability in Azure.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Part of the IT Systems Architecture Team at one of UK's leading automotive retailers with Dealerships throughout the UK & Ireland and an annual turnover of ~£5bn.At Lookers I was primarily responsible for delivering the centralised stock management platform that supported the Lookers Website and other advertising partners. The platform was built almost entirely in Azure due to our ‘cloud-first’ strategy which gave me invaluable experience in building cloud-based solutions.During my time at Lookers I was also involved in the migration of data and systems following acquisitions of smaller businesses. I also had the opportunity to see through the rollout of an enterprise scheduler product, playing a key role in the delivery.Key experience and achievements include:> Delivered the Lookers Stock Feed Platform that now feeds the Lookers Website and around 20 Third Party advertising platforms (previously only 8).> Delivered complex integration piece with Auto Trader for Lookers BMW and Mini vehicle stock. This allowed for 3 daily feeds to Auto Trader (an increase from once a day) increasing the efficiency of stock to market.> Built relationships across sites to increase the understanding of and appreciation for the Stock Feed Platform.> Key Technical Contact for the acquisition of a smaller business. I delivered the technical solution for integration of systems, onboarding of vehicle and enquiry data as well as the decommissioning of inherited systems.> Worked with the vendor and Infrastructure Team to roll out JAMS enterprise scheduler into Lookers’ estate. > Worked with Microsoft to define the Architecture Blueprint for the future Stock Feed Platform, extending the use of Azure, moving towards a more serverless architecture.> Defined the strategy for moving away from the use of BizTalk within the Stock Feeds Platform. Once complete this will save Lookers ~£250k per annum in Azure costs.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Working for a leading essential business services provider, I am currently assigned to deliver a new billing system in preparation for the deregulation of water and water waste services in England (non-household) in 2017. Key experience and achievements include:> Learnt documented the principles behind billing for a brand-new non-household water and waste utility market> • Captured and formulated business requirements as user stories from stakeholders across the business for the new water billing application.> • Responsible for assisting project office with planning by breaking down requirements into development tasks and providing regular updates on progress.> Delivered the Solution Design for an automated Water Billing Reconciliation System.> Involved in the development of the Water Billing System that was built from scratch.

Manchester, United Kingdom

TalkTalk were engaged in a major transformational programme to rationalise their billing system landscape to improve efficiency, performance and SLAs. I was assigned as an Analyst/Designer to aid the integration of a commercial off-the-shelf package into the billing domain.Key experience and achievements include:> Analysis and documentation of TalkTalk’s entire catalogue of voice products and respective call scenarios.> Systems analysis of legacy billing systems in order to capture functional requirements for COTS package.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Working with the OSS Solutions Design Team, assigned as Lead Solutions Designer for a high profile project that involved the wholesale billing solution for TalkTalk’s Fibre to the Premises offering. The project was an enabler for TalkTalk’s ambitions to become a key provider of next generation ultra high speed broadband.Key experience and achievements include:> Delivered the solution that enabled TalkTalk to bill resellers for their subscribers' usage.> Assigned to agree scope with stakeholders and communicate to the business the planned approach.> Reported to senior stakeholders and project office, progress to ensure deliverables were on track as per the roadmap.> Delivered the FTTP Billing Project to agreed timescales enabling end-to-end testing ahead of the official launch

Manchester, United Kingdom

One of TalkTalk’s key business priorities with the aim for decommissioning legacy hardware that has reached the end of support. Assigned as Solution Designer, I was responsible for mitigating impact on billing.Key experience and achievements include:> Solution designer responsible for delivering the solution for billing traffic migrated off the legacy platform.> Responsible for engagement with senior stakeholders across the business in order to communicate impact on billing due to migrations.> One of the early adopters of the departmental changes towards a model based on agile methodology.> Led discussions with Networks and Operations teams on the impact on systems and processes.> Helped to identify call scenarios potentially impacted by the rationalisation work by working with OSS and Engineering teams to compile a comprehensive list of possible call scenarios.> Supported teams across the development lifecycle in order to ensure timely delivery of project.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Assigned as System Analyst/Designer for Dial Codes Management Project that involved automating manual processes.Key experience and achievements include:> Responsible for engagement with third party vender that formed part of the overall solution. This involved a close working relationship in order to ensure deliverables were clearly defined and articulated.> Supported development and QA teams in order to ensure that the system design was understood clearly.> Freed Operations and Finance teams from relying on partly broken disparate systems as well as manual processes that were bound by SLAs by designing and delivering a single automated system.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Assigned to analyse and document TalkTalk’s legacy inbound calls billing system that has become difficult to support. The analysis was also an integral part of the current billing systems rationalisation programme.Key experience and achievements include:> Completed low-level systems analysis to extract and document business logic embedded within the legacy billing system.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Working with the Billing Development Team, prime responsibilities include development of database solutions to process and store call data records for the purposes of billing and financial reporting. Key experience and achievements include:> Development of database solutions to process and store the 30 Million+ call data records generated daily.> Lead developer for high profile IP Usage project that enabled TalkTalk to bill for overage in access of £0.7 Million per month. The project involved delegating tasks to other developers and reporting to senior management.> Subject matter expert for Data Usage and Overage billing systems including the data warehouse and associated OLAP data structures. > Development of reports to assist Fraud and Abuse teams with fraud tracking/prevention.> Supported DBA team with performance tuning of stored procedures.> Development work completed in accordance with development practices including the use of source control and the setting up of automated unit testing through nightly build and execution.> Assisted operational support teams in order to resolve incidents and answer billing queries.

Loughborough

Working with the delivery team as an Application developer, responsibilities included development of and supporting CRM systems used by charities/not for profit organisations to carry out key operations. Key experience and achievements include:> Involvement across the whole development cycle from requirements analysis through to implementation and technical support.> Development and delivery of system upgrades for Science Museum (London) including installation of SQL Server and deployment of application code at site.> Responsible for the administration of SQL Server databases within the office including scheduling backups and general maintenance.> Visited clients to establish requirements, agree on scope and demonstrate prototypes once project milestones were reached.> Spent time on the helpdesk providing technical support to clients over telephone and email in order to appreciate common issues and the impact on client’s operations.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Undertaken as part of my degree, the placement involved assignment to different teams across the business in order to gain exposure to different area of a fast pace working environment. Key experience and achievements include:> Development of a data manipulation tool. Involved from design phase to implementation, a key player throughout. > Assigned to the Software Integration team to assist in the development of software integration scripts.> Attended workshops on Presentation Skills, Project Management & Team Working.

Bsc (Hons) - Computer Science With Industrial Experience, Computer Science, 2.2 (Hons)

Third Year Project (Individual): • Web-based calendar and booking system  Managed project through the complete software development.

A Levels, Pure Mathematics & Mechanics (B), Information Technology (C), Physics (C).

Gcse, G.C.S.E.S Including: Mathematics (B), English (C), Electronics (B), It (B)