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Crewe, GB

Crewe, England, United Kingdom

Warwick, England, United Kingdom

• Spearheading newly formed business division for Connected Car with full Profit and Loss (P&L) responsibility against C-Suite monitored targets.
• Actively engaged with key client executive leadership, establishing Contechs as a valuable partner in their Software Define Vehicle Architecture Journey.
• Leading a team of 15 head providing project management, Product Owner and Validation services.
• Leading Sales and Marketing teams to devise and implement targeted sales strategy against key clients in the identified areas of growth.
• Establishing Electrical teams for our customer by understanding project needs and the skills required to deliver the project.
• Evaluated Contechs baseline skills matrix within the organisation and devised plans on how the experience can be leveraged and built upon for providing value to our projects.

United Kingdom

• Accelerated Ford account growth achieving a double digit CAGR over 4 years.
• Championed the transformation for Jaguar Land Rover Account from a loss making to profitability with strong Continental representation.
• Built a strong relationship with the customer engineering and purchasing teams leading to a significant increase in RFQs received.
• Leading the restructure of the engineering service department throughout the business unit, over 85 heads, by aligning processes and encouraging similarly skilled deliverable centric teams leading to an overall.
• Disciplinary responsibility for 5 Team Managers across JLR & Ford – conducting regular project reviews and providing guidance for prioritisation and resource utilisation.
• Led Feature Development as technical lead for several new Ford Features including driver information, comfort and smart services (ASPICE SYS.1 & 2) based on Service Oriented HPC based architecture.

Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the growth of Ford Account, both revenue and margin.
• Implemented a standardised test specification structure for feature validation improving test efficiency by 10%.
• Re-Aligned Ford project teams to align with growing business needs and creating efficiencies – 25% increase in efficiency led to the ability to grow service capacity with similar resource.
• Led Labcar builds for 7 Ford commercial vehicle programs, delivering over 15 lab cars for Software and System testing and validation activities (SYS.4 & SYS.5 and SWE.4-6)
• Supervised 4 Team Leaders/Scrum Masters overseeing the team of over 25 heads engaged in the development and delivery of project.

London, United Kingdom

• Liaised with Ford Management to define test scope, procedures, and plans for each vehicle program for Electrical Systems and Features.
• Generated detailed test plans for each phase of the development plan and ensured timely results delivery to meet program milestones.
• Managed a team of 15 Systems and Functional engineers to validate all Ford Commercial vehicle ECUs including ADAS, Infotainment, Body and Powertrain.
• Acted as the Electrical Prototype electrical lead from Mule (M1 Phase) to Job1 in plants based in US, Germany and Turkey during plant support trips over several programs.

London, United Kingdom

• Lead Body Control Module (BCM) changes for future Ford Transit Models.
• Defined and estimated resources required for development of the project over two years.
• Provided on-site and off-site plant support on all build phases to diagnose, contain and resolve issues effectively and efficiently.
• Contributed to Ford electrical systems meetings by ensuring that all parties understood the BCM functionality, and the implementation of all changes being requested.
• Updated, maintained, and validated Vehicle Specific Configuration Specification (SUP.8) for future Ford Transit models.
• Successfully defined, led and delivered a developed and validated software update for Body Control Module (ASPICE SWE1, SWE4-6) for Ford Transit Van.

Woking, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the development of Gateway, Door Control, Roof Control, Rain Light Sensor and Parking Assistance modules.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Wah Cantonment, Pakistan

Islamabad, Pakistan

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Electronic, Telecommunication And Internet Engineering, First Class

Engineering