Ali Iqbal

Oct 2021 - Present

Data Engineer

Zappi

London, UK

Evaluate, enhance, and optimize existing business intelligence infrastructure to meet business requirements.
Collaborate with the Head of Business Intelligence and other team members to design a data platform with self-service capabilites at the forefront.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their business needs and provided support in data collection and analysis.
Collaborated closely with the leadership team to identify business requirements and successfully delivered fully automated KPI reporting using Tableau.
Take ownership of the data engineering data strategy, starting small and scale up.
Manage growing set of data sources, ensuring the availability, reliability and data quality.

Feb 2021 - Oct 2021

Business Intelligence Developer & Data Analyst Lead

Ariens

Oxford, UK

Work with senior management in understanding current & future business needs. Explore & trial new technologies to deliver efficiency improvements and automated existing tasks.
Deployed Tableau (inc. server) to AriensCo for deep data analysis & report automation purposes. Fully automated key management reports.
Work with head of departments in understanding their departmental needs and deliver business intelligent solutions using SQL & advance Excel.
Developed an in-house low-level MRP system using Excel & MySQL for supply chain.
Review existing external software dependencies and build in-house tools.
Collaborate with IT manager in identifying, documenting and rectifying data discrepancies.

Feb 2020 - Feb 2021

Quality & Business Intelligence Manager

Ariens

Oxford, UK

Work as data/business intelligence expert in the business. Understand company’s data and help colleagues with analysis.
Working directly with director of RapidCareTM in understanding his business segment needs and suggesting improvements across all roles.
Personally, took the initiative in documenting all the process across all positions. Laid the foundation for quality management system.
Using PowerAutomate linked Wufoo & Excel to eliminate human reliance on data collection. Furthermore, automated KPI distribution using Tableau.
Automated weekly build plan process saving £70,000 annually in hard savings.

May 2018 - Feb 2020

Quality & CI Leader

Ariens

Oxford, UK

Maintaining, analysing and communicating the key manufacturing/product quality metrics. Identifying areas of improvement, develop and implement improvement strategies.
Working with suppliers to improve supplier performance, developing metrics with the supply chain manager.

Apr 2017 - May 2018

Continuous Improvement Engineer

Johnson Matthey

Royston, UK

Lead Tableau developer for two sites. Furthermore, responsible for training colleagues on Tableau desktop.
Responsible for delivering manufacturing excellence targets for two departments.
Team member of side-wide transformation team. Responsible for highlighting and delivering targets with special focus on digital transformation.

Jul 2016 - Dec 2018

Industrial Engineer

Abbott

Witney, UK

Performed in-depth analysis on daily production data to help identify production bottlenecks.
Established, set and maintained process standards and the capacity book, measuring performance to plan.
Analysed capacity requirements to achieve output, propose labour and equipment resources to achieve business plans.
Chaired weekly yield meetings guiding cross functional team to make improvements and increase yields.

Aug 2014 - Aug 2015

Industrial Engineer

Schneider Electric

Leeds, UK

Lead the site-wide digital transformation project. Got selected for the best project of the year. Delivered annual savings of £25,000.
Conducted work measurement/method studies against new and existing tasks to establish time estimates, measure operator performance and ensure that the most effective manufacturing and assembly techniques are adopted.
Lead and implemented projects that improved the layout of work areas, tool design and source cost effective external services with the overall aim of improving labour productivity.
Worked with other teams on site to implement lean manufacturing principles to recognise improvements.

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