Results-driven professional with expertise in team leadership, project management, and regulatory compliance. Skilled in design package production, product expertise, and overseeing projects through to successful handover. Committed to delivering high-quality outcomes while ensuring adherence to industry standards and fostering collaboration across teams.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
Work history
Managing Director / Design Manager
ALLIED BUILDING SERVICES UK LTD
HALIFAX, WEST YORKSHIRE
11.2001 - Current
Assisted in implementing user-centred design approach to enhance customer engagement.
Facilitated collaborative meetings to align design vision among team members.
Supported clients in understanding design requirements and objectives for various projects.
Helped manage design projects from conception to completion while adhering to timelines and quality standards.
Aided in implementing design trends and best practices for maintaining modern visual aesthetics.
Conducted design reviews to provide constructive feedback for team members' skill development.
Ensured client satisfaction by producing realistic design programmes that meet procurement and construction needs.
Assisted in overseeing commissioning and maintenance at project end to meet industry regulations.
Mechanical design engineer
S&R Mechanical Services Ltd
HALIFAX, West Yorkshire
03.1990 - 11.2001
Adhered to safety protocols during product development to support user safety.
Assisted with supplier communications to aid procurement processes.
Enhanced existing designs for improved product performance.
Participated in design reviews to support project improvement.
Resolved mechanical issues by applying problem-solving skills.
Supported compliance by interpreting industry standards.
Created engineering drawings for seamless production transitions.
Updated technical documents to maintain transparency.
Utilised mechanical knowledge to refine component durability.
Organised maintenance processes to support equipment upkeep.
Conducted quality checks during pre-commissioning.
Coordinated project commissioning activities to ensure completion.
Assisted in training staff on post-commissioning procedures.
Plumbing apprentice
LB Tullets
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
09.1985 - 02.1990
Prepared tools for each task to enhance workflow readiness.
Worked alongside experienced plumbers to develop practical skills.
Conducted inspections under supervision, identifying issues for swift resolution.
Performed routine checks ensuring plumbing systems operated efficiently.
Assisted in installation, maintenance, and repair to uphold safety standards.
Mastered blueprint and building code reading to ensure accurate installations.
Learned about new plumbing technologies to continuously improve skills.
Installed plumbing and heating systems, conducting tests for functionality verification.
Assembled and installed complex equipment for mechanical services.
Constructed piping to complete heating and ventilation systems for various structures.
Completed installations, repairs, and maintenance on piping systems.
Reviewed blueprints and specifications to determine system requirements.
Guided and supervised junior plumbers to ensure quality workmanship.
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform