Ashar Ali, Engineering Repairs Officer

Ashar Ali

Engineering Repairs Officer

Emirates Airlines

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration - Finance
Experience
21 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 8 Months

Engineering Repairs Officer at Emirates Airlines
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2005

Responsibilities:

- Nil stock analysis and management
- Management of critical and AOG (Aircraft On Ground) requirements
- Overdue order management
- Review and negotiate quotes and warranties with Suppliers and Vendors
- Resolve Engineering Systems issues by coordinating with IT and Engineering Systems department

Achievements:

1) Achieved average savings over USD 200, 000 per year by negotiating warranties and cost of repair.
2) Evaluated and recommended suppliers based on quality, performance and cost.
3) Summarised huge volume of data for budgeting purpose.
4) Automation of weekly reports through macro programming in MS Access. Produced reports in Excel format for analysis.
5) Suggested automation of daily reports to the management. Previously, the reports were created manually through data entry process which was prone to errors.

Technical Records Assistant at Emirates Airlines
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2005 to December 2006

Responsibilities:

· Processing invoices and coordinating with accounts payable with the objective of making timely payments to the suppliers and vendors.

· Coordinating with various vendors to expedite repair process of aircraft components and track their shipment to avoid AOG and nil stock situations.

· Evaluating and scrutinizing repair quotes with an objective of minimising costs and ensuring that warranties are honoured.

Achievements:

Invoicing process improvement by eliminating redundancies and standardising various activities.

RAPID operator at Emirates Airline
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2002 to November 2005

Responsibilities:

- Interline Data Entry Prime & Rejection.
- Prepare discrepancy
reports and investigate their cause.
- Follow-up of non-receipt of Interline invoices from Other airlines.
- Imaging Reject-Repair
- Courier EBT (Excess Baggage Tickets) reconciliation
- Timely response to various requisitions through e-mail and
telephone conversations

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration - Finance
  • at Manipal University
  • December 2006

Specialisation in Finance

Master's degree, Computer Science - Software Engineering
  • at Manipal University
  • December 2004

Passed with excellent results with a cummulative GPA of 3.52. Completed an IT project and prepared a report successfully within strict time frames. The software application was developed using VB 6.0 and Crystal Reports for an airline's Ticket Sales and Stock Control system.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Aligarh Muslim University
  • June 2002

BSc Computer Science. Completed Software Development Project in VC++.

High school or equivalent, Computing
  • at Pakistan Education Academy
  • June 1999

Pre-Engineering and Computer Science.

Specialties & Skills

MS Office
Typing Speed 59 wpm
Web Development: HTML, JavaScript, VB Script, ASP, PERL
UAE Driving License
Education
Science
Warranty
Web Development
Application Development
Databases: Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server
Negotiation
Mentoring

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
Hindi
Intermediate