Detail-oriented Quality Control Technician adept at reviewing materials and finished items for compliance with specifications and standards. Skilled in reporting and problem-solving with a history of making a positive impact on operations.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Inventory Planning and Product Testing
Kyashif EOD
Dzhebel. Bulgaria
05.2020 - 11.2022
Promoted stakeholder engagement through regular meetings, workshops, and public presentations to ensure transparency throughout the decision-making process.
Planned, created, tested and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations.
Piano Teacher
BT Music
Istanbul, Turkey
09.2017 - 06.2019
Enhanced student performance by incorporating innovative teaching methods and individualized lesson plans.
Developed personalized curriculum for each student to cater to their unique learning styles and needs.
Collaborated with other music teachers to design interdisciplinary projects that enhanced overall musical understanding.
Piano and Music Teacher
Sulak School
Sirnak, Turkey
09.2015 - 07.2017
Enhanced students'' understanding of music theory through engaging activities and exercises.
Quality Control Specialist
Typhoon 91 Tobacco Production Factory
Pleven, Bulgaria
02.2007 - 02.2016
Enhanced product quality by conducting thorough analyses and implementing corrective actions.
Improved overall production efficiency by identifying and resolving quality control issues.
Reduced customer complaints with consistent monitoring of products for adherence to company standards.
Participated in regular meetings with senior management to discuss ongoing projects, challenges faced, and proposed improvements.
Production Processor
Typhoon 91
Pleven,Bulgaria
02.2006 - 01.2007
Enhanced production efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing best practices.
Increased product quality with thorough inspections and attention to detail during the manufacturing process.
Collaborated with team members to achieve production goals, fostering a positive work environment.
Supported training programs for new employees, acting as a mentor and sharing knowledge of production processes.
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<li>Led a cross-functional team on the development and delivery of a custom CMS platform for <strong>Jagran New Media</strong>, streamlining editorial workflows and improving content publishing efficiency.</li>
<li>Managed end-to-end project lifecycle: sprint planning, backlog grooming, resource allocation, task prioritization, and delivery tracking.</li>
<li>Acted as the main point of contact between internal teams and client stakeholders.</li>
<li>Conducted product demos, client visits, and requirement walkthroughs.</li>
<li>Took ownership of UAT planning, coordination, and successful sign-offs.</li>
<li>Led the QA team and ensured high product quality through thorough manual and automation testing strategies.</li>
<li>Prepared technical documentation, project updates, and reporting dashboards for internal and client use.</li>
</ul> at Tatvic Analytics Pvt. Ltd.<ul>
<li>Led a cross-functional team on the development and delivery of a custom CMS platform for <strong>Jagran New Media</strong>, streamlining editorial workflows and improving content publishing efficiency.</li>
<li>Managed end-to-end project lifecycle: sprint planning, backlog grooming, resource allocation, task prioritization, and delivery tracking.</li>
<li>Acted as the main point of contact between internal teams and client stakeholders.</li>
<li>Conducted product demos, client visits, and requirement walkthroughs.</li>
<li>Took ownership of UAT planning, coordination, and successful sign-offs.</li>
<li>Led the QA team and ensured high product quality through thorough manual and automation testing strategies.</li>
<li>Prepared technical documentation, project updates, and reporting dashboards for internal and client use.</li>
</ul> at Tatvic Analytics Pvt. Ltd.
<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
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<li>Facilitated <strong>Agile ceremonies</strong> (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives) to ensure seamless collaboration, and drive continuous improvement.</li>
<li>Fostered a collaborative and <strong>self-organizing team</strong> environment by facilitating problem-solving and decision-making discussions.</li>
<li>Proactively identified and <strong>resolved impediments</strong> to maintain sprint flow, and <strong>maximize team efficiency</strong>.</li>
<li>Managed <strong>product backlog refinement</strong>, working closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure prioritized and well-defined user stories.</li>
<li>Monitored and reported <strong>Agile metrics</strong> such as velocity, burndown charts, and cycle time to assess team performance and drive process enhancements.</li>
<li>Owned release management, coordinating between developers, testers, and business stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality deliveries.</li>
<li>Worked closely with cross-functional teams to resolve dependencies and ensure timely releases, resulting in a <strong>50% increase in positive stakeholder feedback, and a 20% reduction in customer complaints.</strong></li>
<li>Mentored beginners on Agile best practices, contributing to a high-performing team culture.</li>
<li>Performed functional, UI, regression, smoke, performance, load, security, compatibility, and usability testing, and <strong>delivered quality software</strong> to customers.</li>
<li>Handled customer-reported issues related to live applications, ensuring prompt resolution, and <strong>minimizing downtime</strong>.</li>
<li>Requirement gathering, documentation, communication, team building, quality control.</li>
</ul> at Mahindra Last Mile Mobility Ltd.<ul>
<li>Facilitated <strong>Agile ceremonies</strong> (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives) to ensure seamless collaboration, and drive continuous improvement.</li>
<li>Fostered a collaborative and <strong>self-organizing team</strong> environment by facilitating problem-solving and decision-making discussions.</li>
<li>Proactively identified and <strong>resolved impediments</strong> to maintain sprint flow, and <strong>maximize team efficiency</strong>.</li>
<li>Managed <strong>product backlog refinement</strong>, working closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure prioritized and well-defined user stories.</li>
<li>Monitored and reported <strong>Agile metrics</strong> such as velocity, burndown charts, and cycle time to assess team performance and drive process enhancements.</li>
<li>Owned release management, coordinating between developers, testers, and business stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality deliveries.</li>
<li>Worked closely with cross-functional teams to resolve dependencies and ensure timely releases, resulting in a <strong>50% increase in positive stakeholder feedback, and a 20% reduction in customer complaints.</strong></li>
<li>Mentored beginners on Agile best practices, contributing to a high-performing team culture.</li>
<li>Performed functional, UI, regression, smoke, performance, load, security, compatibility, and usability testing, and <strong>delivered quality software</strong> to customers.</li>
<li>Handled customer-reported issues related to live applications, ensuring prompt resolution, and <strong>minimizing downtime</strong>.</li>
<li>Requirement gathering, documentation, communication, team building, quality control.</li>
</ul> at Mahindra Last Mile Mobility Ltd.