Azim is a low-code platform expert with a track record of driving digital transformation for businesses. He is skilled in Agile methodology and developing effective center-of-excellence strategies. Azim is Microsoft Power Platform certified with extensive technical experience. To streamline the process, he has developed ZAP (Zicar Adoption Program), a successful adoption program.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Lead RPA Developer
2020 - 2022 (2 years)
Remote
Supervised the development of 15+ new projects that resulted in savings of £800,000+.
Acted as technical lead and advisor for the conception and expansion of the Robotics Centre of Excellence.
Expanded the service to leverage Microsoft Power Platform tools: Power Automate (Cloud Flows and Power Automate Desktop), Power BI, AI Builder, Dataverse, and Power Virtual Agents (chatbots).
Led a scrum team as the scrum master and lead developer for two major projects. Automated the processing of requests by interpreting data on the scanned input form and integrated the robot with the internal BPM tool.
Contributed to the overall governance strategy for the whole group. Some Scrum ceremony methodologies and documentation used in the scrum were used as examples by the governance manager and set as the standard for intelligent automation.
Integrated multiple applications with the RPA platform (Java, web, legacy, API, and SOAP).
Completed a project for a public body's finance department using UiPath. The robot was designed to read and reconcile invoices from PDF documents with system-generated banking data in spreadsheet format.
Set up standard templates for documentation for all future projects and agreed on development standards with management and the development team.
Worked with the pre-sales teams on POC and developed demos for clients.
Led the formation of the automation academy to train internal resources and assisted in the recruitment process by conducting interviews and designing the RPA exercise used on the assessment day.
The department is automating processes involving interaction with the mainframe system.
Initial RPA integration using surface automation was unreliable due to data shifting.
A component object was developed using Blue Prism's native integration capabilities, significantly improving speed to 50% and mitigating potential server overload.
