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AAKANKSHA SHARMA

AAKANKSHA SHARMA

Summary

Experienced Project and Change Management with over 6+ years of expertise in managing and optimizing change resolution processes, strategy and plan. Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to expedite issue resolution, ensuring timely delivery of fixes. Proficient in tracking and managing Incident (INCs) and Request (REQs) tickets, with a strong focus on identifying and addressing delays. Adept at driving continuous improvement in incident management processes, maintaining excellent communication, and providing regular updates to stakeholders to ensure transparency and alignment. Passionate about improving service delivery and enhancing operational efficiency.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Change & Incident Management

TCS Singapore
12.2023 - Current
  • Manage day to day activities for change management project.
  • Address resistance to change and develop strategies to overcome it.
  • Communicate clearly and concisely with technical teams, stakeholders and customers. Keeping the relevant parties updated on the incidents.
  • Coordination with PM, PMO to get necessary approvals for change management, strategy and communications.
  • Responsible for Weekly and Monthly Status Report, Presentation.
  • Responsible for decision making, problem solving.
  • Support weekly releases in shifts.
  • Provide support for VIP users
  • Developing and implementing processes- Awareness of INCs and REQs tracking and understand the delay in tickets handling and responsible for driving and continually improving the change management process.
  • Working CTI infra governance team in CITI Divestiture Project (Damselfly)
  • Delivered exceptional customer satisfaction by proactively addressing client concerns and meeting or exceeding expectations throughout the engagement process.
  • Collaborated closely with senior management to align project objectives with strategic direction for divestiture, ensuring that efforts contribution for smooth transition to buyer banks.
  • Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to ensure successful DRs, PAT and Production releases .

Project Manager

TCS Singapore
03.2023 - 10.2023
  • Project manager for GEL digital migration project.
  • Managed customer service representatives, resulting in 20% increase of satisfaction.
  • Project Planning: Assisting management with project planning and ensuring that project tasks are completed ontime, within budget and to the required quality standards.
  • Stakeholder Management: Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients, team members, vendors and senior management.
  • Budget Management: Monitoring project costs and ensuring that project expenses are within budgetary constraints.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver on-time and on-budget projects and initiatives.
  • Continuous Improvement: Continuously looking for ways to improve project processes, procedures, and methodologies to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress, and technical problems.
  • Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.

Delivery Support

TCS Singapore
09.2022 - 02.2023
  • Driving daily defect calls with various MBOL module leads to ensure defects are fixed in within SLA and pitch in for risk items.
  • Ensured MBOL defects are addressed within SLA and projects are always delivered to production with high quality and without slippages as MBOL Deployment Lead.
  • Picking critical issues on daily basis and resolving them on priority.
  • Investigating, recording and provisioning thematic analysis on failed changes, unauthorised changes and changes

resulting in major incidents.

  • Highlighting to Channels /Host on which specific call is failing by looking into Splunk and expediting the fix.
  • Worked in the war room in Citi for defect tracking and stub testing of incoming & outgoing transactions in major releases.
  • Worked closely with UTT team, highlighting & presenting the test case execution status to ensure key milestones are met in time for Project sign-off and production cut-over.
  • Worked with various application teams in resolving the conflicts with defect fixes and ownership.
  • Prepared and published various status reports on daily basis to senior management.

Business Analyst /Service Management

TCS Singapore
01.2022 - 09.2022

● Working as BA for Citi Divestiture program with Client and Buyer banks.

● Assisted in the management of a team of customer service representatives, resulting in a positive impact on the company’s overall performance.

● Provided support to senior customer service managers, resulting in a positive impact on the company’s overall performance.

● Demonstrated strong attention to detail , resulting in a 25% decrease in errors.

● Capturing requirement and document it in FR for business review.

● Collecting efforts with all domains and update in IBIS system based on Fitment.

● Creating Epic and US in JIRA system.

● Tracking Grooming and Dev status with all domains for regular progress update.

● Scheduling calls with Business and Dev teams for requirement walkthrough and regular status.

Project Manager

LacCasa India
01.2015 - 01.2016

● Digital transformation for existing marketing portal, with latest Responsive UI and feature

● Performed initiation, planning, execution and monitoring for project closure.

● Effectively execute and drive continuous improvement for IT Change Management.

● Online Order placement and tracking.

● Matrics Management, reporting and improvements.

● Customer targeted Offer promotion and processing.

● Coordinated with testing teams and developers for defects.

Business Analyst

LacCasa India
10.2013 - 01.2015

● Analyzed change scope and feasibility with client.

● Managed small projects related to ITSM delivery improvement.

● Establishes policy, procedures and standards to ensure consistent, high quality delivery of service management.

● Captured and documented final requirement with detail and solution for development start.

● Interacted with client and developer for requirement discussion and clarification.

Education

Master of Technology - Computer Science

Radharaman Institute of Technology & Science
01.2013

Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology. BE -

Sri Satya Sai Institute of Science And Technology
06.2010

Skills

    Project Planning

    Status Updates

    Incident Management

    Project scope

    Work flow planning

    Business Analysis

    Effective Communication

    Client Relations
    Project Management

    Project tracking

    Requirements Gathering

Timeline

Change & Incident Management

TCS Singapore
12.2023 - Current

Project Manager

TCS Singapore
03.2023 - 10.2023

Delivery Support

TCS Singapore
09.2022 - 02.2023

Business Analyst /Service Management

TCS Singapore
01.2022 - 09.2022

Project Manager

LacCasa India
01.2015 - 01.2016

Business Analyst

LacCasa India
10.2013 - 01.2015

Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology. BE -

Sri Satya Sai Institute of Science And Technology

Master of Technology - Computer Science

Radharaman Institute of Technology & Science
AAKANKSHA SHARMA