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Aakriti Godre

Mumbai

Summary

A result oriented professional with over 14+ years of rich experience in complex Managed network environments and managing Top Accounts for a variety of National network service providers in ISP / Telecom sector.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Services Manager

Vodafone Idea
Mumbai
08.2024 - Current
  • Working as a Technical Service Manager for the E2E Cluster Customer Service Management process and the Complaint/Incident Management process.

• Responsible for Complaint resolutions of FLX Customers which are assigned for PAN India Level on Day to Day Basis.

• Interaction with FLX Customers and Internal Cross functional departments on the faster resolutions.

• Ensuring CSAT by driving RNPS Project for the West Cluster Region. Responsible for SLA management, which is signed with customers.

• Ensuring MIS report to be generated and sent to Management periodical for Own/Regional Performance over Network Stability.

• Ensuring all KPI’s are achieved on Monthly basis which are classified as MTTR, Cx Complaint Index, Incident Reductions by Implementing timely Service Improvement Plans on Repeat Faults.

• Responsible to have Monthly and Quarterly Service Reviews with Customers on Service Stability, Customer New Requirements and Termination Retention.

• Ensuring no churn due to Service issues or other transaction issues link Rate Revision, Shifting or BW Augmentation.

• Reviewing L1 to L3 NOC Performance in Incident Management Process for timely fault resolutions.

• Monitoring Network Performance and driving Permanent Fixture over Repeat outages in defined Network Sections in Region.

• Interaction with Offnet Vendors for Cross Connect/Dark Fiber

Customer Success Manager

Tata Communication Ltd
Mumbai
01.2021 - 08.2024
  • To maintain overall Business & Service relationship against entire Telecom Service Provider Accounts - West and GAM region
  • Responsible to manage and maintain the existing business and generate revenue
  • Managing Service delivery project for on Hold cases for early revenue generation
  • Conducting workshops with customer for Portal training
  • To lead the renewal closure on quarterly basis
  • Conducting MBR, QBR and senior level meetings with customer and understand new opportunities
  • Ensure quarterly SLA penalties wrt the agreed uptime are being processed with required approvals for CN for timely collections
  • Handling Senior management customer escalations till closure
  • Monitored issues carefully and reached out to customers to provide immediate resolution and maintain satisfaction
  • Trained new employees on customer service, money handling and organizing strategies

Business Relationship Manager

Sify Technologies
06.2018 - 09.2022
  • To maintain overall Business & Service relationship against entire Telecom along with DC and Cloud Business setup of Industry's primarily for HPE and MRD Accounts
  • Responsible for managing Telecom Sales along with existing business enhancement of Cloud & Hosting customers to achieve the targeted OB
  • Communicated regularly with clients to understand needs, evaluate current product use and cross-sell new products
  • Responsible for generating new business and revenue growth in all existing accounts and to achieve company defined sales goals
  • Educated customers about various product options and Processed purchases
  • Ensure quarterly closure of all pending Renewals of Telecom, Hosting & Cloud Services against assigned Accounts
  • Timely closure of feasibility requests, for all new, upgrade & shifting requirements (e.g : MPLS/Internet/P2P Link) of existing customers
  • Processing the P.O & CAFs through order login teams and tracking the orders till it goes to Service Delivery Bucket
  • Identified new business opportunities through cold calling, networking, marketing and prospective database leads
  • Built relationships with customers and community to promote long term business growth
  • Support Service Delivery team for smooth and timely delivery of orders
  • Managing a team of Resident Engineers assigned in given set of Accounts
  • To conduct monthly & quarterly Techno QBR meetings with customers to review current and expand sales opportunities
  • Handling business as well as operational & delivery related escalations of customers and maintain overall quality of services provided to customers
  • Churn Management and retention efforts are being done
  • Also to ensure and help RA team for timely collection clearance against all submitted Invoices

Service Account Manager

Bharti Airtel
08.2017 - 05.2018
  • To maintain overall accountability and quality of services provided to customers
  • Governance of standards and participation in Service Support functions - Incident, Major Incident, Problem management, change management, Release management, Request Fulfillment, Configuration Management, Service Level Monitoring, Availability and Capacity management and be the 3rd level escalation point of issues process Improvement
  • Supporting Network Operations process owners in identifying and implementing improvements to the performance of key in order to enhance customer experience
  • Finding out all cross sell and upsell opportunities lies at customer end for all existing and new products to meet the quarterly sales target
  • Coordinate and manage performance and SLA compliance of existing customer network including availability, MTTR, Customer Outage Time and chronic issues for nominated customers
  • Accountable for SLA reporting
  • Initiate / produce customer network reporting including monthly performance reports utilizing system-generated reports where available, bespoke or complex SLA compliance reports as required and ad-hoc reports to evaluate network needs
  • Responsible for monthly Service review meeting for all assigned customers

Sr Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
06.2015 - 05.2017
  • Identified as shift lead for all issues over incoming call, handling escalations, Client interactions, reviewing the tickets
  • Mainly responsible for handling HANA Enterprise Cloud, SAAS (Software as a Service) Cloud and Internal Data Centre Cloud tickets
  • Identification of networking issues, monitoring the devices that related to Cloud networking; troubleshoot the errors to first level of diagnostics
  • Handled issues related to Access list, firewall, Load Balancer, general network connectivity etc
  • Worked on ticketing tool like IT DIRECT, SPC
  • Proper handling of tickets and meeting the IRT and MPT for it on priority basis
  • Maintaining SOPs (standard operating procedure) for various networking issues in CLOUD
  • Dispatching the tickets to L2 for ACL rules, firewall rules, routing issues, link issues, network cable patching & dispatching to L3 for Load balancer rules, Radius read-write user access, ISP admin access
  • Proper handling of calls related to very high priority cases
  • Auditing the faults handled by the team
  • Sending Corrective Actions to the team members to Improve Quality of Work on the ticket
  • Responsible as Escalation Manager for the shift
  • Align Bridge calls between teams to resolve issue
  • Taking corrective actions to avoid issues in future

Project Engineer - Voice

Wipro Infotech
10.2011 - 05.2015
  • Working on PBX system for Mitel and Avaya Ip Office
  • Maintaining and troubleshooting H/W or programming issues
  • Remotely Accessing Customer's PABX to Configure and resolve the issue
  • Configuring customer's Broadband through PABX, Configuring VOIP and Remote IP phones
  • Diagnosing telecom issue with respect to lines, PABX and coordinating the same with the lines and exchange department
  • Handling remote issue related to the technology, keeping in mind of the SLA, RFT, RCT, Repeat failures
  • Receiving and resolving complex issues and meeting customer needs
  • Remote upgrading and patching on EPABX systems
  • Managed Third Line Support for the Customer
  • Sending Regular reports to the Clients
  • Managing the team in absence of Manager and Team Lead

Technical Engineer

Wipro Infotech
12.2009 - 10.2011
  • Dealing with SHDS, DWDM, WRUK and WRGB Circuit
  • Tools Used for the same are Camss, CSS, Cosmoss, Woosh ETC
  • Checking the composition of the faults and diagnosing the circuit for localizing the issue on the circuit
  • Generating Customer Incident Reports for the service outages detailing the BT resolution steps, RCA and reasons for delay if any
  • Allocated as a SPOC for one of the sub-function of the process for supervising as well as cross training other members of the team
  • Collection of data regarding daily works to prepare progress reports
  • Also auditing the faults as per the monthly Quality audit Plan issued by QM
  • Event detection and Network management project of client and their international Customers
  • Working on Live Routers and Switches
  • Check their interfaces, configurations and use router commands for diagnostics purpose
  • Fault isolation and monitoring of equipment through NMS (Network Management System) and Service Systems Management Tools like BMC Remedy, SMARTS, Netcool-WebTop, Citrix Server, Putty, CSS, CAMSS and WOOSH etc

Education

PGDM- Service Excellence - Distance Learning

Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research
06.2020

B.E - Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University
06.2009

Skills

  • Customer Management
  • Project Management
  • Service Management
  • Negotiation
  • Rate Renewals
  • Strong Decision Maker
  • Complex Problem Solver
  • Innovative
  • Telecommunication
  • DC/Cloud
  • Network Performance
  • MS Office
  • Outlook
  • Service Now
  • Upselling and cross selling
  • Positive customer experience
  • Tech support
  • Relationship building
  • Meeting and exceeding sales goals
  • Team leadership
  • Verbal and written communication

Certification

2014, ITIL Foundation Certified

Hobbies and Interests

  • Music
  • Travelling
  • Trekking

Awards

  • 2019, 100% Achievers Club Award
  • 2014, Best Employee of the Month

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 02/12/87
  • Gender: Female

Timeline

Technical Services Manager

Vodafone Idea
08.2024 - Current

Customer Success Manager

Tata Communication Ltd
01.2021 - 08.2024

Business Relationship Manager

Sify Technologies
06.2018 - 09.2022

Service Account Manager

Bharti Airtel
08.2017 - 05.2018

Sr Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
06.2015 - 05.2017

Project Engineer - Voice

Wipro Infotech
10.2011 - 05.2015

Technical Engineer

Wipro Infotech
12.2009 - 10.2011

PGDM- Service Excellence - Distance Learning

Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research

B.E - Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University
Aakriti Godre