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Akash Saxena

Akash Saxena

Subject Matter Expert
Ghaziabad

Summary

Dynamic IT Professional with Expertise in Service Desk Management, Incident Management, and Customer Handling | Proven Experience in Managing Service Desk Teams, Evaluating Performance, and Handling Escalations | Proficient in Vendor Management and Ensuring Compliance with SLA's and KPI's | Skilled in Participating in Lead-level Hiring for Service Desk Resources | Adept at Running Meetings and Facilitating Communication Across Service Desk Teams | Experienced in Creating Reports from Various Service Desk Tools | Knowledgeable in Knowledge Management for Service Desk Operations | Proactive in Ensuring Smooth Transitions for New Tools and Processes.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certificates

Work History

Subject Matter Expert

HCL Technologies Ltd.
Noida
07.2022 - Current
  • Directed and inspired team of 30 Service Desk agents, implementing strategic leadership that contributed to remarkable 25% reduction in incident resolution time and significantly elevated customer satisfaction scores.
  • Orchestrated seamless collaboration with site Service Desk Managers to efficiently address and resolve escalated issues, fostering cohesive team environment that optimized collective performance of 30-agent team.
  • Led comprehensive vendor management initiatives, negotiating contracts and optimizing relationships, resulting in 10% reduction in costs, ensuring cost-effective service delivery without compromising quality.
  • Diligently monitored and enforced SLA's and KPI's on monthly basis, consistently surpassing performance targets and earning recognition for achieving operational excellence with team of 30 agents.
  • Played pivotal role in recruitment process for Service Desk resources at lead level, successfully selecting top-tier talent to enhance capabilities of 30-agent team and foster culture of high performance.
  • Conducted regular, well-structured meetings at various intervals, ensuring effective communication channels among 30-member Service Desk team and contributing to collaborative and cohesive work environment.
  • Championed seamless integration of new tools and processes, employing change management techniques to minimize downtime and accelerate adaptation, effectively managing transition with team of 30 agents.
  • Spearheaded knowledge management efforts, implementing best practices and systems that enhanced information sharing, resulting in notable 30% increase in team knowledge retention.
  • Leveraged advanced reporting tools to analyze data from various Service Desk platforms, generating insightful reports that empowered leadership with data-driven decision-making capabilities and optimizing performance of 30-agent team.

Senior IT Support Engineer

Shri Ram Polymers ( India ) Pvt. Ltd.
Shahjahanpur
05.2018 - 04.2022
  • Giving support via Call regarding hardware / Software and connectivity related issue.
  • Assigning incidents, setting up right severity, connecting stakeholders to different teams for end resolution.
  • Monitoring of jobs and batches and troubleshooting of failed jobs, doing RCA over frequent Occurring issues.
  • Helpdesk Mailbox monitoring & replying on escalated mails & calls.
  • Making entries in CRM regarding issue and resolution offered.
  • Researched and implemented new technologies and methodologies to improve support processes and provide better services to customers.
  • Use to maintain approx. 300+ PC in industry on daily basis.

Network Engineer

Aforeserve.com Ltd.
Noida
06.2016 - 02.2018
  • Monitoring and managing data center and giving support regarding any issue.
  • Hands on “CA Spectrum one click” monitoring tool.
  • Hands on mailing and generating ticket using ticketing tool.
  • Physical checking of server power and restarting server.
  • Checking if any ping issue in any working server.
  • Was managing approx. 10-20 servers.
  • With proper monitoring increased server availability by 10%.
  • Assisted with implementation and support of network monitoring tools

Education

PGDM - Marketing

IMT-Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad
08.2018 - 05.2020

B.tech - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

R.B.C.E.T
Barielly
08.2010 - 04.2014

Intermediate - PCM

S.S.M.V
Shahjahanpur
04.2008 - 04.2009

High School Diploma -

S.S.M.V
Shahjahanpur
04.2006 - 03.2007

Skills

Reports and Dashboards

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Software

Salesforce CRM

ServiceNow

CA Spectrum one click

Active Directory

Citrix Workspace application

Cisco Mobility Client

Accomplishments

  • Supervised team of 30 staff members.
  • Recognized as outstanding performer in Service Desk and training colleagues by HCL Technologies.
  • Successful transition of a new service desk project from initial phase.
  • Successful transition of a new queue in same project.
  • Driving activities like Fun-Friday, power play for employee motivation to achieve higher work satisfaction.

Certification

Desktop Support Professional

Timeline

Agile & Scrum Methodology DFS

10-2023

Subject Matter Expert

HCL Technologies Ltd.
07.2022 - Current

PGDM - Marketing

IMT-Ghaziabad
08.2018 - 05.2020

Senior IT Support Engineer

Shri Ram Polymers ( India ) Pvt. Ltd.
05.2018 - 04.2022

Network Engineer

Aforeserve.com Ltd.
06.2016 - 02.2018

B.tech - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

R.B.C.E.T
08.2010 - 04.2014

Desktop Support Professional

01-2010

Intermediate - PCM

S.S.M.V
04.2008 - 04.2009

High School Diploma -

S.S.M.V
04.2006 - 03.2007
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