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Aparna Ampalam

Chennai

Summary

Dynamic Senior Production Operations Engineer with extensive experience at JP Morgan Chase, specializing in incident management and batch processing.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Production Operations Engineer

Wellsfargo International Solutions Ltd
Chennai
08.2023 - Current
  • Supported web and client-based applications, files, data feeds, and batch processes to minimize business disruptions.
  • Monitored batch processes, resolved failures, and optimized runtimes for improved efficiency.
  • Provided daily support for escalated ticket resolutions and coordinated with business and technical leads.
  • Identified root causes of recurring issues to implement sustainable solutions.
  • Supervised new employees on regular tasks and addressed inquiries to enhance job understanding.
  • Collaborated with developers, analysts, and project managers to accelerate incident resolution.
  • Liaised with external vendors to effectively resolve IT-related issues.
  • Performed daily health checks on systems and user applications to ensure operational readiness.

Individual Contributor

JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Hyderabad
01.2021 - Current
  • Provide support for web and client-based applications, files and data feeds and batch processes to prevent impact to business.
  • Effective monitoring of batch, fixing batch failures and optimizing batch runtimes.
  • Provided daily support with escalated tickets resolutions and liaised with business and technical leads.
  • Identify root cause of recurring problems to implement effective solutions.
  • Supervise and guide new employees on regular tasks and respond quickly to questions, which improved understanding of job responsibilities.
  • Collaborate with developers, analysts and project managers to expedite incident resolution.
  • Liaise with external vendors to work together in resolving any IT issues.
  • Perform health checks to Systems, User Applications, Windows services & Infrastructure everyday to give a heads up for business to proceed.
  • Constant Systems / Application monitoring so that business won’t get affected.
  • Support any production releases and to ensure application health and functionality post deployment.
  • Optimizing incidents to reduce manual efforts put in by the team.
  • Problem Record creation and tracking for any issues that requires production fix in the systems.
  • Change Record creation and collaborating with different team for the implementation.
  • Tracing issues and liaising with DEV to improve application functionality and user interface.

Core Shift Lead

JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Hyderabad
10.2016 - 01.2021
  • Working on escalated tickets and resolving them as soon as possible.
  • Make sure that the SLA s of the tickets of the team are met.
  • Joining the calls with higher management regarding process improvements.
  • Managing the shift ROTA to make sure the availability of the resources.
  • In addition to the core lead activities, Working on Jira Customizations, Jira Project Migrations, Developer Xchange Issues.
  • Working on Bitbucket Project Migrations.
  • Providing reports to the higher management on the ticket analysis and the improvement areas.
  • Finding out the Major Manual effort area and automating them.
  • Incident management, Problem Management by providing the resolution and Root cause analysis for the Problem tickets.
  • Training new members on the applications.
  • Weekly meeting with the team members on support issues.
  • Updating the documentation on support procedures.

Project Lead

Polaris Financial Technologies Limited
Hyderabad
10.2015 - 10.2016
  • Took part in the Project transition by travelling to Client location, London and executing the project successfully at offshore.
  • Responsible for monitoring the batch, related to Credit risk and Market risk applications like Actimize, Adaptiv, MLC (Murex Limit Controller), SIMRA, FACT, Raptor etc.
  • To perform Batch Interface Monitoring and analyze the batch delivery SLA’s using Tivoli Workload Scheduling tool.
  • To ensure the timely delivery of files to the business users and coordinating with them and corresponding up streams in case of any delays or issues.
  • Meeting with cross teams for understanding requirements and coordination between the teams all across.
  • Responsible for creating and sending out Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status Reports regularly to the Lloyds Higher Management.

Associate

JP Morgan Chase
08.2010 - 10.2015
  • Worked as a lead for a team of 5 members.
  • Taking care of onboarding process for new members in the team.
  • Modifying Unix and SQL scripts and automating processes based on business requirement.
  • Scheduling jobs based on business requirement using Autosys and Cron.
  • Extracting reports from the servers.
  • DR planning.
  • Analyzing and resolving day to day production issues.
  • Release and Deployment.
  • Code analysis and resolution of technical production issues.
  • Expertise in handling the incident, change and problem management process.
  • Involved in automation of manual tasks.
  • Implemented Geneos monitoring tool for complete monitoring of the applications.
  • Trained new team members on the Banking applications.
  • Hands on experience on situations where on-call 24 x 7 support for mission critical systems and Production support.
  • Working on tickets to provide 100% SLA compliance to customers.

Education

B.Tech - I.T.

JNTU Kakinada
01.2009

Intermediate -

A.P. State board of Intermediate education
01.2005

S.S.C -

A.P state board of higher school education
01.2003

Skills

  • Windows server management
  • Incident management
  • Batch processing
  • Root cause analysis
  • System monitoring
  • Application support
  • Technical documentation
  • Effective communication
  • Employee training
  • Performance monitoring
  • Oracle PL/SQL and SQL
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Linux and Unix systems
  • Java programming
  • Database management (Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase)
  • Version control (GIT, SVN, Bitbucket)
  • Automation tools (Jenkins, Autosys)
  • IT service management (ITSM, ServiceNow)
  • Cloud services (AWS)
  • Monitoring tools (Splunk, Grafana)
  • Container orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Basic networking knowledge

Certification

  • Red hat Linux Administrator Training
  • ITIL V3
  • Currently enrolled in training for Cloud certification - Developer Program

Accomplishments

  • Received Best Student Award for the year 2003-2004.
  • Was awarded star Performer of the month three times in HCL.
  • Received client appreciations for effectively understanding the customer requirements and delivering the JIRA Project customizations.

Projects

Finance IT, Deutsche Bank, HCL technologies Limited, Bangalore, 08/10 to 10/15, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, Unix, Solaris, Java, Worked as a lead for a team of 5 members., Taking care of onboarding process for new members in the team., Modifying Unix and SQL scripts and automating processes based on business requirement., Scheduling jobs based on business requirement using Autosys and Cron., Extracting reports from the servers., DR planning., Analyzing and resolving day to day production issues., Release and Deployment., Code analysis and resolution of technical production issues., Expertise in handling the incident, change and problem management process., Involved in automation of manual tasks., Implemented Geneos monitoring tool for complete monitoring of the applications., Trained new team members on the Banking applications., Hands on experience on situations where on-call 24 x 7 support for mission critical systems and Production support., Working on tickets to provide 100% SLA compliance to customers. Risk IT, Lloyds Banking Group, Polaris Financial technologies limited, Hyderabad, 10/15 to 10/16, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, Unix, Solaris, Sybase, Java, Murex, Took part in the Project transition by travelling to Client location, London and executing the project successfully at offshore., Responsible for monitoring the batch, related to Credit risk and Market risk applications like Actimize, Adaptiv, MLC (Murex Limit Controller), SIMRA, FACT, Raptor etc., To perform Batch Interface Monitoring and analyze the batch delivery SLA’s using Tivoli Workload Scheduling tool., To ensure the timely delivery of files to the business users and coordinating with them and corresponding up streams in case of any delays or issues., Meeting with cross teams for understanding requirements and coordination between the teams all across., Responsible for creating and sending out Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status Reports regularly to the Lloyds Higher Management. JP Morgan Chase & Co., Hyderabad, 10/16 to 01/21, Jira, Developer Xchange, Bitbucket, SVN, FRS, Core Shift Lead, Working on escalated tickets and resolving them as soon as possible., Make sure that the SLA s of the tickets of the team are met., Joining the calls with higher management regarding process improvements., Managing the shift ROTA to make sure the availability of the resources., Working on Jira Customizations, Jira Project Migrations, Developer Xchange Issues., Working on Bitbucket Project Migrations., Providing reports to the higher management on the ticket analysis and the improvement areas., Finding out the Major Manual effort area and automating them., Incident management, Problem Management by providing the resolution and Root cause analysis for the Problem tickets., Training new members on the applications., Weekly meeting with the team members on support issues., Updating the documentation on support procedures. JP Morgan Chase & Co., Hyderabad, 01/21 to present, Acquisitions, Individual Contributor, Provide support for web and client-based applications, files and data feeds and batch processes to prevent impact to business., Effective monitoring of batch, fixing batch failures and optimizing batch runtimes., Provided daily support with escalated tickets resolutions and liaised with business and technical leads., Identify root cause of recurring problems to implement effective solutions., Supervise and guide new employees on regular tasks and respond quickly to questions, which improved understanding of job responsibilities., Collaborate with developers, analysts and project managers to expedite incident resolution., Liaise with external vendors to work together in resolving any IT issues., Perform health checks to Systems, User Applications, Windows services & Infrastructure everyday to give a heads up for business to proceed., Constant Systems / Application monitoring so that business won’t get affected., Support any production releases and to ensure application health and functionality post deployment., Optimizing incidents to reduce manual efforts put in by the team., Problem Record creation and tracking for any issues that requires production fix in the systems., Change Record creation and collaborating with different team for the implementation., Tracing issues and liaising with DEV to improve application functionality and user interface. t-mobile, HCL Technologies Limited, 06/22 to present, Individual Contributor, Provide support for web and client-based applications, files and data feeds and batch processes to prevent impact to business., Effective monitoring of batch, fixing batch failures and optimizing batch runtimes., Provided daily support with escalated tickets resolutions and liaised with business and technical leads., Identify root cause of recurring problems to implement effective solutions., Supervise and guide new employees on regular tasks and respond quickly to questions, which improved understanding of job responsibilities., Collaborate with developers, analysts and project managers to expedite incident resolution., Liaise with external vendors to work together in resolving any IT issues., Perform health checks to Systems, User Applications, Windows services & Infrastructure everyday to give a heads up for business to proceed., Constant Systems / Application monitoring so that business won’t get affected., Support any production releases and to ensure application health and functionality post deployment., Optimizing incidents to reduce manual efforts put in by the team., Problem Record creation and tracking for any issues that requires production fix in the systems., Change Record creation and collaborating with different team for the implementation.

Personal Information

  • Age: 34
  • Husband's Name: Srinivas Patnaikuni
  • Marital Status: Married

Timeline

Senior Production Operations Engineer

Wellsfargo International Solutions Ltd
08.2023 - Current

Individual Contributor

JP Morgan Chase & Co.
01.2021 - Current

Core Shift Lead

JP Morgan Chase & Co.
10.2016 - 01.2021

Project Lead

Polaris Financial Technologies Limited
10.2015 - 10.2016

Associate

JP Morgan Chase
08.2010 - 10.2015

B.Tech - I.T.

JNTU Kakinada

Intermediate -

A.P. State board of Intermediate education

S.S.C -

A.P state board of higher school education
Aparna Ampalam