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Ashish U Honnavar

Project Manager
Bangalore
"There is always an opportunity to make a difference, and there is no better catalyst to success than curiosity."
Michael Dell
Ashish U Honnavar

Summary

Overall, insightful experience of 18 years in Support (Client & Consumer), Services (Client, Enterprise, Corporate & Government), Operations Management, Process Management, Partner Management, Programme Management, Project Management & Team Management. Demonstrated ability to adapt rapidly & quickly learn business processes, workflows, policy, and procedures of the organizational requirements.

Deftness in handling overall functioning of specific business processes & implementing processes in line with the preset business-oriented goals & guidelines. Proven track record of managing processes and streamlining workflow & creating teamwork environment to enhance productivity innovatively. Proficient in managing & leading teams for running successful business process, programs, and project operations & experience of developing procedures, service standards for business excellence. Ensuring that the process surpasses achievement of delivery & service quality norms for all valuable clientele.


Currently 2+ years of experience as Advisor Program/Project handling communication, time management, negotiation, coordination, supervising delivery projects from initiation through delivery & hand-over.

Furthermore, able to keep up with the project management trends via certifications and use available organizational tools we have, to their fullest potential to achieve business targets with profitable margins and deliver results in timely manner.

Overview

18
years of professional experience
4
Languages
5
Certificates
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies

Advisor, Service Project/Program Manager
03.2022 - Current

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies

Senior Analyst Service Project/Program Manager
06.2016 - 02.2022

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies

Tech Support Senior Specialist
07.2010 - 05.2016

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies

Tech Support Resolution Expert
04.2008 - 06.2010

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies

Customer Care Expert
06.2006 - 03.2008

Education

Bangalore University
Bangalore

Bachelor of Science from Microbiology
06.2003 - 06.2007

Skills

Project Management

Career Outline

Managerial assignments in Process Management / Operations / Team & Project Management with a leading organization of repute.

Highlights Achievements

  • Successful Onboarding of several critical Enterprise clients onto Virtustream Enterprise Cloud (VEC) & also Offboarding from VEC into Azure, GCP & AWS.
  • Delivered projects including SAP Upgrades within VEC (BRIM, BODS & BOBJ upgrades) for Emirates National Oil Comp. (ENOC) & Cargill in critical delivery windows
  • Managed projects under following banners – APJ GRIDS (Global Remote Installation & Deployment Services) & APJ RIS (Remote Installation Services).
  • Transitioned from managing L1 projects (i.e. region specific, individual product based remote deployments) to large tier multi-tower (hybrid) projects involving numerous locations within 12-15 months in tenure. Currently managing PAN-India complex custom deployments including Storages, HCI & Networking.
  • 2018 - Successfully deployed multiple Dell EMC VRTX Chassis across 15+ PAN-India locations for KPMG within 90days of h/w delivery by mitigating careful coordination between remote & onsite resources at all sites with zero escalations & complete customer satisfaction.
  • 2019 - Deployed multiple Dell PowerEdge Servers & successfully handed over across 30+ PAN-India locations for Shoppers’ Stop Ltd per requirement.
  • 2020 & present – Complex deployment & hand-over of MX7000 Chassis across multi-locations for INDIAN AIR-FORCE.
  • Key role of running CSAT sustenance & improvement programs by constant review, monitoring & publishing of Customer Satisfaction survey scorecard to team. Performed CLCA & RCA on negative customer experience surveys and present business cases and shared learnings to team to help minimize repeat instances.
  • Performed RCA on RDR & XPR to ensure controllable were reduced. Ran RDR project in DPW to train BQs across the entity.
  • Participated as SME during change of DellServ to Delta tool launch (2008-2009).
  • Active UAT and feedback for transition from DMT to Financial Force (2019) sharing inputs from PM perspective.
  • Awarded with the Certificate of Excellence for Customer Experience during tenure throughout Customer Care, Tech support & Project Management.

It Skills

  • Windows OS
  • MS Word
  • MS Excel
  • MS PowerPoint

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 11/08/85


LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/ashish-honnavar-ab422b216



Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

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Affiliations

  • Project Management Institute

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)

Interests

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Music

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Timeline

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

03-2024

ITIL v4® - Managing Professional (CDS - Create Deliver Support)

09-2023

Advisor, Service Project/Program Manager

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies
03.2022 - Current

ITIL v4® - Foundations

09-2020

Senior Analyst Service Project/Program Manager

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies
06.2016 - 02.2022

ITILv3® - Intermediate (Service Operations Lifecycle)

12-2015

ITILv3® - Foundations

12-2013

Tech Support Senior Specialist

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies
07.2010 - 05.2016

Tech Support Resolution Expert

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies
04.2008 - 06.2010

Customer Care Expert

Dell International Services Ltd. / Dell Technologies
06.2006 - 03.2008

Bangalore University

Bachelor of Science from Microbiology
06.2003 - 06.2007
Ashish U HonnavarProject Manager