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I am an IT-Analyst with 9+ years of experience in Production Support, Project Management Office (PMO) and Team Management. I have Insurance domain experience with AIG(now Corebridge) Life and Retirement solutions like NaviSys and ACES. Talented Team Leader experienced and dedicated to enhancing employee satisfaction and business success. Diplomatic and friendly with proven commitment to employee training. Hardworking team player bringing necessary experience and knowledge to tackle any operational demand. Strong facilitator adept at working cross-departmentally with co-management and top-level leadership. Excellent trainer and mentor.
· Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.
· Managed schedules, accepted time off requests and found coverage for short shifts.
· Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.
· Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.
· Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
· Worked different stations to provide optimal coverage and meet production goals.
· Developed monthly and daily production output plans to deliver on customer service and financial metrics.
· Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response.
· Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
· Managed leave requests and absences and arranged covers to facilitate smooth flow of operations.
· Supervised team members to confirm compliance with set procedures, meet SLA and quality requirements.
· Held weekly team meetings to inform team members on company news and updates.
· Communicated the employees about the outlined SLAs and KPIs and expectations and deliverables.
· Monitored time and attendance, enforcing compliance with company procedures relating to absenteeism.
· Assisted in recruitment of new team members, hiring highest qualified to build team of top performers.
· Monitored team performance and provided constructive feedback to increase productivity and maintain quality standards.
· Worked with Automation team to regulate the batch cycle to reduce manual efforts and error, identify areas of improvement and devised solutions based on findings.
· Well versed with ITIL Concepts - Incident, Problem, Change and Release Management, Knowledge management
· Perform and manage incident and event tickets, determine priority, and resolution from Level 1 escalation within defined SLA in compliance to Client’s incident management process
· Escalate incident and event tickets to Level 3 teams within defined SLA in compliance to client’s incident management process
· Perform in-depth production incident troubleshooting, resolve any production incident and monitor the fixes to ensure correct resolution.
· Provide trend analysis and root cause analysis on recurring incidents and defects
· Review and plan continuous improvements to ensure smooth running of the applications
· Manage application jobs, and provide instructions to Level 1 Application Operations team for jobs recovery/execution
· Perform Service Requests (e.g. data patching, extraction of data or report, answer usage queries, etc.)
· Settle Night shift allowance and allocation issues for team members.
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· Production Support Tasks:
Production support for Online and Batch systems:
1. Incident Management
2. Problem Management
3. Defect Management
· · Service Request Resolution
1. Enhancements: Effort< 40 hrs
2. Requirements clarification
3. Analysis and Design
4. Coding and Unit Testing
5. QA and UAT Support – Weekly calls with QA team
6. Deployment Support
· Provided professional services and support in a dynamic work environment.
· Paid attention to detail while completing assignments.
· Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.
· Participated in team projects, demonstrating an ability to work collaboratively and effectively.
· Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
· Delivered services to customer locations within specific timeframes.
· Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
· Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.
· Batch Cycle monitoring and validation — Includes Batch monitoring for two specific applications of Life and Retirement Services and debugging the issues escalated by L0/L1 team.
· Data fix, code fix changes required in the present system.
· Developed and maintained all technical like Batch cycle SOPs and KEDBs in detail.
· Maintaining and monitoring production system alerts and providing triage support for priority one and two system outage
· Worked with the automation team to institute automation techniques
· which reduced manual labor and increased workflow efficiency.
· Supported weekend systems upgrades: provided technical support and knowledge of system availability times.
· Handling escalation on actions from Production Engineers Level 1 (incident, request, change)
• Daily monitoring of Distributed Systems Applications,
• Assisted in updating the production incident and task reports for around 30 applications and submitting a summary to management each month.
• Mainframe job monitoring
• AS400 application Batch cycle monitoring and reporting
• Worked on Sonic Application (Service Now) monitoring and triaging.
• Used to prepare Incidents Dashboard and ageing reports for different application teams.
· Batch cycle monitoring in five environments,
· AVPs of applications to keep a check of down time.
· Analyzed and determined priority to escalate failed jobs in a shortest
· possible time.
· Mentored around 12 team members regarding the Domain process and
· Day to day work.
· Worked as a "Shift Lead" managing 10 members at a time
· Cultivated interpersonal skills by building positive relationships with others.
· Acted as a team leader in group projects, delegating tasks and providing feedback.
· Provided professional services and support in a dynamic work environment.
· Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution.
• Recognition from TCS Maitree Club for lending voiceover for stage plays and corporate videos.
• Have acted as a lead child artist in a documentary directed by film maker Nila Madhab Panda
ITIL V4.0 Foundation
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I have completed the ITIL Certification from Simplilearn and am currently doing the CSM Certification. Planning to appear for both the exams in June.
CSM certification
ITIL V4.0 Foundation