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Ashwini A P

Global Tower Lead - IT Service Management
Bengaluru,India

Summary

A Global Tower Lead with12 years of experience in Customer Success, Service Contract Management, IT Service Management, Service Delivery, Project Management, Product Management on Agile methodology, Customer Experience, IT Asset Management, Vendor/Stakeholder Management, Escalation Management, Governance, Quality Management, Configuration Management and Procurement/Sourcing.

6 years in Service Governance/Delivery and Operations Excellence, 4 years in IT Asset and Configuration management and 2 Years in Procurement Management.

Overview

3
3
Certificates
17
17
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Global Tower Lead - IT Service Management

ExxonMobil Services and Technology Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, India
06.2016 - Current
  • To obtain synergy and drive an E2E support design. All MSP engagement for ExxonMobil is to be organized into a single reporting unit under the role. Oversee and provide business guidance to Operations in providing support for IT services under scope of Customer Success and Solutions
  • As Global Tower Lead, I am working with the MSP Tower Leads, Business/Support groups, and multiple LoB Service Delivery Management to execute the roles below:
  • Business Operational Relationship: ✓ Escalation and Incident Management. ✓ Facilitate MSP enablement. ✓ Monthly SLA/KPI exception request. ✓ Accountable for the performance. ✓ Stewardship for vendors SLA’s and KPI’s. ✓ Monthly SLA/KPI review. ✓ Ensuring breaches of SLA are investigated and actions are taken to prevent recurrence. ✓ Working with MSP SDM on incident trends, analysis, RCAs. ✓ Work together with service owners and SDO’s to determine improvement opportunities, changes (to process & tools) and priorities. ✓ Direct reports – Tower leads, project interface, Contracts renewal, negotiations, compliance. ✓ Service readiness and project support. ✓ Operational performance and corrective actions. ✓ Performance review with service owners
  • Service Level Management: ✓ Ensuring that the current and future service level requirements (service warranty) of customers are identified, understood and documented in SLA (Service Level Agreement). ✓ Ensuring that service reports are produced for each customer service and that breaches of SLA targets are highlighted, investigated and actions taken to prevent their recurrence.
  • Continuous Improvement: ✓ To ensure services are delivered efficiently. The improvement initiatives identified are acted on and progress reports are provided to customers. ✓ Ensured the service level requirements (service warranty) of customers are identified, understood and documented in SLA (Service Level Agreement).
  • Customer Experience/Customer Success: ✓ Manage customer complaints including their management, escalation and resolution. ✓ Ensure that training program is in place (for onboarding and ongoing agents’ proficiency).
  • QM Lead: ✓ Collaborate with managed service providers (MSP) to streamline and automate the QA processes, to ensure processes are in place to gather, analyze, store and share within MSP. ✓ Ensuring that service reports are produced for each customer service and that breaches of SLA targets are highlighted, investigated and actions taken to prevent their recurrence. ✓ Accountable for completion of the ITIL Service Knowledge Management (SKMS) process. ✓ Collaborate with Quality and Knowledge Management for processes incorporation with MSP. ✓ Provide insight on Quality Management to ensure that proper Quality framework is in place. ✓ Identify and implement improvement in the QA processes to ensure efficient and quality service is delivered to business customers. ✓ Design, implement and maintain a Service Knowledge Management Systems (SKMS) that provides controlled access to knowledge, information and data per ExxonMobil guidelines. ✓ Recognize new enabling tools and technologies to simplify and manage knowledge and information effectively. ✓ Monthly SLA/KPI review for Quality and KM. ✓ Stewardship for vendors Quality and KM SLA’s and KPI’s. ✓ Working with MSP tower leads on incident trends, analysis, RCAs. ✓ Prioritize work with SDO’s.

Business Analyst

Northern Trust
Bengaluru, India
08.2015 - 02.2016
  • Expert level asset and configuration business analyst providing the day-to-day support involved in maintaining the asset data for the desktop platform, including reconciling vendor data, monitoring production feeds, reviewing and action reports, data integrity troubleshooting, ad-hoc reporting, high level data analysis, documenting processes, and testing.
  • As a Business Analyst, Initiated global monthly process for vendor feed reviews. Coordinate with each vendor to reconcile the purchase data as well as destruction data.
  • Performed quarterly vendor data audits by reviewing Asset & Configuration reports, auditing records for missing data, researching issues, and contacting vendors.
  • Performed quarterly received feed audits by reviewing Asset & Configuration reports, auditing records for missing data, researching issues and contacting the local region techs.
  • Take action on data import exceptions, data errors for all production feeds for computers, and web jet. Research and resolves any issues relating to feeds.
  • Reviews feeds from SIMS disposal vendor and resolve data consistency issues.
  • Submit feeds from input into Service Now Asset and Configuration. Resolves any remaining issues with SIMS. Identifies issues in writing to management and SIMS.
  • Take action on INCs. Resolve the data issues having to do with discovery discrepancies.
  • Create reports from Asset and Configuration including Lifecycle, PCs per Partner, Retired/Destructed, Unknown Quarterly Audit, Printer Profile and ad hoc reports queries.
  • Reports finding of data integrity issues to management for inclusion in Inventory Control meetings, R task meetings or Desktop Asset Process meetings.
  • Create and update the documentation and workflow diagrams for processes, and reports.
  • Define requirements for fixes or enhancements to be implemented in Service Now.
  • Perform Service Now Asset & Configuration releases, design discussions, planning, and UAT.
  • Participates in the transition of SITM based workflow to Service Now
  • Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
  • Surveyed clients to ascertain requirements and expectations for product.
  • Drafted reports on company financial metrics to assess successes and account for deficiencies.
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.

Process Analyst

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, India
06.2011 - 11.2013

As a Process Analyst, Pinpointed cost-effective process improvements through simulation of potential process alterations, discovering optimal enhancements without interrupting live production efforts.

  • Developed change management protocols to streamline required business process alterations through preemptive training and guidance.
  • Knowledge of all client specific processes, procedures and its assets (Hardware and Software).
  • Knowledge of Hardware assets and software assets and its complete life cycle.
  • Knowledge of Software licensing.
  • Reviewing purchase requisition created from tool ARIBA.
  • Collecting quotations from stakeholders and vendors and reviewing purchase orders.
  • Creating ASN (Advance Shipping Notices) and routing to data center to notify and receive the asset tag numbers and serial numbers provided.
  • Creating the Delivery notification for data centers to notify the incoming/arrival of the order.
  • Update and maintain the asset management database with received serial and asset tag number
  • Determining /extracting the report on upcoming maintenance and renewals i.e., 90 days.
  • Working on due diligence forms and sending to the stakeholders for maintenance and renewals.
  • Negotiating on cost savings and terms, when applicable.
  • PO and invoice confirmation from vendor.
  • Ensure audit readiness of the asset management database.
  • Maintaining and updating process documents on SharePoint.
  • Knowledge on expense tracking and negotiation.

Procurement Specialist

IBM
Bengaluru, India
11.2009 - 06.2011
  • As a Senior Procurement Specialist, Reviewing requisition requirements.
  • Recognizing Non-Catalog purchases that should be directed to a catalog solution.
  • Determining Source from Sourcing provided Master File.
  • Negotiate cost savings and terms, when applicable (non-contracted sources).
  • Procurement of low dollar purchases services (including source identification as needed).
  • Knowledge of all client specific processes and procedures.
  • Client and supplier Management on payment issues in conjunction with commodity manager.
  • Ensure audit readiness of all purchasing documents.
  • Resolve blocked invoices.
  • Expedite and Emergency Orders and follow up on deliveries
  • Made valuable contributions to planning of promotions, pricing and inventory levels, enhancing inventory flow, revenue and profits.
  • Identified new and more cost-effective suppliers through participation in industry networking events, purchasing advantageous packages and cutting costs.
  • Researched new vendors and partners to obtain most cost-effective pricing for goods.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science

Vemana Institute of Technology
Bengaluru
06.2004 - 08.2009

Skills

    Customer Success and Experience

IT Service Management

Operational Excellence

Product Management

Project Management

Service Delivery

Stakeholder and Vendor Management

Agile Methodology

Accomplishments

● Awarded for the outstanding performance in the year 2019 and 2020 at ExxonMobil.

● Awarded as the Best Influencer at workplace and Outperformer at Northern Trust.

● Proficient in Supply Chain Management domains such as Sourcing & Procurement management with SAP ERP MM (Front end) tool for creation purchase orders and its life cycle.

● IT Asset (Software/Hardware) Management: Software/Hardware Lifecycle, Maintaining master data of the assets and data update, validation, reconciliation and maintenance.

● Contract Management, Maintenance, Renewals and Expense Tracking.

● Extensively built scope for high-end Reporting/Analytics, Auditing, Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Security and Controls.

● Proficient in Data Analytics, BMC Remedy, ServiceNow, SmartTrack, AppTrack, Tableau Reporting, Ariba/eSpeed Buy, SAP MM Tool using front end (ECC v6 SD & MM Modules).

Certification

SAFe POPM(Product Owner/Product Manager) Certification

Timeline

SAFe POPM(Product Owner/Product Manager) Certification

03-2022

ITIL V4 Foundation

09-2019

Global Tower Lead - IT Service Management

ExxonMobil Services and Technology Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - Current

Business Analyst

Northern Trust
08.2015 - 02.2016

ITIL V3 Foundation

09-2013

Process Analyst

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 11.2013

Procurement Specialist

IBM
11.2009 - 06.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science

Vemana Institute of Technology
06.2004 - 08.2009

Additional Information

Certification and Training

  • SAFe POPM(Product Owner/Product Manager) Certification.
  • Certified ITIL V3 (2013) and V4 (Sept 2019) Foundation.
  • Project Management: The Basics for Success, University of California (MX43QLUPGL3T)
  • Leadership Skill Trainings - Assertive Leadership/ Leading Teams/Inclusive Leadership.
  • IT Controls Management – ExxonMobil Security and Controls Basics.
  • Enterprise Service Management – ServiceNow Training.
  • Cloud Fundamentals – Microsoft Cloud Solutions/Azure, AWS, OCI.
  • Project Management: The Basics for Success/Foundational concepts.
  • Change Management – Fundamentals/ CAB/ MOC Lead.
  • Incident/Problem Management – Matrix/Recovery/RCA.
  • Vendor Management Training – Commercial Mindset.
  • IBM Procurement Standard - Blue Book Detail.
  • Vendor/Supplier Performance Evaluations and Source selection/Fair Value.
  • Negotiation Essentials and way to negotiate.

Software

ServiceNow

BMC Remedy

Tableau

Ariba

ESpeedBuy

SmartTrack

AppTrack

Interests

Product Management

Project Management

About Me

  • A strong practitioner and promoter of Inclusion and Equality by embracing the Diversity.
  • Event Management - Organized events and hosted as MC for ExxonMobil events and few others.
Ashwini A PGlobal Tower Lead - IT Service Management