Delivery Management
PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS A dynamic professional with more than 15 years of international experience in Service Delivery, Technical Account Management, People Management, Customer Success Management and SRE .
Presently associated with Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd ( Spin Off of IBM GTS wef Sept 2021) , as a Regional Delivery Manager - @ Band 9 . In recent past was associated with AT&T Global Business Services, as a Technical Director / Manager A . Held Delivery Assurance responsibility for team sizes of 200+ as APAC Delivery Assurance Manager. Was identified as one of the Change agent’s from CSC GTS - to work with McKinsey & Company to achieve operational excellence. Proven skills as a Tribe leader , managing Squad leaders to work in sync with the corporate set parameters & motivating them for achieving business and individual goals. SRE team functional ownership – Plan , Design and implement for Hyper Mission critical applications – On demand of the Customer. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with proven abilities in resolving complex Process, Product and People related issues.
§ Led the Transition from AT&T to IBM MIS contract – the transition from in-house to a Service Provider model.
§ Successfully re-deployed workloads from US ; CALA and EMEA into APAC – with in a period of 1 year in IBM – This required extensive fast phased hiring of workforce across platforms and Tribes . This created 320 HC positions for APAC and a cost saving of $ 6mn per Annum for .
§ Conducted multiple workshops for the teams on the ground to help them sink in to a Service provider role ; which included SLA stabilization and picking up new responsibilities in new role as a Vendor .
§ Received “GTS Rockstar Award 2020” for delivering exceptional business outcomes, this was awarded by the Senior VP – GTS . Nominated criteria Going the Xtra mile – for achieving Customer delight and SLA stabilization .
§ Continuous Top performer rating in the Management and Delivery team for the last 4 years based on Quality and error free service delivery. 2017 -2020.
§ Played a Key role in setting up a nearshore operations center in Mexico , Had to relocate to Mexico for a brief period to Train and stabilize operations in Mexico . Year of 2018.
§ Instrumental in Ticket Reduction initiative –Reduced ticket counts from 40K + to 25K monthly ( even with added volumes ) ; This was achieved by a mix of Automation using machine learning techniques and Deep dive analysis ; current contribution of automated ticket closure is at an all time high of 24% . Year 2017-18 .
· Entrusted to manage delivery of agreed services across the AT&T internal infrastructure Landscape which constitutes of 2.5 L OS instances , Allotted Storage capacity of 430 PB and Backup domain backing up 4 PB of Data everyday . In a 16X7 support model.
· Act as a third level of Contact from AT&T Enterprise operations for any Service Delivery related escalations.
· Responsible to run Day to Day operations smoothly across AT&T Infra Landscape.
· Analyze and publish SLA trends, Stabilization and corrections when required.
· Responsible for Cost of Delivery Measurements – OpeEx vs Return of Investment (resources, billing and time spent).
· Responsible for handling customer’s Ad-hoc requests/projects and co-coordinating with the Team for completion.
· Widely responsible for overseeing the work of the entire operations and improving service performance through coaching, mentoring and performance appraisals of Team leaders.
· Work with SME’s to identify opportunities for Automation of repetitive and simple Manual tasks , implement based on feasibility in accordance with the T4 planning and Engineering team .
· Identify opportunities for skill improvement and Enhancement of team members , arrange periodic training to overcome improvement areas .
· Responsible to Oversee ownership in reviewing, revising and auditing all policies and procedures as required for internal IT audit compliances.
· Responsible for running and managing resource yearly appraisal cycle for 100+ team members.
· To make sure team meets the efficiency ratio’s set by Account and Platform management which are consistently reviewed based on standard service models.
· Available oncall 24x7 as my team works round the clock.
Leveraged offshore and Onshore teams via telepresence, managing diverse personnel across varying levels of technical expertise.