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Basavaraj Deyannavar

Basavaraj Deyannavar

Team Lead Customer Support
Banglore,Karnataka

Summary

Demonstrate more than 12 years of in-depth experience in providing Technical Support and Services Delivery in the IT sector. Thriving in the role of Technical Support Team Lead at Aptean, directly managed a team of 19 members, responsible for hiring, coaching, and capacity planning. Proficient in SQL, Power BI Analytics, SSAS support, Salesforce. Led the onboarding of newly acquired products into CoE Bangalore, including resource planning, hiring, training, and monitoring performance metrics. Conducted performance reviews for the team, with 2 years of experience in evaluating performance and providing feedback. Handle key escalations and engage stakeholders during weekly calls to address any issues. Collaborate with the R&D team to improve collaboration, streamline QA tasks, and expedite build releases. Drive weekly calls for premium customers and serve as subject matter expert(SME) for 2 products, proposing solutions for product issues and contributing to product roadmaps. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to prioritize tasks such as bug fixes, enhancements, customizations, and technical deliverables. Drove organizational initiatives to improve 48-hour resolution, implement a learning management system, and prevent cases in collaboration with the Development team. People Management: Conducted regular performance reviews, identify strengths and weaknesses, build trust, provide up skilling opportunities, assist with tasks, monitor progress, and set high standards for quality results. Played a key role as a Core Team member of the team that implemented AI tool, resulting in 50% improvement in average days to resolve a support ticket. Along with-it average response time increased from 5 days to less than a day.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages

Work History

Technical Support Team Lead

Aptean
Banglore
02.2023 - Current
  • Demonstrate more than 12 years of in-depth experience in providing Technical Support and Services Delivery in the IT sector
  • Thriving in the role of Technical Support Team Lead at Aptean, directly managed a team of 19 members, responsible for hiring, coaching, and capacity planning
  • Proficient in SQL, Power BI Analytics, SSAS support, Salesforce.
  • Led the onboarding of newly acquired products into CoE Bangalore, including resource planning, hiring, training, and monitoring performance metrics
  • Conducted performance reviews for the team, with 2 years of experience in evaluating performance and providing feedback
  • Handle key escalations and engage stakeholders during weekly calls to address any issues
  • Collaborate with the R&D team to improve collaboration, streamline QA tasks, and expedite build releases
  • Drive weekly calls for premium customers and proposing solutions for product issues and contributing to product roadmaps
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to prioritize tasks such as bug fixes, enhancements, customizations, and technical deliverables
  • Drove organizational initiatives to improve 48-hour resolution, implement a learning management system, and prevent cases in collaboration with the Development team.
  • Successfully completed the HILP(High Impact Leadership Program) Program.
  • People Management: Conducted regular performance reviews, identify strengths and weaknesses, build trust, provide upskilling opportunities, assist with tasks, monitor progress, and set high standards for quality results
  • Played a key role as a Core Team member of the team that implemented AI tool, resulting in 50% improvement in average days to resolve a support ticket
  • Along with-it average response time increased from 5 days to less than a day

Technical Solution Consultant

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE
Banglore
05.2017 - 09.2022
  • Working with HPE since May 2017 as a Technical Solution Consultant
  • Having 4+ years of experience in End-to-end storage provisioning, Administration configuration, troubleshooting of high end disk storage systems such as HP, Hitachi
  • Working as technology consultant II on storage administrations, end to end management
  • Having Experience on industry standard servers (ISS) ProLiant Servers (ML.BL, DL, SL)
  • Preparing monthly reports and updating technology specific documents
  • Hands on experience on DC activities and assisting DC teams for any technical related issue

Technical L1 Support Engineer

Hewlett Packard, HP
Banglore
02.2013 - 05.2017
  • Worked with Imaging and Printing Group for India providing first level assistance to enterprise customers on LaserJet, All-in-one Printers & Scan jet Scanners commercial products
  • Job role includes: Provide First - level Technical Support on basic operational or maintenance of Commercial printers and scanners using available tools
  • Analyze and clarify customer queries though troubleshooting and researching existing knowledgebase articles/known issues
  • Learn new printer technologies and sharing the same with team
  • Actively participate in team meetings by providing feedback on current day to day activity and recommendations for improvement
  • Identify and provide input on unique or recurring customer problems
  • Log and sufficiently document all contacts with customers in designated tools
  • Guide customer to troubleshoot to resolve the issues with products on both Windows and MAC operating systems
  • Providing floor support and technical training
  • Providing process training for new hires
  • Attend regular trainings conducted by HP to improve upon my product knowledge and troubleshooting skills
  • Offering products on the call (doing sales), Providing specification of products and sale online HP products
  • Pulling reports, creating XL report that is Day to day report
  • Giving training to the new comers on the Tools
  • Handling the Team and monitoring the Queue
  • Handling the Sales of HP products
  • Resolving the Network related issues
  • Helping customer remotely to setup printer and printer features (scan, fax, email, installation etc.)
  • Publishing reports like Rejection cases and Open Case Analysis on daily basis
  • Troubleshooting Hardware /Networking/OS related queries of Customers over phone
  • Take calls from customers and initiate the right response to them, positively and professionally
  • Provide remote solutions to problems, probe problems and explain the solution in such a way those non-technical users understand
  • Elevating queries to second level engineers
  • Conducting team meetings on weekly basis
  • Assisted HP Onsite Partners for HP scanners
  • Supported HP Scanjet’s and Printers (Low end) and currently supporting HP Commercial Printers (High End)

Education

BE - CSE

H.I.T college

PUC - undefined

JSS college
Gokak, Belagavi

Class X - undefined

shankarling High School

M.tech - Computer Engineering

SJCIT
Karnataka
03.2015 - Current

Skills

SQL

PowerBI Analytics

SSAS support

Salesforce

Oracle DB

MySQL DB

Leadership skills

Team management

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Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the above given statement is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief., Bangalore

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Irappa I Deyannavar
  • Marital Status: Married

Timeline

Technical Support Team Lead

Aptean
02.2023 - Current

Technical Solution Consultant

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE
05.2017 - 09.2022

M.tech - Computer Engineering

SJCIT
03.2015 - Current

Technical L1 Support Engineer

Hewlett Packard, HP
02.2013 - 05.2017

PUC - undefined

JSS college

Class X - undefined

shankarling High School

BE - CSE

H.I.T college
Basavaraj DeyannavarTeam Lead Customer Support