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Jaykumar Rajaraman

Jaykumar Rajaraman

IT Business Analyst
Chennai

Summary

Expert IT Business Analyst with 10+ years of experience in ITIL driven technology organizations. Experience in producing proactive reports, trending analysis, service level reporting, process consultation and application of ITIL best practices. Developed and documented Incident Management process models for the role of Incident Manager. Proficient at management of multiple assignments, coordination of group activities, execution of plans and follows up to completion. Main area of expertise is on Client coordination, Project Management, Incident Management, IT Help Desk Operations, Information Security Management, Process Auditing, Crisis Management, and Transition Management

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Chennai
01.2021 - Current
  • PROJECT DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Project: SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
  • Utilized Agile Scrum practices to create MS Teams based Chat Bot for End Users.
  • Created workflows in MS Visio and designed overall structure of individual use cases.
  • Handled five members team to convert 500+ Knowledge Base Articles from ITSM KMDB Repository into Quick Reference Guides and integrated the same in Chat Bot.
  • Led all sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and daily scrums with development and support teams.
  • Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, estimations, retrospectives, and other Scrum-related meetings.
  • Assisted in team development, and leveraged organizational resources to improve capacity for project work.
  • Served as main point of contact to drive effective communication throughout all project phases.
  • I was also part of the Testing team to test Bot for bugs and followed the necessary Change Management Practices to push the final product to Production.
  • Handled all Proof of Concept and ready to deploy Use Case demo calls with Product Owners and Stake Holders.

Tower Lead

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Chennai
03.2019 - Current
  • RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Project: SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
  • Managed Service Desk, Account Management and Command Center Teams in our Project
  • Ensures that critical incidents are managed effectively and professionally, resulting in the restoration of normal service quickly, efficiently and with minimal impact to customers
  • Coordinates resources and activities during outages and customer affecting events through restoration of service
  • Drove effective and efficient Incident Management process to ensure timely service restoration and resolution of incidents
  • Oversaw support teams’ compliance with the Incident Management process
  • Initiated major incident bridge calls and handled correspondences between all clients and other teams which needed to be engaged
  • Assisted the Service Delivery Manager to resolve issues and needs of the client
  • Ensure on-time communications to all stakeholders (and if required, to the customers) through calls, emails, Microsoft Teams, etc, until the Incident was resolved
  • Used Excel to do pivot tables and pulled data from ITSM tool about Critical Major Incidents to present to clients in weekly meetings
  • Communicate to the Clients on incident status according to the SOP's and SLA's
  • Determine and mobilize the types of resources and levels of competencies needed for initial triage
  • Produced proactive reports, trending analysis, service level reporting with respect to the SLAs to clients on a Monthly Basis
  • Analyzed process metrics to identify and recommend improvements, improve productivity and increase client satisfaction
  • Identified areas of improvement during outages; drive improvement through ITIL disciplines
  • Handled Annual Appraisals for a 25-member team and worked on setting Appraisals Goals, reviewing progress and provided “Continuous Feedback” on a regular Basis
  • Checked on Promotion eligibility for Team Members and submitted Business cases for the associates to Human Resources for initiating the promotion process
  • Maintained Project Sensitive documents like SOPs, Run-Books, Signed Contracts Project Planning and Estimation Documents for facing Internal and third-party Audits.

Transition Lead

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
04.2017 - 03.2019
  • Functioned as a liaison to internal departments and aided in surfacing gaps between written procedures and staff execution
  • Trained new hires and assisted in developing materials and curriculum
  • Provided Knowledge Transition on the New Tasks/Business that was provided by the Client
  • Revamped the Knowledge Management module in our ITSM tool by creating new Knowledge Base Articles and also in reviewing the Existing Articles to make sure they are up to date with the changing Project Requirements
  • Worked with different Application and Support teams to have the Official Run Books and Escalation Matrices updated on a regular basis
  • Service Desk for Mac OS Support
  • Created a Service Desk Pilot Team for providing Mac OS Support for End Users
  • I led this transition right from Hiring till the Transition of Knowledge to Analysts
  • Worked on Creating SOPs and Knowledge Base Articles based on the defined Scope of Support
  • Cross-Trained the existing team with Mac OS Support to improve efficiency and save costs by reducing the headcount

Service Desk and Incident Management Analyst

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
06.2015 - 04.2017
  • Received telephone calls from our End Users about hardware and software malfunctions
  • Investigated and resolves hardware and software issues for users
  • Determined whether problem is caused by company disbursed hardware/software
  • Communicated with programmers to explain software errors or to recommend changes to programs
  • Applied technical knowledge to resolve incidents and restore service to normal operational condition
  • Use of SCCM to solve client issues and installation of business software
  • Install and troubleshoot corporate printers for employees and domain members
  • Utilized Best Practices to ensure first call resolution (FCR) with little or no end user loss of productivity system - wide
  • Introduced procedures and protocols which maintained redundancy and customer service efficiency
  • Processed various service request for software installation, password resets and account unlock through
  • Assisted end users in their day-to-day environment with computer or network-related issues via Microsoft Teams Etc
  • Identified patterns based on the Calls Received and escalated to Relevant teams in cases of Potential Outages.

Performance Improvement Coach

HCL Technologies Limited, British Telecom
04.2014 - 05.2015
  • Supporting the team members with their technical queries related to the process
  • Handling escalation calls
  • Auditing calls and providing coaching/feedback to help them achieve their business targets
  • Preparing analysis reports to identify process failures and to provide solutions based on the same.

Technical Support Officer

HCL Technologies Limited
01.2012 - 05.2015
  • PROJECT DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Project: British Telecom
  • Troubleshooting Internet connectivity related problems
  • Configuring email clients
  • Configuring Static IP for Business Customers
  • Configuring Modems, Routers and Access Points
  • Troubleshooting wireless related issues in computers and mobile devices.

Technical Support Executive

Sutherland Global Services
Chennai
01.2012 - 05.2015

Project: Dell

  • Troubleshooting Problem related to booting windows OS
  • Addressing all application related problems in windows OS (like email clients and Microsoft applications)
  • Storing and Securing data
  • Manual removal of malware from the computer
  • Optimizing the computers Performance
  • File and Printer Sharing
  • Configuring Wireless Printing
  • Configuring Secured networks business customers using switches and routers
  • Configuring Wired and wireless networks using routers for home customers

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

St. Peter’s Engineering College
Chennai, India
04.2006 - 04.2010

Skills

Customer interaction

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Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of 8 in the development of a MS Teams based Chat Bot and created a new Avenue of Support for the End-Users to meet their IT Needs.
  • Improved the Adoption rate of the Chat Bot by making it available even on the Teams Mobile App for easy accessibility.
  • Reduced L1 calls like Password Reset and Account Unlock to Service Desk by introducing a Use Case in the Chat Bot.
  • Reduced department operating costs by 30% in 6 months by integrating a New mac OS support based Service Desk with the existing Service Desk by Cross-Training the Analysts.

Software

Jamf

NexThink

ServiceNow

Jira

Certification

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Timeline

MS-101 - Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security

12-2022

Scrum Master

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
01.2021 - Current

Tower Lead

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
03.2019 - Current

ITILv3 Foundation Certified

06-2017

Transition Lead

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
04.2017 - 03.2019

Service Desk and Incident Management Analyst

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
06.2015 - 04.2017

Performance Improvement Coach

HCL Technologies Limited, British Telecom
04.2014 - 05.2015

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

06-2012

Technical Support Officer

HCL Technologies Limited
01.2012 - 05.2015

Technical Support Executive

Sutherland Global Services
01.2012 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

St. Peter’s Engineering College
04.2006 - 04.2010
Jaykumar RajaramanIT Business Analyst