Senior Incident Management and IT Service Management professional with 19 years of experience overseeing critical production environments and high-severity incidents in 24x7 settings. Expertise in Major Incident Management, ITIL/ITSM, and service restoration. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams through structured troubleshooting and recovery, ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. Proficient in incident trend analysis, operational dashboards, and continuous service improvement.
Overview
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Certification
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19
years of professional experience
Work History
Incident Analyst – TAC
RELIANCE JIO INFOCOMM LTD
06.2023 - Current
Own the end-to-end lifecycle of high-severity and critical production incidents, from detection and triage through service restoration and closure.
Lead incident coordination across multiple technical teams, ensuring appropriate ownership, escalation, communication, and timely resolution.
Act as the central coordination point during Major Incident / War Room activities.
Assess business and customer impact and establish incident priorities based on severity, urgency, and service impact.
Drive technical teams toward resolution while maintaining focus on SLA commitments and service restoration.
Provide regular incident updates to stakeholders covering impact, actions taken, risks, ETA, recovery progress, and resolution.
Coordinate with engineering, operations, infrastructure, vendors, and other SMEs during complex production incidents.
Drive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and track corrective and preventive actions for recurring and high-impact incidents.
Identify incident trends and recurring failure patterns and recommend proactive improvement actions.
Coordinate production changes, upgrades, migrations, maintenance activities, and post-change validation.
Review implementation risks, service impact, rollback strategies, and operational readiness for production activities.
Prepare executive dashboards, operational reports, incident metrics, and management updates.
Support continuous improvement through process standardisation, automation, documentation, and operational governance.
Service Management & System Analyst
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
01.2018 - 03.2023
Managed Incident, Problem and Service Management activities in accordance with ITIL-based processes.
Coordinated high-priority production incidents and ensured effective escalation and stakeholder communication.
Led cross-functional teams through incident troubleshooting, recovery, service restoration, and closure.
Managed incident queues, priorities, escalations, SLA performance, and operational KPIs.
Conducted RCA and problem management for recurring and business-critical incidents.
Identified recurring incident patterns and worked with technical teams to implement permanent corrective actions.
Supported service governance through KPI analysis, operational reviews, dashboards, and management reporting.
Coordinated with geographically distributed engineering, operations, customer, and vendor teams.
Supported service transition, production deployment, maintenance, and change activities.
Improved operational workflows through process standardization and service management optimization.
Prepared RCA reports, SOPs, operational documentation, service reports, and management presentations.
NOC Incident Lead
AIRCEL PROJECT
10.2015 - 12.2017
Led Major Incident Management for critical production service disruptions in a 24x7 operational environment.
Established and managed incident bridges/war rooms involving multiple technical teams and vendors.
Coordinated technical SMEs and drove rapid troubleshooting and service restoration.
Prioritized incidents based on customer and service impact.
Managed escalations and ensured timely engagement of appropriate resolver groups.
Provided customer and executive-level communication throughout major incidents.
Conducted post-incident reviews and supported RCA and preventive action tracking.
Monitored operational KPIs and incident trends to identify service improvement opportunities.
Coordinated production activities with strong focus on service continuity and customer experience.
Incident & Problem Management / Service Operations Roles
NOKIA / VIDEOCON / NSN
09.2007 - 10.2015
Supported 24x7 production operations, incident management, problem management, and service assurance.
Managed technical escalations and coordinated multiple resolver teams for service-impacting issues.
Performed incident investigation, KPI analysis, service health monitoring, and operational reviews.
Supported RCA, corrective actions, preventive actions, and operational documentation.
Coordinated vendor activities and ensured timely resolution of operational issues.
Supported change implementation, maintenance activities, capacity planning, and service optimization.
Participated in audits, governance reviews, operational reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Electronics & Communication Engineering
Anna University
Chennai
01-2007
Skills
Major Incident Management
Incident Management
Problem Management
Production Incident Management
Service recovery
Incident Command & War Room Management
Business Impact Assessment
SLA / KPI management
Escalation Management
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Corrective & Preventive Actions (CAPA)
Change & Release Management
Risk & Impact Assessment
Continuous Service Improvement
Incident Trend & Problem Analysis
Operational Governance
Vendor & Third-Party Management
Process Standardization
Service Reporting & Dashboards
Key Achievements
Best Employee Awardee – Recognized for outstanding performance, consistent ownership, quality delivery, and excellence in assigned responsibilities, contributing significantly to overall operational and business objectives.
Service Availability & Stability – Proactively identified potential network risks and performance bottlenecks, enabling preventive actions that improved network stability and minimized customer-impacting issues.
Operational Excellence – Streamlined operational processes and introduced structured monitoring and follow-up mechanisms, resulting in faster issue identification, improved response times, and enhanced operational efficiency.
Cross-Functional Leadership – Demonstrated strong coordination with NOC, Operations, Planning, Engineering, and vendor teams to resolve complex network issues and deliver critical activities within committed timelines.
Quality & Compliance – Maintained high standards of implementation quality by ensuring proper pre-checks, execution controls, post-activity validation, and documentation, significantly reducing implementation-related risks.
Capacity & Resource Optimization – Identified underutilized and overloaded network resources and drove optimization initiatives to achieve better traffic distribution, improve resource utilization, and support future capacity requirements.
Customer Experience Improvement – Focused on improving network performance and service quality by proactively addressing congestion, capacity constraints, and recurring network issues, contributing to a more stable and reliable customer experience.
Certification
ITIL Foundation Certified – IT Service Management
Incident, Problem & Change Management
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Tamil
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Incident Analyst – TAC
RELIANCE JIO INFOCOMM LTD
06.2023 - Current
Service Management & System Analyst
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
01.2018 - 03.2023
NOC Incident Lead
AIRCEL PROJECT
10.2015 - 12.2017
Incident & Problem Management / Service Operations Roles
NOKIA / VIDEOCON / NSN
09.2007 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Electronics & Communication Engineering