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Karan Singh Nirwan

Karan Singh Nirwan

Production Support Manager

Summary

I am a Support Manager with expertise in IT Service Management, Team Management, Project Management, ITIL, and Technical Support. With a track record of managing support teams and delivering a world-class customer experience, I excel in People Management Skills. I have 13+ years of experience as an L1 and L2 ops/support lead, actively participating as a major incident manager and POC for P1 issues. As a Support Manager, I am responsible for handling critical customer escalations, ensuring career development of individuals, and contributing to strategic planning for team growth and project management. I am self-motivated, results-oriented, and focused on delivering high levels of customer satisfaction through world-class support services. I have extensive experience in setting up bridge calls for major incidents, tracking incidents, ensuring SLA compliance, and implementing operational management processes and best practices. My background includes expertise in Microsoft Office, Active Directory, and Windows. I have a strong background in the banking/finance industry, particularly in the Accounts Payable domain, and have a proven track record of providing global client and user support experience. Experience in Agile Practices (release management) in the areas of estimation, planning, development, testing & agile Project Management. E.g. User Story, Story point estimation.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Production Support Manager

SHL
Gurgaon
03.2023 - Current
  • SHL helps organizations assess, select and develop the right people for the right roles using proven, science based assessments, technologies, consulting services and benchmark data and offer support to clients across the entire employee life cycle, engaging HR and leaders from Finance, IT, Sales and other organizational teams
  • As a result, we help executives improve business performance by realizing the value and potential of people
  • For more details please log on to www.shl.com Production Support Manager As a Production Support Manager of our SHL Assessment Platform, you are the face of Technology for the organization and are responsible for leading the Technical Support team for diagnosing application issues, conducting root cause analysis, documenting resolutions, communicating issue and resolution details across a global organization, and helping ensure continuous application quality improvement, as a part of our global application support team
  • Responsibilities
  • Leading the team of Application Support Engineers for L2/L3 Production Support scalable to 24/5 support
  • Developing and grow a team of Support Engineers to deliver world class customer service
  • My role includes hiring, training, and developing a highly qualified team with a focus on the customer experience, skills development, productivity, resource scheduling, employee morale, and team motivation
  • Production Incident troubleshooting Escalate, resolve, guide team, and track production incidents to closure
  • Providing Application Support for SHL Assessment Platform applications, as an additional responsibility apart from leading the team
  • Ensuring, 24x7 availability for critical systems to identify, troubleshoot and resolve performance issues
  • Leading a team of support engineers responsible to identify, triage and escalating issues to L3 or engineering teams to ensure issues are resolved within SLA Accountable for ensuring ticket creation, updates, and resolution are accurately completed within SLAs
  • Managing escalation of critical customer issues
  • Serving as Incident Manager for Major Incidents and lead RCA closure Coordinate the resolution of customer issues from onboarding through implementation and production
  • Providing resolutions by facilitating quick resolutions and by proactively identifying and solving problems with existing systems or processes
  • Acting as a liaison between the Technology group and stakeholders across the organization
  • Collaborating with Development, QA, Commercial, Client-Support, and leadership teams to support, automate, and streamline processes
  • Setting individual goals for members of the team and looking over the performance feedback
  • Customer satisfaction score (C-SAT/NPS)
  • Maintaining a timely 1-2-1 feedback mechanism to ensure best practices are being followed for maximum efficiency amongst the team.

Production Support Manager

Genpact
Jaipur
02.2014 - 07.2023
  • Genpact is a global leader in transforming and running business processes and operations, including those that are complex and industry-specific
  • Genpact stands for Generating Impact—visible in tighter cost management as well as better management of risk, regulations, and growth for hundreds of long-term clients including more than 100 of the Fortune Global 500 – and of those, over 10 of the top 25
  • Responsibilities
  • Having extensive knowledge and experience in managing and triaging production support issues and Incidents
  • Insuring the Tickets/Incidents is resolved within the team within the allocated timeframe
  • Timely publication of reports and matrices to the stakeholders
  • Handling critical Escalations
  • Adhere to SLA where applicable
  • Customer satisfaction score (C-SAT/NPS)
  • Responsible for application upgrade
  • Maintaining a timely 1-2-1 feedback mechanism to ensure best practices are being followed for maximum efficiency amongst the team
  • Performing performance review for all direct reports and providing regular feedback about employee development goal
  • Managing tier1 support and tier 2 ops/support teams of 30 + people
  • Ensuring that application and team is compliant from all Audit standpoints
  • Ensuring high quality and up-to-date documentation (FAQ) and making sure case review and customer feedback analysis is updated
  • Developing and maintaining support procedures and policies.

Senior Architect

Spanco Ltd
05.2013 - 01.2014

DBA

Shriram Info
Jaipur
01.2012 - 05.2013

DB Admin

PCS Technology
Jaipur
01.2009 - 03.2012

Education

Master of Science - IT

KSOU
Mysore
03.2009 - 01.2011

Bachelors of Commerce - undefined

Rajasthan University

Oracle Certified Professional (11G) - undefined

Management Certification: - ITIL foundation Certified.. Quality: - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified. - undefined

Skills

    LEAN Six Sigma

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Software

Jira

ServiceNow

Rally

MySQL and MSSQL

DataDog

Slack

Pagerduty

Confluence

Timeline

Production Support Manager

SHL
03.2023 - Current

Production Support Manager

Genpact
02.2014 - 07.2023

Senior Architect

Spanco Ltd
05.2013 - 01.2014

DBA

Shriram Info
01.2012 - 05.2013

Master of Science - IT

KSOU
03.2009 - 01.2011

DB Admin

PCS Technology
01.2009 - 03.2012

Bachelors of Commerce - undefined

Rajasthan University

Oracle Certified Professional (11G) - undefined

Management Certification: - ITIL foundation Certified.. Quality: - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified. - undefined

Karan Singh NirwanProduction Support Manager