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LOHITH. S

LOHITH. S

IT
BANGALORE

Summary

Aiming for pivotal Senior level roles in IT Infastructure Support Services with rich exposure to Project Improvements and Operational Excellence Senior IT Executive ITIL V3 Certified Professional with nearly 14.11 years of rich experience in Strategic IT Management, IT Service Delivery, Security Cloud Operations and Program / Project Management with a strong record of contributions in streamlining operations, invigorating businesses, heightening productivity, systems & procedures across IT domain CO R E CO MPETENCIES ~ IT Infrastructure Management Security Cloud Operations ~- Transition Planning and Support ~Project Management ~ Service Delivery ~ Release & Deployment Management ~ Application Management ~ Change Management ~ Incident / Problem Management ~ Configuration Management ~ IT Service Management ~ IT Service Continuity Management ~ SLA Management & Governance ~ Team Management & Mentoring PR OFILE SU M MARY Forward-focused IT Infrastructure/Project Manager with expertise in concepts of end-to-end project planning and implementation, Asset Management, System Admin Support, Virtualization (Vmware), Mobile Device Management and Storage Operations (FC, iSCSI & SAS) Expertise in planning & building IT Infrastructure at the enterprise scale involving selection of appropriate technology & products, negotiating with vendors, finalising Service Level Agreements, outsourcing tasks and directing the timely completion of projects Directed mapping of business processes, drawn out the reengineering plan, steered transformation of organisational practices / data centric operations with focus on leveraging IT as a strategic tool and assessing impact of IT-based interventions through regular audits Extensive experience in designing & implementing IT strategy, leading teams for successful project implementation while ensuring a high-quality customer experience, elevating customer satisfaction in line with SLAs and work processes Problem solver with a passion for technology; Skilled in grasping the big picture, conceptualising, developing & implementing solutions and partnering closely with business leaders & stakeholders Achievement-Oriented professional with excellent people management skills and proficiency to manage change with ease. Delivery governance across the project : Create weekly/monthly/ quarterly MIS reports to monitor and track overall project performance. Conduct periodic reviews with the delivery team on operational,quality & fulfillment parameters CSI Initiatives & new idea generation & its implementation on existing projects.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
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4
Certifications
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Language

Work History

Associate Operations Manager

PR OJECT DE L IVERY MA N AGEMENT
BANGALORE
10.2021 - Current
  • Perform Module Management role by regular follow ups on critical severity incidents and obtain proper impact statement and drive these till resolution
  • Status Meeting with Application Teams and Development Teams on Weekly basis;
  • Drive Weekly Governance call with the Client
  • Establish Document and Communicate workarounds for open Incidents/Requests and creating KEDB articles
  • Contribution to Alert/Incident reduction and continuous service improvements
  • Reports generation (Bi-weekly, Monthly dashboard)
  • Data analysis, team management & continuous service improvement
  • Skilled in monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting in a Web services Operation environment, consistently finding resolutions to complex technical issues
  • Organizing bridge calls and conference calls involving the stakeholders
  • Supporting customers by emailing and online chats by giving them technical update of their product in use
  • Review and sign off on requirements, process flows, gaps, and design documents
  • Discovering the impact of the problem and the scope of the impact
  • Collaborated with different teams to troubleshoot and resolve various types of issues and outages
  • Monitored and troubleshot various production stages, and a broad range of application servers which were directly related to the real-time operations
  • Role : The purpose of the role is to manage delivery of a project driving operations and delivery governance, ensuring right talent supplychain to optimize customer satisfaction and cost of delivery
  • DE LIVERY MA N AGEMENT :
  • Ensure seamless delivery of the projects
  • Deploy optimum project delivery structure post transition/ migration phase by evaluating the budget, costs, risks and staffing requirement
  • Create quarterly project charter with well-defined weekly project trajectory as per the project specifications & requirements andensure 100% adherence in terms of schedule, quality, efforts and costs
  • Ensure 100% compliance to Project SLA’s, information security protocols and etc (all customer’s contractual obligations)
  • Monitor and take appropriate actions on internal and external audit findings to ensure no major non- compliance/ deviation from the SLA
  • Liaise between customer and internal technical delivery team todrive project health by adhering to organizational norms of project metrics
  • Internal to Wipro
  • Drive various project related audits like quality, customer, ISO etc and ensure zero non-compliance
  • Conduct periodic cadence with the quality team to take proactive measures to resolves issues/ possible escalations
  • Conducts periodic cadence with Workforce Management Group (WMG) to ensure 100% fulfillment as per the program/ project requirement
  • Regularly audit quality (QA) status of delivery and engage QA team to ensure adherence to Quality Assurance standards and processes
  • Maintain project structure in Quantumn, Confluence & SAP in line with prevailing business requirements and norms
  • Part of Transition and Project migration activities, managed the Onboarding process from the scratch right from
  • Planning, Resourcing, budgeting, Allocation, Extension etc
  • Ensure expected ramp down (ERD) compliance as committed in MSA
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Engage with client to deploy opportunities to deploy multiple solutions within/ across SLs to create a stronger value proposition for clients
  • Conduct regular customer connects (meetings/ visits/ video-conference) and participate in Management Review
  • Meetings (MRM) with client management/engagement managers to understand customer’s current and future needs and seek feedback to improve delivery methodology/ timelines/ resource allocation
  • Identify and close early warnings on a project to avoid any customer escalations
  • Plan and conduct Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) along withDM’s/ ADH with the client management/ leadership team to driveimprovement actions and mine for a new portfolio/ opportunity within theaccount
  • Design and monitor project performance dashboards/ reports with theclients periodically
  • Delivery governance across the project
  • Create weekly/ monthly/ quarterly MIS and reports to monitor and track overall project
  • Conduct periodic reviews with the delivery team on operational,quality and fulfillment parameters and new idea generation & its implementation on existing projects
  • Identify and resolve potential risks or early warning signs onproject delivery to drive for ZERO surprise escalations and eliminateany revenue leakage
  • Escalate any deviations from the project charter to the respective delivery managers in terms of schedule, effort, cost, infrastructure from the project charter and minimize process exceptions and such deviations from the actual project plan
  • Review and monitor revenue allocations/ realization to avoid OB revenue leakage
  • Provide inputs to delivery leadership team on overall delivery performance parameters (project heath, utilization, realization etc) atproject/ program level during reviews highlighting any critical project escalations and potential risks
  • Performance Management
  • Set goals for the team, conduct timely performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports
  • Ensure that the Performance Nxt is followed for the entire team
  • Employee Satisfaction and Engagement
  • Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team
  • Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team
  • Facilitate rewards and recognition to acknowledge the highperformers in the team

Project Manager/Associate Operations Manager

Wipro Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
BANGALORE
10.2021 - Current
  • Tenure:
  • Drive incident/problem resolution by assisting in key operational activities in terms of delivery, fixes and supportability with operations staff and suppliers
  • Implementing ITIL processes like Change, Release, Deployment, Incident, Problem and Service Continuity Management
  • Designing cost-effective application management solution based on the needs of the organization
  • Defining Service Catalogue, SLAs & OLAs and control processes, specifically for change and deployment
  • Deriving and implementing suitable metrics at various levels, to effectively ensure the delivery of service
  • Executing appropriate levels of support desk and manage both internal & external escalations
  • Reviewing the customer satisfaction surveys based on changing customer perceptions and expectations
  • Keeping track of changes that can affect customers; engaging with the client to ensure the right service level package is subscribed and right vital business functions are defined
  • Internal to Wipro
  • Assessing reports to identify trends, facilitating in devising and implementing plans to improve delivery standards and presenting detailed reports to the Management
  • Defining service standards and ITIL based guidelines that serve as benchmark for excellent service delivery, thereby contributing towards additional service revenue generation
  • Monitoring SLAs, ensuring timely closure of priority tickets, handle escalations, implementing & migrating systems to upgraded versions to achieve maximum efficiency in various operations
  • Monitoring the tech/business bridge calls during critical outages and also ensuring communication channels are being followed on timely basis
  • Performing audit of P1/P2 tickets on regular basis post outages to ensure appropriate RCA and mitigation plans are executed
  • Validation of FCRs,pending aging tickets and fast tracking them to closure post involving vendors
  • Monitoring the progress of Knowledge management calls (creation/updation of KBs) conducted between Wipro and vendors
  • Attending vendor CAB meetings regularly, checking for change approvals and confirmation from the vendors, sharing planned/emergency maintenance notifications with all major stakeholders before implementation of changes/releases into the live production environment
  • Co-ordinating between BW/TMs, technicians and accounting team for new site conversions, permanent/temp closure of sites, dealer changeover, new equipment upgrades etc
  • Conducting sample frontline call audits for keeping track of quality adherence
  • Screening and shortlisting of candidate profiles for Retail frontline team and also monitoring the process and technical training plans for the new joinees until they hit the production floor
  • Validation of SLAs and KPIs before processing for endorsements and billing on monthly basis
  • Facilitating meetings, project reviews, conference bridges and on-line meetings to disseminate and drive changes
  • Assessing the effectiveness of change management approach; securing approval of change; processing Emergency
  • Change Requests and publishing change notifications
  • Preparing and agreeing on comprehensive release and deployment plans, adhere to deployment model & processes and ensuring releases to production are successful
  • Handled End to end Application Project Management activities & also worked as a Disaster Recovery Manager during failures by ensuring smooth failover & Fail back through coordinating with multiple teams and drive the issue to resolution
  • Communicating with both the IT external customer community as well as internal stakeholders within the IT
  • Department for incidents reported to the Service Desk for prompt resolution.

Major Incident Manager/Associate Operations

CSM Bakery
08.2015 - 05.2017
  • End-to-End IT Service Management Operations (Incident, Problem, Change
  • Release, & Deployment)
  • Project Loblaw Infrastructure Services (Floor Management)
  • Team 10 Members (16x5 Operation)

Education

B.Com - undefined

AC ADEMIC DE T, Bangalore University

Diploma - Mechanic Motor Vehicle

National All India Trade Test (N.A.I.T.T

Skills

Received Certificate for Exceptional Customer Serviceundefined

Accomplishments

  • Certifications: ITIL V3 Foundation Certified, Project: Health Net

Certification

Cognizant Certified Professional – ITIL Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Interests

Travelling

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Timeline

IT Operations & Delivery (Infrastructure Services – Retail)
08-2023

Associate Operations Manager

PR OJECT DE L IVERY MA N AGEMENT
10.2021 - Current

Project Manager/Associate Operations Manager

Wipro Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
10.2021 - Current

Major Incident Manager/Associate Operations

CSM Bakery
08.2015 - 05.2017

B.Com - undefined

AC ADEMIC DE T, Bangalore University

Diploma - Mechanic Motor Vehicle

National All India Trade Test (N.A.I.T.T
LOHITH. SIT