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Mahesh Thoti

Bangalore,India
Mahesh Thoti

Summary

Accomplished IT Service Management professional with extensive expertise in ITIL 4, Major Incident Management, Change Management, and Process Management. Proven track record in Problem Management, Configuration Management, and Service Transition, ensuring seamless service delivery and continual improvement. Adept at People and Team Management, Quality Management, and Client Management with a strong focus on SLM Reporting and Dashboard Analysis. Skilled in Risk Management, Test Management, and MySQL Basics. Committed to driving excellence in IT Service Delivery through effective management of access, configuration, and service levels.

Overview

2010
years of post-secondary education
1
Certification

Work history

CGI Technologies
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Senior Systems Engineer
07 2023 - 01 2025

Job overview

Major Incident Management

  • Leading MIM team with 16 members to ensure the restoration is happening within agreed service timelines.
  • Managing the delivery of the Major Incident Management functions for Telecom, Manufacturing, Banking and logistics clients
  • In the event of an outage(Major Incidents- P1), ensuring the restoration of normal service operation as quickly as possible to minimize the impact on business operations.
  • Ensuring the delivery of clear communication for major incidents, keeping all key stakeholders informed to agreed and appropriate levels throughout the incident lifecycle.
  • Providing the updates to clients and leadership by way of outage notifications to keep them informed of progress to resolution and workarounds that have been implemented.
  • Identify and implement continual service improvement opportunities across the Major Incident, Crisis Management, and wider Service Management functions.
  • Managing the core Major Incident functions to ensure compliance to SLAs and contractual obligations.
  • Collaborating with Technology Resolver Teams and Business Stakeholders to understand required service level indicators and to ensure service level objectives are met in terms of impact to service.

Problem Management

  • Leading the problem management lifecycle, including identification, logging, categorization, investigation, root cause analysis, resolution, and closure.
  • Ensuring that problems are proactively identified, analyzed, and managed to minimize their impact on business operations.
  • Driving the problem management review calls until the root cause is identified and publish the RCA to all related stakeholders within 5 business days.

Change Management

  • Reviewing Change Requests and making recommendations on CAB approval with a view as to whether they can be implemented safely with the minimum of disruption.
  • Coordinating with Change coordinators until the successful change implementation.
  • Reviewing, risk assessing, and prioritizing changes and releases consistently and appropriately, and communicating the potential impacts clearly, to minimize change-related service outages and make sure the impact is truly understood.
  • Working with Vendors, Service Managers, Incident and Problem Managers, and other stakeholders, to support decision-making in line with best practices.

Configuration Management:

  • Overseeing day-to-day operations of configuration management, planning, coordinating and directing activities that will help in managing and enhancing the CMDB and the process.
  • Controlling the receipt, identification, storage, and withdrawal of all supported CIs.
  • Ensure regular housekeeping of the CMDB.
  • Providing reports, including management reports and configuration status accounting reports.
  • Directing, prioritizing and scheduling audits, ensures that any corrective action identified in Process and/or Database audits are carried out.

Governance and Reporting

  • Performance Dashboard Analysis
  • Track financial billing sheet as per the billing type (T&M, FP and RU) and ensure that revenue leakage is covered.
  • Meet the financial target of Farming and Hunting business
  • Identifying and managing risks and issues by standard processes.
  • Drive Monthly and Weekly Deck Presentations with key stakeholders.
  • Knowledge Management/SOP
  • Automation Analysis and Adhoc Reporting
  • Track all Action items and make sure to close them within ETA.
  • Monthly QOS Submission on behalf of the project manager.
  • Access Management (Onboarding/Offboarding)
  • CMDB billing Analysis and Audits
  • Tickets Queue Management
  • People Management and Shift Management

Hexaware Technologies
Chennai, India

Deputy Technical Specialist
07 2022 - 07 2023

Job overview

  • Managing the delivery of the Major Incident Management functions, hands on as required.
  • In the event of an outage(Major Incidents- P1), ensuring the restoration of normal service operation as quickly as possible to minimize the impact on business operations.
  • Ensuring the delivery of clear communication for major incidents, keeping all key stakeholders informed to agreed and appropriate levels throughout the incident lifecycle.
  • Providing the updates to clients and leadership by way of outage notifications to keep them informed of progress to resolution and workarounds that have been implemented.
  • Identify and implement continual service improvement opportunities across the Major Incident, Crisis Management, and wider Service Management functions.
  • Serving as an first escalation point of contact for 3rd party provided Major Incident functions.
  • Preparing the internal reports for Major Incidents and review with leadership teams.
  • Managing the core Major Incident functions to ensure compliance to SLAs and contractual obligations.
  • Collaborating with Technology Resolver Teams and Business Stakeholders to understand required service level indicators and to ensure service level objectives are met in terms of impact to service.
  • Review and publish the RCA to all relatedstakeholders within 5 business days.
  • Reviewing Change Requests and making recommendations on approval with a view as to whether they can be implemented safely with the minimum of disruption.
  • Reviewing, risk assessing, and prioritizing changes and releases consistently and appropriately, and communicating the potential impacts clearly, to minimize change-related service outages and make sure the impact is truly understood.
  • Working with Vendors, Service Managers, Incident and Problem Managers, and other stakeholders, to support decision-making in line with best practices.
  • Performance Dashboard Analysis
  • Identifying and managing risks and issues by standard processes.
  • Drive Monthly and Weekly Deck Presentations with key stakeholders.
  • Knowledge Management/SOP
  • Automation Analysis and Adhoc Reporting
  • Track all Action items and make sure to close them within ETA.
  • Publishing Daily Dashboards
  • Monthly QOS Submission on behalf of the project manager.
  • CMDB billing and Audits
  • Tickets Queue Management
  • People Management
  • Primary coordinator for BCP

Cognizant technology solutions
Bangalore, India

Tech Lead
12 2016 - 7 2022

Job overview

  • Leading MIM team with 16 members to ensure the restoration is happening within agreed service timelines.
  • Managing the delivery of the Major Incident Management functions for Telecom, Manufacturing, Banking and logistics clients
  • In the event of an outage(Major Incidents- P1), ensuring the restoration of normal service operation as quickly as possible to minimize the impact on business operations.
  • Ensuring the delivery of clear communication for major incidents, keeping all key stakeholders informed to agreed and appropriate levels throughout the incident lifecycle.
  • Providing the updates to clients and leadership by way of outage notifications to keep them informed of progress to resolution and workarounds that have been implemented.
  • Identify and implement continual service improvement opportunities across the Major Incident, Crisis Management, and wider Service Management functions.
  • Managing the core Major Incident functions to ensure compliance to SLAs and contractual obligations.
  • Collaborating with Technology Resolver Teams and Business Stakeholders to understand required service level indicators and to ensure service level objectives are met in terms of impact to service.

Problem Management

  • Leading the problem management lifecycle, including identification, logging, categorization, investigation, root cause analysis, resolution, and closure.
  • Ensuring that problems are proactively identified, analyzed, and managed to minimize their impact on business operations.
  • Driving the problem management review calls until the root cause is identified and publish the RCA to all related stakeholders within 5 business days.

Change Management

  • Reviewing Change Requests and making recommendations on CAB approval with a view as to whether they can be implemented safely with the minimum of disruption.
  • Coordinating with Change coordinators until the successful change implementation.
  • Reviewing, risk assessing, and prioritizing changes and releases consistently and appropriately, and communicating the potential impacts clearly, to minimize change-related service outages and make sure the impact is truly understood.
  • Working with Vendors, Service Managers, Incident and Problem Managers, and other stakeholders, to support decision-making in line with best practices.

Configuration Management:

  • Overseeing day-to-day operations of configuration management, planning, coordinating and directing activities that will help in managing and enhancing the CMDB and the process.
  • Controlling the receipt, identification, storage, and withdrawal of all supported CIs.
  • Ensure regular housekeeping of the CMDB.
  • Providing reports, including management reports and configuration status accounting reports.
  • Directing, prioritizing and scheduling audits, ensures that any corrective action identified in Process and/or Database audits are carried out.

Governance and Reporting

  • Performance Dashboard Analysis
  • Track financial billing sheet as per the billing type (T&M, FP and RU) and ensure that revenue leakage is covered.
  • Meet the financial target of Farming and Hunting business
  • Identifying and managing risks and issues by standard processes.
  • Drive Monthly and Weekly Deck Presentations with key stakeholders.
  • Knowledge Management/SOP
  • Automation Analysis and Adhoc Reporting
  • Track all Action items and make sure to close them within ETA.
  • Monthly QOS Submission on behalf of the project manager.
  • Access Management (Onboarding/Offboarding)
  • CMDB billing Analysis and Audits
  • Tickets Queue Management
  • People Management and Shift Management

Hinduja Global Solutions, HGS
Bangalore, India

Senior Quality Analyst
1 2011 - 12 2016

Job overview

  • Functional Testing and Regression Testing with expertise in Test Planning, Test Analysis, Test Design, Implementation and Test Execution

Education

Emeralds Advanced institute of management studies

Master Of Business Administration from General
08/2007 - 05.2009

Skills

  • ITIL 4 Certified (PeopleCert &Axelos)
  • Major Incident Management
  • Change Management
  • Process Management
  • Problem Management
  • IT Service Management
  • Access Management
  • Configuration Management
  • SLM Reporting
  • Service Transition
  • Service Level Management
  • People Management
  • Team Management
  • Quality Management
  • Dashboard Analysis
  • Test Management
  • Risk Management
  • Continual Service Improvement
  • Client Management
  • Shift Management
  • My SQL Basics

Applications Known

  • ServiceNow
  • BMC Remedy and Helix
  • Manage Engine
  • Jira
  • EBS(Emergency Broadcasting Support/System)
  • HP ALM Center
  • Smart IT
  • OP5
  • Confluence
  • Sharepoint
  • MS Office(Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
  • Power BI
  • SAP
  • Active Directory
  • Citrix
  • Expereo Monitoring
  • Bekrafta

Certification

  • ITIL V3 & 4 Foundation from PeopleCert
  • Azure Cloud Administration Foundation (AZ900)
  • QPEP 100(Equalant to SixSigma Greenbelt)
  • 0365 Exchange Online Administration

Accomplishments

  • I have recieved client appreciations for automating manual reports.
  • also received wecare and Annual awards for recieving more number of applauds from onshore team

Personal Details

  • Father Name: T Sundara Raj
  • DOB : 05th June 1987
  • Gender: Male
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Current Location: Bangalore.

Languages Known

  • English
  • Telugu
  • Kannada
  • Tamil
  • Hindi

Timeline

Senior Systems Engineer

CGI Technologies
07 2023 - 01 2025

Deputy Technical Specialist

Hexaware Technologies
07 2022 - 07 2023

Tech Lead

Cognizant technology solutions
12 2016 - 7 2022

Senior Quality Analyst

Hinduja Global Solutions, HGS
1 2011 - 12 2016

Emeralds Advanced institute of management studies

Master Of Business Administration from General
08/2007 - 05.2009
Mahesh Thoti