Self-motivated Support Manager brings proven leadership, organizational and customer relations skills. Independently solves problems and keeps teams on task to handle diverse business requirements. History retaining clients and talented staff.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Support Manager, Cloud Enterprise
Atlassian
Bangalore
01.2019 - Current
Assessed personnel performance and implemented incentives and team-building events to boost morale.
Coached employees through day-to-day work and complex problems.
Monitored employee and customer interactions to assess quality of service.
Prepared employee schedules for maximum coverage during key hours.
Managed specialist team to provide technical assistance and customer service.
Analyzed customer service data to identify trends, identify solutions and improve customer experience. Maintained consistent NPS of over 85 and 97% CSAT
Developed detailed plans based on broad guidance and direction.
Established performance goals for employees and provided feedback on methods for reaching those milestones.
Sr. Customer Support Manager
Micro Focus (formerly HP Software)
Bangalore
10.2014 - 07.2018
Monitored metrics and developed actionable insights to improve efficiency and performance.
Team size – Global team comprising of 23 L2/L3 engineers, leads and escalation managers across 9 different countries.
Effectively manage workload, drawing balanced line between engineer bandwidth and technical issue complexity such that our customers get quality support all time.
Regular cadence with R&D focused on addressing top issues of the product, top issues of key (Tier1/2) customers and strong interlock with the support engineering. Such interactions involved L3 engineers on the team i) testing Early release bits ii) providing effective feedback and iii) help R&D prioritize fixes in future releases.
Ensuring regular meetings (L3 calls) / trainings, either f2f or remote, thereby spreading knowledge amongst teams across various technologies/products.
Leading escalations, triaging with Support, Product and Customer teams to resolve conflict arising due to 1) Implementations 2) Renewals/upsells 3) Product issues
Act as backup site manager in absence of site manager
Service Delivery Manager
HP Enterprise Services
Bangalore
07.2011 - 11.2014
Maintained proper staffing levels to guarantee timely and accurate deliveries.
Participated in drafting service budgeting, advising on areas of possible improvement to reduce costs and service delivery times.
Coordinated among multiple external stakeholders to gain consensus on major project milestones and prioritization goals.
Contributed to internal and external account reviews.
Supervised operations of 24-hour customer service desk staffed by 36 team members.
Oversee the migration of data center consolidation for which the team was formed. The data center was to be consolidated from 19 to 4 data centers
Attended staff and client meetings and served as liaison to manage operations for account.
Evaluated personnel workloads to support capacity planning, adjusting service call scheduling according to available staff.
Perform RCAs and implement new processes to plug the gaps from previous experience
Initiate processes to maintain 100% quality and no dropped balls by doing 4 eye checks and 360 degree reviews before going ahead with final implementation.
Project Manager, PMO
HP Enterprise Services
Bangalore
06.2009 - 06.2011
Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
Established a new capability team as part of the Global Workforce Transformation Initiative.
Vendor Management, Procurement Management, Financial Services, Transformation Services were identified and requirement gathered for all regions (Americas, Asia and Europe)
Any project support services which a PM might ask for falls under this team and are leveraged to help the PM in any project as required
Project Workforce Transformation
Managed a high-end project as a junior project manager under the directive of a Sr. Project Manager to migrate around 1600 resources from onshore to best shore centers.
Reach out to capability leaders across various regions in Europe and ask them to identify number of resource to be migrated
Identify constraints with works council and union and labor laws
Work with HR to understand the business impact and protect company interests
Provide the required information to the Sr. Project Manager so that he can work on this at a higher level
Help Desk Team Lead/Tech Lead/ SME
Hewlett Packard
Bangalore
09.2004 - 02.2009
Team size (~25 voice and chat engineers)
Research and provide high-end technical solutions for chat and voice support for MS Employees.
Provide floor supervision and act as escalation point of contact for cases being worked on by L1 engineers.
Provide guidance on process and procedures whenever the engineer is stuck with an issue.
Support various platforms like OS, Messaging, LOB Application and Mobility.
Provide trainings and cascade other information that we receive from the product team and L3 team.
Approve escalation to next technical level and ensure we have done everything with the resources provided and not have anything that we could have solved at our end.