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Prakash. R

Messaging Admin
Madipakkam, Moovarasampet, Chennai,TN

Summary

Forward-thinking professional offering 15years of experience working for IT consulting firms on M365 Environment. Trained in Messaging and collabration with extensive L4 skills and history of proactivity. Dedicated to solution-oriented problem-solving.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages

Work History

Infra Technology Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
04.2014 - 09.2022
  • Representing the project as Technical Focal (Support Lead) for the team.
  • Been a part of Remote Transition Team and successfully transitioned a project.
  • Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
  • Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication.
  • Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service.
  • Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
  • Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
  • Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.


Techinical Details :


  • Maintaining & Troubleshooting Exchange 2016, Skype for Business Server 2015 and Microsoft Teams.
  • Maintaining & Troubleshooting M365 environment which includes O365, Azure Active Directory, Yammer, Microsoft Teams.
  • Maintaining & Troubleshooting and performing upgrade activity for Azure AD Connect.
  • Managed DNS and SSL certificate requirements for environment.
  • Hands on in One Identity – Active Roles.
  • Hands on in Cisco Mail Gateway.
  • Heading & Handling BAU activities and performing health check and reporting activities.
  • Mentoring and leading the team technically and also conduction knowledge transfer sessions across other teams.
  • Being a part of Change implementation and Management.
  • Analyze the monthly ticket dump and providing solutions for the repetitive issues.
  • Providing reports like MTTR and MTTF , DSAT analysis on monthly basis.
  • Experience in exhibiting technical leadership and setting direction with ability to effectively manage and lead a team.
  • Single point of contact for Client and internal escalations.
  • Responsible for supporting Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online users using MS Office Outlook 2010, 2013 & 2016 and OWA in Exchange Hybrid environment.
  • Provided Tier-2 and Tier-3 level support for resolving tickets escalated by the helpdesk and desktop support teams.


Technical Consultant

Wipro Technologies
Chennai
04.2011 - 05.2014

Responsibilities:


  • Job functions include extensive troubleshooting support of Microsoft Exchange E-mail environment and Office communication Server environment remotely for Microsoft customers
  • Handling issues that are unresolved by level 1 and Level 2.
  • Attended Knowledge transfer and stabilized a team having 15 members.
  • Experience in exhibiting technical leadership and setting direction with ability to effectively manage and lead a team
  • Solution focused professional having good analytical skills, quick learning ability and the ability to adapt for delivering better services to the clients.


Customer Support Executive

Allsec Technologies
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
04.2009 - 03.2011
  • Listened to customers questions and concerns to provide answers or responses.
  • Collected customer information and analyzed customer needs to recommend potential products or services.
  • Resolved issues through active listening and open-ended questioning, escalating major problems to manager.

Technical Support Executive

HCL Technologies
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
12.2006 - 03.2009
  • Followed up with clients to verify optimal customer satisfaction following support engagement and problem resolution.
  • Removed malware, ransomware and other threats from laptops and desktop systems.
  • Patched software and installed new versions to eliminate security problems and protect data.
  • Broke down and evaluated user problems, using test scripts, personal expertise and probing questions.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Madras University
Chennai
05.2004 - 05.2007

Skills

    Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2016

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Accomplishments

  • Migrated applications using On-premise SMTP Relay servers to use O365 SMTP Relay.If required migrated the application to Microsoft Exchange 2016 SMTP Relay .
  • Upgraded the Microsoft Azure AD Connect server to latest version 2.1.16.0.
  • Upgrading O365 environment to use Modern Authentication from Basic Authentication successfully by reducing the usage of Basic authentication by identifying and assisting the applications and devices that were using Basic auth.
  • Identifying the gaps in user provisioning and resolving existing issues.
  • Inculcate process in SSL certificate renewal which will result in renewal of certification for servers and applications in timely manner avoiding any business outage.






Certification

Enabling Office 365 Services

Interests

Horticulture

Cricket

Politics

Timeline

Enabling Office 365 Services

05-2018

Infra Technology Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2014 - 09.2022

Technical Consultant

Wipro Technologies
04.2011 - 05.2014

Customer Support Executive

Allsec Technologies
04.2009 - 03.2011

Technical Support Executive

HCL Technologies
12.2006 - 03.2009

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Madras University
05.2004 - 05.2007
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