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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