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SANJAY WOORVAKONDA

Bengaluru

Summary

Highly accomplished and results-driven professional with over 17 years of experience in project management, resource management, SLA management, account management, and project coordination activities. Skilled in customer/client operations, key account management, people management, continuous process improvement, incident management, ITSM, project service delivery, and client/stakeholder management. Exceptional communication skills and excellent relationship management abilities with the capacity to connect with individuals at all levels of business. Demonstrated credibility in leading end-to-end project management initiatives from conceptualization and strategic planning to operational analysis within defined parameters. Certified in ITIL V3 Foundation. Focused and hardworking professional with extensive technical knowledge and a strong analytical mindset, ready to tackle challenging assignments.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Assoc. Mgr. – Service Delivery

Microland Limited
02.2022 - Current
  • Managing IT Infrastructure Service Delivery with multiple service lines for a critical customer
  • The IT infra includes the below Service lines:
  • Wintel and Linux prod and non-prod servers monitoring and management b
  • Storage monitoring and management c
  • End User Computing (EUC) – Desktops, Laptops, Persistent/Non-Persistent VDI management for Patch management along with Intune and JAMF
  • Collaboration – Office365 Email accounts management
  • Network – Network Device monitoring and management
  • Security – Security operations and management (Incident management, Service management, Operational security review, Vulnerability management, 3rd party coordination) for Servers, Networks & Workstations
  • Supervising high-severity incidents to ensure service availability with minimal delay and impact towards smooth operations of an IT Service Management
  • Governing SLAs, safeguarding timely closure of priority tickets, escalations, and major Incidents / Outages.
  • Proactively partaking in the RCA process for analyzing the problems and closing all the gaps as highlighted by the client or Internal Team
  • Participate/Demonstrate performance reviews with the customer – Monthly and Quarterly
  • Achievements/Highlights - Ticket backlogs were almost reduced by over 60% leading to higher productivity. - Set a new benchmark of achieving a remarkable 97% SLA as against the company defined 95%.

Program Manager

Spektra Systems
10.2018 - 01.2022
  • Established Partner Relationship with partners and Support Technical Workshops 1: Many workshops Globally.
  • Managed and led a team of experienced and technical professionals in Supporting workshop as per Service Level Agreement on Customized Platform
  • Assisted and Supported Technical / Operational Issues on customized Platform
  • Working as a Liaison between Product engineering team Partners and End Users, for product support/Bug fixes and services.
  • Collaborating with parallel teams on the product for better customer/Partner satisfaction.
  • Diligently working with Microsoft Partners / End Users / Technical Advisors, Product Managed to manage their customers through custom Solution.
  • Providing initial assessment and workaround of production issues
  • Open to work in 24x7 rotation and work with global teams.
  • Work directly with multiple product team to help reproduce and resolve customer issues through Bug Portal.
  • Initial analysis on Errors in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services before engaging with Engineering team
  • Reproducing Technical issues which are faced by the Partners in our Test Accounts.
  • Ensured SLA are met, and escalations are minimal during the delivery of the Workshops (Technical Delivery)
  • Worked on all Cloud Service Provider primarily Microsoft Azure, limited exposure to GCP and AWS.
  • Worked on Customer satisfaction survey and was Point of contact for the projects.
  • Resource Management, Business Continuity Process, SLA Management, Reporting.
  • Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations, complying with policies and regulations.

Support Engineer

Microsoft IGSTC
03.2017 - 09.2018
  • Troubleshooting Partner Center API / MOSI /Partner Center Portal /Azure / Office 365 Portal issues.
  • Assisting CSP, Syndication Partners on Technical Licensing, Troubleshooting Partner Center API/MOSI /Azure related issues.
  • Working as a Liaison between product engineering team and partners, for product support/Bug fixes and services.
  • Collaborating with parallel teams on product for better customer/Partner satisfaction.
  • Diligently working with Microsoft Partners / Cloud Solution Providers / Advisors to manage their customers through custom Marketplace.
  • Providing initial assessment and workaround of production issues
  • Open to work in 24x7 rotation and work with global teams.
  • Work directly with multiple product team to help reproduce and resolve customer issues through Bug Portal.
  • Initial analysis on Source Codes, Fiddler Traces, Network Traces before engaging Product Group.
  • Reproducing Technical issues which are faced by the Partners in our Test Accounts.

Duty Manager – Incident Manager

Spectrum Consultants India Private Limited
10.2010 - 02.2018
  • Primarily accountable for providing SLA Management for multiple accounts, Account Management, Resource management for all accounts and clients and supporting Cluster group and PSO.
  • Meeting deadlines & TAT without compromising on quality norms, adhering to SLAs, and handling the delivery management & support.
  • Interacting with team members for the mutual benefits in the project while interacting with customers/clients on their projects for better feedback.
  • Streamlining efforts in Increasing support engineer’s productivity & daily utilization, while assuring ticket response time SLAs are met.
  • Coordinating and administering cross site operational support for our inbound, 24x7 and weekly On-Call scheduling.
  • Interacting with Stake holders, subordinates, peer groups, Technical Account Managers, Team Managers and Business Owners.
  • Implementing new processes and special initiatives to enhance and support business needs of clients.
  • Efficiently promoting customer advocacy with day-to-day interactions and various projects, acting as a queue supervisor for Dynamics CRM (IGTSC, Wipro) & GPS North America queues, including cross-site managed queues.

Providing guidance on projects and its requirements to th clients over technology, processes and applications while updating them on regular project related developments.

  • Carrying out detailed planning and scheduling and coordinating with internal & external partners to ensure execution of projects as per the defined technical & functional specifications.
  • Tracking project progress in terms of resource deployment, time over runs and quality compliance and proactively identifying and rectifying problems to ensure adherence to delivery time-lines.
  • Ensure the staffing is appropriate by interacting with Team Managers and Work Force Management.
  • Acting as a liaison for customer communications & handle escalations to manage customer perception & satisfaction.
  • Working on Incident reports and reporting the steps taken to resolve the issue to the senior management.
  • Preparing incident process documentation & incident reports.
  • Tracking misroutes and working with the Service desk managers to simplify the routing product Interacting with the Stake holders, subordinates, peer groups, Technical Account Managers, Team Managers and Business Owners.
  • Working with ROL’s and Planners for creation of Proactive Events and ensure that the Registrations links are published for partners for register against the respective events.
  • Working with Marketing team and provide them the registrations links within the agreed timelines.
  • Co-ordinate with external vendors (LMIT/SMSC) and ensure registration links are provided within the agreed timelines.

Associate - Purchase

24/7 Customer Pvt Ltd
10.2007 - 11.2010
  • Played a key role in renewing the STPI License
  • Handled Procurement related activities
  • Sourcing / Negotiating with suppliers as per the Business Requirement
  • Instrumental and managed balanced workflow across Purchase & Logistics function
  • Handling internal requests from various Departments for Purchase of Capital Goods, comparing the same with different players in the market, negotiating and finalizing the same
  • Maintenance of Bond Registers pertaining to Capital Goods
  • Managed Oracle (Purchase Module) since Implementation of the same
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Sourcing / Procurement
  • Procurement and sourcing of materials ensuring optimum utilization of materials & maximum cost savings.
  • Ensuring optimum level of the materials & handle resourceful deployment/ utilization of resources & finalizing contracts with vendors.
  • Vendor Management
  • Managing sourcing through identification of cost-effective vendors/suppliers for procurement with an aim of reducing cost while improving quality & reliability.
  • Assessing performance of vendors based on various criteria’s such as percentage for rejections, quality improvement rate, timely delivery, credit terms etc.
  • Monitoring incoming materials supplied by vendors & ensuring they are as per quality & quantity specifications as well as assisting them production processes / systems.
  • Logistics/ Transport Management
  • Negotiating with Forwarders, transporters, agents, etc
  • To achieve seamless and cost-effective movement of shipments, ensuring timely deliveries.
  • Ensuring timely delivery of project requirements, material, and other equipment’s at site as the given time.
  • EOU Compliance
  • Interacting with STPI and Customs for EOU clearances - CG enhancement, Bonding/ Debonding of CG & Premises, Issue of CT3 / Procurement certificates / Rewarehousing certificates, Maintenance of Bond registers pertaining to Capital goods/ Interunit transfers.
  • Managing the entire EOU Compliance for both Software Units with planning & obtaining relevant approvals

Education

High School Diploma -

JSS High School
Bengaluru, India
03.2005

Skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Incident Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • End-user Support (EUS)
  • People Management
  • Compliance Adherence
  • Resource Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • CSAT/NPS
  • Cost Control & Budget
  • Vendor Management
  • MIS Reporting
  • Transitions & Migrations
  • ITIL Implementation
  • Customer/Client Management
  • Project /Customer Success
  • Customer Service

Languages

English
Hindi
Kannada

Technicalandcoreskills

  • Key account management especially Global customers
  • Team handling in a 24/7 environment.
  • Strong knowledge of Major Incident Management, Service delivery, and KPI’s.
  • Defined, formulated standard operating procedures for the Service desk team & measured its performance.
  • Strong Knowledge of Service Now Tool for Incident, Request & Asset Management. Implementation of process dashboard, SLA.

Professional Enhancements

  • ERP, SAP R/3, RDBMS-SD Module
  • Oracle 11i
  • ITIL V3 Foundation 2011 Certified
  • MSSolve, Customer Assistance Portal
  • Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Partner Center

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 11/20/88

Timeline

Assoc. Mgr. – Service Delivery

Microland Limited
02.2022 - Current

Program Manager

Spektra Systems
10.2018 - 01.2022

Support Engineer

Microsoft IGSTC
03.2017 - 09.2018

Duty Manager – Incident Manager

Spectrum Consultants India Private Limited
10.2010 - 02.2018

Associate - Purchase

24/7 Customer Pvt Ltd
10.2007 - 11.2010

High School Diploma -

JSS High School
SANJAY WOORVAKONDA