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
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.