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Sarang Phansalkar

Sarang Phansalkar

Summary

IT Professional with 13 + Years of experience in providing comprehensive Technical Support to Clients and companies. Adept at leveraging superior analytical thinking skill to prioritize task, identify issues and provide timely resolution. Ability to communicate and interact effectively and professionally with clients.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

L2 Engineer – NOC RMS | Incident Management

Allied Digital Services Ltd
08.2021 - Current

Strategic Focus
• Primary point of contact for day-to-day incident management operations.
• Daily Monitoring of Ticketing Dashboard - Health check
• Meeting agreed SLA’s and handling user escalations.

Operational Management
• Taking care of High Severity and Major Incidents for multiple clients.
• Manage P1/P2 incidents and coordinate with Technical Teams, Vendors via Teams Meetings along with the client.
• Timely Monitor, manage and Analyze the response to incidents and pending tickets to ensure incidents are addressed within agreed SLA’s.
• Prioritizing incident tickets based on business impact and urgency.
• Focusing on High Priority Incident, Driving bridge calls for Major impacted issues for effective coordination and incident resolution.
• Creation of Service Changes as per the requested and Validating change is implemented on time by the teams.
• Build and maintain working relationships with key team members, IT Service Desk TL’s, Infra support team, SDM’s within IT Service management Service.

Escalation Management
• Handling escalations, ensure escalations procedures are followed & correct support teams are engaged.
• Serve as the initial point of escalation for business-critical incidents, resource allocation and overall handling of the incidents.

Documentation
• Documenting key actions & events during the call and maintain knowledge base.
• EOD Report preparation and sharing it with leads and Team's on Daily & Weekly basis.
• Manage Post Incident Report requests.

Troubleshooting
• Patch Management, Deploying identified OS security and applications for Windows Server 2016, 2019 & 2022 environment.
• Troubleshooting failed updates, Ping down / service down / high Disk utilization after patching.
• Managing Snapshots for VM's on Azure, vCenter, Hyper-V & Nutanix.
• Performing & creating QA for servers which are patched successfully.
• Experience on ConnectWise Control support software tool and PRTG Monitoring Tool and ServiceNow Ticketing tool.
• Creating SOP regarding the technical issues.
• Handling KT sessions for new joiners.

Office 365 Technical Support Engineer-Subscription Management

Wipro Ltd. MICROSOFT BUSINESS UNIT
06.2013 - 03.2019
  • Deliver technical support to MS Office 365 Customers
  • Assisting customer from NOAM & EMEA time zone in their queries with O365
  • O365 deployments, user account setup & configuration of O365 services
  • Troubleshooting O365 Apps Installation, Activation and User Authentication
  • O365 Subscription Management (Adding/Removing /Assigning) of licenses
  • Co-ordinate with re-solver team to get the latest update about the impacted services

L1 Support Engineer (NOC)

Allied Digital Services Ltd.
06.2010 - 01.2013
  • Monitoring production servers using Monitoring tools N-central
  • Standard server event monitoring support for (High CPU, Disks utilization & service down) and taking necessary action on alerts
  • Creation of Incidents, Service Requests as per the request
  • Identify and respond to incidents, qualify incident impact and urgency
  • Communicate with the customer, both verbal as well as through email
  • Documentation of the call handled and detailed analysis of every call

L1 Engineer - Server Monitoring

Equant Technology Ltd. (Orange Business Services)
04.2008 - 06.2010
  • Worked as L1 support Engineer for Server Monitoring (NOC)
  • Server monitoring for (High CPU, Disks utilization & other services)
  • Monitoring Alerts, taking necessary action and creating tickets.
  • Identifies and confirms performance problems and notifies Managers/ Leaders and Intimating client through mails and voice
  • Working on Trouble ticketing systems in Manage Now after coordination with clients

Education

B.COM -

Amravati University

Skills

  • ITIL
  • Incident Management
  • Change Management
  • IT Escalation Management
  • IT Operations Management
  • Customer Service
  • Monitoring
  • Call Documentation
  • Patch Management
  • Snapshot Management
  • Azure Management Console
  • Verbal Communication Skills
  • People Management
  • Team Player

TOOLS

  • Ivanti Connect Secure
  • ConnectWise Control Support
  • PRTG Monitoring Tool
  • ServiceNow Ticketing Tool

Certification

  • ITIL V3 Foundation
  • ITIL V3 Service Operation Certified in IT Service Management
  • AZ-900-Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

Languages

Marathi
First Language
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 11/15/1980
  • Gender: Male
  • Marital Status: Married

Timeline

L2 Engineer – NOC RMS | Incident Management

Allied Digital Services Ltd
08.2021 - Current

Office 365 Technical Support Engineer-Subscription Management

Wipro Ltd. MICROSOFT BUSINESS UNIT
06.2013 - 03.2019

L1 Support Engineer (NOC)

Allied Digital Services Ltd.
06.2010 - 01.2013

L1 Engineer - Server Monitoring

Equant Technology Ltd. (Orange Business Services)
04.2008 - 06.2010

B.COM -

Amravati University
Sarang Phansalkar