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Sashidhar Ganesh

Sashidhar Ganesh

IT Infrastructure Service Delivery
Chennai

Summary

An excellence driven veteran in the IT industry for 18 years with end-to-end experience in IT Service Delivery, Project Management and Operations. Highly skilled in articulating and translating business
issues and data challenges into actionable solutions by developing, executing, and analyzing plans.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior Manager – IT Service

Pearson India Education Pvt Ltd
Chennai
2017.08 - 2022.10

▪ Regular BCP checkpoints with the leadership team and partner/vendor, as well as with the delivery and engagement leads to assess current state and address any issues that may arise.
▪ Ensure all FTEs and non-FTEs are working remote (or) as per the company guidelines.
▪ Focused on Technology Integration projects: File share migration to encrypted SharePoint sites, physical machines to Windows VDI migration.
▪ Work with Platform teams to implement process Improvements in the Service management space. Successfully migrated to a new myHelp Reimagine platform.
▪ Facilitate meetings with key stakeholders and collaborate with project teams to ensure timely decision-making and effective communication between project stakeholders at all levels.
▪ Record project details such as task progress, resources costs and allocated budgets to analyze performance.
▪ Created, prioritize, manage and document project plans using Smartsheet to standardize project tracking.
▪ Implemented Problem & Service Request modules rollout in 2018 and Knowledge Management module rollout in 2021.
▪ Produce and publish governance dashboards to Senior Leadership providing trend analysis, risks, and areas of potential improvements. These are scripted in Tableau.
▪ Review the monthly IT Service Management Performance metrics against the KPIs & ensure 0% SLA non-compliance. Also stabilize SLAs around the newly onboarded applications.
▪ Consistently met the deadline for monthly SLA reviews and signoff from the Service Recipients of all tracks. Achieving commendation from the Senior management for improving this from 40 to 100% for past 4 years.
▪ Work with partners to track and analyse outcomes of key metrics to identify opportunities for continuous service improvement, optimization and automation.
▪ Create Visual task boards for day-to-day service operations.
▪ Maintain processes documentation and ensure adherence to Organisations Global processes.
▪ Work with the Application owners and the Suppliers to create a formal work order for Application on-boarding and oversee the resource Demand Management operations.
▪ Demand management tracking and reporting.
▪ Manage the onboarding and end-to-end transition of a suite of applications from incumbent /Pearson internal. Includes monitor and facilitate risk mitigation and issue resolution.
▪ Working with the Technology Infra services group to ensure capacity, planning and forecasting are in place and tracked continuously to maintain performance levels.

IT Infrastructure Services Manager – Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd
Chennai, London
2007.03 - 2017.07

Lead - Corporate IT Support

Birlasoft limited
Bangalore
2006.04 - 2007.03

Service Technician

Sutherland Global Services
Chennai
2004.11 - 2006.03

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

University of Madras
2001.04 - 2004.03

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Madras
1998.04 - 2001.03

Skills

    Client management

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Certification

Six Sigma: Certified Lean Competency Level 1A - jointly recognized by Barclays Bank & Cambridge University.

Timeline

Senior Manager – IT Service

Pearson India Education Pvt Ltd
2017.08 - 2022.10

IT Infrastructure Services Manager – Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd
2007.03 - 2017.07

Lead - Corporate IT Support

Birlasoft limited
2006.04 - 2007.03

Service Technician

Sutherland Global Services
2004.11 - 2006.03

Master of Computer Applications -

University of Madras
2001.04 - 2004.03

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Madras
1998.04 - 2001.03
Six Sigma: Certified Lean Competency Level 1A - jointly recognized by Barclays Bank & Cambridge University.
Completed Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 training
Sashidhar GaneshIT Infrastructure Service Delivery