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Swapna Mantri

Hyderabad

Summary

Seeking a better & responsible position in an organization that provides me an opportunity to enhance my personal and professional skills in conjunction with goals and objectives of an organization.

Overall, 12 years of Experience in IT Industry, possess more than 5 years’ Experience in IT Operations, IT Service Management, Service Delivery, experience in managing Data center operations Extensive experience working in an organization using complex technology, Large IT Infrastructure set up, Customers Management experience in a complex, multi-platform development and processing environment. Experience in handling customers like Banking Insurance and Engineering Constructions. Possess strong client facing skills and delivery focused and Proficient in managing multiple cross-functional teams / projects. Built and managed successful client relationships with Banking and Insurance, ensuring all project needs were met. Having proficient in People Management and good knowledge on ITIL Process and best Practices. Experience in SLA Management for large organization. Experience in handling projects of 24x7 Operations.

Strong organizational and team building skills, with a demonstrated ability in Project Delivery, Managing Client Expectations, Issue Resolution and the ability to work effectively in an intense environment.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Lead

AXY
Hyderabad
07.2021 - Current
  • Adherence to ITSM process effectively
  • Monitoring backlogs of Incidents/Service requests and ensuring SLA adherence
  • Performing ticket audits and ensure tickets are regularly updated and tickets are parked under correct status and process is being adhered
  • Participating in weekly calls with customer, status of account is being discussed during call if any scope of new opportunity is being discussed and highlight if challenges
  • Ensuring that customer’s knowledge portal is up to date along with version history
  • Mentoring new team members and providing guidance on need basis ensuring no process breach
  • Handling escalations and providing updates to customer
  • Preparing weekly, Monthly, and quarterly reports on time and presenting monthly MMR during MMR call, facilitating other KPI reports to management on need basis
  • Participating in account specific ERM/ISO audits
  • Responsible for Onboarding and offboarding process is adhered without any breach
  • Conduct regular review meetings with team and identify gaps to take corrective action
  • Ensure Process Improvement plans are identified and implemented to enhance the C-SAT for the project.

Major Incident & Problem Manager

11.2020 - 05.2021
  • Ensure timely communication to customer and internal stake holders on status update of Major Incident
  • Opening a bridge through involving all relevant resolver groups and continue the call till Major Incident is resolved
  • Coordinating with respective SMEs for speedy resolution of the Major Incident
  • Ensuring the Major incident is resolved within agreed SLAs
  • Conducting a thorough analysis and preparing the Major Incident Report (MIR) for every Major Incident after it is closed
  • Conducting a review meeting with relevant team to identify the triggers for the Major incidents, what caused them and how to prevent such incidents happening in future
  • Ensure that causes for all Major Incidents are analyzed and root cause is identified through Problem Management Process
  • Ensure RCA is documented and shared with customer within Agreed SLAs
  • Tracking all Preventive actions documented under RCAs are, ensure Preventive Actions are implemented as per agreed timeline
  • Providing Periodic Weekly/Monthly reports on the overall status of the Major Incident Process & Problem Management Process.

Operations Manager

12.2016 - 10.2020
  • Playing the major Role in Account as Operations Manager
  • Responsible for Uptime and day to day Operations of IT systems, Server Infrastructure, Database and Networks
  • Ensuring that all systems and infrastructure meet their operational targets
  • This includes event management, incident management, and change request
  • Delivering & maintaining the services as per SLA
  • Monitoring of Data Center Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure
  • Preparing and presenting Daily, Weekly and Monthly MIS Reports with customers
  • Planning, Organizing and Monitoring new Projects and Activities
  • Oversee the administration of day-to-day operations multiple Domains for SQL, Windows, Linux, AIX, Patch Management Backup, Storage, Antivirus, Network, and AD & Exchange
  • Providing 24x7 on call support to the customer and technical teams to ensure the smooth running of all the systems
  • To inline the coordination’s between onsite and Remote teams for day-to-day operations
  • Planning and executing the BCP / DR drill activity as per request
  • Operational excellence by reviewing and refining processes and procedures as per ITIL Standards
  • Ensuring proper Resource’s plan to run the site.

ServiceDesk Lead

10.2014 - 11.2016
  • Working as ServiceDesk Lead and taking care IT Operations of 2, EUS accounts and involved in L1 activities of Data center
  • Responsible for Escalations pertaining to End User services
  • End to end remote support across India
  • Managing Team Size of 30 engineers (Desktop Operations) at PAN India
  • Managing 24
  • 7 Service Desk as a part of Service Desk Management
  • Ensuring that service delivery takes place based on the Service level agreements
  • Ensuring Prompt communication to all users in case of any Major failure or breakdown
  • Handling Weekly/Monthly Ops Review with client
  • To ensure that service norms committed to the customer are met
  • Ensure all the customer complaints/issues are identified, to prepare Action plan for all Complaints received and drive until closure
  • Review performance with the customer periodically during on-going phase
  • Ensuring smooth operations for all systems across the IT teams
  • Conduct weekly review meeting with Vendor on Breakdown Calls, ensuring prompt closure of pending issues
  • To ensure implementation of processes for all services covered in the SOW, ensure 100% SOW compliance & timely escalate non-compliance to Program management
  • Conduct weekly review meeting with team and identify gaps to take corrective action
  • Maintain SLA doc for all the activities performed by the team, collect performance data, analyze and publish
  • Creating processes and documentation for quality service desk setup
  • Ensure SIPs aligned to Plan and executed as per agreed timelines to enhance the C-SAT for the project
  • Managing recruitment, Identifying the team’s training & development needs and conducting appropriate training program.

Technical support Engineer

Wipro LTD under the payroll of APEX
02.2012 - 09.2014
  • End to end remote support across India
  • Responsible for owning up tickets and resolving issues through Remote access tools like LANDESK, CF1, RDP, etc
  • Responsible for L0 resolution\analysis of Network and Server related issues over telephone\by coordination with supporting teams until resolution
  • Installation, configuration & trouble shooting of Lotus mail client
  • Trouble shooting on various customer-oriented applications which works on citrix platform
  • Responsible for coordination with application teams for core application issues until resolution
  • Installing MS Office, Open Office etc
  • Troubleshooting on assigned ticket and resolve the problem within SLA
  • Installation Configuration of Printers & scanners devices (Network printers like, hp LaserJet printers)
  • Keep in regular touch with vendors, to resolve problems as quickly and efficiently as possible
  • Installing & updating antivirus software’s like Symantec.

Education

Skills

  • ITIL V-3 Foundation Certified
  • Service Management tools: ServiceNow, JIRA
  • MS Excel, MS word, PowerPoint
  • Incident, Change and Problem Management, ServiceDesk Management

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above-mentioned.

Timeline

Project Lead

AXY
07.2021 - Current

Major Incident & Problem Manager

11.2020 - 05.2021

Operations Manager

12.2016 - 10.2020

ServiceDesk Lead

10.2014 - 11.2016

Technical support Engineer

Wipro LTD under the payroll of APEX
02.2012 - 09.2014

Swapna Mantri