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Vinay Pagadal

Vinay Pagadal

Customer Delivery Leader
Bangalore,India

Summary

Result oriented technology management professional with over 19 years of experience in Global Service Delivery, Customer Experience, Product Support and Managed Services. Strong track record of building and managing teams that foster productive workplaces with a mission focus. Extensive experience with ITSM, ITIL and Process Management. Dedicated individual with an ability to think critically and analytically to solve problems and build processes.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
5
5

Certifications

Work History

Customer Delivery Leader

Cisco Systems India
Bangalore, India
05.2020 - Current
  • Managing Product & Solution Support for Cisco Cloud Security, ISE & AAA.
  • Managing and directing team of 30 highly skilled escalation engineers.
  • Ensuring Delivery excellence with rigorous monitoring of important KPIs and maintaining CXSAT target of 90%.
  • Driving Team goals along with individual KRAs in alignment with organizational goals.
  • Business growth with operational efficiency through optimal resource management.
  • Handling customer escalations and driving them towards effective resolution.
  • Analyzing trends and shape continuous improvement through business analytics and metrics.

Customer Delivery Leader

Cisco Systems India
Bangalore, India
01.2017 - 05.2020
  • Led a team of 50+ Engineers to Manage End to End services of multiple customer networks running on latest technologies like SDWAN, ACI & Meraki, for Cisco Managed Services Organization
  • Operate managed services for customer accounts in excess of $35 Million TCV.
  • Resource management to ensure efficient delivery at optimum cost.
  • Stakeholder management within multiple teams of Cisco and Customers for streamlined operations.
  • Driving MSRs & QBRs with customers and stakeholders for performance measurement and optimizing operations.
  • Monitoring employee productivity and enhance procedures to reduce costs and improve quality.

Operations Lead

Cisco Systems India Pvt. ltd
Bangalore, India
01.2015 - 01.2017
  • Orchestrated team of 35 engineers to Manage and Operate multiple customers account end to end.
  • Ensured Incident resolution was not affected by bottlenecks and that appropriate resources were engaged and, when required, escalations were invoked.
  • Established and pursued roles and responsibilities of team engineers.
  • Responsible for process documentation, run books and operations manuals for individual customer accounts.
  • Implementing new operational processes and procedures as per customer and internal stakeholder agreements.
  • Supported planning, development and overall management of project budgets, in collaboration with relevant senior management.

Technical SME & Lead

Cisco Systems India Pvt. ltd
Bangalore, India
08.2012 - 01.2015
  • Handling escalation calls for Mobile packet core network with severity 1/2 for timely network issue resolution within SLA.
  • Expertise in handling Packet Core Network issues related to Cisco MPC features like NAT, ECS, PDP context support, APN support, QoS support, DIAMETER, RADIUS, Charging Actions and Routing protocol support, session recovery, Gx/Gy interface, bulk statistics and Cisco QPS PCRF.
  • Planning & Reviewing Audit reports for all network elements for discrepancies and implementing corrections.
  • Conducting Technical Training and updating teams for cross-functional skills.
  • Strong Coordination with IM, PM & CM for Incident resolution and customer communication regarding technical issues.

Senior Network Engineer

Reliance Communications Ltd
Mumbai, India
12.2009 - 08.2012
  • Service Owner as Level 3 Escalation Engineer for Reliance CDMA & UMTS/GSM Data Network which includes High Speed Internet 1X-RTT, EVDO, GPRS- EDGE & 3G, WDVPN, WAP, Blackberry and International Data Roaming services.
  • Experience in handling highly escalated cases in an organized and professional manner.
  • Leading Tier 2 team technically and guiding them through critical issues.



Network Engineer

Tata Teleservices Ltd
Mumbai, India
12.2006 - 12.2009

Executive Engineer

Reliance Communications Ltd
Mumbai, India
08.2005 - 12.2006

Field Engineer

Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd
Mumbai, India
10.2004 - 08.2005

Apprentice Trainee Engineer

Tata Teleservices (Mah.) Ltd
Mumbai, India
09.2003 - 10.2004

Education

Executive MBA - Product Leadership

Institute of Product Leadership
Bangalore
08.2021 - Current

Post Graduate Diploma - Business Administration

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning
India
06.2007 - 06.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics

Pune University
Pune
06.2000 - 07.2003

Diploma of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication

Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
Mumbai
04.1997 - 03.2000

Skills

Customer Experience

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Accomplishments

  • Executed multiple process improvements within Security ISE TAC team achieving CXSAT of 90% for the first time in team history with continued success.
  • Exceptional people management skills with attrition less than 5% YoY, for past 3 years with team sizes more than 25.
  • Defined and Established an entire set of KPIs for Operations within TAC team to monitor Lead Indicators of business.
  • Effective resource optimization during induction of a critical customer account, resulting in OPEX savings of $600K annually.
  • Instrumental in Building complete Cisco Operations model for Wells Fargo Customer including ITIL process framework and staff building. Handled Operations with 100% SLA compliance.
  • Orchestrated seamless transition of Vodafone Operations from Cisco US to Cisco India in a record time of 3 months without affecting customer operations effectively saving $400K annually with increased scope.
  • Successfully established Cisco Operations team for delivering Sprint Kansas City Smart-City project and handed over readiness model to Sprint as per contract within stipulated timeline of 12 months.
  • Planned and implemented Cisco PPM for VF-IN for KPI monitoring & trend analysis. First of a kind monitoring done for the customer to improve operational proactiveness.
  • Investigated and remediated critical design flaws in RCOM MPC network to resolve a highly escalated critical issue to retain a customer account worth Rs.15 million on verge of disconnection.


Certification

ITIL V3 Expert, Cisco Customer Success Manager V2.0, ITIL 4 Foundation, Six Sigma Green Belt

Interests

Bird Photography, Adventure Biking, Traveling, Cooking, Team Sports

Timeline

Executive MBA - Product Leadership

Institute of Product Leadership
08.2021 - Current

Customer Delivery Leader

Cisco Systems India
05.2020 - Current

Customer Delivery Leader

Cisco Systems India
01.2017 - 05.2020

Operations Lead

Cisco Systems India Pvt. ltd
01.2015 - 01.2017

Technical SME & Lead

Cisco Systems India Pvt. ltd
08.2012 - 01.2015

Senior Network Engineer

Reliance Communications Ltd
12.2009 - 08.2012

Post Graduate Diploma - Business Administration

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning
06.2007 - 06.2010

Network Engineer

Tata Teleservices Ltd
12.2006 - 12.2009

Executive Engineer

Reliance Communications Ltd
08.2005 - 12.2006

Field Engineer

Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd
10.2004 - 08.2005

Apprentice Trainee Engineer

Tata Teleservices (Mah.) Ltd
09.2003 - 10.2004

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics

Pune University
06.2000 - 07.2003

Diploma of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication

Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
04.1997 - 03.2000
Vinay PagadalCustomer Delivery Leader