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Yashashwini Gowda

Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced Support Escalation Engineer & Copilot Lead with expertise in advanced troubleshooting, high-priority issue resolution. Subject Matter Expert (SME), delivering impactful technical solutions. Proficient in managing escalation workflows, ensuring timely intervention and rapid resolution of critical technical issues. Skilled in mentoring support teams, enhancing operational efficiency and customer experience through knowledge sharing and best practice implementation. Expert in cross-functional collaboration with development and engineering teams to resolve complex configuration, code, and service issues, ensuring alignment with customer requirements. Skilled at driving product enhancements through strategic insights and customer feedback. Lead Copilot case management, focusing on Time to Escalate (TTE) and First Week Resolution (FWR) to ensure proactive issue mitigation and smooth case flow. Contributed to engineering engagement and continuous improvement through SME knowledge sharing and post-EG reviews. Led People Excellence initiatives, driving team engagement and performance while aligning support strategies with organizational goals.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Support Escalation Engineer

MICROSOFT
11.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: Empowering customers to realize business value & Delivering differentiated customer experiences
  • Demonstrated expertise in advanced troubleshooting, acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) across multiple domains
  • Effectively resolved complex, high-profile, and long-running customer issues, driving fast resolution and customer satisfaction
  • Provided guidance to fellow engineers to streamline issue resolution
  • Delivered exceptional support by effectively mitigating complex challenges, contributing to customer success
  • Assisted in knowledge sharing through readiness programs, enhancing customer interactions and support team performance
  • Led the development of advanced troubleshooting strategies to enhance team efficiency
  • Mentored new engineers and peers, cultivating a collaborative environment for knowledge transfer and continuous professional development
  • Contributed to the technical readiness of support teams through best practice sharing
  • Collaborated closely with development, engineering, and escalation teams to resolve complex configuration, code, or service-related issues affecting customers
  • Facilitated seamless communication across teams to ensure rapid and effective issue resolution
  • Acted as a trusted advisor to the Engineering groups, providing insights and recommendations to drive product improvements
  • Ensured customers received the highest level of support by influencing product development based on deep technical understanding and customer feedback
  • Led People Excellence Initiatives: Spearheaded programs to enhance team engagement, performance, and development, aligning initiatives with organizational goals
  • Empowering customers to realize business value & Delivering differentiated customer experiences.

Copilot SME:

  • · Conduct case reviews with the RF team to ensure technical accuracy and alignment with technology-specific issues.
  • Perform daily case assessments and ensure timely EG engagement within 7 days. Follow-up with bi-weekly post-EG reviews for smooth resolution.
  • Drive engineering engagement within the first week, minimizing downtime and ensuring quick troubleshooting.
  • Join Copilot SME calls to provide updates, discuss case trends, and contribute to process improvements.
  • Mentor case owners on log collection, follow-ups, and value-driven conversations, ensuring adherence to best practices.
  • Manage cases exceeding the 7-day TTE threshold, driving proactive escalation to prevent delays.
  • Review potential Copilot cases daily in DFM, taking corrective actions to prevent backlog.
  • Ensure ICMs and other requests with engineering are unique and accurate, preventing case duplication.
  • Identify cases at risk of exceeding TTE and escalate to ensure timely resolution.
  • Collaborate with customer success managers/Technical account managers to understand customer environments and align support efforts with their business goals.
  • Prioritized cases based on impact, ensuring timely resolution of high-priority issues to maximize customer satisfaction.
  • Promoted Copilot awareness, helping customers leverage its value to optimize operations and drive growth.

Support Engineer

MICROSOFT
10.2018 - 10.2023
  • Customer advocate for large enterprise users, assisting them in providing solutions ensuring optimal value and successful experience
  • Gracefully handle difficult situations in a fast-paced environment
  • Assisting IT Admins, CEOs with their issues with Office client applications and Office cloud services on server and client level within their organizations
  • Collaborate with other teams to ensure consistency of delivery
  • Solid confident verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting to all levels of clients and co-workers
  • Managing Critical situations, Major Incidents, and high severity incidents drive their resolution from the beginning to the end
  • Able to take service impacting decisions and to organize a resolution community during in/out of office time
  • Lead cross-functional teams to resolve critical technical incidents
  • Send communication emails to teams with major critical incident summaries and status
  • Monitor new hires- onboarding buddy and mentor
  • Perform RCA on Office application issues in an enterprise environment
  • Create bugs, hotfix, and Request for change requests/cases with Product teams and communicate with product engineers/owners
  • Conducting triage on technical topics
  • Mentoring new hires
  • Providing assessment and reviewing their progress promptly
  • Creating Knowledge base articles- customers and engineers can utilize to solve any issues they might be experiencing with the company's products or services
  • Writing and publishing technical & Customer Success stories
  • Leading SPOC for various entities like Readiness and Learning. An active People’s advocate

Senior IT Analyst

GOLDMAN SACHS
05.2017 - 09.2018
  • Handling User Accounts and admin accounts
  • Hands on experience with the following: Citrix, virtualization, and Proofpoint
  • Diagnosing and solving hardware and software faults and software applications
  • Working continuously on a task until completion
  • Ensured accountability for the audit trail of documented processes and proactively addressed process exceptions during daily operations.
  • Working on O365 and Office application case
  • Raising priority incidents to mitigate risks and Solving Critical issues on priority
  • Creating new knowledge base articles and updating articles to share information for re-use
  • Working with specialist teams on various cases and bugs.

Technical Support Engineer

HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE
08.2015 - 05.2017
  • Follow up on front line engineer’s cases, provide technical assistance and drive them to closure
  • Work on Incident requests and work orders
  • Incident Life Cycle Coordinator (Incident management)
  • Driving the efficiency and effectiveness of the incident management process
  • Work on outage issues and drive the priority tickets to “resolved”/” closure”
  • Send out reminder emails and work with engineers to meet SLAs and help them reach out to right team to make sure Clients issues are resolved
  • Engage in bridge calls till opened incidents and high priority cases/tickets are closed

Education

B.E. - Computer Science and Engineering

ACS College of Engineering
Bengaluru
07.2013

Skills

  • Incident Management
  • Knowledge management
  • Consumer and Premier enterprise support
  • Enterprise IT infrastructure management Incident and escalation management Mobile device management and cloud policies
  • Risk based analysis and problem solving Process improvement and workflow optimization
  • Performance monitoring and compliance
  • Team leadership and employee mentorship
  • Escalation management Quality assurance & service delivery
  • Microsoft Office 365 (Win32, Mac, iOS and Android)
  • VMWare, Citrix, Windows virtual desktop
  • Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365
  • Intune and Group policy object (GPO)
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Windows Servers Active Directory

Certification

  • Java and Android
  • Microsoft 365 certified: Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Security Associate- Fundamental
  • Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Azure AI 900

Publications

  • Published Core Technical Knowledge base articles.
  • Written and published Customer Success Stories showcasing Customer obsession and focus.

Accomplishments

  • Publication of Customer Success Stories in internal MIcrosoft portal
  • Customer Recognition & Appreciation.
  • People Advocate at Microsoft.
  • Global GIVE Campaign - SPOC & Volunteer Leadership.
  • Microsoft CARE reward- Customer obsession
  • Start team award.

Timeline

Support Escalation Engineer

MICROSOFT
11.2023 - Current

Support Engineer

MICROSOFT
10.2018 - 10.2023

Senior IT Analyst

GOLDMAN SACHS
05.2017 - 09.2018

Technical Support Engineer

HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE
08.2015 - 05.2017

B.E. - Computer Science and Engineering

ACS College of Engineering
Yashashwini Gowda