
Roles:
A dynamic IT professional with over 20 years of illustrative experience in Operations, Service Delivery, Quality, and Service Management.
Currently working with Kyndryl as Associate Director - Service Management/Portfolio Leader with unique experience from all delivery-related points of view (customer, services provider, and industry). Have handled business value scope +1 billion US$ per year. Managed large deals working with (virtualized) global on/off/nearshore teams.
• Vendor and Contract management for $70M for Sanoma.
• Producing long-term business plans and Controlling income, cash flow and expenditure
• Identifying potential suppliers, visiting existing suppliers, and building and maintaining good relationships with them
• Negotiating and agreeing contracts, monitoring their progress, and checking the quality of service provided
• Transitioned Servers, Storage, Database, Network and End User under the move groups plan.
• Established the Service Management division for Sanoma.
• Service Improvement proposal shared to integrate Customer and Wipro internal tools for better tracking the Service Management processes.
• Managing/driving the SLA’s of the respective hardware/software vendors of MTN (Uganda, Zambia, Swaziland, and Rwanda).
• Lead Monthly Business Review sessions to highlight successes and areas for improvement with causes/measures to the Leadership Team
• Ensuring back to back agreements in terms of support and services (if any) to assure the delivery of the Partners
• Maintain operational level agreement with all the third-party vendors associated with MTN contracts
• Monitor Vendor SLA deliverables, Conduct Vendor Performance analysis, and Evaluate Vendor Performance based on their quarterly/yearly performance.
• Evaluating bids and making recommendations based on commercial and technical factors
• Mediating between suppliers, manufacturers, relevant internal departments, and customers
• Identifying potential suppliers, visiting existing suppliers, and building and maintaining good relationships with them
• Worked as the Service Management Head and was responsible for ITIL Services - SD, IM, CM, PM.
Domain Skills:
 ITIL Intermediate(OSA)/ITIL 4
 ITSM Transformation - Change & Release, Incident, Problem Management,MIM
 IT supplier Management and Governance
 Program Management
 Media
 Telecom
 BFSI and Healthcare
 Governance
 End-User Computing
 Collaboration Platforms
 Large-scale Programs
 Transitions and Transformations (> 100K end-users)
 IT Support and Operations
 Strategic thinking
 Thought Leadership
Key Skills:
 Managed Staff Augmentation, Co- Managed, Managed Services and consulting engagements
 BPO Operation and Service Delivery - Large Accounts
 Operations, People management, Talent Acquisition & Employee Engagement
 Excellence in Sales/Retentions/BPO/KPO/LPO
 Vendor Governance, Partner relationship Management, Client Management, - Telecom
 Business Development and Retention
 Service Management, ITSM, Critical SLA's management - SOW, MSA, SLA, OLA
 Risk Management, Mitigation and Contingency Planning - BFSI, Telecom
 ITIL V3, Six Sigma (DMAIC), CMMI, Lean, SIP, CSIP, QMS, Transactional Quality
 Project Management, Compliance, Risks & Control Management, Capacity Planning and Resource Utilization