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Lakshmi Masco

Mississauga,Ontario

Summary

  • Contributes 9+ years of IT experience in Backup administration, with the IBM Tape libraries, and related storage hardware and AIX.
  • Expertise in different Storage hardware Tape libraries such as Tape Library and data domain and IBM ProtecTIER
  • Excellent communication skills; a high degree of attention to detail, team player
  • Professionally trained Scrum Master with skills in Agile planning and leadership and seeking to improve cost, delivery time, and quality metrics.


  • Adept at handling 200+ calls daily while
    consistently resolving client issues smoothly and quickly. Highly skilled communicator who meets deadline and ensure customer satisfaction.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Collection Agent

Total Credit Recovery
07.2023 - Current
  • Improved debtor repayment rates by negotiating payment plans and settlements effectively.
  • Reduced bad debt losses through proactive collection efforts and accurate account monitoring.
  • Increased cash flow for the company with timely follow-ups and consistent communication with delinquent accounts.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by providing empathetic support, understanding their financial situations, and offering tailored solutions.
  • Conducted thorough research to locate hard-to-find debtors for successful collections.
  • Maintained accurate records of all collection activities, allowing for better tracking and analysis of performance metrics.

Senior Collection Specialist

Bill Gosling
03.2022 - 03.2023
  • Placing approximately 200+ outgoing call for to delinquent customers
  • Locate and notify customers of delinquent accounts using TCN agent gateway.
  • Advice customers if necessary actions and strategies for debt payment.
  • Locate and monitor overdue accounts, using computers and a variety of automated systems.
  • Gathered and verified all required customer information for tracking purposes.
  • Answer customer questions regarding problems with their accounts.
  • Receive payments and post amounts paid to customer accounts.
  • Record information about financial status of customers and status of collection efforts.

  • Manage customers who are resistant to agent contact by remaining polite, tactful, honest and firm.

Collection Agent

Affinity Global Inc
08.2021 - 03.2022
  • 50+ customer interactions per day, giving detailed, personalized, friendly, and polite service to ensure customer retention and satisfaction
  • Memorized all company products and services to be able to answer customer questions quickly and efficiently and increase upsells.
  • Collect source data such as customer names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card information for over 1000 customers and enter data into customer service software.
  • Communicate clearly and effectively with clients, colleagues, and management to resolve issue and ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Handled all types of billing-related calls, including billing disputes, payoff balances, and warranty service contract inquiries.
  • Work independently, under pressure in a fast-paced environment with multiple customers.

Technical Support Representative

Sutherland
01.2020 - 08.2021
  • Appropriately communicate with upset customers to resolve concerns and questions.

  • Provide verbal and written technical assistance to customer with service, installation repair and general product questions.
  • Troubleshoot system problems efficiently while entering data into various software platforms.
  • Handled all types of service-related customer calls, including scheduling service, inspections and Ensure Full resolution and conclusion of tickets.
  • Collected customer feedback and made process changes to exceed customer satisfaction goals.
  • Understand the customer environment and product enabling resolution of complex technical issue and providing alternative support options which may not be related to open text products directly.
  • Facilitated information flow between customer service, account management operations, quality assurance and training to guarantee call center objectives were met.

Technical Services Specialist

IBM
05.2014 - 01.2016

• Collaborated with TSM4VE with 7.1.1.0 TSM server


• Maintained the backup for 1500+ servers for TSM4VE

• Worked on SAP Backup configuration

• Install and configure TDP for Oracle and SQL

• Actively enrolls in the Transition phase for new projects

• Upgrades of TSM BA client 6.3 to 7.1.1.0

• Performed as a TSM4VE environmental client

• Took care of patching on the TSM server

Senior System Engineer

Computer Science Corporation India
02.2011 - 05.2014

• Maintained the backup for 3000+ servers, work on backup missed and failed daily.


• Takes care of sending offsite tapes once a week with DB extending the recoveries for log issue


• Install and configure the TSM client on Unix and windows.


• Register node and schedule for backup alongside decommissioning the nodes.


• Executed TDP for MS SQL, DB2 with configuring scheduled backed ups for archiving features.


• Fosters all administrative schedules along with processing policy domains, set maintenance, and creation.


• Acts as a distinctive problem resolution and escalations expert for the IBM department


• Monitors the taping libraries and resolves if there are any intervention issues.


• Administers daily back-ups for each Disaster Recovery while performing health checks for backup Applications and Tape Library

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies Ltd, Chennai
01.2007 - 02.2011
  • Configure TSM DB, Recovery LOG, and Storage Pools as per the client's requirements.

  • Showcases a configuration of SERVER processes like Expiration, Storage Pool Migration, and Reclamation of TAPE Storage Pool Volumes

  • Checked each administrative schedule for DB BACKUP, and BACKUP STG; for any failures on a prioritized basis Registers
    nodes to the proper Policy Domain and associating them to schedules.
  • Checked the activity log for any HARDWARE or Application related errors. Troubleshooting specific TSM Server/Client
    problems and if needed enable trace and work with IBM software support.
  • Created backup schedules for all the clients considering the backup throughput, server throughput, and tape drive capacity continuously.
  • Responsible for taking up escalations on Backup, Restoration Management, taped and media Management Offsite and Onsite
  • Created a standard DSM.opt for each platform and deploying this to all clients.
    Worked on Implementing LAN-free configuration of DB2 backups.
  • Configured the library path drives and drives paths, device class.
  • Administers additional drive related or Volume related errors, move the data of the volume to destroy the Volume based on the number of reading/ WRITE errors.
  • Executes tape reconciliations with offsite tape management procedures and plans for storage concerning the size of data
    growth.
  • Generated AUDIT VOLUME if any inconsistency in VOLUMES DATA; RESTORE VOLUME
    Fosters the Audit Library for any mismatch for in both regular and TSM inventory.
  • Maintains a minimum number of scratch volumes with an involvement in implementing library shared information across multiple TSM servers and creating Server to Server communications.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication

Anna University
Chennai, India
04.2006

Skills

  • IBM 3584/3592 LTO Libraries, VTL, and Data Domain
  • IBM AIX 6L, Win 2012, and LINUX
  • TSM Server 5x,6x and &711, BA Client, TDP, TKLM
  • Planning, Meeting Facilitation, Servant Leadership, Agile Coaching
  • Strong organization skill
  • Close attention to details
  • Adaptability
  • Problem-solving
  • Debt Recovery
  • Multitasking

Timeline

Senior Collection Agent

Total Credit Recovery
07.2023 - Current

Senior Collection Specialist

Bill Gosling
03.2022 - 03.2023

Collection Agent

Affinity Global Inc
08.2021 - 03.2022

Technical Support Representative

Sutherland
01.2020 - 08.2021

Technical Services Specialist

IBM
05.2014 - 01.2016

Senior System Engineer

Computer Science Corporation India
02.2011 - 05.2014

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies Ltd, Chennai
01.2007 - 02.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication

Anna University
Lakshmi Masco