Seeking a position to utilize my skills and abilities in the global industry that offers professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible. Also wanted to be a perfectionist who establishes a special identity among the peers.
10+ years of rich experience in service assurance handling operations. Accomplished various roles: Operations Manager, Team lead, Incident Manager, Shift Lead & Team member. A leader with excellent communication, customer handling, escalation/negotiation management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Operations Manager
HCL Technologies, Bank of America
08.2016 - Current
Currently handling operations of one of the world’s largest (2 Million End Users) Cisco Voice Network (25 CUCM and 25 CUC Clusters) of Bank of America – Merrill lynch that has highly visible presence across the globe
Managing team of 35 engineers having rich experience in Cisco Voice technology and handling various modules of ITIL i.e Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management
Having functional reporting of the team operational from different geographical location [US and India (Bangalore, Lucknow & Noida)] and collaborating between these teams to ensure seamless operations
Aligning quarterly goals for team members and handling feedback exchange mechanism for effective throughput
Discussing feedback with the team members based on individual score card/performance-tracker
Managing and conducting interviews to back-fill the open positions
Worked on CSAT survey and ensure good score in the feedback from customer
Running Daily, Weekly & monthly operational review meetings with client facing stakeholders to analyze the team performance and provide inputs on continuous service improvement
Conducting Bi-monthly meeting to discuss new updates & bridge gaps for teams supporting from different geographical locations i.e
India & US
Engaging right level of support for the team at the time of major outages
Assured availability of Services & Optimized Productivity through SLA based Service Model
Handling stakeholder’s communication along with multiple vendors in multiple location
Increased efficiency and effectiveness between cross functional teams by handling and promoting inter team communication and information flow
Worked with Vendor management team to get timely resolution from external providers
Analyze SLA breached tickets and present it to the team with improvement areas
Supported in the migration of proactive monitoring tool (ROSMAP to CMSP) to introduce additional feature for the incident management environment
Successfully enabled automation of various manual reports to reduce manned hours on the daily/weekly/monthly reports.
Directed day-to-day operations by spearheading implementation of short-term and long-term strategies to achieve business plan and profitability goals.
Recruited, hired and trained crew members on application of projects, customer relations and customer service.
Implemented policies and standard operating procedures and managed quality, customer service and logistics.
Addressed customer concerns with suitable solutions.
Incident Manager
HCL Technologies
11.2012 - 08.2016
Cigna is one of the first choice for US citizens in the healthcare sector and I was managing incident management module of a top performing team in the NOC
Evaluate the situation and gather all the facts from the involved teams for right communication for the Cigna stakeholders
Join Conference/Bridge calls to troubleshoot Priority 1/2 issues for quick resolution
Co-ordinate with different vendors & technology towers (Voice /Data/Telepresence) for incident resolution in timely manner
Keeping stakeholders updated with periodic updates during outages and enable problem management team to figure out RCA
Review effectiveness of the existing processes and take initiatives to improve it
Assisting engineers to understand the importance of abiding by defined process
Worked with Problem Management team to identify bugs in the existing environment
Managing event management tools related to the Circuit/ISDNPRI Status, CCM Replication, CPU thresholds, HDD failure, Phone deregistration and unreachable gateways.
Network Engineer, Teleperformance India
Cisco Voice
12.2009 - 11.2012
Configuring and managing Cisco IPT network for client
Resolving issues within SLA to ensure performance is maintained
Engage service providers & NOC team during the major network outages for Teleperformance India
Shared resource with helpdesk team and managed team of 5 engineers while ensuring minimum downtime for internal resources.
Monitored system performance to promote network speed, availability and reliability.
Corrected network faults and malfunctions to restore connectivity to individual users and entire facilities.
Performed disaster recovery tasks and data backups to mitigate damages.
Performed and documented runbook network operations using step-by-step decision trees.
Education
Master of Science - Masters in Computer Application
Punjab Technical University
03.2012
Bachelor of Science - Bachelors in Computer Applications
Sikkim Manipal University
08.2008
Standard XII - General Studies
C.B.S.E
03.2005
Standard X - General Studies
C.B.S.E
03.2003
Skills
PMP - Project Management
ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library
MBTI – Myers & Briggs Type Indicator
Cisco DevOPS – Introduction
Google CDL – Online Training
Network: Cisco Voice
Monitoring: BEMS, ROSMAP, CMSP
Ticketing: Remedy, SNOW, HP Service Manager
Certification
ITIL
CCNA Voice (Cisco Certified Network Associate).
CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate)
Languages
English
Hindi
German (Read).
ITIL V3, Cisco CCNA Voice, Cisco CCDA
Certified in ITIL V3, Cisco CCNA Voice, Cisco CCDA
Timeline
Operations Manager
HCL Technologies, Bank of America
08.2016 - Current
Incident Manager
HCL Technologies
11.2012 - 08.2016
Network Engineer, Teleperformance India
Cisco Voice
12.2009 - 11.2012
Master of Science - Masters in Computer Application
Punjab Technical University
Bachelor of Science - Bachelors in Computer Applications