Summary
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Work History
Education
Skills
Career Overview
Key Customer Engagements
Key Achievements
Certification
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PRASHANTH KUMAR S

PRASHANTH KUMAR S

Service Delivery Manager
Hyderabad

Summary

IT management professional with 13 years of experience in Client engagement, Operations management & Service delivery. Performed various roles in Solution, Transition, Service Delivery and Transformation, from System Administrator to Delivery Manager in Infrastructure and Application support services. Building and maintaining customer relationships, ensuring quality services are delivered within the agreed SLA. Works effectively with cross-functional teams in ensuring operational and service excellence.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad
06.2019 - Current

• Responsible for account management which includes resource, people, profit & loss, hiring, talent development, etc.
• Coordinate with BRM’s, Client Partners, Senior consultants for acquiring and growing the business to the Organization
• Determine and develop SOW, Project goals and schedules
• Act as a transition manager and ensure all the timelines are achieved
• Lead a team of 100+ associates to deliver the service as per agreed SLAs
• Review, monitor daily performance of the associates to increase efficiency and productivity
• Review daily operations to ensure there are no deviations in the process
• Generate Daily/Weekly/Monthly operational reports for customer reviews and audits.
• Provide in detailed analysis on the performance trends, SLA's, KPI's on daily basis to both customer and internal management.
• Identify areas of opportunities for automation which could be implemented in process/tools and technology
• Develop and drive Service improvement plans to meet performance goals
• Participate in customer calls on daily basis to analyse and identify the improvement plans.
• First point of contact for any escalations and ensure they are addressed in timely manner
• Coach, reinforce and manage operational standards, procedures, and policies
• Work with SME’s, leads to ensure effective execution of services

Systems Engineer

Teamware Solutions
Hyderabad
08.2018 - 06.2019

• Create/Customize/Visualize/monitor daily, weekly, monthly operational reports using Business Objects, Service now and Tableau for customer audits.
• Applied knowledge of data modelling and statistical analysis to note trends and draw conclusions.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders on data interpretation/analysis/improvement.
• Provide in detailed analysis on the performance trends, SLA's, KPI's on daily basis to both customer and internal management.
• Continuous monitoring of operations to ensure there are no deviations in the process.

Technical Analyst

IBM
Hyderabad
04.2016 - 08.2018

• Handle all functionality for Polycom (VOIP), Interaction Client, Interaction Administrator, WebEx, Sonexis, ICBM and other client specific applications.
• Research on new technical issues towards a probable resolution, testing, implementation.
• Troubleshooting the issues related to Windows and Linux servers.
• Perform Backup and collect Logs on Windows and Linux servers.
• Provide support on weekends and odd hours to ensure little to no disruption of local and operational systems during scheduled maintenance and outages Monitoring server maintenance and run sanity checks for the same.
• Handling incidents on issues with Internal Employee Desk phones, Conferencing accounts, Mobile services, Active Directory, Juniper-VPN, Internet connectivity, Desktop, SCCM, Operating systems, Office-2016. Support on VPN clients like Juniper Network, Cisco, Junos Pulse.

Subject Matter Expert

Knoah Solutions Private Ltd
Hyderabad
02.2013 - 02.2016

• Support on Mobile Devices like Android, and Apple, Samsung Devices.
• Troubleshooting Laptops, Desktops, Printers. Office/Outlook 2007 and 2010 (Outlook Profile Creation, Synchronization and Conflicts).
• Handling incidents on issues with Internal Employee Desk phones, Conferencing accounts, Mobile services, Active Directory, Juniper-VPN, Internet connectivity, Desktop, SCCM, Operating systems, Office-2016.
• Support on VPN clients like Juniper Network, Cisco, Junos Pulse.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
HYDERABAD
08.2008 - 05.2012

Skills

Service Delivery Management

Project Management

Transition & Transformation

Operations Management

Vendor Relationship

Process Improvement Expert

Career Overview

  • 13+ years experience in IT Service Desk, Application Support, Infrastructure support services
  • Total 6+ years of experience in managing delivery teams that provided support to various technologies such as IT Service Desk, Compute Operations, Network & Telephony support, EUC services
  • Technical Lead - Managed multiple project transition, transformation projects
  • Global Operations Management - Lead delivery of IT managed services across different geographies (US/Mexico/China/Saudi Arabia/Australia/Hungary)
  • Delivery & Operational Excellence - Drove multiple Service Improvements and operational excellence practices.

Key Customer Engagements

  • US based appliance and electronics company - Samsung Electronics America & Canada
  • US based Health Analytics company - Truven Health Analytics
  • US based Consumer Products company - Pepsico
  • US based Grocery Supply company - C&S Wholesale Grocers

Key Achievements

  • Transition & Stabilization - Handled seamless knowledge transfer and moved into steady state with zero escalations
  • Outstanding customer satisfaction - Under my management, team achieved 98% customer satisfaction rate for the services delivered
  • Lead efforts to automate email to ticket conversion implementation which saved 180+ hours of manual efforts per month.
  • Lead efforts to implement bot solutions across IT Service Desk to reduce 30% of volumes.
  • Lead efforts to implement Gen AI solutions to cease impersonation and phishing attacks
  • Lead Zero Touch Windows OS upgrade solution saving 1500 hours of manual efforts
  • Part of streamlining configuration items in ServiceNow to Auto route Incidents to resolver groups reducing 30% of volumes to Service Desk

Certification

ITIL v4 Certified Professional

Timeline

ITIL v4 Certified Professional

11-2024

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2019 - Current

Systems Engineer

Teamware Solutions
08.2018 - 06.2019

Technical Analyst

IBM
04.2016 - 08.2018

Subject Matter Expert

Knoah Solutions Private Ltd
02.2013 - 02.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
08.2008 - 05.2012
PRASHANTH KUMAR SService Delivery Manager