Balachandar Ramu, IT Service Delivery

Balachandar Ramu

IT Service Delivery

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

IT Service Delivery at Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • My current job since August 2013

 Preparing daily workloads for staff & coordinating the daily allocation of work.
 Motivating the team to achieve high standards and KPI/Customer Satisfaction (C-Sat) targets.
 Handling client enquiries and acting as the face of the Project.
 Dealing and resolving problems and issues which arise in the team and process.
 Monitoring & reporting on standards & performance targets.
 Arranging & chairing daily/weekly team meetings, focusing on targets & achievements.
 Implementing new/interesting initiatives to self and other teams for motivation.
 Praise team members and creates a positive working environment.
 Ensuring all administrative and IT records are entered and updated correctly.
 Supports Service Transition activities in regards of Incident Management.
 Define reporting requirements to manage the Incident and Problem Management process.
 Identify process improvement(s) as the result of being the point of escalation.
 Involved in the recruitment of new staff.
 Mentoring and training up new analyst and motivating and molding them for performance excellence.
 Training and mentoring new team managers been recuts on the process knowledge and people management and molding them to be capable to handle a team with ease.
 Preparing and presenting Weekly & Monthly Service Review with Stake holders. Participating and providing inputs to Quality Team & QBR with senior management.

Accomplishments:
 Successfully completed APEX (Academy of Project Management Excellence)
 Successfully completed Leadership Journeyman Initiation program
 Played a Key role in Maersk Oil Qatar L2 Service transformation from Doha Onsite.
 Received Excellence Award for successful implementation of MOSAIC

Global Major Incident Coordinator at HP
  • India - Chennai
  • February 2012 to August 2013

 Ensure Quality of updates on P1 P2 register.
 Ensuring restoration of critical services within SLA.
 Strategic assessment on Major incidents throughout the life cycle.
 Identify Strategies from Trend Analysis and implement.
 Handling Account or Group level escalations or complaints for priority incidents.
 Weekly & Monthly Analysis of Major Incidents to Management.
 Service Improvement Plan.
 Continual Improvement Plan.
 Regular feedbacks to site Major incident focal.

IT Specialist at Maersk Global service centre
  • India - Chennai
  • January 2007 to January 2012

 To manage Incidents 24X7 and ensure minimal disruption to the service
 Speedy restoration of incidents.
 To act as a focal point for stakeholders during major outages.
 Ensure an Action plan / Back Up Plan is created for the restoration within SLA.
 Ensure timely communications / notifications towards internal & external stakeholders.
 To generate and circulate reports related to Incident Management.
 Fulfillment of QA parameters like proper documentation, process adherence timely updates in incidents.
 Authorized to support & Implement ITIL Processes.
 Authorized to report Security breach Incidences.
 Migrated L1, L2 Service Desk from Belgium & Maersk Oil & Gas, Qatar.
 Responsible for Service Catalogue, KPI & Standard Operating Procedures.
 Involved in preparing Approach paper, Service catalogue, SLA agreement, Escalation Matrix, Standard operating procedures, work flow and Service delivery documents.
 Driving service reviews, weekly meetings & monthly meetings with Stake holders.


 Maintaining users and administrating team sites in Share Point
 Creating Info Path forms, customizing web parts.
 Developing online applications in asp.net using c#.
 Defined Quality parameters and designed quality audit & feedback form.
 Quality monitoring, providing feedbacks to service desk members
 Providing quality reports to management by weekly
 Measuring service desk sigma value and prepare Pareto chart by weekly.
 Prepare training plan for agents who scored low.
 Complete daily, weekly and monthly report redesign in remedy & automate using excel VBA.
 Design reports using Business objects for Service desk.
 Successful transition of Reports from SAP team and handed over it to M&M team.
 Automated about 10 reports with Excel VBA which saved effort of 2 FTEs.

 Installation, implementing, operation, maintenance of Microsoft active directory, Windows 2003.
 RSA Secure ID (VDI3.0) administration
 Creating, Enabling, Disabling & Moving user’s network accounts using Microsoft Active Directory (MS AD) for user’s across all countries
 Providing Application Support for Remedy and Citrix.
 Troubleshooting issues related to Citrix Presentation Console server 4.5, Citrix XenApp 5, XenApp 6 and Citrix Access Gateway
 Assistance in the migration from RSA to Swivel PinSafe for Remote login Authentication through Citrix
 User administration for Mainframe sessions and troubleshoot intranet issues.
 Providing Internet access through proxy server.
 Administrating user groups, security groups in active directory
 Exchange server tasks include resource sharing, member addition to Business Addresses, distribution lists & Public Folders.
 Remote Monitoring and administration of Clients
 Installation and troubleshooting the computers and peripherals
 Handling escalations from stakeholders and customers for any issues with the Local and Global applications.
 Teleconference with second level/vendor teams for updated solutions and procedures

Escalation Engineer at Sutherland Global Services
  • India - Chennai
  • August 2005 to December 2006

 Mentor and Escalation Engineer for Windows XP Technical Troubleshooting team.
 Analyze & Fix Escalated issues
 Create or approve SOX Article
 Approval for Hot fixes
 Weekly call with Microsoft to discuss open issues
 Troubleshoot research, diagnose, document, and resolve technical issues surrounding Windows XP core

Enterprise Support at Sify Limited
  • India - Chennai
  • August 2004 to August 2005

 Domain registration, web hosting and troubleshooting mail server and mail related issues for corporate customers
 Support Engineer for mailing solutions, for the department Enterprise Application and Services (EAS) for corporate customers

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at D B Jain college
  • April 2004

MCA College Topper

Bachelor's degree, Mathematics
  • at Vivekananda college, Mylapore
  • April 2001

Scored college first in Final Semester

High school or equivalent, Physics, Math, Chemistry
  • at Muthialpet Higher Secondary School.
  • April 1998

Scored top score in Mathematics

High school or equivalent, Mathematics
  • at Muthialpet Higher Secondary School.
  • April 1996

Level 10th Standard. Got 100 out of 100 in Mathematics.

Specialties & Skills

Project Transition
Project Management
Major incident Manager
Citrix Administration
Service Transition

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

ITIL Foundation in ITSM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999
ITIL Intermediate - CSI (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
MCITP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Paintint and drawing
    Participated in various drawing and painting competitions
  • Multimedia poster designing
    Received awards for Poster designs for Annual day parties.