Dhanesh Vazha Kovukkal, IT Hardware Asset Management and Procurement Support

Dhanesh Vazha Kovukkal

IT Hardware Asset Management and Procurement Support

Qualcomm

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Advance Hardware & Network Engineering
Experience
15 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months

IT Hardware Asset Management and Procurement Support at Qualcomm
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since June 2018

IT Hardware Asset Management + IT Asset Forecasting & Procurement coordination.

IT Asset Manager at Wipro Arabia Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia
  • March 2016 to December 2017
Asset Manager at Wipro Arabia Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia
  • March 2016 to December 2017

Saudi Aramco, ITHRA Project in KSA. It is a Greenfield project and I have
implemented complete Asset Management system for our Proponent. I have built all process & SOP’s. The Asset
Management scope covers traditional IT Assets + Exhibit Assets + Spare Management+ Material Management+
Software license utilization and tracking

Sr Analyst at Ernst & Young (EYGBS)
  • India
  • September 2015 to March 2016
Sr Analyst at EYGBS India Pvt Ltd
  • September 2015 to March 2016

Project: IT Asset Management

IT Operations Sr Analyst at Accenture
  • India
  • April 2015 to September 2015
Team lead at Accenture
  • India
  • April 2015 to September 2015

Hardware Asset Management Lead for EYGBS Bangalore Region. Monitoring, managing & supervising ITAM Team
located in 3 facilities in Bangalore, close interaction with EY global team, Finance, HR & Procurement Team.
Achievement:
1. Reduced Non-compliance by doing proactive actions
2. I have planned and executed laptop migration activity for more than 1500 users with in the agreed
timeline without any escalation and our team and I received great appreciation from EYGBS India IT
Head.
3. I have also performed Asset Reconciliation activity by coordinating with finance team & successfully
closed it for the FY 2015-16

IT Asset Coordinator at Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • November 2011 to April 2015
Team lead at Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • November 2011 to April 2015

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Accountable and responsible for all Asset Management transactions in the respective facility &
performing regular quality checks in the asset repositories.
• Attending weekly calls with Asset Manager PAN India Leads in other facility to discuss on daily
operational challenges & process improvement.
• Process Improvement initiatives: - Discovery and improve integration process requirements, automation
requirements. Identifying areas of improvement.
• Monitoring team’s work and identifying the gaps and making necessary changes in the process if
required.
• Working closely with Logistics Team for IUT/Bonding/De-bonding etc
• Making action plan for physical audit & asset disposal activity.
• Working on non-polling assets, guidance on IUT movement, De-bonding initiation

Desktop Support Engineer at Info Services (IBM Exclusive Service Provider)
  • India
  • September 2008 to January 2013
IT Asset Coordinator
  • India
  • March 2010 to June 2011
Offshore Lead- IT Asset Coordinator at Texas Instruments India Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • March 2010 to June 2011

Project 2 Description:
Software & Hardware Asset management for entire ORKLA (Company located in Sweden, Norway, Denmark &
Poland).
Roles and Responsibilities:
* Software license and noncompliance management + Hardware Asset Management.
• Data Validation & report submission to client by referring to SCCM and HPUCMDB Discovery data.
• Sending monthly IT Assets reports to Client for billing.
• Supported ITSM lead for Developing CMDB in Service-Now tool.
Achievement:
Received Best Performance award for the FY 2012-13 Q3

Team Member at Info Services (IBM Exclusive Service Provider)
  • India
  • September 2008 to June 2009

Role and Responsibilities:
• “BMC Remedy user” & “Service now” were the ticketing tool we used.
• Outlook express & CISCO IP Phone are the main tool for user interaction.
• Shipment management through GRN area.
• Coordinating with vendor for defective hardware parts replacement which are under warranty.
• Exit Process-Clearing no due certificate & keeping track of exit assets & updating ownership of exit assets in
AMDB database.
• Assisting for server & desktop movement.
• Assigning temporary laptops & desktops to user.
• AMDB updates (BMC Remedy database).
• Conducting physical Inventory for database accuracy.
• Issuing & reclaiming IT assets.
• Service now/BMC Remedy tool for pulling reports

Senior Executive at Saudi Aramco
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Service-now & Excel
Team Size 2

Asset Manager at Ernst & Young (EYGBS)
  • India
  • to

Roles and Responsibilities:
* Creates and manages the IT Asset Management plan, processes and implementation.
* End to end Asset Lifecycle Management process developed for the hardware assets in KACWC site.
* Ensures authorized procedures and work practices are followed for all ITAM tasks.
* Baseline AMDB data for IT & Non IT Assets (electronic assets).
* Plan the data population of the AMDB & approves structural changes to the AMDB.
* Procurement initiation & Vendor/Supplier coordination for the applicable assets.
* Vendor or Supplier coordination for warranty assistance.
* Receive & verify the new shipment along with proponent and authorize to approve shipment delivery.
* Maintain the PO/DN copies of all the IT/Non IT materials that come into the facility.
* IT Store Management & Spare Management. Analyzing spare/asset utilization and forecasting future
requirement, especially for the spares.
* Capacity & Availability management for IT Assets & Non IT Spares.
* Vendor coordination for spare procurement and delivery as committed to Proponent.
* Lost/Stolen/Missing assets tracking & reporting.
* Software license utilization tracking & maintain software asset database.
* Knowledge and understanding of Software Licensing and Maintenance Agreements.
* Asset report submission on monthly basis.
* Asset decommission & disposal activity.
* Plan & conduct Asset physical audit once in a year and ensure asset inventory is consistent with the
AMDB. Taking part of internal & external quality audit as well.
* Asset Management module implementation in Service-now Tool by coordinating with Service-now
development team

IT Operations Sr Analyst
  • to

Flexera Flexnet Manager, Service Request Module & Ariba Procurement Tool.
Team Size 5

Senior Systems Executive at Orkla Group of Companies
  • to

ServiceNow & HPUCMDB

IT Asset coordinator at Northern Trust Bank
  • India
  • to

Tools ServiceNow, BMC Remedy
Team Size 4

Desktop Support Engineer at IBM
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Team Size 4/10

Team Member at IBM
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Role and Responsibilities:
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Education

Bachelor's degree, Advance Hardware & Network Engineering
  • at Nirmalagiri College
  • January 2008

Authorized center by CompTIA & Prometric

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Bharathiar University
  • January 2007

Specialties & Skills

Material Handling
Inventory Management
Warehouse Management
Spare Parts
IT Asset Management
Flexible, Transparent & Quick Learner
Hardware Asset Management
Asset Governance

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
Intermediate
Malayalam
Native Speaker
Kannada
Beginner

Training and Certifications

CST-Computer Service Technician (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
MCSE-Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
CCNA-Cisco Certified Network Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
Valid Until:
June 2011