Ismail Ahmed, Associate Manager

Ismail Ahmed

Associate Manager

lenovo

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's degree, English & Communication
Experience
20 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 6 Months

Associate Manager at lenovo
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since May 2013

Manage Tech support metrics, suggestion on matrices calculation. Manage Partners with performance, & help with technical support.

As Technical Support Specialist at dell
  • India - Bengaluru
  • November 2009 to August 2014

Since Nov '09 Technical Support Specialist


Current Role: As Technical Support Specialist
• Job responsibilities include, providing technical, hardware and basic software support to the team.
• Identifying agents/products for trainings and providing training, to help improve scores.
• Conduct weekly knowledge checks to the team.
• Regular call Audits to ensure technical and communication quality.
• Maintain a balanced score card, which would include Customer Experience, eXternal Problem Resolution, Repeat Dispatch Rate, Resolved Rate, Average Handle Time, Calls per Rep per Week, Margins.
• Taking escalation calls. Taking 2nd level heat check calls.
• Scrubbing cases, to ensure everything including technical aspect and process is followed correctly on the call/case logs, and provide feedback to agents if necessary.
• Have regular 1x1 with agents, to understand technical needs.
• Manage Avaya, to ensure maintain service levels, with maximum successful intervals.
• Attend conference calls with L3s to ensure all the burning issues and new found issues have a quick resolution.
• Conduct regular team engaging activities with the help of the Team Manager, like creating awareness of new products, new process, sharing team performance and fun activities.
• Worked on XPR improvement project for the entire LOB, improved BQ performance.
• I was given the ELS (F60) queue to handle looking at my performance in the core queue.
• I won the Bronze award for Q3 FY12, best TSS award for Q2 FY13 & Bronze award Q3 FY13.


As Advanced Technical Support Representative
• Taking maximum calls, to meet my CE, Revenue and CRW targets.
• Ensured that the best customer experience is provided to each and every customer.
• Providing help to my team member with technical issues.
• Taking escalations in the absence of my TSS.
• Send reports to the team, which include CE, XPR, Ri1 and RDR, report and scrubs
• I won the Star of the Quarter Award for 3 quarter in a row (Q2, Q3, Q4 of FY08)

As Resolution Expert
• Taking escalation call.
• Publishing reports to the team.
• Conduct team meeting on performance along with the TSS.
• Preparing decks related to the warranty cost metrics, presentation to Area Manager.
• I won the Star of the Quarter Award for Q2 FY07. Best REX for Q3 FY07.


As Technical Support Associate
• Initially started with APAC, learnt technical troubleshooting.
• In 6 months I was moved to EMEA, where initially I spent some time learning the process, tools and technicality of laptop troubleshooting.
• Taking maximum calls, ensuring I met business goals and learnt more about the business.

TSS at Dell International Services
  • India
  • November 2004 to August 2014

Since Nov '04 Dell International Services, Bangalore

Advanced Technical Support Representative at dell
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2007 to November 2009

Oct '07 - Nov '09 Advanced Technical Support Representative

Resolution Expert at dell
  • India - Bengaluru
  • June 2006 to October 2007

Jun '06 - Oct '07 Resolution Expert

Technical Support Representative at Dell International Services
  • India
  • November 2004 to June 2006

Growth Path: Nov '04 - Jun '06 Technical Support Representative

Executive at M-Source
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2003 to November 2004

Dec '03 to Nov '04 M-Source

Collection Agent at Citibank
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2003 to November 2004

Dec '03 to Nov '04 Collection Agent
* Job responsibilities included speaking to customers with Citibank credit card in the US and recover payments

Education

Bachelor's degree, English & Communication
  • at Tamil Nadu Open University
  • February 2013

• B.A. (English & Communication) from Tamil Nadu Open University.

Specialties & Skills

People Management
Technical Support
Pre sales Technical Support
Technical Communication
ASSOCIATE
DISPATCH
METRICS
NEW PRODUCTS
TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Languages

Urdu
Intermediate
English
Expert
Kannada
Intermediate
Tamil
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

ITIL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Remote Control Flights
    RC planes