Kesevan Baskaran, Service Delivery Manager

Kesevan Baskaran

Service Delivery Manager

IBM

Location
Malaysia
Education
Higher diploma, Business Computing and Computer Science
Experience
24 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 0 Months

Service Delivery Manager at IBM
  • Malaysia
  • My current job since June 2019

Kesevan is Service Delivery Manager in IBM taking care of Infrastructure Service Delivery in AIA Berhad. In this role he leads 3 IPC Managers, working together with 17 SMEs from various Platforms and 15 System Operators. A Total of 20 years work experience with 9 Years of Project Management experience in Retail, Shipment, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries.

Specialities:
1. Effectively plan co-ordinate and meet deadlines of multiple projects.
2. Risk Mitigation and Management.
3. Change Management.
4. Agile Methodologies.
5. Responsible for overall Service Delivery commitments and Service Level agreement targets for Incident, Problem and Change.
6. Mentoring IPC transition to IBM China.
7. Work with Internal Audit to ensure compliance are met in all area of support and services.
8. Maintain Security and Compliance Policy.
9. Identify and communicate security protection goals and objectives with suitable measurement KPIs to support the business security requirements.

IT Project Manager at IBM
  • Malaysia
  • April 2015 to June 2019

1) Decommissioning of servers right from Logical
Decommissioning to Physical server decommissioning.

2) Coordinating with Asset Management team and Hand & Eyes team to terminate the network connection to the servers, dismantling the servers from rack, and destroying the Hard Disk before disposing the servers.

3) Agile Project Management where conduct Scrum
Meetings to meet the objectives.

SAP Project Manager at ISS Consulting Sdn. Bhd
  • Malaysia
  • August 2012 to December 2014

1) Responsible for coordinating the implementation of SAP business solutions.

2) Manage 2 SAP upgradation project SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.

3) Manage SAP FI/CO Module upgrading.

4) SAP Helpdesk Manager (Manage the performance of Level 1 and Level 2 services & support to clients.)

5) Managed SAP WMS Implementation and SAP FI/CO bank integration.

ASST MANAGER IT HELPDESK at GCH Retail Sdn. Bhd
  • Malaysia
  • January 2009 to May 2011

1) Leading a team of 8 Service Desk Analysts.

2) Oversee the planning and implementation of
appropriate technology solutions for the Service Desk
function.

3) ITSM Best Practice for Service Desk team ensuring the team.

REGIONAL IT TECHNICAL ENGINEER/PROJECT MANAGER at GCH RETAIL SDN. BHD
  • Malaysia
  • March 2006 to December 2008

1) Provide technical and consulting services for Store
opening (New Stores)on network design and installation of IT Room (Server Room).

2) Prepare key suppliers, support teams and equipment estimates for project cost quotes for IT Director evaluation.

3) Work with vendor in building of Data Centre.

4) Vendor Management. • Negotiate rates and fees with Suppliers, and close deals.

IT SUPPORT EXECUTIVE at GCH RETAIL SDN. BHD.
  • Malaysia
  • January 2004 to February 2006

1) Second Level Support for in house Store System.

2) Supervise System Integration Test for SAP system
mainly on SAP Master File, SAP Business Integration and SAP Batch Processing.

MIS SUPPORT EXECUTIVE at TOPS RETAIL SDN. BHD
  • Malaysia
  • January 1999 to December 2003

1) Manage and does hardware troubleshooting and repair.

2) Support Hardware such as Weighing Scales, IBM Servers, POS Machine, and Network Equipments such Routers and HUBS.

Education

Higher diploma, Business Computing and Computer Science
  • at DOUBLE DIPLOMA (Validated by University of Cambridge)
  • December 1998

Specialties & Skills

Data Center Architecture
Multiple Domain Experience
IT Infrastructure Management
IT Project Management
HELP DESK MANAGEMENT
NETWORKING
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
SAP Project Management
SERVERS
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

Languages

Malay
Native Speaker
English
Expert
Malayalam
Native Speaker
Tamil
Intermediate