Sumitra Jitakam, IT Program Manager

Sumitra Jitakam

IT Program Manager

birlasoft limited

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Hardware & Networking
Experience
15 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months

IT Program Manager at birlasoft limited
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since November 2020

Successfully managing IT projects, ensuring their timely completion, and overseeing
incident management, problem management, and incident reduction using the process
of problem management
Analyzing customer problems, assessing potential impact, providing resolution options,
conducting thorough problem investigations, and researching to resolve product-related
issues
Monitoring and reporting on incidents, ensuring adherence to SLAs, managing mobile
device and patch management processes, leading and managing the IT staff, ensuring
optimal performance and productivity
Establishing standards and procedures for efficient IT operations, developing strategies
to enhance IT performance, and aligning with organizational goals, documenting
problems and solutions for future reference
Achievements:
Managed Manage Engine Mobile Device Management
Developed and implemented standardized procedures, resulting in increased productivity and reduced errors

Manager IT at Avacare Shared Services Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • January 2016 to November 2020

Peers & Reporting
•IT Staff Management
•Asset Management
•Incident Management
•Vendor Management
•Establish Standards & Procedure
•Stratergy Building
•Monitoring and Reporting
•Responsible for the entire IT Support & Infrastructure
•Maintained customer relationship through in-bound calls and delivered quality customer support.
•Resolved hardware products, Network, Server and Operating Systems related queries remotely and over the telephone.
•Responsible for pushing antivirus through the server to all the systsms of the organization
•Analyzed customer problems including potential impact to Avacare, customer expectations & resolution options.
•Conducted problem investigation and research to resolve product related issues.
•Searched databases containing records of problems, symptoms and solutions.
•Responsible for the deployment of Applications through servers
•Managing printers
•Roster preparation
•Working on Antivirus server, Software server
•Managing Active Directory
•Implementation of DC on windows server 2012 R2
•Worked on SonicWall Firewall Security


Documented problems & solutions using appropriate information systems for future references

Senior IT Associate at SS&C Globeop Financial Services
  • India
  • May 2013 to January 2016

Responsible for Managed IT Services to the Globeop’s clients in US and UK
•Maintained customer relationship through in-bound calls and delivered quality customer support.
•Resolved hardware products, Network, Server and Operating Systems related queries remotely and over the telephone.
•Responsible for pushing antivirus through the server to all the systsms of the organization
•Analyzed customer problems including potential impact to Globeop, customer expectations & resolution options.
•Conducted problem investigation and research to resolve product related issues.
•Searched databases containing records of problems, symptoms and solutions.
•Responsible for the deployment of Applications through servers
•Maintaining printers and IP phones checklists
•Roster preparation
•Working on Antivirus server, Software server, Citrix server
•Managing Active Directory which includes
•Giving required rights to the users
•Storing data of users, systems and printers
•Creating user accounts & their Email id
•DL creation
Documented problems & solutions using appropriate information systems for future references

Senior Technical Support Analyst at INSEAD
  • Singapore
  • May 2011 to February 2013

Key Profile: Joined INSEAD

Team Lead at Capita India Pvt. Ltd
  • India
  • June 2010 to May 2011
Senior Technical Support Associate
  • August 2009 to June 2010

Handled a team of 6 Service Desk members.
•Maintained customer relationship through in-bound calls and delivered quality customer support.
•Resolved hardware products, Network and Operating Systems related queries over the telephone.
•Provide Technical Support to more than 800 systems of Capita
•Analyzed customer problems including potential impact to Capita, customer expectations & resolution options.
•Conducted problem investigation and research to resolve product related issues.
•Searched databases containing records of problems, symptoms and solutions.
•Reimaging the systems with the help of LANDESK
•Used LANDESK Asset Management tool for managing the inventory of both hardware and software assets of CAPITA India Pvt. Ltd
•Responsible for the deployment of Applications through LANDESK
•Maintaining printers and IP phones checklists
•Managing Active Directory which includes
•Giving required rights to the users
•Storing data of users, systems and printers
•Creating user accounts & their Email id
•DL creation
•Documented problems & solutions using appropriate information systems for future references

NOC Support Engineer at Zenith InfoTech
  • India
  • June 2008 to January 2009

I was a part of disaster recovery team which was responsible for taking data backup of its client in Baltimore and Phoenix, USA.




Key Profile:

•Worked in BDR (Back Up and Disaster Recovery) Technology.
•Was taking incremental backup as well as Synthetic Incremental backup for the Clients in USA through SAAZ software.
•Patch Management of the corrupted Files.

Group IT Manager at Avacare Shared Services Pvt. Ltd
  • to
Assistant Group IT Manager at Avacare Shared Services Pvt. Ltd
  • to

Proficient in Implementing, Configuring Windows based servers 2000, 2003 & 2008 And Windows clients - 2000, XP, Windows 7 & Windows 8 and MAC OS X v10.7 (LION) & Mac OS X v10.6 (Snow Leopard), Apple Mail, IPhone and I Pads
•Implementing and Managing Domain Controller
•Managing SonicWall Firewall Security
•Determining and installing critical security patches
•Managing MS-Exchange 2003, Outlook 98/2000/2007/2010/2011/2013/2016
•Managing Active Directory in creating User Accounts, Email Ids and Distribution lists.
•Managing G-Suites
•Experienced in Troubleshooting TCP/IP networks
•Knowledge on Backup & Recovery Tool
•Creating IT Policies
•Worked with Citrix client V.10 and Web based Citrix
•Extensive Knowledge of Freshdesk, Remedy, Amdocs & CA Unicentre ticketing tools
•Knowledge of creating Knowledge Base in Remedy and CA Unicentre
•Worked on deploying Win XP & Win 7 images and other software through LANDESK
•Worked on LANDESK Asset Management tool for managing both software and hardware assets of CAPITA India Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Technical Support Analyst
  • to

Working on ITIL compliant ticketing tools like BMC Remedy
•on SharePoint 2003, 2010 and SQL Database


I develop websites on the platform of Share Point 2003 and Share Point 2010.

•We generally create two types of websites for MBA and Executive MBA students.

For MBA, we just create a blank website on Share Point platform.

But for the Executive MBA courses, we do the below procedure:

•Create the website with the help of Share Point
•Import all the required data to the website
•Extract the users / students from the People Soft to the Active Directory
•Extract the users / students from the Active Directory to the Website

For both the above 3rd and 4th steps:

•We get connected to the SQL database using the basic Authentication
•We run SQL queries to extract data from the People Soft to the Website

•Provide Technical Support to more than 2000 systems, IPhones, IPads
•Troubleshooting issues on MAC systems
•Worked on Mac OS X v10.7 (LION) & Mac OS X v10.6 (Snow Leopard)
•Configuring & troubleshooting Apple Mail and Outlook 2011
•Troubleshooting TCP/IP networks
•Resolving issue remotely by the help Team Viewer and WebEx
•Working Support and configured remote users Laptops and Desktops to dial in to the Corporate LAN Using Cisco VPN client
•Managing Active Directory which includes
•Giving required rights to the users
•Storing data of users, systems and printers
•Creating user accounts & their Email id
•DL creation
•Analyzing incident alerts using the Incident Management tools with the Internal IT teams and end users.
•Documenting incident related calls from vendors, end users, application teams and engineering groups.
•Assigning priority as per urgency and criticality of the incidents with respect to business impact.
•Attending scheduled incident status update and ad-hoc calls to document impact & severity of ongoing issues.
•Motivating team members, implementing employee involvement schemes and ensuring career development.
•Developed, modified and maintained user’s Windows NT/2000/XP, Outlook and PN accounts by directly connecting to servers using Citrix Remote Access Thin Client solution.
•Created mailbox and granted access on mailbox.
•Troubleshooted Outlook issue involving troubleshooting archive & personal folders related issues.
•Took ownership and resolved problems related to critical issues and potential dis-satisfied customers.
•Escalating issues to proper authorities and followed up with customers through e-mails and call-backs

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Hardware & Networking
  • at IIHT
  • September 2018

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Bachelor's degree, Computer Hardware & Networking
  • at Pune University
  • September 2018

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Specialties & Skills

Service Delivery
People Management
IT Management
Incident Management
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
ANTI VIRUS
ASSET MANAGEMENT
COMPUTER HARDWARE
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2008
ITIL (Training)
Training Institute:
IIHT
Date Attended:
March 2007
Duration:
160 hours

Hobbies

  • Travelling
  • Playing Cricket
  • Listening to music