vasanth radhakrishnan, Customer Support Engineer

vasanth radhakrishnan

Customer Support Engineer

CROSSOVER

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's degree, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

Customer Support Engineer at CROSSOVER
  • India
  • My current job since September 2015

Managing Escalation calls of the team, and providing Constructive Feedback to Customer Support Associates.
•Managing/Handling Tier 1 Client accounts & holding monthly calls with these Clients to bring their issues to closure by liaising with other teams.
•Have been involved in mentoring the new Joinees from 2016 within the team, and training them on the product and process.
•Actively involved in overall Support Process improvement discussions with Support Management.
•Have been involved in couple of Post Go-Live Client projects as their Account Manager from Support
•Providing Technical Support to clients for the Product “Nextdocs” on the Lifesciences/Healthcare domain
•Support provided primarily for the Nextdocs product which is on the SharePoint platform, and has additional features on top of Out of Box SharePoint features
•Getting on calls/Goto meeting with clients to troubleshoot issues and provide solution
•Troubleshooting issues reported by clients when uploading/managing clinical trial documents, InfoPath forms, workflow issues, document versioning issues. Ensuring and managing document Check-in/Checkout
•Use Salesforce CRM ticketing tool to manage incoming requests from Clients and also to review the Salesforce Dashboards to view Statistics on Open/closed cases and Create/Manage Knowledgebase Articles.
•Executing basic SQL queries in production environment to query for retrieval of basic data from the database, for further troubleshooting.
•Executing Powershell scripts in the production environment to correct issues with Active directory user names, or Documents having wrong lifecycle statuses.
•Looking into Workflow errors and troubleshooting Nintex Workflow Designer to identify the problem.
•Documenting and managing KB articles page for building an extensive knowledgebase platform for Internal/External purposes
•Supporting Clients on Office 365/Cloud and Liasing with Development team to deploy web applications

Senior Support Engineer at SATMETRIX
  • India
  • December 2011 to September 2015

Managing and interpreting customer requirements. Holding weekly calls with Tier 1 clients and understanding their pain points/difficulties when they are using our Software Application.
•Preparing presentations/reports from Client issues logged every month, & presenting the same to management on weekly basis, to help identify areas on product which need more emphasis.
•Assisting clients through the “Go-Live” process and handholding/assisting them to understand the features in the new release.
•Travelling to client’s place and understanding their usage patterns in the application, and identify areas to improve in the product
•Meeting clients in Annual conferences and taking their suggestions/ideas in product life cycle.Drive the resolution of customer issues by working to define and diagnose issues by applying technical expertise, product knowledge, communication and problem solving skills.
•Prioritize issues of varying severity, and effectively manage the resolution or escalation of all issues within accepted service levels.
•Documenting customer reported issues via Bugzilla and working with Engineering to resolve/fix product bugs
•Providing support to Global customers, by troubleshooting their reported technical issues via phone, web based tools and email. Troubleshooting steps may involve :
•Organizing GoTo Meeting or WebEx calls with client, sharing their screen and understanding what is their exact issue
•Scrutinizing the Splunk logs to look for Java/SQL related errors
•Based on inputs gathered in call/meeting & error identified, liaising with Development team to help fix the bug immediately or in a major product release based on severity of the problem

Tech Support Engineer at EMC
  • India
  • May 2011 to November 2011

Provide Technical support and customer assistance while troubleshooting technical issues via phone, web based tools and email
•Managed all RSA Customer issues focusing on online Banking/Credit card authentication and authorization
•Responsible for Mentoring/Coaching new support engineers
•Interacting with the Cloud storage team to manager client data, and troubleshoot reported issues by clients

Technical Support Engineer at ARIBA TECHNOLOGIES
  • India
  • April 2006 to May 2011

Managed multiple Ariba Integrations
•Provide support and customer assistance while troubleshooting technical issues via phone, web based tools and email
•Assisted in the resolution of multiple client issues during the various stages of Ariba Procurement lifecycle including:
•Supplier catalog search
•Purchase Requisition
•Purchase Order
•Ariba Supplier Network
•Shipping and Invoicing
•Shipping and Invoicing
•Managed Support tickets via Siebel CRM tracking all customer issues
•Interact with engineering team to resolve Bugs in the Application

Costumer Service Executive at SUTHERLAND TECHNOLOGIES
  • India
  • October 2003 to May 2005

Provide Support and customer assistance while troubleshooting issues via phone, web based tools and email
•Participated as a Project Team member on the Intuit and Amazon.com Projects
•Advised US customers regarding Intuit’s Turbotax product via phone, chat and there web based tools
•Advise US customers regarding purchasing products on Amazon.com’s website. Interaction primarily via email

at Novartis
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Account Management Post Go-Live


•Participated in weekly status calls with Novartis to go through their Open unresolved issues
•Involved in Escalation of their Priority issues, by Liasing with Engineering and prioritizing the urgent issues to be included in a Release cycle.
•Actively involved in testing of the delivered fix from Engineering, before delivering fix to Novartis. Areas of testing include :
-General overall functionality testing
-Specific testing of fixed issue areas.
-Performance related testing of Workflows, Workflow Notification mails, Site.
•Getting feedback from Novartis for areas to Improve the Product, and Liaising with Product management to include the Enhancements in a future release cycle

at Pharmaceutical Research Association (PRA)
  • to

Nature of Project : Hotfix release testing for fixed issues

•Actively involved in testing of the issues fixed in hotfix provided to PRA during release cycles.
•If fix didn’t work, reported the issue with Engineering, to rework and prioritize the fix in the next release cycle.
•Got on Meeting with client to assist them with applying the fix on their Test/Production Servers. Generally involved Engineering members on the call as well.

Education

Bachelor's degree, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
  • at SYMBIOSIS Institute of Distance Learning
  • January 2009

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Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at APEC Engineering College
  • January 2001

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Specialties & Skills

Salesforce.com
Core Java
SQL Server
ADOBE GO LIVE
CATALOGS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
FEATURES
INVOICING
TELEPHONE SKILLS
TROUBLESHOOTING