1. SARAVANAN K
: saravanan.1985kumar@gmail.com
: +91-9902370052
Incident Management~ Project Management~ IT Service Management
Location Preference: Bangalore/Chennai/Coimbatore
PROFILE SUMMARY
A focused professional with nearly 8 years of experience in Incident Management, Change Management, ITIL
Processes, Service Management
Currently associated with Wipro, Mysore as Manager-Operations
Proven record of analysing processes & workflow, assessing their efficacy, relating to business plans & goals
Proficiency in leading dedicated teams for running successful process operations with proven skill of achieving service
delivery / organizational targets
Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills to work in multi-cultural environment
CORE COMPETENCIES
~Incident Management ~Change Management ~IT Service Management
~Client Relationship Management ~Project Management ~Team Management
~Problem Management ~Technical Support ~ITIL Framework
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since May’09 Wipro, Mysore as Manager-Operations
Growth Path:
May’09-Jun’10 Executive-Operations
Jun’10-Jun’12 Team Lead
Since Jun’12 Manager-Operations
Key Result Areas:
Consolidating and providing metrics and performance scorecard
Implementing all activities as per the Service Definition
Providing vision and future directions to the team
Supervising a team of 25-30 people
Managing the overall desk activities
Reporting to senior managers on any issue that can significantly impact the business
Attending Change Advisory Board meetings
Undertaking HR activities as needed
Liaising with change management and senior management
Assisting Analysts in providing first line support when workloads are high, or where additional experience is required
Filling up gaps at Major incident process adherence in terms of artifacts
Conducting continuous interaction with customers to ensure that areas of concern are addressed promptly for
improving pre-set service levels
Driving operational excellence set as a standard and adhering to the standard operating procedures
Ensuring control mechanisms by reviewing the current processes to avert process gaps
Identifying process loopholes by organizing meetings with the SPOCs of each department from the grass root level;
conducting brainstorming sessions
Setting out in-house quality standards for various operational areas, ensuring a high-quality customer experience
while adhering to the SLAs for their services
Mapping client’s requirements, identifying improvement areas & implementing measures to maximize CSAT levels
Leading, mentoring & monitoring performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations and
meeting of individual & group targets
Directing ITIL Process including asset management, service level management, issues management, configuration
management, risk management, scope change management, release level management
2. Facilitating high-end technical support on systems, managing incidents and ensuring high end-user satisfaction levels
through solution of their problems
Highlights:
Achieved:
o Best Team Award for Ericsson Project in the year of 2011
o Best Manager Award for Handling telecom customer in the year of 2013
Acted as a single point of contact for Service requests, incident's, Change escalations; supported users across the globe
for application and system related issues
Managed day today regional escalations through SDMs/VTSG/RTSM
Ramped up incident Service Level Agreement (SLA) adherence from 70% to 94% through daily reviews; improved
recovery times for complex incidents, 92% were resolved same day
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Jun’08-May’09 E-logic Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as Desktop Support Engineer
Highlights:
Bagged:
o Mind reader for Customer Satisfaction Award in 2009
Recognized for keeping consistency in quality
ACADEMIC DETAILS
Bachelor of Computer Science from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore in 2006
CERTIFICATION
Completed Certification in MCP in 2009
ITIL Foundation Certified in 2014
IT SKILLS
Familiar with basic Computer Applications
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 15th January 1985
Languages Known: English, Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi
Mailing Address: Wipro Infotech 146-147 Metgalli Industrial Area Mysore