This document provides a summary of Ganesh Bhat's professional experience and qualifications. He has over 12 years of experience in IT service delivery management, including people management, vendor management, ITIL processes, and ensuring customer satisfaction. He is certified in Cloud Computing, ITIL, and Prince2 project management. Currently he works as a Service Delivery Manager at IBM India, where he manages service operations and delivery for a global client. His responsibilities include incident management, change management, problem management, and ensuring compliance. Previously he worked at Wipro Technologies as an Operations Manager.
An ITIL certified professional. My experience is cross-functional across Incident, Problem, Change and Escalation management. I've managed some of the most critical incidents and helped create processes.
An experienced Service Management – Operations Manager who has an open, honest, and direct style of running things. Someone who has highly developed interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills and who has strong experience of managing a variety of operational businesses. The skills needed to make an immediate and sustainable difference to a business and has a record of accomplishment for driving successful Service and Delivery Management. Right now looking for an opportunity to develop his career within a successful and progressive business.
An ITIL certified professional. My experience is cross-functional across Incident, Problem, Change and Escalation management. I've managed some of the most critical incidents and helped create processes.
An experienced Service Management – Operations Manager who has an open, honest, and direct style of running things. Someone who has highly developed interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills and who has strong experience of managing a variety of operational businesses. The skills needed to make an immediate and sustainable difference to a business and has a record of accomplishment for driving successful Service and Delivery Management. Right now looking for an opportunity to develop his career within a successful and progressive business.
1. Ganesh Bhat
Cloud Computing, ITIL and Prince2 Practitioner certified Peenya, Bangalore -
560073
Contact: 9845812992
E-mail: gsbhat39@gmail.com
Service Delivery Manager
12+ year’s relevant experience in delivering optimal results & business value in high-growth environments
Acumen in creating a pleasant environment, consistent and highly focused on meeting technical responsibilities for the overall
business operation, Major experience in evaluating and handling technical team members, Vendors, hiring, supervising and
directing the personnel in the technical section. Key competencies in Remote technical support, Project management, Service
delivery ,Vendor management, ISO 27K Audit and ISO 20K Process audits, SOW & SOP for different procedures as well as
technical paraphernalia and performance tuning. Responsible for Gross Margin and farming business
Proven expertise in disaster Recovery plan and implementation. Good knowledge in Customer satisfaction, Trend Analysis and
Business Relationship Management (BRM).
PROFESSIONAL VALUE OFFERED
Crisis Management IT Management End- to- End Solutions Requirement Analysis
Customer Support Technical/Quality Support Resource Optimization People Management
Knowledge Transfer Auditing Reporting & Documentation
Stakeholder Management I.T. Consultancy System Analysis/MIS Performance Management
CERTIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
EXIN Cloud Computing foundation Certified
ITIL V3 Certified
Prince 2 Practitioner certified ( Project Management)
DNV ISO Internal Auditor Trained (2010)
Microsoft Certified system Engineer(MCSE) with Exchange 2000 certified
Having Good Understanding on Network, Windows, Unix, zLinux, Database, Storage and Cloud Technologies
PERFORMANCE MILESTONES
Received Thanks a Zillion award from customer for serving as Best operations manager – Service delivery (2009-2010)
Received an Award for “difference by driving the Customer centricity initiatives and achieving customer satisfaction" by
Chief Quality Officer- Wipro Limited
Got an Award for being a member of the best Delivery Team in the South 2.(2007)
Got an Award for being a member of the best Delivery Team in the South 2 Region(2004)
CORE STRENGTHSS
Network and IT Operation Management
IT Service Management and Extensive experience in RIM (Remote Infrastructure Management)
Excellent Knowledge of ITIL / ITSM Processes for Service Operations and Service Management
Client Relationship Management, Cost and Risk Management
People/ Resource Management
Excellent hands on experience on statistical process control tools.
Strong Problem solving and Decision making skills.
Excellent Leadership and communication skills.
Review deliverables to ensure business requirements are met.
Identifying and documentation of the GAP between the process in place and customer’s business requirement
Management of assigned process – To ensure quality standards and compliance requirements; Identification & solution
of process problems.
Vendor management
Service order Tracking & management of external customers
Imparting Process trainings for team
2. Service Delivery Manager, IBM India PVT Ltd. DEC 2010 to till date.
• Operations Management
§ End to End Management of service operations & delivery (including People management and Leadership) for all the
Services delivered for a Global Client on the Infrastructure Management for services like UNIX, Database, Storage, Build, DC
Monitoring, Middle ware etc.
§ Ensure positive customer satisfaction and customer relationship is maintained.
§ Encouraging innovations and best practices.
§ Track, monitor and regularly report on department operations
§ Providing leadership and direction to Delivery teams
§ Liaison with the Clientto understand deliveryrequirements and effectively engage and communicate expectations to the Internal
Teams
§ Coordinate with Project Managers for Setting up the transition process, all required documentation and all tool related
requirements.
§ Escalation management and escalation resolution within the most optimal time ( Zero escalation would be the target).
§ Obtaining periodical customer feedback and ensuring that targeted Customer satisfaction levels are maintained.
§ Driving productivity in coordination with service lines.
§ Lead discussions on operational Issues & ensure resolution of issues
§ Ensuring continuous communication & coordination with client in the event of Major outage.
§ Participation in Service delivery Reviews on SLA adherence, ongoing projects with Client and Internal stakeholders.
§ Set up and chair a collaboration meeting with the technical teams for success.
§ Liaising with all parts of the Support group on problem driving process, facilitating / attending problem related forums as
required.
§ Change review & Initiating the failed change reviews that resulted in a potential service impact and following up through to
closure.
· Incident Management
§ Drive the process the adherence during any Incident Handling
§ Participate in the Incidents to ensure that all parties contribute to the resolution.
§ Coordinate between multiple support teams and with vendors to delivery incident resolution.
§ Validate the Incident Report for the appropriate update and ensure that the RCA is delivered as required.
§ Inform the respective owners on the open incidents.
§ Validate the impact on the incident and update customer on the further action.
§ Liaison with the process team to provide any work around if available.
§ Review all incidents of the day for logical closure. Ensure that team is working on the same.
§ Initiate problem management on all P1and P2 tickets
§ Attend to the Mail Box and ensure all mails are responded.
§ Take ownership of Incident Management for High Severity Incident during the shift and perform necessary actions as
documented.
§ Update the details on the Incident in the tool and manage the overall execution of the Incident.
§ Update Incident tracker with activities completed during the incidents.
· Change Management
§ Ensure adherence to the defined change management process for the account.
§ Perform regular CAB and TAB meetings and review changes for execution.
§ Work on the emergency changes to seek approval and review the implementation of the same.
§ Perform required reporting to the respective teams on change management KPI and meeting deliverables.
§ Update RFC with feedback from CAB and TAB meetings.
§ Coordinate with Customer team to seek approvals on the scheduled and emergency changes.
§ Work with the Capability to perform post implementation changes
§ Review and ensure that the RFC are correctly updated before forwarding for execution.
§ Perform analysis on the failed and unauthorised changes.
· Problem Management
§ Ensure operational effectiveness and efficiency of Problem Management process.
§ Manage compliance of Service Provider Groups to Problem Management process
§ Facilitate Problem Analysis, Major Incident Reviews and Problem Compliance Reviews
§ Verify Root Cause and solution options and/or temporary solution.
§ Track Corrective Actions to completion
§ Approve results of Corrective Actions based upon predefined verification criteria.
§ Approve solution propagation activities and results of Root Cause Analysis.
§ Assist work groups in prioritising workload to meet service level commitments.
§ Approve propagation of fixes.
§ Track and communicate progress of problem(s) to relevant parties.
3. § Review progress/results with client and/or (senior) management.
§ Maintain Known Error database.
§ Problem management reporting and metrics.
· Security and Compliance/Audit
§ Ensure compliance to SLA, process adherence and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives.
§ Works collaboratively with IT team & service managers to ensure the required compliance are met.
§ Liaison with Audit team to improve effectiveness and timely execution of technical audits IN ORDER TO ensure that
systems, applications and devices are maintained as per the desired secure configuration and are free of vulnerabilities.
§ Undertake Incident Analysis IN ORDER TO ensure that the damage is minimized and the incident is closed effectively.
§ Suggest preventive measures to be taken in collaborate with stake holders IN ORDER TO prevent occurrence of similar
incidents in future.
CAREER PROGRESSION
Operations Manager(People Manager), Wipro InfoTech/Wipro Technologies(APRIL 2008 to DEC 2010)
Managing IT Managers and a team of 70+ + Engineers who provides the IT Support to 25500 users spread across
multiple locations.
Responsible for maintaining IT infrastructure support, availability as per agreed Service Level Agreement for Offshore
Development Centre of Wipro Technologies across Bangalore DCs.
Focus on personal and professional development and appropriate certifications for team members.
Hiring and on boarding of resources with respect to client need & based on solution model
People management responsibilities (Enablement, Growth, Performance etc.)
Managing Entire Bangalore locations with 25500 User base and around 282 Projects / Offshore development centers
Maintenance of ITIL standards across all the Offshore Development Centre of Wipro Technologies across the globe
where Service Delivery through Remote, Shared and Dedicated models
Generating Daily/Weekly/Monthly report on SLA achievement and Review with Customers
Ensuring timely and high quality service deliver, High CSAT and SLA compliance
Serves as a single point of contact for escalations for service delivery
Managing vendors and key relationship with technology providers.
Coordinate all vendor management tasks inclusive of working with external vendors and internal employees.
Ensure enterprise-wide needs for due diligence, risk assessment and continuing vendor monitoring are being
accomplished.
Major incident and Crisis Management in case of any disaster situations.
Implementations of technical projects / upgrades , planning , executing and reporting were the key focus
Help and coordinate vendor processes and methods to approve vendors.
Ensure to track, measure, report and evaluate vendor performance.
Identify improvement areas internally as well as perform closely with all internal stakeholders to prepare solutions.
Participate to formulate workflow processes, methods and policies for applying vendors.
Quarterly Business review meetings with the entire project Delivery managers and Heads.
Implementing LEAN and Kaizen Projects to improvise the service delivery
Participated as lead in 6 Kaizen projects conducted by WT to improvise the process gaps.
Front ending Customer, Internal and External Audits towards ISO 27001 and IS0 20000
Plan, design and implement the Service Improvement plans towards uplifting the degraded services.
Authoring SOW, Periodic review & provide updates to the project office
Facilitate with PMO team for smooth transition of new projects to customer and take it towards sustenance.
Have been part of all Project Management activities, Project initiation, Project Planning, Project Execution & Closure
Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and
stakeholders.
Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
Succession planning, Training Needs Identification and appraising were some other Key focus area.
Ensure Audit Readiness for Service delivery. Drive/ Manage security compliance for all accounts
Involved in career progression of resources.
Process and Quality
Ensure adherence to policies and quality processes relating to operations management.
4. Perform internal quality reviews on meeting SLAs.
Follow the CAPA process for process change management.
Ensure external Audits are cleared without any Non conformities.
Implementing Lean projects for service level improvement.
Identify root causes of variances in metrics periodically as defined in the Service Delivery Hand book.
Understanding the audit and compliance issues.
Review the outcome of the corrective steps implemented.
Provide feedback to teams, based on the data collected, plan and implement Improvement projects for closing the gaps.
Recognize, Encourage, Enhance and share quality best practices and delivery across team
Contribute in cross functional and client audits.
Site In charge - Wipro (Client – ANZ, IBM Daksh India P Ltd., Wep Peripherals Ltd.,).(Sep 2005-Mar 2008)
Manage the contract renewals, expiry and enhancements for the account.
Achievement of SLA as per the defined metrics.
Manage the team attrition level below the targeted norms.
Provide entry level induction to the new team members.
Conduct employee bonding activities and participate in appraisal reviews of the team.
Identify the skillset requirements of the team members and nominate them for the training programs.
Nominate good performing members for spot award nomination.
Maintain high rating of Customer satisfaction index for the account.
Deployment of resources at an optimized cost.
Timely approval of attendance and reimbursement claims.
Drive the productivity improvement initiatives and show continual improvement in all the domain of services provides to the
customer.
Participate in the audits and reviews performed by client and Wipro.
Ensure the timely delivery of MIS reports.
Participate in the conference sessions with client’s US counterpart for the discussion and roll out of the new policy and
procedures.
Ensure the updation of the technical documents on a regular basis
Ensuring branch users adhere to the Information Technology & security policies
Meeting key stakeholders, understanding the issues and getting the same resolved in co-ordination with
Corporate office IT team
Help WAN team by interfacing with local network service provider to resolve leased line issues
Work with WAN team for problem resolution and /or workaround at LAN
Participate in policy implementation and roll out discussions with the Branch office IT team members
Shift Lead – Server Operations- Wipro (Firstsource , Bangalore Apr 2003-Aug2005).
Major Responsibilities
Manage the IT operations for a shift in 24X7 BPO environment..
Co-ordination with Helpdesk team, Voice management team, Network team, Server management team, Support engineers.
(Total team size: 8 Server engineers and 10 customer engineers.)
Attending the customer calls.
Training and mentoring the team at regular intervals.
Planning the shift roster and resource availability
Administering Windows 2000 and 2003 domain including user and group creation
Handling More than 350 servers across the network.
Managing Domain and Sites in active directory
Creating VBs Scripts to automate active directory tasks
Monitoring Server performance, checking free disk space, deleting the unwanted files from the server
5. Administration of DNS and DHCP servers
Creating the Server and Installation documents
Implementing group policies on Domain Level and Organizational units Level
Microline ElectronicsPvt. Ltd., Davangere/Shimoga- Aug 1998 To Mar 2002 –Senior Engineer/Team Leader
Responsibilities
Installation of Operating System and related software.
Installed network cabling for Ethernet networks.
Maintenance of systems and printers with Medium environment infrastructures.
Performing Backup and recovery operations
Configuring Lotus Notes mail ID’s for new clients
Upgrading Lotus Clients from Version 5.x to 6.0 with patch.
Attending technical discussions and seminars.
Managing and maintaining servers
Managing Desktop support team
Setting up, installing and monitoring user workstations.
Installation of MacAfee Antivirus Software & configuring it to all Clients.
Regular Virus Updating and virus cleaning in affected PC’s.
Computer Assembling Installation of Operating System (Both Windows and Linux) and related software
Computer Assembling Installation of Operating System (Both Windows and Linux) and related software
Installation of Application Software
Providing Technical Support to the Mysore Kirloskar, Grasim Industries, Universities etc)
EDUCATION
Completed Post Graduate Diploma In Business Administration from Symbiosis University (Distance Learning).
Completed 3 years Diploma in Computer Science at Sri. Vidyadhiraj Polytechnic , Kumta.
Trainings attended
ITIL V3-Certified
Prince 2-Certified
PMP
CCNA
Personal Details.
Date of Birth : 20th May – 1972
Languages : English, Hindi, Kannada,
Interests : Music, Interacting with people.
Marital status : Married
References and verifying documentation furnished upon request