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Michael Mohan Raj

Michael Mohan Raj

Maryland Heights,MO

Summary

Accomplished Project Lead with a proven track record of driving productivity and delivering projects on time. Expertise in strategic planning, risk management, and team leadership complemented by strong communication and problem-solving skills. Recognized for the ability to adapt quickly to changing project requirements while maintaining a focus on achieving key objectives.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Lead

Wipro Technologies
St Louis, MO
01.2022 - Current

Field Support and Depot Services.

  • Monitored staff tickets to keep break-fix related items in the contractual SLA.
  • Represented the team in weekly leadership meetings to keep the client abreast of any anomalies we find in auditing the tickets.
  • Performed monthly ticket analysis to report the progress of the team and to help identify the top issues reported to the team and to the client.
  • Found a shift-left opportunity and had regular meetings with the Service Desk and Advanced Support Team to help train items with the Level 3 Field Support team over to the L1 Service Desk and L2 team.
  • Identify project opportunities for the teams coming in from the client.
  • Help standardize support inside the Tech Bars and with the Field Support team by implementing Nexthink and hashtags in tickets for reporting.
  • Be the face of IT to the customer for escalations, and help with warm, friendly, and quick action for a fast remedy for the customer.
  • Monitor and achieve all the SLAs and KPIs.
  • Manage Imaging, Repair, Refresh, and Reclaim teams onsite.
  • Run the monthly inventory of the assets and meet 99% every month.
  • Run a weekly disposal of eligible assets from the inventory.
  • Ensure inventory in all the Field Support and Depot locations is up to date.
  • Create, initiate approval, track, and finalize approvals with Work Order Value to be invoiced.
  • Track the closure of all large onboarding projects.
  • Work closely with the Hardware Asset Management team to reduce lost or stolen/not returned assets, and to handle escalations from the clients.
  • Work towards ARC, RRC-driven baselines.

Service Desk

  • Managing the Service Desk (calls, chats, and self-service teams), escalation, and incident management in offshore for the project.
  • Involved in setting up the ODC for the project: a) Network Connectivity – testing until the completion phase.
  • b) ODC readiness for go-live without any hassle; c) Logistics readiness for the ODC; d) Software and hardware readiness for a smooth RTO.
  • Manage weekly, monthly review meetings with the client.
  • Risk Management – Highlight the risks in the project, and the mitigation plan.
  • Deliver a body of work, organized into projects and work streams within agreed time, cost, risk, quality
  • Performance Management: Managing a team of 80+ associates and do their Quarterly and Annual Appraisals
  • Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation, and providing challenges to grow.
  • Handle all the client meetings for the Service Desk and Remote Support teams.
  • Optimization and Headcount Trajectory for the DM.
  • Identifying the IT issues with the flow of the user and bot replies for the development team.
  • Testing, correcting, and implementing the flow with the development team in a daily meeting.
  • Feeding the FAQs with KB articles to the bot to reduce the chat flow to the live agent.
  • Identifying the misses or the corrections to be made in the virtual agent (bot) in ServiceNow.
  • Identifying the flow of user-logged issues that can be auto-routed to the resolver groups directly on the issues that do not need SD intervention.
  • Service Improvement Plan – Reduction in High Backlog Count.
  • Reduction in hop counts.
  • Implementation of canned responses for the chat team for AHT reduction.
  • Same-day resolution of user-raised incidents.
  • Reviewing templates for the Service Desk to avoid repetitive questions being asked to the user.
  • Auto-assignment of tickets to the techs via the round-robin method.
  • Lean Project – MTTR, KB usage, assignment accuracy, and CSAT improvement.
  • Six Sigma Project – AHT Improvement and First Call Resolution.
  • Reviewing KB articles half-yearly activity gives the SD and other resolver groups a lesser MTTR.
  • Never missed achieving the baseline target of volumes.
  • Never missed an SLA or KPI when managing the Service Desk and EUS.

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2014 - 01.2022
  • Operations Manager for Service Desk, Request Desk and Identity and Account Management
  • Maintaining Critical SLA’s consistently over 4 and half years
  • Driving Weekly, Bi-Weekly and Monthly Service Review meetings with the Clients
  • Single Point of Contact for Offshore in Transformation projects for Service Desk
  • Facilitated two Audit from the Client side- Keeping track of artifacts of the entire project offshore
  • Tracking and closing the action items
  • Driving the Knowledge transfer to Service Desk for New Projects
  • Knowledge Management SPOC for Service Desk – Reviewing, Validating and Approving the Knowledge Articles
  • Crisis Management Lead – Ensuring that the Services are restored within the objective time when the situation occurs
  • Drills are conducted as per the BCP calendar and submitting in RPlanner (TCS tool)
  • Information Security Coordinator – Having all the artifacts in Ultimatix (TCS Portal) for auditing purpose
  • Tracking and closing of action items
  • Shift Left activity lead for Service Desk – engage resolver groups to discuss the identified activities that can be done by Service Desk
  • Cost Saving done in terms of optimizing the team from 40 plus to 23 for the entire Service Desk team offshore
  • Very Low attrition rate because enabling the team for newer roles and movement of team members to internal teams inside TSE
  • Continual Service Improvement Lead – Tracking and Closure with resolvers for improvement plans
  • Working in Life Cycle Management team to upgrade/Migrate the old Windows Servers from 2003/2008 to 2016/2019 servers
  • Raising requests for building new servers, decommission of servers
  • Tracking the life cycle from building a new server and to completely migrate all the drives, applications from the existing/old server
  • Prepare the LCM plan for the next two years from all the Infra tracks, effort estimation, Cost estimation for Windows

Senior Analyst

HCL Technologies Ltd
09.2012 - 02.2014
  • Managing Shifts/Rostering the team, Helping the team in the floor as Subject Matter expert
  • Account Maintenance – Account Unlock, Resetting the passwords in AD and Server Password reset and unlock
  • Basic troubleshooting on Email clients like Microsoft Outlook
  • Creating and adding mailbox to new hires
  • Enabling and disabling Outlook Web access (OWA) and other features
  • Enabling User Preferences in Microsoft Exchange
  • Document all troubleshooting steps and resolution activities within the incident management tool
  • Assign non-resolved incidents or service requests to the appropriate support team
  • Reactivating and resetting user accounts and profiles for various applications
  • Creating the user profiles on various applications and setting user preferences
  • Managing the Queue
  • Working on Change requests, Tasks, Work Orders and Incidents
  • Software Installations on Users Machines
  • Queue Monitoring, Scheduling, handling Escalations and Supervisor calls

IT Analyst

IBM India Pvt Ltd
10.2011 - 04.2012
  • Handling tickets received Via Emails, and Inbound Calls
  • Basic troubleshooting on email clients like Microsoft Outlook
  • Account Maintenance – Account Unlock, Resetting the passwords in AD and Server Password reset and unlock
  • Basic troubleshooting on system, internet issue
  • Technical issue escalation and resolution
  • Installing software’s in the user’s machines
  • Resolving technical issues remotely by taking remote control of user’s machine using Offer Remote Assistance
  • Administering and maintaining Avaya CMS
  • Taking Team Huddles when there is a change or update in the process on weekly basis

Technical Support Associative

Resource Square Solutions
11.2009 - 07.2011
  • Company Overview: Accenture (Contract)
  • Trouble shooting issues with desktop, outlook, network, printers
  • Involved in root cause analysis on the betterment of the process
  • Involved on conference calls daily with the CSM’s for any updates
  • Giving training sessions for the newcomers
  • Keeping a track on aged tickets and sending reminders to the support group to get the issue resolved within the SLA
  • Reporting like Software and hardware count and Priority tickets
  • Taking calls and chats to resolve L1 issues and if the issue is not resolved then collect all the details and route it to the correct resolver group
  • Accenture (Contract)

Skills

  • User Management Tool
  • Configuring printers
  • Remote assistance
  • BMC Remedy
  • ServiceNow
  • SCCM
  • UMT
  • Agile
  • GDPR
  • Service Management
  • Incident Management
  • Change Management
  • Problem Management
  • Asset Management
  • Operations Manager
  • Command Center Lead
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Project Management
  • Remote control

Certification

ITIL V3 Foundation Certification

Timeline

Project Lead

Wipro Technologies
01.2022 - Current

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2014 - 01.2022

Senior Analyst

HCL Technologies Ltd
09.2012 - 02.2014

IT Analyst

IBM India Pvt Ltd
10.2011 - 04.2012

Technical Support Associative

Resource Square Solutions
11.2009 - 07.2011
Michael Mohan Raj