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.