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Education
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Awards and Appreciations
Certification
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Shaikh Washim Ahmed

Shaikh Washim Ahmed

ITSM Consultant
Doha

Summary

More than 12 years of experience in Application Development, Maintenance and Support in the IT Service Management area. Knowledge in ITSM tools such as HP Service Manager (9.x, 7.x), Peregrine Service Center (6.x), Connect-IT (4.0, 9.53, 9.8), SRC (140, 9.3), ServiceNow, Manage Engine.
Strong Process knowledge of ITIL on Incident management, Interaction Management, Service Request Catalog, Problem Management, Knowledge Management, Configuration Management, Service Level Management and Change management modules.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
8
8
Certifications

Work History

ITSM Consultant

malomatia
Doha
06.2018 - Current
  • Supporting HP Service Manager service to make sure it is up and Running 24X7.
  • Enhancement on existing workflows
  • Create New modules and workflows as per requirement
  • Generate new reports and schedule reports in SMI-SAP BO reporting tool.
  • Co-ordination of the vendors and stakeholders for on-boarding of upgraded HPSM 9.6
  • Database performance tuning for improved application performance
  • Integration of different Third party systems to create new tickets in HP SM And Integration on Email to new Ticket creation
  • Built New Module for managing Football Tournament took place in Qatar

ITSM Consultant

Micro Focus/ HPE
Bangalore
05.2015 - 05.2018

Team Member for Project - CN Rail

• Supporting the HPSM service to make sure it is up and Running 24X7.

• Enhancement on the workflows

• Create New workflows as per business requirements

Team Lead for Project - Covestro

• Supporting Linux based environment and make sure the HPSM service is up and Running 24X7.

Team Lead for Project - Centura Healthcare

• Supporting the environment and make sure the HPSM service is running 24X7

• Configure and implement the enhancement requests using Process Designer

• Using Alert definition, configured reminder email notification

• Implemented server level fix to improve application performance

• Created new Change management workflow which was highly appreciated by the customer.

• Applying indexes to HPSM tables for improving the application performance

• Knowledge Management installation and configuration

• Resolved various issues with ConnectIt and other tools integration.

• Binary upgrade to HPSM server, client, webtier and SRC.

• HPSM to HPRC integration

ITSM Consultant

TATA Consultancy Services
Bangalore
11.2008 - 05.2015

Team Member (Project : British Gas)

• Configured Disaster Recovery Solution for HPSM

• Configured Single Sign On for Service Request Catalog (SRC-1.40)

• Connect-IT upgrade

• SOAP UI installation and working knowledge on webservice integration

• Implementation of Service Level Management

• HP Adoption Readiness Tool installation and configuration

• Day to day BAU activities (Incidents, Problems and Service Requests)

• Ad-hoc reports generation from the tool as required

Team Member (Project : Affinity Water)

• Configured the High Availability solution

• Configured HPSM webserver (Tomcat)

• LDAP configuration for HPSM users

• Prepared Test cases for all the modules

• Demonstrated the workflow on all the modules

Team Member / Team Lead (Project : Commonwealth Bank of Australia)

• Worked as Level 3 support executive for CBA.

• Worked at client location (Sydney, Australia) for an year and earned appreciations from various levels of customers.

• Troubleshooting issues related to incident and change modules in SM for different clients

• Worked on problem management, delivering detailed RCA as per the SLA.

• Take care of Application Patching on all the SM environments.

• Apply SSL to all the SM environments.

• Configure Weblogic web service for SM

• Lower environment database refresh from Production database on a regular basis.

• Preparing technical Knowledge Base documents (KB) related to process. Created handy documents for troubleshooting on different modules in SM.

• Actively involved in System Outages in production environment and liaising with cross functional teams to deliver into root cause of the issue.

• Identify workflow related issues/bugs and report as defects as per pre-implementation tasks.

• On Call support for critical issues outside the office hours / Weekends.

• Monitoring the system on hourly basis and provide the health check report to the team.

• Ensuring HPSM is up and running all the time.

• HPSM User administration / troubleshooting various profile issues for the clients.

• Monitoring Connect-it interfaces with HPSM for email integrations.

• Generating ad hoc reports from HPSM to the cross functional teams and clients.

• Effectively handling Incidents which are escalated to our queue as per the agreed SLA.

Team Member (Project : Consumer Value Service)

  • Worked as SM Developer – Requirements gathering and implementing it on Interaction Management and Incident Management modules.
  • Troubleshooting various issues on other modules.
    Creating queues and views.
  • Creating Menus as per requirements
  • Setup operators, profiles & roles and capability words in Service Manager
  • Renewing the license for Service Manager on production and other environments.

Team Member - Quality Analyst (Project : Consumer Value Service)

  • Writing test scenarios for all modules in customized SM.
  • Performance test using Benchmark utility in Service Manager.
  • Executing the scenarios on Quality Centre and report defects to clients and assign the defects to the respective developer.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Orissa Engineering College
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
06.2004 - 07.2008

Skills

    IT Service Management

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Awards and Appreciations

· Received “Award of appreciation” for effectively handling HP Service Manager Application during critical and complex issues with minimal user impact.
· Received “Technical Excellence” award for automating the user count scheduler, which was built using VBScript, and Windows Task scheduler.
· Received “On the Spot Award” for the dedication on resolving the Weblogic issue.
· Nominated twice for “Leading Light” award by the Application Owner from CBA for Resolving the loadbalancer issue and for assisting CBA’s Service Desk team on resolving various reported issues.
· Received “Star of the Month” award for the excellent customer satisfaction in BG project.
· Received “TCS GEMS” for resolving ConnectIT issue and Email notification issue
· Received “TCS GEMS” for resolving the Status mapping issue with third party Tool
· Received “Bias for Action” award at HPE/ Micro Focus for excellent customer service.

Certification

Micro Focus SM320 - Service Manager v9.5

Accomplishments

    Worked as Team Lead in various projects.

    Have experience of working at onsite with the client based out of Australia.

    Worked on system stability and process streamline in various projects


Timeline

ITSM Consultant

malomatia
06.2018 - Current

ITSM Consultant

Micro Focus/ HPE
05.2015 - 05.2018

ITSM Consultant

TATA Consultancy Services
11.2008 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Orissa Engineering College
06.2004 - 07.2008

Micro Focus SM320 - Service Manager v9.5

Micro focus SMAX – Administrator

ServiceNOW Administrator

Micro Focus ITOM Sales Certification

Six Sigma Yellow belt

Scrum Fundamentals

ITIL V3 Certified

Project Management Professional (PMP)

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