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VIJAY KOLA

Riverview,FL

Summary

ITIL certified client-facing Application Support Specialist with extensive understanding of root causes for issues and appropriate solutions to problems. Purpose-driven professional with record as strong team player.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Application Support Analyst

CITI Bank USA
08.2022 - Current


  • Provided 24/7 support for web- and client-based applications, file and data feeds and batch processes to prevent impact to business.
  • Collaborated with developers, analysts and project managers to expedite incident resolutions.
  • Analyzed and mapped data and wrote SQL scripts to extract data from SQL databases.
  • Analyzed and troubleshot integration issues related to system configuration, data, maps and workflows.
  • Conducted and supported implementation delivery with client and internal departments.
  • Interfaced with customers and developers to diagnose problems and implement configuration requirements and solutions.
  • Provided support in constructing relationships within customer base to provide opportunity for expansion and growth.
  • Performed software application and disaster recovery testing to guarantee business readiness following fail-overs.

Autohorized Officer

UBS Financial Services
10.2018 - 09.2022
  • Streamlined application by creating Runbook and FAQ’s. Prepared KEDB which is used by support team from all regions. Continuous update of run book and KEDB by involving other team members.
  • Involved in raising problem ticket and assigning to respective stake holder for repetitive incidents.
  • Conducted KT session for APAC and EMEA support teams.
  • Involved in release and deployment owning responsibility for error free deployment.
  • Involved at BCP activity by running application from BCP location for one week.
  • Addressing issues and queries raised by operations team. User base is quite high with nearly 5000+ across globe.
  • Liaising with external systems EMC, SMC and position management system to process incoming data to avoid delays and data available to operations team.
  • Monitoring services efficiently and recovery in case service failures.
  • Took responsibility of downstream data delivery and necessary checks implemented for accurate data delivery.
  • Involvement in Major Incident calls. Identified incidents are cleared by raising proper Problem Tickets and fixing permanently.
  • Responsible for incident management, problem management and escalation management
  • Collaborated with team and ensured to close all escalation cases from stake holders.
  • Managed existing and unassigned tickets as per request along with team members and monitored snow incident/requests queue effectively.
  • Participated in daily status meetings and reported to the stakeholders; examined the communication channel - from the process adherence perspective & project implementation process.

Technical Lead

HCL America
10.2012 - 09.2018
  • Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
  • Improved systems with addition of new features and infrastructure.
  • Provided educational expertise and mentoring to junior team members.
  • Supervised architecture, design and implementation of company-wide platforms and applications.
  • Fixing trade booking errors
  • Responsible for data delivery to all downstream systems
  • Administered project L2 tasks and maintained client relationship.
  • Conducted incident management, problem management and escalation management.
  • Collaborated with team and ensured to close all escalation cases from stakeholders.
  • Managed existing and unassigned tickets as per request along with team members and monitored snow incident/requests queue effectively.
  • Participated in daily status meetings and reported to the stakeholders; examined the communication channel - from the process adherence perspective & project implementation process.
  • Identified critical errors and generated alerts in logs on time base by UNIX format.
  • In case any delay in data processing from up-stream system need to co-ordinate between upstream and traders
  • Engaged in:

o Root cause Analysis for all incidents

o Performing application support activities

o Monitoring the Production environments

o Scheduling and running the jobs using job schedular Autosys

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

OSMANIA UNIVERSITY
INDIA

Skills

  • AWS, KIBANA, ECS and OPEN Shift
  • ITRS, AppDynamics
  • Snow, JIRA and Moog soft
  • Sybase 15, Oracle 10g and Microsoft SQL Server
  • Control-M and AUTOSYS
  • TIBCO EMS
  • AQUA Data Studio, SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL server Management
  • UNIX scripting, Microservices and JMS
  • Incident/Problem/Change Management
  • Root Cause Analysis, Triage and Command Control

Accomplishments

  • Managed ITIL-based support requests with agreed service level agreements resulting in 90% SLA compliance.
  • Managed the DR Test systems as per yearly DR policy resulting in 100% compliance.
  • Managed all Change Requests and Project Deliverables ensuring timely delivery on agreed timelines.
  • Addressed recurring issues by implementing effective problem management processes resulting in 25% reduction in recurring issues.
  • Built a team knowledge base that is easy to understand and usable by team members of staff resulting in increase in staff productivity.
  • Managed calls and tickets ensuring we understand our KPI support numbers on a monthly basis resulting in the ticket resolution rate.
  • Led a team of 10 application support specialists to achieve a 50% reduction in system downtime.
  • Responsible for identifying root cause of 80% of system issues and implementing solutions to prevent recurrence.
  • Effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to provide timely updates on system issues.
  • Optimized the process which improved the average processing performance of the applications
  • Directed multiple successful technology re-platforms and data migrations aligned to significant business transformation programs.
  • Led a team of 6 members and successfully maintained the applications with above 99% availability
  • Transformed the group into a high performing team delivering critical application maintenance for the clients in US region.

Timeline

Application Support Analyst

CITI Bank USA
08.2022 - Current

Autohorized Officer

UBS Financial Services
10.2018 - 09.2022

Technical Lead

HCL America
10.2012 - 09.2018

Master of Science - Computer Science

OSMANIA UNIVERSITY
VIJAY KOLA