Professional Experience

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Education center and Skills MANAGER, IBM

October 2008 TO PRESENT

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Manage day to day activities to meet end to end client process.
  • Identify opportunity for continuous business improvement.
  • Negotiate agreements and service of vendors management for required services, applications development and maintenance.
  • Prepare analyze and acted on team’s daily performance in relation to customers SLA’s improving average customer satisfaction levels.
  • Handling of issues and escalations related to IT Services for the managed clients.
  • Preparing of reports on a periodic basis for upper management and customers.
  • Manage and delivering Technical and Non-Technical training. (Enterprise Technology, Networking, Cloud, Soft Skills) for inhouse employee as well as new hire.
  • Based on Client requirement and skill Gap organize training.
  • Identify the learning objectives, content development, procurement, and delivery of proposed trainings
  • Create, maintain and report all Activities at client location and training.
  • Perform administrative tasks like planning, communicating, and conducting training (maintain virtual classroom and monitor assignments)
  • Lead and develop a team of Technical Experts including performance reviews and coaching.
  • Develop team and management system and implement effective controls to achieve communications to division thru extended team and site wide employee presentation.

Accomplishments

  • Driving Automation projects within the team and for the customers to improve productivity.
  • Developed a process for Quality training, new technology, management of rapid change requests, reducing overhead cost and improving customer Satisfaction.
Training Delivery Specialist. Hewlett-Packard

October 2004 – October 2008

Responsibilities

  • Delivering Technical and Process Training (Enterprise Technology)
  • Support end to end training (Planning, scheduling, Executing, Monitoring, Effectiveness UAT) of training and communicating plans
  • Assess student performance during training, and thereafter, to provide relevant coaching and development for continuous improvement.
  • Course development
  • Carry out Trainer’s Training programs.
  • Training dashboard presentation to management.
  • Review CSAT scores and manage customer feedback - analyzing quality impacting issue and derive a plan of action to drive improvement
  • Support Training Manager in developing and maintaining training processes and materials.

Accomplishments

  • Lead the training team during the transition of the EMEA ISS Process? (Dublin UK)
  • Awarded the best trainer for the First Quarter of 2007-8
  • Delivered Special training to HP employees in Sydney, Australia.
  • Successfully trained about 1000 + engineers on Hp server technologies.
  • Associated with improvement planning Committee (EMEA and APJ) solution center server support team.
  • Special Appreciation Award for Training initiative and achievements in HP.
Team Leader & Sr. Technical Support Engineer . GECIS (JFWTC)

June 2001 – October 2004

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Act as SME in an advisory capacity to senior managers and lead new work. Recommend business performance improvements
  • Assign all work alignment, commit the team to the work, manage the quality of the work and drive the people management activities within the team
  • Manage workloads to ensure even distribution of responsibilities and provide development opportunities
  • Perform other Workforce Management duties - schedule management, leave management, report management, compliance management and training logistics
  • Review others’ work outputs and provide input to manager on employee performance.
  • Works with employees to improve performance, provides ongoing feedback, and develops plans with employees to identify career development opportunities
  • Delivering Workshops.
  • Supporting hardware and operating system related issues North America GE Corporate Clients on Desktop Products
  • Escalation Point for any non-adherence or ticket quality management for the contract. Work on driving improvement actions with Duty managers/ Team managers
  • Identify, develop and execute an individual development plan with minimal management direction
  • Manage the contract and queue with all tickets end to end by working closely with shift leads and Duty managers/ Team Managers
  • Provide proactive communication to clients, account managers and project managers
  • Work closely with the Customer Success Manager (CSM) and Managed Services Representative to maintain visibility and provide consistency to the Customer
  • Workaround management - Create and manage workarounds, removing once the permanent fix has been initiated

Accomplishments

  • Voice of Customer Award for displaying high quality customer service skills.
  • Exceller Award for displaying continuous initiatives, energy and stretch.
Lecturer , K.S. Polytechnic & Govt. Women’s Polytechnic

July 2000 to June 2001

Subjects: Computer Networks and IBM PC and its Clones.

Platform: Windows NT 4.0

Responsibilities

  • Delivered and managed end to end Academic Activities.
  • Technical proficiency in the computer science, software development and databases
  • Workshops: Weekly academic workshops were held to assist students with learning

Accomplishments

  • Based on the feedback from KS Polytechnic was Invited by the HOD of Govt. Women’s Polytechnic to deliver lecturers.
Visiting Faculty , NetSmart Computer

April 1999 to June 2001.

Responsibilities

  • Impart training to Corporate/Candidates in Network Essentials, Server, Workstations and assisting in their project assignments.
  • Handling a team of Network Engineers – Customer support.
  • Organized various Seminars and workshops.
  • Executing orders for assembled computers.
Faculty, Jetking SET

April 1998 to June 2000.

Responsibilities

  • Impart training to Corporate/candidates in Network Essentials, Server, Workstations and assisting in their project assignments.
  • More than 200 Engineers were trained and perused their career successfully

Assignments

  • Client : Bangalore Military School Location : Bangalore Military School, Hosur Road, Bangalore
  • Course : Basic, Foxpro 2.5 and C
  • Duration : Two Months
  • Participants : 40 Cadets.

Accomplishments

  • Students enrolled for the modules opting me to be their trainer.
  • Handled a Max batch of 45 Trainees and all clearing the certification.
Manager Marketing, Crystal Exim Ltd

March 1995 to Feb 1998.

Responsibilities

  • Promotion of Mitsubishi Data Storage Products through a dealer network.
  • Organize payment collections and cash flow.
  • Financial control, Budget planning and Stock Inventory.

Accomplishments

  • Established a Brand name for Mitsubishi data storage products in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu through public relations and communication with dealers and customers
Service Engineer. Sartorius Biotech

Jun 1993 to Feb 1995

Accomplishments

  • Expanded the client base in Bangalore during Jun. 93 to May 94.
  • Developed the market at Chennai during Jun 94 to Oct 94.
  • Reorganized the market and customer base at Mumbai during Nov. 94 to Feb 95.
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