I am now looking to build on my extensive range of skills within a suitably challenging role. I am keen to achieve further professional development.
A “Performance Driven Professional” bringing in sufficient experience in managing entire process operations and record of achievements developed in over 20 years. Process improvement initiatives to achieve maximum efficiency in diverse operations team, ability to coordinate and work with internal/external customers for running successful business operations.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Manager, Capacity Planning
Amazon India Development Center
11.2011 - Current
Headcount & Capacity planning: Preparing holistic headcount and capacity plans for the volume
Ensuring the plan meets Opex, Site and Vendor Strategy
Minimizing risks like periodic and seasonal spike in volumes
Plan for new hire batches based on the forecast and to support Service Levels
Strategically leveraging resources to mitigate service level and other challenges
Working with specific Business Operations Team, Operations, Vendor Manager and Vendor Partner to ensure plans are executed and ensuring any risks/deviations are called out and mitigated
Forecasting: Working closely with various business teams and Analytics team to arrive at optimum forecast, starting from Long Term forecast for headcount and strategic planning to medium to short term forecast for monthly and weekly scheduling and planning
New Launches: Working with Business Teams, Program Owners and Operations to ensure new business launches are planned and executed in a time bound comprehensive project plan
Ensuring the risks are highlighted and mitigated, roadblocks are worked with and cleared
Governance and Standardization: Conducting meetings between different stakeholders and ensuring the plans are executed, deviations and risks are called out and mitigated
Ensuring Leadership are educated on future requirements and plan accordingly
Creating SOP and Process Flow for all the activities being carried to ensure team members are using a single point of reference
Managing forecasting and planning for complete WS ACCS Europe Business, supporting 9 Countries and 3 LOBs
Responsible for Strategical decisions on cross training, cross utilization of resources to ensure Opex goals are met
Site expansion, transition of new and existing businesses between sites and new business launches
Providing Sr Leadership with crisp and precise documents in Business Reviews, showing Program Health along with risks and opportunities
Team Lead WFM & Compliance
CoreLogic India Pvt Ltd.
02.2010 - 11.2011
WFM: To make sure the employee database is up to date
To track and optimize utilization
To increase seat utilization and occupancy
Prepare weekly staffing plans and leave management
Transition: Liaising with Onshore Teams and coordinating with different Offshore Teams to ensure all the tasks, i.e
Recruitment, Software & Hardware Procurement, Staffing and Seating, Client ID are in place as per the Project Plan
Conducting UAT’s and ensuring any risks are identified and mitigated in the pilot face of the transition
Team Management: Managing a team of 5 analysts across 2 locations
Ensuring team member’s morale stays high
To make sure that the team is meeting its all set parameters
Major focus on, unscheduled absenteeism, utilization and to ensure team members plans their leaves in advance
Team members are aware of latest updates and procedures
Compliance: To make sure user access are requested on time and the id deleted as per the policy
To conduct routine audits on systems, documents and access list to ensure there is no compliance issues with regards to both Internal and Client specific policies
Team Lead Specialization - Operations and WFM
MPHASIS, an HP company
06.2005 - 02.2010
Operations: Handling a Team of Midrange Server Monitoring, ensuring the alarms are taking care in time and the tickets are dispatched to the appropriate support teams if we are unable to resolve the problem
To make sure the incidents are captured and resolved properly, or to escalate the same to appropriate teams
Ensuring the daily, weekly and monthly maintenance schedules are followed and servers are back up after the maintenance time
Team Management: Handled a team of 24 associates
Ensuring Team member’s morale stays high
To make sure that the team is meeting its all set parameters
Major focus on, unscheduled absenteeism, utilization and to ensure team members plans their leaves in advance
Team members are aware of latest updates and procedures
WFM: Responsible for scheduling associates as per trend analysis of the alerts received and maintenance schedules on Servers
Preparing and generating reports for tracking utilization/productivity of associates, metric analysis, performance management and submitting the same to the top management on a fortnightly/monthly basis for reviewing
Transition: Was part of the core team which transitioned 50 new business from EDS onshore sites to Mphasis offshore sites
Reporting: Generating the Daily, Weekly and Monthly reports on Utilization, Absentees, Staffing, Head Count, Incentive and OT Payouts and Performance management
And ensuring these reports are sent out in time to Top Management and Clients
Doing metric reporting and trend analysis of the historical and real time data, for reviews by Senior Management and Clients
Education
B.Sc - IT
Sikkim Manipal University
Mysore
06.2001 - 06.2004
PUC - PCMC
Farooqia PU College
Mysore
06.1997 - 05.2000
SSLC -
St Pauls English School
06.1996 - 04.1997
Skills
Contact Center Management
Managing day to day operations
People management
Team Management
Project Management
Client facing skills
Presentation skills
Coordination
Recruitment
Logistics Management
Accomplishments
Business Excellence Award (2009) in Mphasis
SPOT awards for continuous 2 quarters for best Team Lead
Current Role
Amazon India Development Center, 11/14/11 onwards, Project Manager (Capacity Planning), Headcount & Capacity planning: Preparing holistic headcount and capacity plans for the volume. Ensuring the plan meets Opex, Site and Vendor Strategy. Minimizing risks like periodic and seasonal spike in volumes. Plan for new hire batches based on the forecast and to support Service Levels. Strategically leveraging resources to mitigate service level and other challenges. Working with specific Business Operations Team, Operations, Vendor Manager and Vendor Partner to ensure plans are executed and ensuring any risks/deviations are called out and mitigated., Forecasting: Working closely with various business teams and Analytics team to arrive at optimum forecast, starting from Long Term forecast for headcount and strategic planning to medium to short term forecast for monthly and weekly scheduling and planning., New Launches: Working with Business Teams, Program Owners and Operations to ensure new business launches are planned and executed in a time bound comprehensive project plan. Ensuring the risks are highlighted and mitigated, roadblocks are worked with and cleared., Governance and Standardization: Conducting meetings between different stakeholders and ensuring the plans are executed, deviations and risks are called out and mitigated. Ensuring Leadership are educated on future requirements and plan accordingly. Creating SOP and Process Flow for all the activities being carried to ensure team members are using a single point of reference., Managing forecasting and planning for complete WS ACCS Europe Business, supporting 9 Countries and 3 LOBs. Responsible for Strategical decisions on cross training, cross utilization of resources to ensure Opex goals are met. Site expansion, transition of new and existing businesses between sites and new business launches. Providing Sr Leadership with crisp and precise documents in Business Reviews, showing Program Health along with risks and opportunities.
Experiencesummary - Skills
Spread Sheets - MS Excel, VBA
Tools - CMS Avaya, Blue Pumpkin, MS Projects, MS Visio, Aspect
Administration
MIS Reporting
Recruitment
Staffing & Scheduling
Headcount and Capacity Management
Forecasting
Transition management
Operations Management
Program Management
Asset Management
Personal Information
Passport Number: Yes
Notice Period: 1 Month
Date of Birth: 02/03/81
Gender: Male
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
Previousroles
CoreLogic India Pvt Ltd., 02/22/10 - 11/11/11, Team Lead WFM & Compliance, WFM: To make sure the employee database is up to date. To track and optimize utilization. To increase seat utilization and occupancy. Prepare weekly staffing plans and leave management., Transition: Liaising with Onshore Teams and coordinating with different Offshore Teams to ensure all the tasks, i.e. Recruitment, Software & Hardware Procurement, Staffing and Seating, Client ID are in place as per the Project Plan. Conducting UAT’s and ensuring any risks are identified and mitigated in the pilot face of the transition., Team Management: Managing a team of 5 analysts across 2 locations. Ensuring team member’s morale stays high. To make sure that the team is meeting its all set parameters. Major focus on, unscheduled absenteeism, utilization and to ensure team members plans their leaves in advance. Team members are aware of latest updates and procedures., Compliance: To make sure user access are requested on time and the id deleted as per the policy. To conduct routine audits on systems, documents and access list to ensure there is no compliance issues with regards to both Internal and Client specific policies.
MPHASIS, an EDS company, Bangalore, 06/2005 - 02/2010, Team Lead Specialization - Operations and WFM, Operations: Handling a Team of Midrange Server Monitoring, ensuring the alarms are taking care in time and the tickets are dispatched to the appropriate support teams if we are unable to resolve the problem. To make sure the incidents are captured and resolved properly, or to escalate the same to appropriate teams. Ensuring the daily, weekly and monthly maintenance schedules are followed and servers are back up after the maintenance time., Team Management: Handled a team of 24 associates. Ensuring Team member’s morale stays high. To make sure that the team is meeting its all set parameters. Major focus on, unscheduled absenteeism, utilization and to ensure team members plans their leaves in advance. Team members are aware of latest updates and procedures., WFM: Responsible for scheduling associates as per trend analysis of the alerts received and maintenance schedules on Servers. Preparing and generating reports for tracking utilization/productivity of associates, metric analysis, performance management and submitting the same to the top management on a fortnightly/monthly basis for reviewing., Transition: Was part of the core team which transitioned 50 new business from EDS onshore sites to Mphasis offshore sites., Reporting: Generating the Daily, Weekly and Monthly reports on Utilization, Absentees, Staffing, Head Count, Incentive and OT Payouts and Performance management. And ensuring these reports are sent out in time to Top Management and Clients. Doing metric reporting and trend analysis of the historical and real time data, for reviews by Senior Management and Clients. Responsible for collation and publication of data on Global Reporting Dashboard for all the EDS Sites that are supported by Bangalore.
Timeline
Project Manager, Capacity Planning
Amazon India Development Center
11.2011 - Current
Team Lead WFM & Compliance
CoreLogic India Pvt Ltd.
02.2010 - 11.2011
Team Lead Specialization - Operations and WFM
MPHASIS, an HP company
06.2005 - 02.2010
B.Sc - IT
Sikkim Manipal University
06.2001 - 06.2004
PUC - PCMC
Farooqia PU College
06.1997 - 05.2000
SSLC -
St Pauls English School
06.1996 - 04.1997
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