Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Current Role
Experiencesummary - Skills
Personal Information
Previousroles
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Syed Zahid Sultan

WorkForce Management
Bangalore

Summary

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
Syed Zahid SultanWorkForce Management