Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Timeline
Divakar Gopal

Divakar Gopal

Minneapolis

Summary

Valued leader and team member displayed exemplary conduct under pressure while providing guidance and direction to team. Demonstrated excellent organizational skills and ability to think strategically. Trained and mentored new personnel and developed effective working relationships with other service branches.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

*

Tata Consultancy Services (Employee ID - 382802)
10.2010 - Current

Project 1 - PwC Service Desk - Bangalore,India

Role : Operations Manager

Duration: Oct 2010 - June 2015 & March 2017 - Aug 2022


Key Responsibilities :


  • Responsible to drive all the defined SLA’s
  • Daily Client Connect
  • Identify areas of Service Improvements and design , plan and execution. Highlight challenges in the plan.
  • Service delivery transformation initiatives in the BAU service, with global TCS and PwC counterparts.
  • Manage Incident Management (IM SLA improvement)
  • Liaison between call controllers and team leader.
  • Quality/Process Management (FCR & VSAT Improvements and contact reduction
  • Monitor SLA performance and fulfillment of gaps to achieve project's SLA.



Project 2- PwC Deskside -UK

Role : IT Specialist

Duration : July 2015 - Nov 2017


Key Responsibilities :


  • Managing and keeping inventory of all assets (Laptops and iphones)
  • Address various technical issues reported by onsite users and taking appropriate steps to address the issue with in the SLA.
  • Maintain VSAT and QA scores.
  • Being available for Network patch upgrade post out office hours and co-ordinate with the Network engineer for facilitating them to perform the upgrade with in their SLA time lines.


Project 3 - PwC US

Role : Team Member

Duration : Aug 2022 - June 2023


Key Responsibilities


  • Managing and keeping inventory of all assets (Laptops and iphones)
  • Address various technical issues reported by onsite users and taking appropriate steps to address the issue with in the SLA.
  • Maintain VSAT and QA scores.
  • Being available for Network patch upgrade post out office hours and co-ordinate with the Network engineer for facilitating them to perform the upgrade with in their SLA time lines.
  • Do random checks on office printers and its functionality.
  • Do daily checks on Cisco meeting rooms and check its functionality on all floors.
  • Connect with respective Cisco and Network stakeholders to report any issues with cisco systems and network rooms and take help to resolve the same.


Project 4 - Allianz Technology US

Role: Team Member

Duration : Aug 2023 - June 2024


Key Responsibilities :


  • Extracting reports from Qualys, segregating different applications that are reported as vulnerability like End of life .net, Mongo DB, SQL ODBC and IBM MQ
  • Connecting with all the user to understand the availability and criticality of the application usages.
  • Getting exceptions from the application owners and stakeholder to use the outdated application to stipulated amount of time.
  • Co-ordination with workstation services team or Deployment team to upgrade the vulnerable apps.





EMEA Technical Support

Dell International
08.2009 - 09.2010
  • Responsible for handling technical issues reported by Customers on Studio and Inspiron Laptops
  • Core support on Windows XP & Vista Operating Systems and hardwire and wireless network
  • Core support on MS Office 2003 & 2007 products
  • Core support on Operating Systems and Hardware.

Technical Associate

Sitel Corp
02.2008 - 06.2009
  • Responsible for providing on call support and resolution to customers.
  • Maintaining Csat and First call resolution.
  • Supporting standalone printers and wireless printers.
  • Logging tickets for callers and giving specific focus to callers from Canada.
  • Ensure to achive Vsat Target of above 4.5.

Service Engineer

Alliance Tecknologies
11.2005 - 11.2007
  • Visiting Petroleum refinery site and servicing all research equipment
  • Annual maintenance visits.

Education

High School Diploma -

I R Polytechnic
05.2005

Skills

  • Problem-Solving
  • Team Leadership
  • Operations Management
  • Customer Service
  • Decision-Making
  • Staff Training
  • Inventory Management
  • Performance monitoring

Accomplishments

  • Consistent team with most and highest Vsat percentage for over 2 years.
  • Lead VIP team (White glove support) from the front and address the low light areas to focus on bringing down the escalation numbers and has been successful in getting the escalation to zero.
  • Brought in keys changes in the service with the experience and outcome from VIP team and implemented the same practice across the board.
  • Reduced MTTR (mean time to resolution) for VIP Team by co-ordinating with respective level 2 team and allocating dedicated team to address the Incidents for quick solution.
  • Improved QA and Vsat score and Targetted to improve the Knowledge base of the service desk with specific contents relevant to the subject.
  • Performed knowledge base cleanup to avoid duplicate KB’s with different steps for solution and deleted older and unrecommended steps.


Certification

ITIL Intermediate

Agile Way of working

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified

Timeline

* - Tata Consultancy Services (Employee ID - 382802)
10.2010 - Current
EMEA Technical Support - Dell International
08.2009 - 09.2010
Technical Associate - Sitel Corp
02.2008 - 06.2009
Service Engineer - Alliance Tecknologies
11.2005 - 11.2007
I R Polytechnic - High School Diploma,
Divakar Gopal