Asrar Farooqui: in Seaside, OR
Asrar Farooqui
Seaside | United States
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Mindtree Ltd
ITIL Incident and Crisis Manager | 06/2016 - 12/2019
(Contract to hire from Magna Infotech in March 2018)
• Monitor assigned Applications and services for High priority Incidents
• Facilitate technical troubleshooting efforts and engages additional technical support as needed, including vendor support
• Initiates Crisis Protocol for any Incident where the Priority is Critical, and the impact involves a Critical Business Application or Core Infrastructure Service
• Liaison between Crisis Manager and the Technical Team during a Major Incident where the Priority is Critical, and the impact involves a Critical Business Application or Core Infrastructure Service
• Consult with Crisis Manager from the client if a leadership decision is needed
• Ensure timely communication to the to pre-determined group lists based on the service impact.
• Document troubleshooting activities and resolution details in the Incident Work Notes, to provide an accurate timeline for post incident review.
• Provide first-line investigation and diagnosis of all low priority incident as per trouble shooting guide
• Prepare and present weekly and monthly KPI metrics reports to client.
• Update and maintain dashboards using Power BI and client specific querying tools.
• Training new Joiners on Process related issues, quality parameters and other required skills for the job.
Wipro Technologies
Associate consultant | 10/2013 - 05/2016
Role 1: Major Incident Management:
• Facilitate Major Incident using Major incident protocol.
• Responsible for planning and coordinating all the activities required to perform, monitor, and report on the process.
• Provide guidance to the Incident Process Coordinators.
• Monitor Critical incident queue in remedy and follow up with the support group for closure.
• Responsible for communicating with the Incident Process Owner.
• Ensure notifications are sent on timely manner.
• Ensure critical tickets are updated with up to minute information.
• Manage outage tracker with updated and accurate information.
• Monitor and report process violation.
• Ensure Problem records are created for all Major incidents after resolution.
• Ensure the closure of all resolved and end-user confirmed Incident records.
• Ensure all operations documentation is updated and available in SharePoint in a timely manner.
• Preparing Incident reports and communicating with the Management and Stakeholders.
• Remediate deviation of process for its particular division/department/school.
• Responsible for the effective implementation of the process "Incident Management" and carries out the respective reporting procedure.
• Identify, initiate, schedule and conduct incident reviews.
• Member of a team who defined the IT Incident Management Policy.
• Establish continuous process improvement cycles where the process performance, activities, roles and responsibilities, policies, procedures and supporting technology is reviewed and enhanced where applicable.
Role 2: Change Manager:
• Receive, log and allocate priority to all RFCs and reject inappropriate RFCs.
• Table the verified RFCs for CAB meetings.
• Convene and Chair the CAB or ECAB and change review meetings with all key stakeholders.
• Authorize acceptable Changes (according to CAB decisions)
• Publish change schedules to all the stake holders.
• Liaise with all parties to coordinate change building, testing and implementation
• Update Change log with progress.
• Review all outstanding RFCs waiting consideration or action.
• Reviews all implemented changes to ensure that they have met their objectives and conduct Post Implementation review for failed changes.
• Analyze change records to determine any trends.
• Management reporting on the Change management performance.
• Schedule Change Management process training for all the technical towers.
• Suggest and implement Service Improvement plan to the management to the stake holders.
IBM India Pvt. Ltd for ABB
Senior Technical Support Representative | 05/2010 - 10/2013
Role: IT Helpdesk Level2 support
• Primary job function was to provide level2 support for all ABB Employees.
• Local/Network issues related to printers.
• RSA token access and troubleshooting.
• Support for Internet/Intranet/VPN issues.
• User account management (creation, deletion, accesses)
• Second level support for OS/Hardware and Software issues.
Incident Management.
• Point of contact for major incidents and determine if an incident needs to be escalated according to priority and severity of issue and follow up till closure
• Ensure that Incidents assigned to the Support Groups are resolved and that service is restored.
• Identify the incidents and participate in post incident review.
• Identify potential problems and/or increasing trend of repetitive Incidents
• Responsible for communicating with the process manager. Directly works with Tier 1 Support to ensure proper recording of incidents.
• Escalate all process issues to the Incident Manager.
Dell International services
Technical support analyst | 03/2009 - 04/2010
• Level one support for Internet connectivity (wired and wireless, setup and support for router configuration.
• Support on PC and OS related issues such as slow performance, Blue Screens, formatting the HDD and OS installation/reinstallation.
• Single point of contact for printer software, uninstalling/reinstalling of the printer software using the desktop sharing.
Knoah Solutions for PALM corporation
Technical Support officer | 07/2008 - 02/2009
? Identifying the issue for HW or SW failure using the product specific techniques.
? Uninstalling/reinstalling the Sync software on the computer for Sync related or software corrupted issues.
? Assisting the customer in navigations, usage of the mobile device and its related software on the computer.
Education history
Avanthi Degree College
B.Sc | 2003 - 2005
Jah College of Engineering & Technology
M.C.A | 2005 - 2008
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