Susmitha Santhosh
IT Service Engineer
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Summary of Career
1. Working as the SPOC to provide technical support by answering end-user queries professionally and responding to customer inquiries and complaints relating to hardware and software problems, via service desk portal, desk visit, phone and email
2. Managing the Service Desk Queue for both Service Requests and Incidents Logging end to end and proactively monitor the Service Desk inboxes and responding in a timely manner to issues and requests
3. Instilling customers with confidence that their issue has been well understood and is being dealt with promptly, keeping them updated about the status of the request, take action to mitigate issues quickly.
4. Allocating resources to work with users and escalate to appropriate next-level resources for incident resolution
5. Functioning closely with management for analyzing, documenting and suggesting system enhancements through communication with users, management and customers / vendors to meet business goals and satisfy business and technical requirements.
6. Coordinating with project managers and designed and developed plan to execute the project in timely manner
7. Collaborating with IT Service Delivery team and experience in ITSM tool such as BMC Remedy, ServiceNow and ManageEngine
8. Managing application upgrade of Manage Engine tool and provide technical support post upgrade to different departments in case of any issues
9. Performing the first-level troubleshooting for software related issues such as Outlook, Teams, PDF, PC slowness etc
10. Documenting service desk records and collaborating with internal department to ensure IT needs are met and schedule meeting every quarter with them to discuss on how to proactively resolve the issue
Experience as Senior IT Analyst
HCL Technologies
02 September 2015
23 June 2017
Performing package and application creation and deployment.
Creating a report using SQL query
Resolving remedy incident tickets based on software installation issues
Enabling discovery, inventory methods and software metering
Consistently monitoring compliance levels to uphold best company practises and processes
Overseeing installation of software programs and hardware systems to meet requirements
Investigating and reporting on critical incidents, resolving problems effectively and efficiently to meet deadlines
Experience as Engineer
Astrazeneca India Pvt Ltd
28 June 2017
10 September 2021
Performing mass deployments of packages and applications and maintaining the compliance percentage.
Providing both hardware and software troubleshooting for users, maintaining the compliance and responsible
for managing the escalations
Taking the ownership of task assigned and ensure it is completed before the SLA
Creating and managing the change for activities for Client upgrade, SCCM (System Center Configuration
Manager) infrastructure and mass deployments
Performing the Windows Upgrade by deploying via Software Update and installing patches in user machines
Working with virtual machines, Windows Server 2008, RDP and Application testing
Creating static and dynamic collections to deploy the application or software update or packages
Handling the tickets using Service Now tool and resolving it in company SLA
Deploying Upgrade Readiness Script and monitoring all the client status via Operations Management Suite
(OMS)
Following up with external contractors, project owners and other stakeholders to gather information and
resolve issues
Software deployment in SCCM, Collection Creation and managing advertisements and producing report on
success rate of deployed applications
Providing L2 support for the service desk based on the escalation and also collect reports of the issue trend and
provide solution for service desk by creating article which can help them
Fetching the reports and sharing with requesters and troubleshoot on failure machines
Performing the ticket auditing in the team so that team is aware on how to efficiently handle ticket
Providing technical support to system and application related issues in Windows
Responding to technical concerns quickly and effectively devised solutions
Managing customer relations by effectively developing communication process
Maintaining excellent awareness of new technologies, to offer innovative solutions in line with strategic
business needs
Maximizing team knowledge and productivity by training, monitoring and directing employees in application of
best practice and regulatory protocols.
Documenting procedures and business processes and shared information with appropriate stakeholders
Experience as IT Service Engineer
Alpha Data LLC
02 February 2022
To date
Working as the SPOC to provide technical support by answering end-user queries professionally and
responding to customer inquiries and complaints relating to hardware and software problems, via service desk
portal, desk visit, phone and email
Employing ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus for report generation, certification renewal, application upgrade
and releases.
Managing the Service Desk Queue for both Service Requests and Incidents Logging end to end and proactively
monitor the Service Desk inboxes and responding in a timely manner to issues and requests.
Instilling customers with confidence that their issue has been well understood and is being dealt with promptly,
keeping them updated about the status of the request, take action to mitigate issues quickly.
Allocating resources to work with users and escalate to appropriate next-level resources for incident resolution
Functioning closely with management for analyzing, documenting and suggesting system enhancements
through communication with users, management and customers / vendors to meet business goals and satisfy
business and technical requirements.
Coordinating with project managers and designed and developed plan to execute the project in timely manner
Liaising with the management to allocate resource to execute the work within the timeline
Collaborating with IT Service Delivery team and experience in ITSM tool such as BMC Remedy, ServiceNow and
ManageEngine
Ensuring that projects are completed without breaching any SLAs and allocated budget
Managing application upgrade of Manage Engine tool and provide technical support post upgrade to different
departments in case of any issues
Maintaining, managing and configuring SLAs within ManageEngine
Performing the first-level troubleshooting for software related issues such as Outlook, Teams, PDF, PC
slowness etc.
Working as SPOC for all the incoming queries from users via phone, email etc and provide support by
prioritizing and escalating serious issues to relevant team
Preparing documents for training on the activities performed to circulate among the team member to support
end users effectively
Documenting service desk records and collaborating with internal department to ensure IT needs are met and
schedule meeting every quarter with them to discuss on how to proactively resolve the
issue
Bachelor 31 May 2015
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from SCCM College of Engineering and Technology, Kerala, IndiaECBA
ITIL