It Applications Manager
Current• Managing a team of 18 application support analysts to resolve issues raised by users of 10+ applications.• Setup “Solar Winds” alert on the Tier 1 applications that helped to reduce downtimes from 25% to 0% thereby maintaining business efficiency and application usage.• Eliminated application slowness issues impacting shipment and receiving operations of around 30 users by coordinating with various teams, performing root cause analysis and fixing the issue by switching the ISP from primary to secondary tunnel.• Automated the deletion of records in the TRAX application using SQL scripts which were causing application outages 4-5 times a week thereby preventing unscheduled operational downtimes.• Implemented process improvement to eliminate the monthly recurring issue of shipment order status change by users needing to do DB updates by restricting users to manually change the order status leading to a reduction of an average of 40 tickets per month.• Formulated the algorithm to reduce the duplication of tickets created for the same issue in ServiceNow, thereby reducing the incoming ticket volume by over 75%.• Developed the functional specification to list down the unposted batches with the user details which would be run by the finance managers before month-end close thereby maintaining cash flows.• Started the initiative and collaborated with the team to close around 180 tickets assigned to the EMEA SME who went on indefinite sick leave.• Created a knowledge repository in the ServiceNow tool serving as a reference for new joiners leading to reduced training time from approx. 3 months to below 15 days.