Director - Support And Automation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Led a techno-functional team of 35 members, led by example and worked with each member to understand their aspirations and build a career plan for them.• Hired, trained, and mentored new talent to create a technical L2 support team.• Set performance goals and KPIs for the team, perform regular evaluations, and provide continuous improvement inputs.• Acted as a trusted partner to customers and suggested technical solutions.• Oversaw the resolution of critical customer technical issues and inquiries in a timely and effective manner.• Handled escalated customer complaints or complex technical problems.• Managed a process re-engineering project to improve and consolidate end-to-end support processes, and restructured communication flow among multiple departments.• Developed and implemented quality assurance processes and standards in Support.• Developed goals and improvement programs to improve support SLAs from 80% to over 99%.• Collaborated with Devops, NOC and Engineering teams to implement infrastructure and application monitoring using New Relic, Grafana, Sensu and Zenduty.• Implemented SOPs and KBA to improve efficiency in handling incidents and monitoring alerts.• Developed and implemented multiple automated support reports and alerts to help identify and negate gaps in Support. This helped improve MTTR to less than 6 hours from 27 hours.• Developed and implemented customer business monitoring automation to improve the efficiency of product usage.• Implemented policy, procedure, and process changes to improve the quality of support and service operations and promote CSAT and NPS.• Worked closely with cross-functional teams to provide RCA and CAPA for critical incidents and implement preventive actions in a timely manner.• Forecasted and budgeted for the team and ensured the budget was not exceeded.• Provided Weekly and Monthly updates to the C-Level team on the status of support and automation.