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Balaji Mayilvahanan

Balaji Mayilvahanan

Summary

My Career Objective is to work with a Challenging and Progressive Environment with an esteemed organization, so that my creative thinking and knowledge would help in contributing to spearhead both my professional and organizational goals.

Intelligent Service Delivery Manager, IT Operations and Project Manager with 20 years of experience in I.T Strong leader known for driving efficiency and cost savings through continuous process improvements. Polished individual with drive to proactively initiate positive change. 12+ years of solid experience in a multiple customer-based service delivery role. 11+ years of Project management experience handling million$ projects. Experienced in setting up Data Center, Server & Network Infrastructure, and related technologies. Experienced in managing a large team, including Solution Architects, Project Manager's, Security Operations, Subject matter expert's and IT Operation Engineers. Experience in RFP Process, Evaluate RFQ, Legal Documents, Project Scope and Prepare Project proposal and Project plan within the Customer required budget. Has experience in managing a large team, involved in Project Management, Helpdesk Management and Project implementations. Very strong in planning and following various quality processes. IT Service Delivery Management including SLA and Legal Clause Management. Involved in various IT Audits and Client Audits. Conducting periodic audits for ensuring compliance with Data security. Implementing security policies designed by the company for information security. Handled IT Operations Vendor Transition. Experienced in Audio-Video & Conferencing setup with product knowledge from Extron, Crestron, Solstice and Good knowledge of ITIL processes and Project Management Methodologies. Vendor Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Asset Management. Work Closely with Sales and provide cost effective solutions in order to win bids/tenders/proposals. Worked with Telecom like Starhub, Singtel and BT for WAN & Internet Migrations for clients. Acquired skills in customer issue handling by providing on time solutions, working positively on customer feedback about the service and offering effective service improvement plans. Customer oriented and self-driven. Proven leadership and drive teams of various IT disciplines. Proven project management skills i.e., competent in project planning and control with a good understanding of operational processes. A thorough team player with excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and juggle competing priorities. Conducting periodic audits for ensuring compliance with Data security. Knowledge of and experience with regulatory compliance, standards, and frameworks such as MAS (TRM), NIST, ISO, GDPR & CIS Represented customer's IT Audit by external auditors (PWC, Deloitte, EY, KPMG & Foo Kan Tan)

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Service Delivery Manager (APAC)

Mega International
Singapore
11.2022 - 08.2023
  • Manage Cloud Operations
  • Lead scoping and monthly meetings with customers
  • Drive the implementation of ITSM process management
  • Coordinate customers' operational acceptance
  • Plan maintenance tasks with client (and cloud engineer)
  • Track service performance against the SLA
  • Plan upgrades or new configurations with the client's administrator
  • Plan exceptional operations with the customer
  • Manage severe incidents and crises related to SLA non-compliance
  • Create performance reports
  • Prepare service disruption reports
  • Organize and/or participate in client steering committees
  • Communicate and manage the customer relationship regarding SaaS deployment and utilization.

Group Manager (IT Service Delivery and Project Manager)

HCL Technologies
Singapore
09.2018 - 10.2022
  • Managing IT Operations, Projects, and Solution Delivery
  • Involving in day to IT Operations as Service Delivery Manager
  • Managing Project Delivery and Project Team
  • Managing Delivery Unit’s PnL of 5Mn / Year and Project PnL of 2Mn / Year
  • Architecting IT Solutions as per customer requirement
  • Involved in Technical Presales activities
  • Responsible for all IT Projects and Deliverables are performed as per agreement and delivered within the SLA
  • Responsible for Service Management, SLA Reporting, Compliance Reporting Project Governance activities such as Incident, Problem & Change Management and Root cause & Trend Analysis
  • Implement the service management workflow and SLA are complaint as per the defined process and agreed service levels
  • Evaluate RFQ, Legal Documents, Project Scope and Prepare Project proposal and Project plan within the Customer required budget
  • Involving End to End RFP process including defining solution as per application requirement, working with vendors, consolidate pricing, PnL, Solution Write-up, Bid Defense etc
  • Managing overall IT Infrastructure of clients not limited to Server, Network, Storage and EUC as per Managed Services Scope
  • Involved in IT-Audit as per customer requirement
  • Managing Vendors and Procurement Process
  • Key Projects and Client: ITE – Student Portal Cloud Setup, Town Council – Implementing TCMS3.0 and Infrastructure Upgrade.

Service Delivery Manager (IT Services and Technical Project Manager)

Corporate Innovations
Singapore
10.2016 - 09.2018
  • Responsible for day-to-day IT Operations within the Organization as role of IT Manager including Monitoring, Backup, IT Security, day-to-today IT tasks and Overall maintenance
  • Responsible for end-to-end life cycle for Laptop, Servers and Network devices that includes Procurement, Installation, Inventory and Maintenance
  • Responsible for uptime of Network and Servers with minimal downtime
  • Manage services and vendor outsourcing in the aspects of IT Infrastructure
  • Responsible for Implementation of Office 365 and Migrating mailbox for Exchange or any mailing system to Office 365
  • Implementing and Managing Microsoft Navision and GP
  • Acting as a Single point of contact for all the IT Infrastructure related matters
  • Responsible for all IT Projects and Deliverables are performed as per agreement and delivered within the SLA
  • Evaluate RFQ, Legal Documents, Project Scope and Prepare Project proposal and Project plan within the Customer required budget
  • End to End Project Implementation to ensure the proposed solution is consistent, implemented and aligned according to the overall organization IT Architecture and meet the requirement
  • Ensure the IT Infrastructure is set up adhering to regulatory and audit guidelines
  • Key Projects: Starhub – Device Subscription as a Service (Implementing Smart Office EUC and Office 365), SAFRA – Network Upgrade and Active Directory Upgrade from 2008 to 2016, Veritas – New Office Setup involving IT Structured Cabling, Datacenter, Network and Audio-Video & Conferencing and WAN Migration.

Senior System Administrator

VikConnect (For NEC)
Singapore
04.2013 - 07.2016
  • Managing Wintel and VMWARE Platform
  • Managing UCS and HP Servers
  • Perform Daily, Weekly and Monthly operational tasks
  • Ensure all hardware platforms and windows servers are patched with the latest updates
  • Manage Incidents and tickets are resolved on time.

Project Lead (Wintel)

Comtel (For Citibank)
Singapore
06.2012 - 04.2013
  • Managing Wintel Projects
  • Understanding the Business and Application requirements and designing Server Setup
  • Building the servers with Citibank Standards
  • Work along with different teams to set up the application infrastructure
  • Provide support and ensure the application goes live without any outage
  • Provide Operational support whenever required
  • Coordinating with varies Levels of Support and Vendors for resolving the problems.

Senior System Administrator (Wintel and Monitoring Solution)

Compo 2000 (For HP-EDS)
Singapore
09.2010 - 05.2012
  • Managing Windows Servers (2000, 2003 & 2008), AD, DHCP, DNS, Backup, McAfee EPO and SAN Storage
  • Maintaining all Windows Servers and other Windows related applications
  • Aliasing with Active Directory, Exchange, other Operations to resolve the Critical Alerts
  • Analyzing the Alerts and providing required Microsoft Knowledge base and Microsoft Support for better understanding of the root cause and the solution
  • Managing Monitoring systems – SCOM, NNM, OVO, Decade and Reporter
  • Managing Internal application-based Websites
  • Managing HP-Unix used for NNM and OVO
  • Analyzing the Alerts - based on the Type of service, No of Alerts and repeat count and Work with Engineering and other operations team to minimize the number of alerts
  • Providing remote support for Critical Windows Issues from other agencies
  • Managing Backup Solutions
  • Coordinating with varies Levels of Support and Vendors for resolving the problems.

Senior System Administrator (Wintel and Messaging)

NESS Global Services
Singapore & France
08.2009 - 12.2009
  • Maintaining all Windows Servers and other Windows related applications
  • Managing Active directory, mailing systems - Exchange Server, IronPort, Blackberry, and Enterprise Vault
  • Co-ordinated with Vendor to Implement IronPort
  • Performing mass email id creation using Scripts
  • Managing the Storage Devices
  • Implemented Centralized Print Server and fixed all print issues
  • Performing Mass Mailbox movement between Campuses
  • Perform Day to day Operations and Support End Users
  • Maintain Backup devices and tapes and perform backup using Symantec Backup Exec
  • Involved in Smooth performing day to operations in Contingency takeover from previous vendor, where there is no space for any Handover or Knowledge transfer
  • Setup Centralized Service Desk
  • Understand the entire Setup and Document it and provide knowledge to the new support team and Service Desk
  • Performing DATA center Migration plan and working with Telco Vendor for WAN Migration
  • Implementing Service Desk Concept for all technical support for all INSEAD locations
  • Coordinating with Application team and New DATA center technical team for implementing UAT and Productions servers
  • Managing incidents and ensuring the tickets are resolved and SLA is met
  • Preparing Incident reports and doing impact analysis based on the No of Incidents and its types
  • Introduced Change management process and ensure it’s followed for any change
  • Provide technical training to Service Desk
  • Setup Individual teams for Windows, Database, UNIX and Network Support and Provide Knowledge transfer.

Assistant Manager IT Operations

Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
India & Singapore
08.2006 - 06.2009
  • System administration (Windows 2000/Windows 2003 / Exchange 2000/ Exchange 2003, Barracuda, Other Windows Based Applications)
  • Managing Active directory servers across the globe over 15000 users with mailboxes
  • Managing internal as well as the external Exchange of entire Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
  • Monitoring the Spam control on the Barracuda (incoming, external mails)
  • Installation and configuration of Windows 2000 /Windows 2003 servers
  • Monitoring backup, maintenance and recovery strategies to minimize database failures and consequently data loss
  • Managing & troubleshooting e-mail activities such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Office automation software etc
  • Implementing security policies at the site
  • Timely escalation & Vendor co-ordination
  • Maintaining SAN Storage
  • Single Point of Contact for Service Desk, Windows, Data Center and Backup related issues and Managing Vendors
  • Budget planning, Resource planning and Resource management
  • Planning and Implementing Centralized IT Service Desk and IT Operations
  • Auditing Pc’s and Server’s and performing reports based on audit and closing all the vulnerabilities found in the audit
  • Asset Manager for PC’s, Servers, Network devices
  • Designing new Office and Data Center
  • Analyzing the current year reports and preparing the walkthrough for next year.

Helpdesk operations

Wipro InfoTech
India
09.2004 - 08.2006
  • Maintaining more than 600 Computers (Dell, HP and IBM) Networked with Windows 2000 Prof, Server, XP, 2003 Operating Systems
  • Create and manage partitions, file systems, Install, configure, printers, and print resources in Win2k and XP environment
  • Creating users in active directory and managing mailboxes in exchange
  • Installation and trouble-shooting customer specific applications and also built in standard applications
  • Installation Configuration and Troubleshooting of Mailing Clients (outlook)
  • Responsible for installing and upgrading OS and Patches.

System Support Engineer

Alpha Consultancy Services
India
07.2003 - 09.2004
  • Giving onsite support to around 10 Desktops and server as per company policy
  • Installation, configuration and management of MS OS and servers
  • Antivirus Management (Symantec)
  • Extracting and deploying images using Norton Ghost
  • Troubleshooting S/W and H/W problems.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Madurai Kamaraj University
India
06.1999 - 04.2003

Skills

    Service Delivery Management

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Timeline

Service Delivery Manager (APAC)

Mega International
11.2022 - 08.2023

Group Manager (IT Service Delivery and Project Manager)

HCL Technologies
09.2018 - 10.2022

Service Delivery Manager (IT Services and Technical Project Manager)

Corporate Innovations
10.2016 - 09.2018

Senior System Administrator

VikConnect (For NEC)
04.2013 - 07.2016

Project Lead (Wintel)

Comtel (For Citibank)
06.2012 - 04.2013

Senior System Administrator (Wintel and Monitoring Solution)

Compo 2000 (For HP-EDS)
09.2010 - 05.2012

Senior System Administrator (Wintel and Messaging)

NESS Global Services
08.2009 - 12.2009

Assistant Manager IT Operations

Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
08.2006 - 06.2009

Helpdesk operations

Wipro InfoTech
09.2004 - 08.2006

System Support Engineer

Alpha Consultancy Services
07.2003 - 09.2004

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Madurai Kamaraj University
06.1999 - 04.2003
Balaji Mayilvahanan