Technical Support Lead
Synergy Ocean Maritime Inc/Marine Mechanics Private Limited, Chennai
Nov 2019 – Current
Product: SmartShip, Shippalm, Docmap, Resilio, Ahoy, Blue Gem | Domain: Shipping
Ship Management Software Suite combination of the above-mentioned products, designed to incorporate all Ship Management activities into a single integrated system. Aids Ship Owners, Managers and Operators in their decision-making process with optimum real-time information
Clients: Synergy, BW
Modules: Quality Management System, Procurement, Voyage Performance, Planned Maintenance System and Inventory, Crew Management, HRMS, Business Intelligence
Technical Support Lead – Key Responsibilities
- Set clear objectives, evaluate progress and a high-performance culture with focus on team work, service excellence and ownership for resolving customer issues
- Set-up, manage and improve standards and procedures within the team
- Cascade business objectives and targets to the team Review daily priorities and take appropriate action to ensure results are achieved
- Liaison with the internal functions including sales, product management, engineering, network operations, provisioning, and other service functions
- Ensure high quality, up-to-date documentation exists for all services
- Validating new features, hosting pre-deployment demonstrations and provide approval prior release.
- Monitoring the progress and ensure successful implementation of software upgrades in client systems.
- Co-ordinating with BA and Support teams with respect to software development and technical issues.
- Attending to high priority and escalated technical issues faced by clients and assist the teams in resolving them on urgent basis.
- Preparing and circulating managerial reviews and reports to the top management as and when required.
- Representing the support team at times of external audits
- Create and maintain an updated ‘Knowledge Sharing Database’ for the company.
- Provided L1 and Level 2(L2) technical support for clients related to network level issues.
- Proactive error clearance to avoid service disruption.
- Provided immediate workaround for P1 and P2 tickets and worked on root cause analysis and provided permanent solution within SLA.
- Deployed several changes to live servers and actively monitored for any errors on the application post implementation.
- Worked in collaboration with multiple platform teams on bridge calls across time zones during on-call support
- Managed all weekly, daily reports like WSR to the clients.
- Currently handling a Team of 5+ Members and have encouraged all team members to achieve the SLA.
Technical Support Lead
Alpha Ori India Pvt Ltd.
Apr 2016 – May 2019
Product: ShipPalm | Domain: Shipping | Model: Scrum/Agile | Technology: Dot Net
ShipPalm is an All-Encompassing Ship Management tool, Created on a highly customizable framework with real time notifications and performance breach alerts, in page communication between ship (Windows app on board) and shore (Web app).
Clients: Synergy, MOL, Lauritzen, Nissen, BW, Xpress Feeders, Navios, Scorpio
Modules: Quality Management System, Purchase, Voyage Performance, Planned Maintenance System and Inventory, Crew Management, HRMS, Business Intelligence
Technical Support Lead – Key Responsibilities
- Co-ordinating with BA, Development, Testing and Support teams with respect to software development and technical issues.
- Attending to high priority and escalated technical issues faced by clients and assist the teams in resolving them on urgent basis.
- Provided Level 2(L2) technical support for clients related to network level issues.
- Proactive error clearance to avoid service disruption.
- Provided immediate workaround for P1 and P2 tickets and worked on root cause analysis and provided permanent solution within SLA.
- Deployed several changes to live servers and actively monitored for any errors on the application post implementation.
- Worked in collaboration with multiple platform teams on bridge calls across time zones during on-call support
Technical Assistant
Synergy Maritime Pvt Ltd.
Dec 2013 – Apr 2016
Technical Assistant - Key Responsibilities:
- Understanding issues, analyzing them, categorizing them as L1, L2 or L3 level issues and accordingly following up with the concerned teams for solution.
- 100% compliance on E-mails/Tickets raised by the users across all group companies
- Ensuring that communication system is always clear and working fine between all ships and shore.
- Gather detailed information from users regarding bugs reported.
- Ensure 100% compliance in issue solving and ensuring Nil escalation to higher authorities.
- Generate Excel Reports as per user requests, using SQL.
- Training to the end users, as and when required.
- Preparation of user manuals at times of new releases.
- Upgradation of software on-board ships along with the team during new releases.
- Software installation and client office visits as and when required.
- Maintenance of production support ticket system.
- Gather user feedback.
Business Intelligence (Power BI) – Roles and Responsibilities
- Conducted quantitative analyses on available metrics and briefed senior leadership, enabling them to improve analytical products to maximize visibility and usefulness to the community.
- Generated various business opportunities for the firm by participating in and managing proposals.
- Developed custom crystal reports to analyze financial, operating, and business processes
- Analyzed financial data to identify relationship between operations and payment trends
- Extracted data from different data sources; created KPIs and Scorecards to improve corporate profitability measures and comparative business analysis.
- Provided analytical support and expertise when compiling and reporting information.
- Comfortable in interacting with business customers and other groups within the company
SQL Database – Roles and Responsibilities
- Analytics – Retrieve SQL Server data from entire tables or run queries that return a subset of data from multiple tables
- Good knowledge in writing queries and retrieving data from the database