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KALYANI NIKUMBH

Analyst I
Auckland,Auckland
KALYANI NIKUMBH

Summary

An ambitious analyst from the service desk team, who has hands-on technical support experience with excellent communication and leadership skills. A dedicated and proactive IT professional who fosters a positive team environment and a goal-oriented self-starter who is motivated to succeed. Ability to multi-task and utilize critical problem-solving skills, and ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Resilient and results-oriented, geared toward efficiency with the ability to understand an organization's critical support requirements, identify the gaps in processes and, contribute towards creating technical knowledge articles.

Overview

5
years of professional experience
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

IAG
Auckland, New Zealand

Service Desk Analyst
08.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Provide L1 and L2 support for the investigation and resolution of all reported and registered incidents and service requests
  • Provide a single point of contact for users within the company and partner channels and perform service desk functions and handle IT incidents service requests
  • Following ITIL best practices to provide the internal stakeholders, and vendors, with IT services efficiently and educating users with onboarding activities such as managing their own IT needs like self-service password reset, using the IT portal, etc
  • Provide support in terms of changes across business, technology, and organizational processes and contribute to the improvement of BAU
  • Fulfill tasks assigned by leads, assist team members with IT-related queries on the Microsoft Teams channel, and provide feedback for the new applications/tools introduced to the team
  • Communicating and explaining issues in a non-technical way to users who are from other business areas and who are not tech savvy
  • Raising outages and parent tickets and tracking them to keep an update
  • Provide an excellent remote support experience via phone, chat, and remote desktop
  • Experience using ServiceNow for logging incidents and requests
  • Experience with office 365, Azure AD, Active Directory, Citrix, and Cisco applications.

IAG
Auckland, New Zealand

Personal Insurance Consultant
05.2020 - 08.2021

Job overview

  • Providing a comprehensive insurance service to bank partner customers
  • Guiding customers through obtaining a policy quote for general insurance products
  • Identifying gaps in the customer's policies and asking discovery questions to provide need-based solutions
  • Maintaining call quality and customizing the call to uncover needs and for value-added conversations
  • Maintaining communication and resolving queries over email
  • Understanding the business needs, vision, and values
  • Providing a great customer experience on all calls., Interaction with various customers for providing advertising solutions according to business type
  • Document all contacts with existing and potential leads for the purpose of database evaluation
  • Achieving sales targets and up-selling
  • Following up with customers
  • Dealing with Business to Business as well as Business to Consumer.

Online Distribution
Auckland, New Zealand

Client Manager
11.2020 - 04.2021

Job overview

• Communicating with clients through email and phone to keep them updated regarding incoming stock, orders to be dispatched, and maintaining existing records of the stock, transport-related queries, and dispatch updates.

• Performing cycle counts and stock takes and managing the team to meet the daily targets.

• Documenting all the data in Excel in a precise manner.

• KPI reporting, maintaining health and safety in the workplace.

• Using 3PL software for finding, updating, and dispatching orders

• Build a knowledge base of each client's business to increase customer satisfaction.

• Responding to customers’ queries and resolving them in a timely manner.

• Managing relations with customers by providing them with quality services.

Online Distribution
Auckland, New Zealand

Store Person
11.2020 - 04.2021

Job overview

• Dispatch orders.

• Complete inwards goods in an accurate and timely manner.

• Assist with cycle counts and stock takes.

• Ensure stock is maintained in a clean, tidy, and orderly manner.

• Working in a team environment to ensure all the deliveries are precise and on time.

Concentrix
Auckland, New Zealand

Delivery Service Consultant
03.2018 - 09.2018

Job overview

• Handling customers on call seamlessly, building rapport and providing suitable solutions.

• Answering customer queries and resolving issues in a professional and courteous manner.

• Meeting established call center productivity and quality standards and communicating in a professional manner with customers and co-workers.

• Assessing and evaluating customer needs by listening and asking questions.

• Handling issues regarding Air New Zealand online queries and managing booking, processing refunds, and providing information related to flight, travel, Air New Zealand policies, and account-related details.

• Capturing customer information accurately across multiple platforms

• Contributing to sales by up-selling products that would be suitable for the customer.

• Coordinating with different teams to solve issues and deliver quality customer service.

Question Pro
Pune, India

Solution Specialist
09.2015 - 08.2016

Job overview

• Understanding the requirement of the client and their business and providing them solutions, upgrades, and services accordingly.

• Arranging video sessions for key customer accounts.

• Using tools like Skype for business, Slack, and Intercom.

• Maximizing sales opportunities by up-selling profitable products.

• Explaining the working of software to the clients and managing the issues at high priority.

• Working closely with the development and testing team to meet the target and to follow up regarding software and resolution updates.

• Navigating through multiple platforms to capture data while assisting the customers on calls.

• Acquire necessary skills, products, and system knowledge to assess customer needs and position products with services appropriately to best suit customer’s needs.

• Training new members as well as the existing ones with the new modules, conducting webinars for overseas clients with live question-answer sessions with participants from various regions.

• Testing the software on the website and app on mobile (iOS and Android) to report issues.

• Recreating and documenting issues discovered during testing.

• Providing technical support to the QA team for the compliant process.

• Coordinating with the mobile development team to solve issues within deadlines.

• Working with HTML/CSS codes to tweak designs and customization as requested by customers.

• Working with the sales and overseas service and support team to develop, maintain and roll out service and application training material/programs.

• Engaging with customers to obtain feedback and accelerate continuous improvement by communicating with the product, mobile, QA, and sales teams.

Teletech
Auckland, New Zealand

Sales Consultant
09.2014 - 12.2014

Job overview

• Interaction with various customers for providing advertising solutions according to business type.

• Document all contacts with existing and potential leads for the purpose of database evaluation.

• Achieving sales targets and up-selling.

• Following up with customers.

• Dealing with Business to Business as well as Business to Consumer.

Education

Whitireia Polytechnic

Master from Information Technology
02.2018 - 02.2020

University Overview

Research Project

• Performance Evaluation of Big Data Frameworks on Cloud

• Comparison between the big data frameworks, Hadoop, and Spark on the Cloud platform (Amazon Web Services) by running benchmarks (Sort, Wordcount, Terasort, PageRank, and Naive Bayes)

• Creating instances on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Installing Apache Hadoop and Spark on AWS EC2

• Measuring the performance metrics (Execution Time and Throughput) and analysis of obtained results

Auckland University of Technology

Post Graduate Diploma from Computer And Information Sciences
07.2014 - 06.2015

University Overview

Software Requirement Engineering:

• Studying the interdependencies between enterprise stakeholders, processes, and software systems.

• Evaluate techniques applicable to the gathering, analysis, documenting, and managing of software systems requirements throughout the complete lifecycle.

• Understanding SDLC and various models like Agile, waterfall, RAD, V models, etc.

IT Strategy and Policy

• IT strategy and policy alignment with business goals

• Measurement of IT contribution to the business

• Assessment and options for the impact of policy and strategy

• Implementation of IT strategy and policy

• Risk assessment and management at business and project levels

• Evaluation of strategic service delivery options such as outsourcing, theoretical models, and current best practices

Symbiosis International University

Bachelor of Technology from Computer Science
06.2010 - 05.2013

University Overview

Certifications

Certifications
  • Power BI - Simplilearn

Credentials URL: https://simpli.app.link/rToZRezm9ob

  • Business Analysis Foundation

Credentials URL:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/6fff8fb4de7a54bc18c1965aa362b8eed95953f8d5154eaa5e21122b598c78b6?trk=share_certificate

  • Learning ITIL

Credentials URL: http://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-itil

  • Complete Introduction to Business Data Analysis

Credentials URL: ude.my/UC-46e23346-c6e9-4570-abc7-d6bbd255854e

References

References

Available upon request

Timeline

Service Desk Analyst
IAG
08.2021 - Current
Client Manager
Online Distribution
11.2020 - 04.2021
Store Person
Online Distribution
11.2020 - 04.2021
Personal Insurance Consultant
IAG
05.2020 - 08.2021
Delivery Service Consultant
Concentrix
03.2018 - 09.2018
Whitireia Polytechnic
Master from Information Technology
02.2018 - 02.2020
Solution Specialist
Question Pro
09.2015 - 08.2016
Sales Consultant
Teletech
09.2014 - 12.2014
Auckland University of Technology
Post Graduate Diploma from Computer And Information Sciences
07.2014 - 06.2015
Symbiosis International University
Bachelor of Technology from Computer Science
06.2010 - 05.2013
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