Priyadharisini Chandrasekaran

  • ServiceNow Developer
  • Austin, TX
  • Member Since May 25, 2023

Candidates About

 

Priyadharisini Chandrasekaran

Objectives

·         To work on ServiceNow development and use my skills as a SNOW developer and Business Analyst

Professional Summary

·         10+ years of total experience in the IT industry and have performed various roles during this tenure – Developer, Support Team Member, Technical Lead, Business Analyst

·         Expert in IT Services Management (ITSM) and have set up the Service Management processes for the customer, as per ITILv3.0 norms using ServiceNow and ITSM

·         Experienced in both Application Development, Application Support and Maintenance type of projects. I have managed a team of 30+ associates based out of multiple work locations. I have worked in Onsite-Offshore model and well versed with the challenges associated with it. I have also taken care of operations involving 24x7 support and multiple shifts.

·         Experienced in requirement analysis, development/build and testing various modules in software development life cycle

·         Have experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies of software development

·         Implemented Defect prevention process, various quality improvements and process improvements in all my projects

 

Certifications

·         ServiceNow Admin

·         ITIL V3

·         Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) 1.5

·         Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)

·         XML

 

Key Strengths

·         ServiceNow Admin

·         ITIL implementation: Incident, Change, Problem and Release Management

·         Hands On Project Management and Leadership

·         Customer Focus, Result Orientation

·         Communication and People Management Skills

 

Employment History

·         Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India : Sep 2006 – Present

 

Education

·         Bachelor in Technology – Computer Science : Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry, India

Graduated with Distinction

 

Skills

Software

Java, HTML5, JavaScript, XML, PL/SQL

Tools

ServiceNow, ITSM, Quality Center, Oracle 8i, Benthic tools, TOAD

Methodologies

Waterfall, Agile

Domain Experience

Insurance

 

 

Detailed Professional Experience

Project : 1

Service Now Development

Customer

Reputed Insurance Company in US

Period

Jan 2016 – Sept 2017

Role

ServiceNow Developer

Roles & Responsibilities

Perform the following roles in the project:

·         Development - implementation of new functionalities and enhancements

·         Customer management

·         Status Reporting – Weekly and Monthly

·         Documentation

Development

·   Responsible for the implementation, customisation and maintenance of application

modules - Incident, Service catalog management

·   Performed core configuration tasks including system policies, business rules and

client scripts

·   Created Service catalog templates for various use cases to be used by catalog

admins to develop catalog items

·   Created workflows for the service catalog items. Also created customised

workflows to reuse them in different workflows

·   Configured workflows to automate change approval processes

·   Automated ticket creation through custom inbound action

·   Created and utilised update sets to move the customisation from dev instance

to testing instances

·   Content Management - Created scheduled reports, dashboards. Also designed

ESS pages

·   Manages users, groups and roles

·   Manages data with the CMDB, Import Sets, and Update Sets

·   Involved in the upgrade from Geneva to Helsinki

·   Perform day to day administration of the Service-Now tool

·   Performed QA role and defined test cases and documented the test results

 

Customer Management

·   Understand the customer expectations, coordinate with offshore and address the

concerns

·   Keeping customer informed on progress through effective communications

 

Status Reporting

·   Created automated reports for incident, change management for

regular and transparent status reports to relevant stakeholders

 

Documentation

·   Created requirement and technical specification documents for the

Implementation of new change requests, created solution documents

·   Created test cases and test results

 

 

Project: 2

Application Support and Maintenance

Customer

Reputed Insurance Company in Switzerland

Period

Nov 2008 - Jan 2016

Role

Application Support, Business Analyst

Description

The scope of the project involves :

·         Providing L2 and L3 support for 75 applications

·         Implement ITIL v3.0 for Incident Management, Change and Problem from Management

·         Manager Customer Expectations and Escalations

·         Implement Enhancements

·         Release Management

·         Business analysis

Roles & Responsibilities

Have performed the following roles in the project:

Support Analyst, Technical Lead, Service Management Lead, Business Analyst

·      Hiring and Induction

·      Incident, Change, Problem and Release Management

·      Status Reporting – Weekly and Monthly

·      Documentation

·      Customer Management

·      People Management

·      Shift Management

 

Induction

·      On-boarding new applications (around 70+) into the Incident and

Problem Management area.

·      Preparing on-boarding plan

·      Execute Knowledge Transition

 

Customer Expectations Management

·      Handled escalations in a timely and appropriate fashion,

handled / resolved High and Critical incident with a quick turnaround time

·      Proactive Engagement and KCI

 

Incident and Problem Management

·   Quickly responds to all notifications of unplanned service interruptions from

the customer

·   Provides primary initial incident support. Documents, categorizes and

prioritizes incidents as they occur.

·   Ensures that incident routing does not meet bottlenecks and that appropriate

resources have been engaged to effectively investigate and diagnose

critical incidents.

·   Understands SLA requirements and works to ensure those requirements are

met when possible.

·   Provides detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documentation to Problem

Management and attends RCA meetings with the customer to determine

the root cause of incidents, SLA infractions and primary ownership of any

resulting action.

·   Developed and documented several Incident Management process models for

the role of Incident Manager

·   Backlog management.

 

Status Reporting

·   Created, analysed and distributed Incident Management reports and provided

regular and transparent status reports to relevant stakeholders.

·   Identified and implemented process improvements.

·   Provide and receive user feedback after incident and problem resolution and

provide feedback to stakeholders on the same

·   Participated in problem , incident reviews, such as open/closed call reviews

and monthly/quarterly customer meetings

 

Documentation

·         Composing requirement and technical specification documents for the

Implementation of new change requests.

·         Create, update and maintain:

o    Application related documents – L1/Service Desk, L2

runbooks for the Infrastructure teams etc.

o    Troubleshooting documents - serves as a repository for the known

issues and that can be reused by the members in the team for

Effective and efficient incident handling

 

ServiceNow Customization

Business Analysis

·     Analyse business requirements such as scope, processes alternatives

via document analysis, interviews and workshop

·     Engage client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure

alignment with development teams

·     Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy to

understand data and process models and liaise between business and

technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and

applications

·     Facilitate monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore

potential solutions

 

Design and Development

·   Developed a module to replicate a functionality from lotus notes to SNOW

as PoC and the same was approved

 

 

Project: 3

Web Reporting Application

Customer

Reputed Insurance Company in Switzerland

Period

June 2008 to October 2008

Role

Application Development

Description

Web Reporting application is a module that is used for generation of various kinds of user reports

Roles & Responsibilities

·         Defect fixing

·         Implemented enhancements in the application

Technology

SQL, Java, JSP

Project : 4

Claims Fraud Screening

Customer

Reputed Insurance Company in UK

Period

September 2006 to May 2008

Role

Java developer

Roles & Responsibilities

·         Implemented several modules of the application using Genesys framework.

·         Production support for the same applications

Project Specific Skills

Gen-eSys, Java, XML