Harishankar Selvaraj

Results-Driven Project and Program Management Professional
Bangalore, IN.

About

Highly seasoned Project and Program Management Professional with over 14 years of extensive experience in enhancing customer satisfaction and driving value creation in cloud-based environments. Proven in managing customer relationships, leading client onboarding, and implementing strategies that significantly improve customer retention and product adoption. Adept at leveraging technical expertise to analyze data, deliver actionable insights, and facilitate strategic planning for long-term partnerships and deliver impactful solutions.

Work

Dell Technologies
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Advisor, Project Manager - ERP Cloud

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Summary

Spearheaded project programs managing high-value accounts and driving strategic initiatives for successful project delivery for SAP and Non-SAP environments and enhancing customer satisfaction and value creation.

Highlights

Managed accounts with annual portfolio of $36 million, overseeing daily requests tracking, project progress, quarterly reviews, and weekly client cadence.

As Primary liaison between customers project team and technical teams, ensured close coordination of timely progress tracking of tasks to meet customer requirements by project deadlines

Coordinated change scheduling for orchestrated implementation, managing over 190 complex and simple changes monthly.

Adopted Scrum ceremonies for sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review to reduce controllable backlogs and to take actionable insights. Thus, helped to meet >95% project completion by customer deadlines and controlling T&M efforts efficiently.

Supported on-prem to azure migration projects, data shipping through QNAP Network attached storage from one datacenter to another for critical transition of data as per client requirement ensured secure movement of critical data for the client

Dell Technologies
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Project / Program coordinator - ERP Cloud

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Summary

Ensured smooth transition of customer on-boarding, business solutioning for on prem to cloud transition of SAP and non SAP systems, focused on customer delight

Highlights

Owned projects to onboard customers ensuring it meets their expectations for timely Go-Live of Sandbox, Dev, Staging to Production systems phase by phase.

Transitioned accounts ranging from $5mil to $30mil Annual Contract Value - ACV to the business.

Worked closely with solution architect to build and deploy systems catered to match customer systems and also upgrade migrations as per customer requirements.

Oversaw 1400+ critical changes and maintaining 5K+ service requests under SLA with cross functional team coordination and standups for timely go-live.

Dell Technologies
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Project/ Program, Sr. Analyst

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Summary

Managed key projects for Dell Technologies, focusing on enhancing user experience, streamlining processes, and improving technical team efficiency.

Highlights

Enhanced user experience for Dell driver portal, reducing customer phone call efforts by 40% and increasing site usage by 50%.

Streamlined technical team processes with a flow tool, improving issue resolution time by 18 minutes and reducing repeat part dispatch by 33%.

As a key contributor to develop an inhouse tool to enhance consumer system preventive maintenance which are sophisticated through manual intervention thus reducing efforts by 66%.

Led an initiative to create an agentic tool that can detect and recommend firmware and driver critical to upgrades, which reduced customer calls inbound by 39% and also forecasted reduction in memory failures and securing from security vulnerability attacks.

Contributed to strategic planning, process engineering, and ROI analysis for project implementations

Dell Technologies
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Sr. Enterprise Support Engineer

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Summary

Served as a Subject Matter Expert in Dell PowerEdge servers and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), ensuring optimal deployment, management, and maintenance.

Highlights

Provided expert support for Dell PowerEdge servers and HCI appliances, covering deployment, management, upgrades, and decommission of product lifecycle

Leveraged proficiency in virtualization, cloud computing, storage, and networking to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues.

Delivered remote hands and eyes support (RHES) and performed diagnostics and log analysis for storage controllers and computing systems.

Represented on user experience project cadences to provide feedback on the tools tested in lab environment to enhance quality and report bug checks, contributing to a stable release of tools and system firmware's

Taken initiatives beyond KPI, to help reduce resolution time on top repeat issues which reduced time efforts by 40% to the team. Raised awareness of high failure parts to engineering team to address the cause and worked closely for the teams to revamp dispatch warehouse with remediated part to avoid repeat dispatch to the team that impacted 16% of teams KPI.

Dell Technologies
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Technical Support Engineer

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Summary

Provided comprehensive software and hardware troubleshooting support to end-users in the Consumer and Small Medium Business (CSMB) segment for Dell Technologies.

Highlights

Resolved a high volume of software and hardware issues for Consumer and Small Medium Business (CSMB) end-users, ensuring efficient problem resolution.

Delivered comprehensive technical support, enhancing user satisfaction and system performance through effective troubleshooting.

Managed diverse support requests, demonstrating strong problem-solving skills in a fast-paced technical support environment.

HSBC
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Customer Service Support Specialist

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Summary

Supported the technical enablement of Internet Banking during its transformation phase at HSBC, facilitating enhanced consumer adoption.

Accenture India
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Technical Support Specialist

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Summary

Delivered efficient offshore IT service desk support for Internet Service Provider (ISP) clients at Accenture India, enhancing customer satisfaction.

Education

Presidency College - Bangalore University
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bachelor of Business Management

BBA - Marketing Management And Research

Awards

High Achievement Michael Dell Award

Awarded By

Dell International Services

Recognized for exceptional performance and contributions to Dell International Services.

High Achievement Michael Dell Award

Awarded By

Dell International Services

Recognized for exceptional performance and contributions to Dell International Services.

Certificates

CompTIA A+
Certified Scrum Master
MS Azure Fundamentals - AZ-900
ITIL V3 Foundation
ITIL Service Transition
ITIL Service Strategy
ITIL Service Design
ITIL V4 Foundation

Skills

Business Acumen & Analytics

Revenue Growth, Analytical Thinking, Business Intelligence, Design thinking, Application Lifecycle Management.

Project & Program Management

Program Management, Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Certified Scrum Master, Strategic Planning, Implementation and Go-Live, Waterfall model, Kanban, Gantt Charts.

Operations & Service Management

Escalation Management, Problem Solving, Change Management, Operations & Governance, Process Automation, Business Transformation.

Technical Expertise

Software Development (HTML/PHP), Business Intelligence Tools, Virtualization Concepts, Cloud Computing, Storage Technologies, Networking Basics, Linux OS, Windows OS, SAP ERP, Agentic AI basics, Jira, Kanban Board, MS Project, Smartsheet..

Relationship Management

C-Suite Client Relations, Stakeholder Management, Client Onboarding, Service Delivery, Net Promoter Score (NPS) Improvement, Multilingual Client Communication, CRM Software Proficiency (Salesforce, Siebel), ITSM Proficiency (ServiceNow).