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Ashish Sharma

Ashish Sharma

Principal Consultant
Cape Town

Summary

Dedicated Business & Technical Consultant adept at cultivating long-term partnerships with lucrative clients, across multiple geographies. Knowledgeable in RPA, Chatbots, Big data and cognitive automation platforms. Successful career history comprising more than 19 years.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Program Manager

Tech Mahindra
Cape Town
09.2019 - Current
  • Set up a team from ground up, starting with 2 Software engineers in South Africa to 40+ team members. This team is spread across SA, India, New Zealand & Europe. I have successfully managed projects across all these geographies and grown the TechM footprint across these geos.
  • Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams. Delivered over 50+ automation use cases, bringing ~3 Million USD of revenue for TechM and ROI of +10 million for the clients

Director of Operations

Call Center International
Durban
08.2017 - 08.2019
  • Grew the US campaigns for this contact center, taking a small 40 seats pilot to 900 agents strong team. This was done over 12 months and with immaculate planning and co-ordination.
  • Achieved team goals through formalized training plans, coaching, performance management & simplifying processes through automation.
  • Monitored budget and utilized operational resources.

Cluster Lead

Maersk Global Service Centres
Pune
07.2015 - 08.2015
  • Created a CoE for analytics & insights for the Pune center. This involved assisting back office teams (400+ agents) across all geographies (Africa, Asia, middle east, Australia and India) to perform at optimum level, through data insights.
  • Integrated technology milestones into overall project plan, by successfully implementing Verint's desktop monitoring tool in 6 months and improving productivity by 30%.

Operations Manager

Tech Mahindra Business Services
Mumbai
04.2010 - 07.2015
  • Advanced productivity KPIs to achieve key business goals and objectives, directly managing a large team of 200+ BPO agents across Mumbai & Pune.
  • Led improvement initiatives to advance operational efficiencies and increase revenue. In 2013 i was a part of 4 member steerco, that saved ~15 million GBP of wastage in bill waivers by the billing team.

Team Leader

Tech Mahindra Business Services
Mumbai
10.2006 - 03.2010
  • Mentored and guided 20+ employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
  • Worked on multiple projects to improve productivity and commercial performance of the organization.

Customer Service Associate

TechM & Netvanatge
07.2003 - 09.2006
  • Maintained customer satisfaction with forward-thinking strategies focused on addressing customer needs and resolving concerns.
  • Provided primary customer support to internal and external customers.


Education

Bachelors of Commerce - Commerce

Mumbai University
Mumbai
06.2009 - 03.2012

Skills

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Software

UiPath

Automation Anywhere

Python

Jira

Data Analysis

Certification

Agile Scrum Master

Timeline

Program Manager

Tech Mahindra
09.2019 - Current

Using Data bases with Python

07-2019

Agile Scrum Master

06-2019

Blockchain basics

05-2019

Director of Operations

Call Center International
08.2017 - 08.2019

Cluster Lead

Maersk Global Service Centres
07.2015 - 08.2015

Operations Manager

Tech Mahindra Business Services
04.2010 - 07.2015

Bachelors of Commerce - Commerce

Mumbai University
06.2009 - 03.2012

Team Leader

Tech Mahindra Business Services
10.2006 - 03.2010

Customer Service Associate

TechM & Netvanatge
07.2003 - 09.2006
Ashish SharmaPrincipal Consultant