Director | CX, Customer Success, Service Delivery, Reliability & Global Operations | ITSM
I turn customer experience, service delivery, service reliability, and global operations into business impact and growth.
Director-level leader with 18+ years of progression from hands-on technical operations into customer experience, customer success, service delivery, service reliability, support engineering, global service delivery and operations, and ITIL service management leadership across IT, OTT, SaaS, SOC, broadcast, and mission-critical environments. I have led distributed teams of 15+ members across customer support, technical support, support engineering, service management, and software engineering while improving customer trust, renewal confidence, executive communication, and operational performance.
When operational discipline, transformation, data insight, and customer focus work as one system, trust and business outcomes improve.
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L1-L3SLAUptime
Operational Excellence
Built and scaled L1-L3 support, service desk, technical operations, support engineering, IT support, NOC, SOC-aligned, and service delivery functions while improving SLA discipline, ticket flow, incident flow, and service continuity.
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AIRCARelease
Transformation & AI Workflows
Shifted support, service desk, and support engineering operations from reactive issue handling toward proactive, governed, and measurable service improvement through observability, automation, AI-assisted workflows, RCA, problem management, runbooks, change governance, and release readiness.
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KPIMTTRInsight
Data & Executive Insight
Delivered KPI dashboards, custom reporting, SLA tracking, ticket analytics, FCR, MTTR, CSAT/NPS, backlog health, customer health insights, executive reporting, and decision support that helped customer success, support, service delivery, and engineering teams strengthen retention, renewal confidence, service performance, and revenue opportunities.
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CSATRenewalGrowth
Customer & Revenue Impact
Strengthened customer satisfaction, customer success, onboarding, adoption, renewal confidence, expansion support, executive service reviews, and regional engagement across global enterprise accounts.
Tier 1-3 environments across APAC, EMEA, LatAm, and NAM
Market PositionCustomer + Operations + Business Impact
Bridging technical teams, support engineering, customer-facing teams, and executive priorities
Executive Capability Map
One operating profile across CX, customer success, service delivery, service reliability, support engineering, transformation, technical leadership, and ITSM.
Grounded in 18+ years of progression from hands-on engineering into global support, service delivery, support engineering, customer success, reliability leadership, global service delivery, ITIL operations, and ITSM governance.
Supports renewal confidence, customer health, and long-term value
Bridges sales, customer success, delivery, and support
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Service Reliability & Support Engineering
24/7SREITSM
Leads global service reliability across 24/7 service, service desk, technical support, and support engineering operations, including ITIL/ITSM, SLA governance, ticket lifecycle, queue health, first-contact resolution, major incident management, escalation ownership, RCA, observability, SRE collaboration, and change/release leadership.
Operating value
Improves visibility, ownership, and service continuity
Reduces repeat issues through structured problem management
Keeps customers and executives aligned during incidents and outages
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Operational Transformation
AutomationKPIScale
Improves scale through operating model design, automation, human-in-the-loop workflows, KPI governance, knowledge maturity, training paths, service desk maturity, ITSM/CRM tooling, project delivery, and cost discipline.
Transformation value
Moves support from reactive handling to proactive operations
Creates measurable performance rhythms
Develops process, tooling, playbooks, and team maturity together
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Hands-on Technical Foundation
SOCNOCCloud
Brings credibility from support engineering, SOC/NOC operations, broadcast master control room operations, networking, infrastructure, cloud operations, Jira Service Management, Salesforce, observability tooling, compliance-aware operations, documentation, and troubleshooting.
Leadership value
Understands both the technical detail and customer impact
Translates clearly between engineers and business leaders
Coaches teams with practical operating context
Transformation Portfolio
Programs that connect customer trust, service delivery, operating discipline, and measurable service improvement.
Representative leadership work showing how customer retention, CX improvement, service delivery maturity, service desk maturity, support engineering maturity, service visibility, and global governance were turned into practical operating programs.
ReviewDesignLaunchMeasureImprove
CX Review
CX, Support & Service Operations Review
Reviewed end-to-end support, service desk, and support engineering operations, including escalation paths, handover quality, queue health, knowledge maturity, ticket flow, engineering collaboration, and customer communication flow.
Service Model
First-Line Support & Service Desk Model
Created a First-Line Support Offering and service desk model covering ticket intake, triage, operating processes, queue ownership, training paths, escalation rules, knowledge practices, and governance.
Governance
ITSM Governance & Service Desk Maturity
Strengthened incident, request, problem, change, knowledge, SLA, and escalation processes to improve operational discipline, service visibility, audit readiness, and consistent service delivery.
Release Readiness
Change, Release & Production Readiness
Strengthened production change visibility, release readiness, deployment coordination, regression monitoring, rollback ownership, and cross-functional handoffs to reduce operational risk and improve support preparedness.
Dashboards
Observability, Dashboards & SLA Tracking
Improved alerting, monitoring, data capture, ticket analytics, SLA dashboards, executive reporting, incident metrics, availability visibility, and service performance tracking. Led an incident reduction program by analyzing a year of incidents, summarizing root causes, resolutions, and preventive measures to reduce repeat issues.
AI Support
AI-Assisted Investigation & Resolution
Drove AI-enabled support initiatives and AI-assisted workflows with support engineering to reduce investigation effort, improve resolution speed, strengthen knowledge reuse, and move teams toward proactive operations.
Retention
Customer Retention & Service Standards
Strengthened service standards, executive customer governance, renewal support, customer health visibility, global and customer-specific outage readiness, incident communication, churn reduction efforts, and satisfaction programs tied to retention, renewal, and upsell confidence.
Regional Growth
North America Growth Enablement
Relocated from Hong Kong to Canada in January 2020 at the company's request to strengthen regional customer presence, service standards, retention confidence, satisfaction, and business growth support.
Leadership Approach
Customer-facing, support, and technical teams perform best when ownership, communication, and product feedback stay connected.
I started in technical and operational roles across broadcast and telecommunications, moved into networking and security operations, then grew into OTT software, SaaS, IT service management, support engineering, service delivery, and global leadership. That progression reflects the way I work: learn quickly, adapt across industries, and create structure, trust, and measurable improvement in complex environments.
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Calm Under Pressure
I bring structure, ownership, and transparent communication into high-impact incidents so customers, executives, engineering, and vendors stay aligned.
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Proactive by Design
I look for ways to reduce repeat issues through knowledge systems, self-service, customer health signals, structured learning, and stronger product feedback loops.
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People Development
I build support cultures where engineers and service leaders feel trusted, coached, trained, accountable, and supported in their personal and professional growth.
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Growth-Minded Operations
I adapt quickly across regions, industries, and operating models, bringing structure, customer focus, and measurable improvement into new environments.
Experience
From hands-on technical operations to director-level customer, service delivery, support engineering, and operations transformation.
Global Operations Transformation|Accedo, Toronto, Canada
OTT streaming, SaaS platforms, support engineering, SRE, observability & release governance
Led global operations transformation across service reliability, support engineering, observability, automation, AI-assisted workflows, SLA dashboards, incident/change/release readiness, outage planning, executive service reporting, and ITSM governance.
24/7 enterprise support, service desk, support engineering, customer success, service delivery & lifecycle management
Owned global 24/7 support, service delivery, support engineering, and service desk operations across customer lifecycle management, SLA governance, ticket intake, triage, queue management, escalation handling, operational continuity, executive reporting, renewals partnership, and service performance improvement.
ITIL/ITSM, production support, multi-vendor operations & platform reliability
Managed ITIL-based 24/7 support operations, incident response, support engineering collaboration, ticket lifecycle performance, SLA dashboards, multi-vendor coordination, queue health, escalation control, workforce planning, and platform reliability improvements.
Operations Manager
Service Management|Accedo, Hong Kong SAR & Toronto, Canada
Regional service delivery, escalation ownership & follow-the-sun operations
Served as Operations Manager and Team Manager across APAC, EMEA & LatAm, and NAM, strengthening regional service delivery, escalation ownership, team coordination, customer governance, and operational alignment before relocating from Hong Kong to Canada in January 2020.
Support engineering, Tier 1 OTT customers, incident response & service governance
Progressed from Customer Support Engineer to Senior Support Engineer and Service Manager, supporting global OTT customers, Tier 1 service delivery, incident response, escalations, troubleshooting, documentation, and customer-facing service governance.
System Engineer II
Security Operations Center|DMX Technologies (Member of KDDI Group), Hong Kong SAR
Enterprise ICT, network security, infrastructure & data center support
Supported ISO 27001-certified SOC operations, customer deployments, field support, enterprise infrastructure troubleshooting, network security and management solutions, documentation, and escalation coordination for telecom, media, and enterprise customers.
Assistant Network Operations Engineer
Master Control Room|Globecast (Subsidiary of Orange S.A.), Hong Kong SAR
Broadcasting, telecommunications, satellite/RF transmission & media distribution
Operated 24/7 Master Control Room environments, monitored satellite uplink/downlink, RF transmission, contribution/distribution feeds, and broadcast service continuity for television and media customers.
Market Trust
Trusted across global IT, digital, support, and enterprise environments where stability, escalation control, and customer confidence matter.
Instead of naming confidential customers, this section summarizes the scale, industries, and operating environments where the work was delivered. Public company references are limited to employers and recommendation affiliations already visible through public websites or LinkedIn.
Global Enterprise Coverage
Experience across APAC, EMEA, LatAm, and North America supporting Tier 1 to Tier 3 enterprise customers, regional launches, service handovers, and executive escalations.
APACEMEA & LatAmNorth America
Industry Breadth
Work across high-availability IT, digital, support, service delivery, and enterprise environments where reliability, ticket flow, customer communication, operational readiness, and service continuity are critical.
Operating experience across software, service, infrastructure, and support ecosystems where technical depth and customer-facing ownership must work together.
OTT StreamingSaaSManaged ServicesSOC / NOCDigital ProductsSupport Engineering
LinkedIn Recommendations
Voices of trust, leadership, and cross-functional partnership.
Real endorsements from team members, direct reports, senior leaders, customers, sales partners, delivery leaders, engineering colleagues, and cross-functional stakeholders.
40+credible LinkedIn recommendations validating impact across people, customers, operations, and delivery
People LeadershipCoaching, growth, accountability, team trust, and high-performing support culture
Executive ConfidenceOperating maturity, executive communication, ownership, and business alignment
Technical credibility with executive operating range.
BSc (First Class Honours), Computer Networks - Middlesex UniversityFour-year pathway with prior BSc Computing & Information Technology study through the University of London curriculum
Cisco CCNA Routing & Switching
Accedo Employee Action Award (Aspiration)
Executive recognition as a key contributor for high-impact delivery and business contribution
Community investment leadership as Director / General Secretary and President for a 38-member community-led investment group, supporting governance, member coordination, long-term planning, and CAD 500K+ built for the first phase of collective investment
Continuous learning in Claude, AI tools, PMP, and CISSP-aligned leadership and governance practices
Academic Excellence & Leadership Recognition
Languages: English, Hindi, Nepali
Open to the Next Chapter
Ready to lead customer experience, service delivery, service reliability, support engineering, global operations, and ITSM through the next stage of growth.
Based in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, Canada and ready to help teams improve service performance, customer confidence, operational clarity, and ITSM maturity. For privacy, the full CV and direct phone contact are shared after an initial LinkedIn conversation.
Aligned opportunitiesOpen to senior, director-level, and adjacent leadership opportunities that align with my experience across Customer Experience, Customer Success, Global Operations, IT Operations, IT Service Management, Service Desk, Service Delivery, Support Engineering, Technical Support, Support Center / Contact Center / Call Center Operations, Incident & Change/Release Leadership, Support Transformation, and 24/7 Enterprise Operations. I am flexible on title where the scope, impact, and leadership fit are strong.
LocationGreater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, Canada, with global operating experience across APAC, EMEA, LatAm, and NAM.
ReferencesProfessional references are available upon request, with additional recommendations and endorsements visible on LinkedIn.
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