Harshit Kishnani
@harshitkishnani
I lead major incident recovery and stabilize enterprise IT services.
What I'm looking for
At Cisco India Managed Services, I lead major incident, problem management, and service delivery across global enterprise infrastructure. I improved uptime to 99.99% across 6,500+ VMs, reduced P1 resolution time from four hours to under 90 minutes, and maintained 18 consecutive months of green SLA scorecards.
I've built my operations background through Cisco, Citrix, and Convergys, supporting Cisco ACI, VDI, VMware, Citrix, NetApp, Active Directory, and data centre environments. I bring structured RCA, escalation leadership, and 24x7 NOC operations experience to restore critical services quickly and prevent repeat incidents.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
As a Consulting Engineer – Technical Leader at Cisco India Managed Services, I have worked across enterprise managed-services environments, supporting global customers in areas such as service delivery, incident management, problem management, data centre operations, NOC operations, infrastructure stability, virtualization support, and customer-facing technical leadership.
My role has involved man
Operations Lead at Cisco
Operations Lead at Cisco.
Operations Lead at Cisco
Growth Path: Service Delivery Management, Major Incident Management, Problem Management & Root Cause Analysis (RCA), IT Service Management (ITSM), SLA & KPI Governance, Escalation Management, Critical Incident Resolution (P1/P2), NOC Operations Leadership, Operational Governance & Service Assurance, Continuous Service Improvement (CSI), Stakeholder & Client Management, Team Leadership & Cross-Func
As part of EUC team, I'm responsible for handling and guiding changes in existing VDI environment.
Suggesting changes in design/upgrade of VDI solutions.
Act as senior point of escalation for VDI issues.
Technical Support Engineer (XenApp & XenDesktop)
Jan 2012 - Jun 2014 (2 years 5 months)
Worked as a Level 2 Engineer supporting VDI implementations, incident resolution, virtualization support, and customer-facing technical troubleshooting across Citrix XenDesktop and XenServer environments.
Key Contributions
-> Delivered 30+ XenDesktop and XenServer VDI implementations across client environments with zero missed SLA targets.
-> Resolved 200+ VDI incidents over two years while maint
Delivered 30+ enterprise VDI implementations while maintaining zero missed SLA commitments. Resolved 200+ complex VDI incidents and achieved a personal customer satisfaction rating of 4.7/5. Reduced recurring XenServer-related incidents by 35% through development of a centralized known-error knowledge repository.
Technical Support Engineer (Windows Support team) Microsoft EPS
Oct 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 2 months)
Managed enterprise Active Directory incident queues for a 10,000+ user environment, supporting directory services, incident resolution, SLA adherence, and infrastructure stability.
Key Contributions
Managed Active Directory incident queues for a 10,000+ user enterprise environment.
Ensured 95% of incidents were closed within defined SLA timelines.
Reduced Active Directory replication failure incid
Managed Active Directory operations for a 10,000+ user enterprise environment, achieving 95% SLA compliance. Reduced replication-related incidents by 40% through identification and resolution of enterprise-wide configuration issues.
Junior System Administrator
Jul 2008 - Oct 2009 (1 year 3 months)
Performing Authoritative and Non-Authoritative restore of a System State to a Windows 2000/ 2003/ 2008 based domain Cont roller / Disaster recovery
Creating&managing User Profiles,Managing Resources using Active Director y,Folder Redirect ion
Deployment and Maintenance of Local,Terminal Service Roaming Profiles& Roaming Profiles
Troubleshooting Account Lockout s issue.
Junior System Administrator
Arihant Tiles & Marbles Pvt. Ltd.
Jul 2008 - Oct 2009 (1 year 3 months)
Performed system state restores, managed user profiles and Active Directory resources, and troubleshot account lockout issues.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics &Telecommunication
Bachelor of Technology
Pune University
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics & Telecommunication
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Telecommunication.
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