Ankur Gaur

Ankur Gaur

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  • About me

    Senior Project Manager @ Govt. of New Brunswick | PMP, ITIL, CCNP

  • Education

    • Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

      2002 - 2006
      Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management IT Systems & Operational Management
    • Chaudhary Charan Singh University

      1999 - 2002
      Bachelor of Computer Application Networks,Database Mgmt, Systems

      Activities and Societies: • An Active Member of College Cultural Committee.

  • Experience

    • CJ Online Private Limited

      Jul 2003 - Aug 2004
      Network Engineer

      Responsibilities:# Understands the issues involved with administering and maintaining client infrastructure, including network connectivity, Internet access, email, etc. # Responsible for incident response, both proactively and reactively, as a result of network, system, or service anomalies. Supports and, at times, independently manages the fault isolation and resolution process# Maintains trouble tickets according to established guidelines, standards, and procedures. Ensures all content accurately reflects all incident response efforts. Show less

    • Bharti Airtel Limited

      Sept 2004 - Oct 2006
      Senior Officer-Fault Repair

      # Responsible for ensuring team focuses on exceeding targets whilst adhering to strict quality/compliance guidelines. # To provide 2nd level support for the team offering advice and guidance, escalating issues to the management team as appropriate.# Leading a team of engineers and technicians in a target driven/customer focused environment.# To manage, motivate and develop the team members to ensure that their performance meets current and future business needs.# To work with the team to ensure customer opportunities are maximized and ensuring customer service standards and fault rate are maintained. Show less

    • Orange Business Services

      Oct 2006 - Apr 2008
      Technical Specialist L-2

      - Ensure all faults/inquiries are processed and resolved or sent to appropriate next level agency in a speedy and effective manner.- Identifying the problem and coordinating with different entities to resolve the problem within the strict SLA for the link being the part of Escalations as per SLA commitments.- Implementation of the required strategies to ensure ongoing high levels of Customer Satisfaction through regular reviews, defined ownership and continuous service improvement.- Proactively identify issues that affect the team performance/operation and raise with appropriate entities and line manager for solution.- Represent the GCSC at required customer meetings and service reviews.- To proactively / reactively monitor the links of customers and get the issues resolved for data circuits Like ATM/ FR and IPVPN Links of Asia Pacific & Western Europe Region. Show less

    • British American Tobacco

      Apr 2008 - Mar 2010
      Assistant Manager - Telecomms

      - Supervision of GSD Global Service Desk and ensuring that established Service Levels are maintained against pre-determined KPI’s- Solution Provider to the BAT End markets for WAN, proposing optimization solutions for business critical infrastructure.- Point of Escalation for WAN (IP VPN/IP Sec) Incidents.- Business Continuity , Incidents and problem management - Use to manage IPVPN /IPSec Networks along with service management involving extensive vendor and third parties interactions- Coordination with different entities/Vendors to resolve the problem within the strict SLA .- Perform Root Cause Analysis for Service Interruption, creating preventative measures to deploy in the enterprise.- IPVPN/ IPSec Network Management “Managed” Services Management. Show less

    • AT&T

      Jan 2010 - Jul 2017

      *Project Management - Accountable for project planning to closure in relation to Service Improvement related projects for the leading Energy Supplier. Create Infrastructure project plans with the help of both co-located and remote stakeholders. Advises, intervenes and brings an organizational approach to the application of knowledge, skills, tools, techniques and technical expertise to project activities to meet or exceed stakeholders needs and expectations from a project. Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management for our PMO*Client Management - Communicates formally and informally to organization leadership, project teams and client/customer groups.Build client relationship and establish thorough understanding of clients Infrastructure and business environment.Establishes and manages critical contractual relationships with customers and/or external vendors.* People Management - Securing Resources for Project and managing those resources to produce viable output and ensuring successful delivery of Project.Clearly communicates technical goals, responsibilities, risks and status to team members and stakeholders. Show less RESPONSIBILITIES:* Client Management - Manage the delivery of services to meet the clients contracted services requirements. Responsible for the overall customer satisfaction for the services provided by the Network Operations Center. Build client relationship and establish thorough understanding of clients network and business environment. Be the escalation point for client and the Network Operations Center for network management related matters and issues.* Technical Support - Provide technical support in the resolution of network faults. Performed analysis and proposed technical solutions to overcome chronic faults and to meet customer requirements.* Service Level and Reporting - Responsible for achieving the service level targets for the clients for services provided by Global Customer Service Center teams. Be the lead person in developing and providing reports.* Process Development and Improvement - Identify and act upon improvement areas for network management processes. Gather and provide accurate customer information to the network operations team. Responsible for the development and implementation of processes interfacing with clients and other units.* People Management - Close interaction with Global Customer Service Center teams to improve the services. Conduct training sessions for the GCSC teams to improve overall process efficiency and to improve individual performances. Show less

      • Project Manager

        Jun 2013 - Jul 2017
      • Global Service Assurance Manager

        Jan 2010 - May 2013
    • IBM

      Jun 2018 - Sept 2019
      Project Manager
    • Irving Oil

      Sept 2019 - Mar 2021
      IT Project Manager
    • Government of New Brunswick / Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick

      Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
      Project Manager
    • Service New Brunswick / Service Nouveau-Brunswick

      Dec 2024 - now
      Senior Project Manager
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

      Cisco
    • IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - Foundation

      EXIN
    • Project Management Professional (PMP)

      Project Management Institute
    • (ISC)2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) Cert Prep

      LinkedIn
      Apr 2023
      View certificate certificate
    • Client Needs and Software Requirements

      Coursera
      May 2017
      View certificate certificate
    • Software Processes and Agile Practices

      Coursera
      May 2017
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    • Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

      ISC2
      Jan 2024
      View certificate certificate
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Ankur Gaur
      Certificate of Significant Achievement AT&T Feb 2017 Awarded in recognition of delivering significant Service Quality Initiatives for leading Energy Customer.
    • Awarded to Ankur Gaur
      Certificate of Effortless Customer Experience AT&T Oct 2015 In recognition of driving operational process and service improvement initiatives for Customer SHELL.
    • Awarded to Ankur Gaur
      Certificate of Recognition Royal Dutch Shell Oct 2014 For playing a critical role in identifying and driving service improvements across the SHELL landscape.
    • Awarded to Ankur Gaur
      Service Hero Recognition for AT&T Cyberjaya Centre AT&T Communications Mar 2011
    • Awarded to Ankur Gaur
      Certificate of Excellence Bharti Airtel Sep 2006