JOEL J. CARASO

*** ******** ******, ****,

Mandaluyong City 1550

Mobile : +63-998-*******

+63-947-*******

Tel. No.: +63 (2) 8 535-9157

+63 70004278

e-mail : ado2ap@r.postjobfree.com

ado2ap@r.postjobfree.com

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OBJECTIVE

Optimize/leverage management/leadership ability from an IT standpoint; to excel in the ever-expanding field of Information Technology to broaden my skills to keep myself capable of coping with the latest technology.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

C3/Everise

https://weareeverise.com/

Experience Enabler – Manager, Client Technology

December 10, 2020 – June 30, 2021

Responsible for proactively managing the IT relationship between clients and internal teams.

Lead clients by providing overall proactive management for all technical related issues by leveraging standardized procedures and best practices for support to resolve production issues quickly.

Will lead projects from conception through launch by managing client and internal stakeholder expectations around the solution, timelines, issues, risks, migration strategy and go-live support.

Develop and report upon key performance metrics that show valuable client and IT engagement statistics that help drive overall success for each client.

Create and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders within our customer organizations, including the IT Directors, CIO, and Line of Business leaders as well as technology professionals.

Build on client intimacy and become a reference / consultant for customers.

Will demonstrate a deep understanding of the market forces affecting our clients and offers insight into new ways of achieving objectives.

Must be a change agent by articulating the case for change and helping our clients evolve by leveraging IT differently for better business outcomes.

Is responsible for sustainable growth through routinely partnering with Services Sales and other Services personnel to strategize on ways to create new opportunities within the accounts they service.

Is responsible for the profitability of our services through portfolio management including contract consumption, contribution margin, operational expense management, and revenue growth, all in a manner consistent within Company legal, fiscal and personnel policies.

Occasionally leads sharing of best practices and guidance with team community.

Consistently establishes and maintains working relationships with internal support delivery teams, customer support teams, customer and materiel representatives.

Frequently establishes and maintains relationships with Field Sales and internal client lines of businesses.

Teleperformance – Asia Pacific Region

https://www.teleperformance.com/

Technical Account Manager

September 30, 2019 – October 16, 2020

Works directly with the Teleperformance client base and owns the overall IT relationship between the client's IT department and Teleperformance. In most cases these are Teleperformance's largest and most complex clients. The single point of contact and advocate for the client and their initiatives within Teleperformance APAC Region; Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Singapore and Japan.

Oversees all technical aspects of client and their projects, including technology health.

Gains a thorough understanding of the client's IT environment and initiatives.

Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of projects.

Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of client and their project.

Become familiar with and demonstrate a variety of contact center concepts, practices, technology, and procedures.

Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals and drive overall client satisfaction.

Leads and directs the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected when coordinating with the client and the different cross-functional teams within the organization.

Coordinates with the IT teams in order to provide timely delivery of project requirements as per client's request. Projects include new initiatives, new locations to provide service from, new technologies, and environment upgrades.

Ensures all Teleperformance policies and procedures are adhered to, including but not limited to: Security, HR, Operations, etc. Ensure exceptions or infractions are escalated to management appropriately.

To be accessible, approachable and responsive to client requests.

Holds regularly scheduled meetings for project review, open items, and task review.

Thrives as a team player in a fast-paced, high-energy, change-oriented environment.

Participates and addresses production affecting outages specific to assigned client.

Evaluates client projects and offers technical solutions to fill gaps and improve or enhance performance.

Assists with completing and updating technical documentation.

Assists in facilitating client and internal audits of the client's technical requirements. Concentrix Philippines, Inc.

https://www.concentrix.com

IT Service Delivery Manager

February 1, 2014 – April 7, 2017

IT Operations Manager/point of escalation; South Cluster Tower Leader – Hanston, CyberOne, Cyberwest, Nuvali and Naga.

People Manager of IT Site Managers for South Cluster/Domain, IT Incident Managers & TSE for Hanston Site.

Accomplishes call center human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; administering scheduling systems; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.

Determines call center operational strategies by conducting needs assessments, performance reviews, capacity planning, and cost/benefit analyses; identifying and evaluating state-of-the- art technologies; defining user requirements; establishing technical specifications, and production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; contributing information and analysis to organizational strategic plans and reviews.

Maintains and improves call center operations by monitoring system performance; identifying and resolving problems; preparing and completing action plans; completing system audits and analyses; managing system and process improvement and quality assurance programs; installing upgrades.

Attend regular IT and Site/Cluster Management Committee meeting in collaboration with IT/Production/Department Leaders to gather concerns, to present initiative and provide update on accomplishments from an IT standpoint.

Meets call center financial objectives by estimating requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.

Maintains professional and technical knowledge by tracking emerging trends in call center operations management; attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Prepares call center performance reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.

Develops call center systems by developing customer interaction and voice response systems, and voice networks; designing user interfaces; developing and executing user acceptance test plans; planning and controlling implementations.

Maintains equipment by evaluating and installing equipment; developing preventive maintenance programs; calling for repairs; evaluating and implementing upgrades.

Provide approval on Change Request for major/minor activity on have effect on Production’s Operations.

IBM Solutions Delivery, Inc.

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ph/en

Advisory Technical Services Manager

May 9, 2005 – January 31, 2014

IT Contact Center Technology Manager/point of escalation; CRM & NCRM – Voice Network standpoint; IT Voice Telephony Competency and Tower Leader.

People Manager of CCT/Voice Network Team for CRM (IBM Global Process Services) & NCRM (IBM Business Services), Telecoms Team for CRM; IT Shared Services.

Handle project on case-to-case basis for new account, migration and ramp-up for Voice Network perspective.

Oversee real time monitoring of all primary leased lines/backup lines to ensure functionality as well as monitoring of alarm on Telephony devices and act to resolve immediately during green/lean window of affected device.

Ensure daily system checklist is performed by the Team accordingly; for all Voice Network equipment/devices such as PBX and Adjunct Systems utilized by Operations/Production.

Accomplishes call center human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; administering scheduling systems; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.

Coordinate with various IBM vendor/Principal Vendor with regards to opening of ticket and support update.

Provide approval on Change Request for major and minor activity on Telephony devices which have effect on client setup.

Attend regular IT Management Committee meeting for IBM GPS and ISD in collaboration with IT Leaders to gather concerns, to present initiative and provide update on accomplishments for Voice Network/Telephony perspective.

ESS Manufacturing Company, Inc. (EMCI)

http://www.innodata-isogen.com

41/F & 42/F floor PBCom Tower

6795 Ayala Avenue, corner Hererra St.,

Salcedo Village, Makati City 1226

Network Engineer/Data Communications Administrator Systems Section – Telecoms Group

Global Technology Department

September 1, 2003 – May 2, 2005

Real time monitoring of all primary leased lines/backup lines.

Coordinate with Telcos to resolve leased line problems.

Configuration, maintenance & monitoring of local and remote Cisco Routers.

Prioritization of traffic and bandwidth utilization monitoring.

Filter unnecessary/unauthorized connections.

Administer RAS, VPN & backup ISDN DDR.

Maintain Network equipment.

Installation of local extensions.

Data Transmission Telecoms Assistant

Systems Section – Data Transmission Group

Global Technology Department

September 9, 2002 – August 31, 2003

Facilitate all data transmissions between overseas clients and the company via modem, E-mail, and File Transfer Protocol, Internet and LAN/WAN.

Maintain and administer of all transmission servers by monitoring all users and giving the necessary rights and privileges to persons accessing the servers.

Back-up and long-term archiving of all files received and transmitted to and from the client.

Coordinate and assist the client's technical personnel in troubleshooting data transmission problems and modifications.

Monitor leased line traffic, bandwidth use and allocation.

Coordinate the effective utilization of data transmission resources and systems to provide high quality customer service.

Innodata Philippines, Inc.

Jr. Systems Engineer

June 16, 2000 – September 6, 2002

http://www.innodata.com

2900 Faraday St., corner South

Superhighway, Makati City 1200

Provide first line of support – using basic troubleshooting skills for phone calls and network monitoring pages.

Operate internal help desk supporting end-user both for Innodata facilities and eventually other facilities as well.

Act as a Network Engineer to standardize LAN/WAN setup of Innodata networks.

Maintain network and support more than 100 servers interconnected with more than 2000 workstations running in multiple operating systems (Windows NT/2000, Novell Netware).

Troubleshoot technical problems over the phone (Network/PC/Telecoms problems) or gather all information necessary for quick problem overview/resolution by the correct System's support sub-groups.

Monitor Wide Area Network (WAN) interconnections from all other facilities linking to Manila & to New Jersey (Inno_Central).

Provide technical assistance to user of other organizational units regarding hardware/application software setup & configuration

Sky Internet

Customer Technical Support

January 14, 2000 – June 14, 2000

http://www.skyinet.net

1670 Lower Ground Victoria I Bldg.,

Quezon Avenue, Quezon City

Provide technical support for Internet users as well as quality support with a high degree of technical expertise, customer service and timeliness.

Install, configure, upgrade and troubleshoot computer hardware, software and programs, installs Windows 9x/2000 operating systems and other programs for Internet applications.

Responsible for all Internet related inquiries/ problems which includes configurations of communications/dialer, software such as browsers, E-mail programs, chat, FTP, compression utility, anti-virus & plug-ins.

Troubleshoot common errors for the following operating system such as Windows 9x/2000/NT, Mac OS, Red Hat Linux.

Research, resolve and respond to questions received via telephone calls, E-mail and call back in a timely manner, in accordance with current standards.

Provide Bench work and Onsite services to subscribers. Earth Gate Information Services, Inc.

Technical Support Engineer

March 9, 1999 – February 1, 2000

http://www.egis.net

Suite 302 OMM-Citra Building,

San Miguel Ave., Ortigas Center

Pasig City 1600

Provide technical support for Internet users as well as quality support with a high degree of technical expertise, customer service and timeliness.

Responsible for all Internet related inquiries/ problems which includes configurations of communications/dialer, software such as browsers, E-mail programs, chat, FTP, compression utility, anti-virus & plug-ins.

Troubleshoot common errors for the following operating system such as Windows 9x/2000/NT, Mac OS, Red Hat Linux.

Create and maintain User accounts.

Provide accurate and creative solutions to network problems to ensure network reliability.

Research, resolve and respond to questions received via telephone calls, E-mail and call back in a timely manner, in accordance with current standards. SPI Technologies, Inc.

Document Analyst

January 26, 1998 – August 3, 1998

http://www.spitech.com

SPI Bldg., Pascor Drive, Sto. Niño,

Parañaque City 1700

Apply superior interpretative skills, analyze documents from lawsuits involving anti-trust, environmental, insurance, patent infringements, Y2K expenditures, pharmaceuticals, product liability, financial issues among others. Conversion of evidence related documents into a searchable CD-ROM format for corporations involved in major litigation.

Analyze legal documents into a computer readable form.

Code the documents, scan and tag files.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Electronics & Communications Engineering (BSECE). University of the East – Caloocan City, Philippines. College of Engineering

1992 – 1997

PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT LICENSURE EXAM

Passed the Electronics & Communications Engineer Board Examination PRC License No.: ECE 16590

April 21 – 22, 1998

ORGANIZATON

IECEP – Institute of Electronics & Communications Engineers of the Philippines JCI – Junior Chamber International Philippines, Jaycees Mandaluyong IEEE – Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers of the Philippines AWARD & RECOGNITION

IBM Top Talent Awardee – 2011

IBM IT Gem Awardee – 2011

CERTIFICATION

CPISI – Certified Payment Card Industry Security Implementer; PCI DSS ACIS – Avaya Certified Implementation Specialist

ITIL v3 Foundation – Information Technology Infrastructure Library Six Sigma Yellow Belt

SEMINARS & TRAININGS ATTEND

PCI DSS Training

SISA Information Security

Concentrix Philippines, Inc.

Basic Occupational Safety & Health (BOSH) Course

Coshemap Academy of Safety & Technology

March 14 – 18, 2016

7 habits of highly effective people

Critical Thinking

Six Sigma Training

IBM Business Process Services

ITIL v3 Foundation Training

IBM Solutions Delivery

Verint System Administration Training

Verint Headquarter Hong Kong

IP Telephony Training

Teledata Philippines Inc., October 2010

Prognosis Training

IBM GPS, May 2011

Cisco IPT Training

IBM GPS, June 2011

Avaya CMS and AES Training

DTSI Office, December 2014

Avaya CM and AES Training

DTSI Office, December 2011

LINUX 101 - Systems Administration & Network Management Q Linux Labs Open Source Proficiency Center

December 3 –7, 2001

LINUX 101 - Basic Linux Installation & Configuration Q Linux Labs Open Source Proficiency Center

September 10 –14, 2001

RS/6000 Magic of UNIX

IBM Philippines, Inc. – EDSA Shangri-La Hotel

October 21, 1999

Computer Systems Training

AREN Computer Services

July – August 1998

SKILLS

HARDWARE

PBX; Avaya/Cisco

Router; Cisco Router

Switches; Cisco, 3Com

Processor; Intel based platform

OPERATING SYSTEM Windows Platform, Red Hat Linux, Novell Netware, Sun OS, Android OS MONITORING TOOLS MRTG, IPSentry, What’s-up, HP OpenView, Prognosis, SolarWind PERSONAL INFORMATION

Nick Name : JO

Sex : Male

Date of Birth : 21st December 1975

Place of Birth : Mandaluyong City

Marital Status : Single

Height : 5 ft. 7 in.

Weight : 154 lbs.

Religion : Roman Catholic

*References are available upon request.

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