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Mihaela Vologa

Team Leader Service Desk
Bucharest
Mihaela Vologa

Summary

Dynamic and results-driven professional with a strong passion for technology and people management. Proven track record in successfully managing multiple projects while maintaining keen attention to detail under tight deadlines. Adaptability and flexibility serve as key strengths, enabling effective engagement with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. Dedicated and hardworking, consistently willing to go the extra mile to achieve goals and drive success in any endeavor.

Overview

14
years of professional experience
4
Languages

Work History

Ericsson

Team Leader Service Desk
03.2024 - Current

Job overview

• Led and coached a 20-member Service Desk team, ensuring 24/7 high-quality customer support and full compliance with SLAs.
• Monitored performance KPIs through dashboards, analyzed trends, and implemented targeted improvement programs to enhance operational efficiency and service quality.
• Maintained ongoing communication with the Managed Services Chief Operating Officer and the MSDM regarding team performance, development, and strategic improvements.
• Collaborated closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to track and implement automation initiatives improving productivity and ticket handling speed.
• Organized monthly shift schedules (ROTA) to ensure optimal coverage for round-the-clock support operations.
• Conducted regular 1:1 coaching sessions and weekly team meetings, fostering open communication, accountability, and continuous professional growth.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to align service delivery with business objectives and customer expectations.

Ericsson

Video Systems Engineer
04.2021 - 02.2024

Job overview

• Perform configurations and troubleshooting on various STB components;
• Provide expertise in the analysis of major incident root cause and follow up with vendors and other Corporate teams as needed;
• Investigate and communicate outage impact to service (duty / incident) managers. Drive investigation and resolution efforts for critical incidents where multiple parties are involved;
• Support and manage architecture (Linux and Windows Based) for Video services;
• Troubleshoot and identify software bugs, perform root cause analysis on performance issues as needed;
• Provide feedback to the T&I teams (Technology, Product, IT ) concerning the performance and capacity of the interactive platform in production;
• Work closely with the NOC department and NMS team to set the requirements for alarm management;
• Provide knowledge transfer;
• Provide handover documentation;

Competences:
Video systems: Transcoders, Packagers, Media Delivery, VSPP/Fabrix;
OTT delivery protocols: HLS, Dash, HSS;
Monitoring services: Dynatrace, Extrahop, Kibana, Grafana, Zipkin, Icinga, Spectrum
Tools: Swagger, Postman, Jira, Remedy, DDS, Observer,
Experience with STB delivery platforms.

• Perform configurations and troubleshooting on various STB components;
• Provide expertise in the analysis of major incident root cause and follow up with vendors and other Corporate teams as needed;
• Investigate and communicate outage impact to service (duty / incident) managers. Drive investigation and resolution efforts for critical incidents where multiple parties are involved;
• Support and manage architecture (Linux and Windows Based) for Video services;
• Troubleshoot and identify software bugs, perform root cause analysis on performance issues as needed;
• Provide feedback to the T&I teams (Technology, Product, IT ) concerning the performance and capacity of the interactive platform in production;
• Work closely with the NOC department and NMS team to set the requirements for alarm management;
• Provide knowledge transfer;
• Provide handover documentation; Competences: Video systems: Transcoders, Packagers, Media Delivery, VSPP/Fabrix; OTT delivery protocols: HLS, Dash, HSS; Monitoring services: Dynatrace, Extrahop, Kibana, Grafana, Zipkin, Icinga, Spectrum Tools: Swagger, Postman, Jira, Remedy, DDS, Observer, Experience with STB delivery platforms.

Ericsson

Broadcast IT Engineer
09.2019 - 03.2021

Job overview

▪ Support for OTT and DTV services in multiple countries using specific tools (ticketing and infrastructure monitoring) and processes (incident management, change management, problem management, event management);
▪ Responsible for the coordination, support, management and execution of reactive maintenance activities to ensure that services provided to customers are continuously available and performing to Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance level;
▪ Monitoring of IT Infrastructure and Video Services;
▪ Follow internal incident, change and release management processes;
▪ Investigate troubleshoot and fix problems on relevant systems;
▪ Investigate incidents where technical domain relevancy and ownership is unclear, localize issue and either fix or assign to relevant technical domain owner for fix;
▪ Coordinate with vendor partners in the resolution of tickets providing traces, logs;
▪ Creation of incidents on alert, and logging of incidents. Create and distribute tasks to relevant support entities;
▪ Creating Problem tickets based on recurring incidents and add information as required;
▪ Ownership of incidents until fix, with follow up duties, and taking responsibility for e2e resolution of incidents, coordinating the fix with others teams;
▪ Provide expertise in analysis of major incident root cause and follow up with other Corporate teams as needed;
▪ Adhere to Service and Operational Level Agreements. Working towards targets set by Performance Management;
▪ Perform Change Management and Problem Management tasks relevant to the Central Service Desk including monitoring coordination for patches, and implementation approval of Change;
▪ Time to respond and time to fix incidents and trouble tickets, defined within the Service Level Agreement defined for a specific priority of service impact.

CSM Bucuresti/Romanian Volleyball Federation

Scoutman / Data Analyst
11.2011 - 03.2020

Job overview

▪ Data transition;
▪ Real time code tracking using Data Project software solutions;
▪ Video editing;
▪ Detailed analysis of all of the data;
▪ Charts reporting on particular activities;
▪ Creating temporal trend graphs through graphical analysis;
▪ Weekly meetings for reports and data analysis;
▪ Uploading video and scouting file on the Data Video Sharing server;
▪ Traveling abroad whenever is needed;
▪ Collaborate with foreign coaches and professional players;

Stefanini EMEA

Monitoring Analyst - Operations Command Center
07.2016 - 11.2016

Job overview

▪ Perform real-time proactive monitoring of servers, database and network devices using monitoring
tools : Solarwinds, Vistara IT and Nagios
▪ Accurately log incidents within Service Now (SNow), documenting symptoms and perform event
rating;
▪ Update assigned tasks in a timely manner, escalate as required to management, vendors and
clients;
▪ Monitor multiple logs across diverse platforms to uncover specific activities as they occur from
platform to platform.
▪ Ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance, problem
resolution and customer satisfaction;
▪ Managing the correct assignment of High Priority Incidents, acting as buffer between Users, Service
Desk and Client Support Groups; broadcasting the status updates using predefined Hierarchical
Communication plans;
▪ Communicating closely with the Incident Controller, system engineers, developers to resolve alerts,
incidents, prioritizing and solving them;
▪ Participate in 24x7 rotating shift schedule with ability to work day, evening and weekends as
required.
▪ Create and implement documentation and procedures for alerting and escalation.

Stefanini EMEA

Senior IT Service Desk Resource Technician
02.2016 - 07.2016

Job overview

▪ The main responsibility is to provide assistance to Level 1 technicians from EY on various issues
according to EY policies and procedures, via inbound calls and chats.
▪ Assisting agents when new procedures and knowledge articles are created for a better
understanding. Also setting reminders for them through emails;
▪ Creating accounts for new hired IT Technicians and making sure that they are able to perform their
daily tasks without any issues;
▪ SME (Subject Matter Expert) - Checking and validating tickets for proper escalation;
▪ Participating in outage chats and daily chats referring to issues raised by the clients;
▪ Providing feedback as a tester for various important applications for EY.
▪ Coaching agents in QC stage 2 and when needed.
▪ Assisting IC team when outages are declared by checking the tickets, calling Infrastructure, posting
email and Service Disruption also recording FEM/IVR message on the line;
▪ Providing floor management and ensuring that the Service Level Agreement is fulfilled by being duty
TL and IC after hours or if needed .
▪ Keeping a close collaboration with the management, CMC, Infrastructure and QA
▪ Participating in team meetings with the TL, QA team and trainers to discuss about improvement
plans and ideas;
▪ Handling Lost/Stolen cases.
▪ Creating accounts and generating codes for Blackberry and Good Mobile Messaging platform.
▪ Creating and sending the Weekly Newsletter, containing the weekly planned maintenance, the
knowledge created or updated and other changes;
▪ Weekly feedback for the new applications;
▪ Adherence reports when requested by Team Leaders;
▪ Handling angry user calls as supervisor.

Stefanini EMEA

IT Service Desk Analyst
09.2015 - 02.2016

Job overview

  • ▪ Providing IT support on specific software to users according the EY Security Policy and procedures;
    raising, updating and solving tickets using the Service Now (SNow) platform;
    ▪ Troubleshooting hardware and software issues, using the Knowledge Base (KB) articles from
    Service Now and Lotus Notes databases, such as PSSR and HOT Topics, and constantly proposing
    ways of improving the KB database;
    ▪ Providing assistance through inbound and outbound phone calls, as well as through emails for the
    tools used by the customer, such as:
    ▪ Symantec PGP
    ▪ SCCM;
    ▪ Office Suite;
    ▪ MS Windows;
    ▪ Shared mailboxes;
    ▪ Windows file share;
    ▪ Lotus notes database;
    ▪ MS Sharepoint;
    ▪ Windows file sharing;
    ▪ Remote connection applications;
    ▪ Good for enterprise;
    ▪ Blackberry;
    ▪ Active Directory;
    ▪ RSA tokens;
    ▪ Cisco and Nortel hardphone;
    ▪ InContact/InTouch;
    ▪ LAN and Wireless connectivity troubleshooting;
    ▪ Printers;
    ▪ EY specific applications;
    ▪ Escalating issue to designated support levels, if needed;
    ▪ Assisting the Knowledge Engineers in documenting and updating the knowledge base articles,
    based on the most frequently issues reported by the users;
    ▪ Logging remotely to the client's computer and help them solve software issues;
    ▪ Processing technical issues into the ticketing system;
    ▪ Troubleshooting hardware, software and network related issues.

Education

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Bucharest

Master's Degree from Databases and Business Support
01.2014

University Overview

Faculty of Economic, Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Bucharest, Romania

Bachelor's Degree from Computer Science
01.2012

University Overview

Faculty of Economic, Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics

National College “Mihail Kogălniceanu”
Galați

High School Diploma from Computer Science
01.2009

Skills

Teamwork and collaboration

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Interests

Driving licence: B, Hobbies: Sports, Reading, Drawing

Accomplishments

    Ericsson Internal Program – Young Talent Forum (Generative AI, Graduated Jan 2024)

Additional Information

▪ Driving License: B

▪ Former Professional Volleyball Player with 4 years of attending the Romania National Team in International Competitions

Hobbies

Drawing, Reading, Attending cultural events, Travelling

Timeline

Team Leader Service Desk

Ericsson
03.2024 - Current

Video Systems Engineer

Ericsson
04.2021 - 02.2024

Broadcast IT Engineer

Ericsson
09.2019 - 03.2021

Monitoring Analyst - Operations Command Center

Stefanini EMEA
07.2016 - 11.2016

Senior IT Service Desk Resource Technician

Stefanini EMEA
02.2016 - 07.2016

IT Service Desk Analyst

Stefanini EMEA
09.2015 - 02.2016

Scoutman / Data Analyst

CSM Bucuresti/Romanian Volleyball Federation
11.2011 - 03.2020

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Master's Degree from Databases and Business Support

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Bachelor's Degree from Computer Science

National College “Mihail Kogălniceanu”

High School Diploma from Computer Science
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