BAS2 Technical Leads - Roles & Responsibilities for Implementation

Sustainment Service Manager (Monika Matel-Sousa)

  • Technical Resource Sustainment Service Manager

  • Strategy

  • Resource Allocation

  • Escalation/Incident Resolution

  • and Sustainment

Sustainment Service Supervisor (Wajahat Ali)

  • Maintain, Manage, Support and Lead EWMS Maximo application services within City of Toronto.

  • Oversee and support divisional business processes by reviewing and eliminating bottlenecks.

  • Ensure all City business processes and procedures are followed to resolve system issues or queries.

  • Build people capability to ensure operational excellence and maintain superior customer services for divisions.

  • Troubleshoot all listed issues in a user-friendly, courteous, and professional manner.

  • Handle technical escalations through effective diagnosis.

  • Manage and resolve technical roadblocks or escalations as per SLA and quality requirements.

  • Report issues to Tier 3 and IBM support for unresolved issues.

  • Organize ideas and effectively communicate messages to divisional leaderships.

  • Follow up and make scheduled meetings with divisional users or their governance bodies for smooth sailing of EWMS Maximo service in the City.

  • Develop and conduct trainings on Maximo, its new functionalities and way forward for the future.

  • Participate in budgeting activities required for EWMS Maximo application.

  • Lead EWMS Maximo team in improving their performance by providing technical and functional leadership and best practices.

  • Review EWMS Sustainment team performance and share progress with leadership.

  • Hire, retain, engage, and motivate all EWMS sustainment team members.

  • Avoids legal challenges by monitoring compliance with service agreements.

  • Establish connections with other municipalities and interact with them on common challenges to seek issues resolutions.

  • Maintain good rapport with all internal and external stakeholders.

Senior Technical System Specialist - Configuration & Environment Lead (Brian LaButte)

 

Corporate Application Technical Lead - Procurement, Release Management & Sprint Lead (Preethi Gopinath)

Data Migration & Integration Leads (Mohit Khurana & Javaid Ansari)

  • Ensure that config development and execution procedures are followed in accordance with City standards.

  • Provide guidance to project teams on Maximo standards, the best way of delivery, and the execution of activities.

  • Make sure documentation is created and updated outlining all of the business processes and specifications.

  • Provide technical leadership for the design and implementation.

  • Suggest Maximo Technical & Functional guidance on issues/problems and share perspectives of how other organizations are reacting to similar problems.

  • Address all infrastructure needs for the project

  • Coordinate with the Project Manager on any ongoing or pending activities to follow up.

  • Lead, manage and execute Data Migration activities if there are any

  • Lead, manage and execute Configuration Migration from one Maximo instance to another

  • Refresh Maximo instances as part of project needs

  • Prepare Maximo environments as part of project needs

  • Coordinate with Division and EMA project managers on Maximo Sustainment releases/changes going into Maximo steam

  • Coordinate with Divisions and EMA project managers on other divisional project executions into Maximo steam

  • Anticipate and discuss possible issues which may surface due to other divisional project needs.

  • Work with the BAS2 Sustainment team to ensure coordination of activities is tracked within Jira across all active projects and operational activities.

  • Ensure that the solution fits the existing framework from a maintenance and sustainment perspective.

  • Coordinate with various groups and EMA.

Quality Assurance Lead (Marc Peng)

  • the project’s realization within pre-estimated time and control of its compliance with technical requirements

  • planning in the process of working on a project

  • microclimate inside a team

  • performance of each individual team member

  • development and professional growth of each team member

  • the motivation of employees

  • monitor test execution and control the run of projects for a definite software

  • control of task performance within the specified time and with the proper level of quality;

– estimation of the time needed to complete the task, as well as planning the time and priorities for solving tasks and subtasks;
– monitoring the communication of team members with clients (regular reports, emails, and their content);
– regular meetings with testers on project status, issues, and ways of risk minimization.

  • analysis of the daily reports of team members and control of the working hours spent on a project. Based on this information, the QA lead prepares a weekly report on the work of a team

  • meetings on individual development plans

  • discussion of the end of a test period for team members

  • weekly team meetings

  • talk-ins with project managers

  • meetings with clients/Vendors and business development managers

QA Testers - IT Trainee (Ervin Libon & John Gao)