Lijoe Antony Chakiath

Director of Engineering

Ernakulam, Kerala, India24 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years in Operations and IT Service Management
  • Led teams of over 100 professionals globally
  • Implemented ISO certifications for operational excellence
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in IT Services and Operations Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Operations ManagementIt Service ManagementCustomer Service ManagementLinux System AdministrationTechnical Support

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesApacheArbitrationBuilding PerformanceBusiness ReviewsCC++Client ManagementContractual AgreementsCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Customer RetentionCustomer SatisfactionCustomer SuccessCustomer SupportDefining Requirements

About

As Director of Technical Services at Bobcares, my mission is to drive operational excellence and technical innovation across all service verticals. With over two decades of experience in Operations Management and IT Service Management, I collaborate with cross-functional leaders to set quality benchmarks, mentor teams, and align technical services with strategic goals. Our focus on scaling operations efficiently while maintaining customer satisfaction has been pivotal to our success. Previously, I led operations and account management for a diverse global clientele, overseeing a team of over 100 professionals across multiple industries. My work emphasized performance-driven service delivery, customer-centric solutions, and continuous improvement, contributing to organizational growth and client retention. I am passionate about fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical depth to empower teams and elevate service standards.

Experience

24 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
24 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
24 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Bobcares

5 roles

Director of Technical Services

Promoted

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Kochi, Kerala, India

  • As Director of Technical Services, I lead the strategic direction, quality standards, and technical vision for all service verticals at Poornam. This role marks a progression from my earlier leadership in the Executive Group to a broader mandate of driving technical excellence across the organization.
  • Key responsibilities include:
  • Defining quality benchmarks and ensuring technical services align with company-wide strategic goals.
  • Mentoring cross-functional leaders to elevate service delivery, innovation, and customer satisfaction.
  • Scaling operations efficiently while reinforcing a strong culture of technical depth, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • This role is both a recognition of my journey with the company and a forward-looking commitment to building resilient, future-ready technical capablity.
Director levelOperations ManagementTechnical OperationsIT Service Management

Executive Manager - Operations And Customer Account Management

Nov 2019Jul 2025 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Kochi, Kerala, India

  • Most recently, I am responsible for overseeing operations of 14 plus Enterprise to SMB customers and about 300+ SOHO/SMB customers. This role involves leading a team of over 100 engineers and customer support agents, handling customers worldwide, and managing 24/7 operations and account management for Datacenters, Hosting Companies and Healthcare Industry.
  • Customer Management, ensuring team’s performance meets the performance metrics set.
  • Closely working with the customers to handle pain points, solutions and upselling services. Monthly review presentations, actionable feedbacks and constant communication.
  • Team Management - Responsible for the service delivery quality, hiring, training &
  • performance of each team. Define KPIs for individual teams and provide reports to the management. Develop and present monthly performance report, with a focus on KPI targeting and trend
  • analysis, to the CEO of Bobcares.
  • 24/7 US based Phone Support Operations - Handle our All American technical call center being run out of Phoenix, Arizona. Responsibility involves Operations planning and execution, recruitments, training and client onboarding.
ArbitrationOperations ManagementTeam LeadershipInterpersonal SkillsService DeliveryOpen-Source Software+16

Executive Manager - Operations

Promoted

Nov 2003Nov 2019 · 16 yrs · Kochi, Kerala, India

  • In my role as Executive Manager - Operations at Bobcares', I oversaw all aspects of the company's activities – Operations Management, Client Management, Sales Conversions & Upgrades. Team Management involved mentoring future Team Leads, Training, Allocations, Scheduling Shifts, assigning team members, Training & Performance Monitoring of team members.
  • Led a team of 150+ engineers across 18 service delivery units, ensuring quality service delivery and team performance.
  • Client Management - Managed Enterprise level customers to SMB's during this period and successfully retained many of our largest customers for periods exceeding 10 plus years.
  • Implemented ISO & ISMS certifications, setting up systems and processes for a 24/7 IT Support and Development Services company.
  • Managed end-to-end operations, training, client management resulting in 90% customer retention and upgrades
  • 2005: Setup our US Phone Support Operations at Phoenix involving setup of the entire office
  • in Phoenix, US to recruiting, training and operations of the team.
  • 2007: Visited Romania for due diligence and M&A with a business unit there.
  • 2010: Selected as Speaker for an International Web Hosting Conference at Austin, Texas
  • 2010 & 2012: Setup marketing booth at hosting conferences in Austin, TX and Florida to
  • interact, market Bobcares services to ISP’s, Data centers & WebHosts.
  • Pan India recruitment drives planned, executed and interviewed more than 1000 candidates
  • Involved in Implementing the Performance Appraisal System, Performance Based
  • compensation and statutory compliances based on the labor laws of the state.
  • Involved in legal contract framing, discussions and litigations following UNCITRAL
  • arbitration, US and Indian legal matters while co-ordinating with lawyers in US, Netherlands,

Technical Team Lead

Promoted

Nov 2002Oct 2003 · 11 mos · Kochi, Kerala, India

  • Managed a 24/7 team providing Linux administration services for a web hosting company.
  • Oversaw client communication, team management, server administration, and technical issue handling.
  • Achieved improved customer satisfaction and efficiency through training, QA, and skill improvement initiatives.
Customer Service ManagementLinux System AdministrationTeam LeadershipTeam BuildingTeam ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)+7

Software Engineer

Mar 2002Nov 2002 · 8 mos · Kochi, Kerala, India

  • Joined Bobcares providing technical support in Linux for over 20 webhosting companies and datacenters.
Team LeadershipOpen-Source SoftwareLeadershipPolicies & ProceduresTechnical Support

Education

Cochin University of Science and Technology

Bachelor Of Technology — Computer Engineering

Jan 1997Jan 2001

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Executive MBA — General Management

Jan 2005Jan 2006

Jabriya Indian School

AISSCE

Jan 1994Jan 1997

Kendriya Vidyalaya

English

Jan 1990Jan 1994

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