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Vikram (Vik) Pattabiraman

Enterprise Customer Success Manager  |  Technical Account Manager
Dallas–Fort Worth, TX (Open to Remote)469-328-3419 mgrvik@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/ribbonvik

Summary

Enterprise Technical Account Manager with 12+ years owning post-sale technical relationships across a 100+ account portfolio spanning Department of Defense, federal civilian, Fortune 50 financial services, global technology, and healthcare/education verticals. Trusted advisor to C-level and program-level stakeholders on adoption, architecture, and renewal risk; known for resolving multi-vendor incidents where accountability is contested, and for converting recurring failure patterns into permanent process and product fixes. Applies AI and automation directly to account operations — from Copilot-driven QBR and case-review pipelines to Salesforce Agentforce agentic automation and independently engineered agentic systems. MS Computer Science; published IEEE researcher.

Core Competencies

Customer Success & Revenue

Retention & Churn MitigationRenewal Risk Management EBR / QBRCustomer Health Programs Expansion IdentificationVoice of Customer Executive Stakeholder Management

Technical

Cloud & SaaS PlatformsUCaaS / VoIP / SIP Trunking Networking (L2/L3, TCP/IP, TLS/SRTP)API & Integration High-Availability SystemsIncident Command Root Cause AnalysisPython Automation

AI & Data

Microsoft Copilot WorkflowsSalesforce Agentforce Multi-Agent OrchestrationAdept Agent Workflows Prompt EngineeringRAG & Context Pipelines

Tools

Salesforce (Agentforce)M365 / CopilotServiceNow JiraConfluenceTableau / Power BI WiresharkPythonGit

Professional Experience

Technical Account Manager, Enterprise & Federal — Ribbon Communications

Dallas–Fort Worth, TX • Aug 2014 – Present · (continuous tenure through Nortel → Avaya → GENBAND → Ribbon)
  • Own 100+ enterprise accounts (~$40M ARR) across federal, Fortune 50 financial, technology, and healthcare/education verticals.
  • Sustained 97% gross retention by flagging at-risk accounts from support-volume and health signals ahead of renewal windows.
  • Owned Sev-1 escalation resolution portfolio-wide — 98% SLA attainment and 35% faster average time-to-resolution.
  • Specialized in multi-vendor arbitration; eliminated a recurring SIP interoperability failure class, removing an estimated 20 cases/quarter from the queue.
  • Built Copilot-driven workflows consolidating Salesforce and case data into automated case reviews and QBR/EBR prep (3 hrs → 45 min per account), adopted by 8 peers.
  • Deployed Salesforce Agentforce autonomous agents in conjunction with Microsoft Copilot to automate lead-to-case CRM workflows and surface account-health signals ahead of QBR cycles.

Senior Technical Support Engineer, Tier 3 — GENBAND

Dec 2012 – Aug 2014
  • 24x7 Tier-3 ownership of TDM/VoIP/UC components; reproduced intermittent failures in lab, delivering telemetry that resolved field-evading defects.

QA Engineering Senior Technical Associate — Avaya

Dec 2009 – Dec 2012
  • Led support and field-upgrade management for large-enterprise switching; diagnosed L2/L3 faults with Wireshark and validated third-party VoIP/UC integrations.

Technical Support Engineer, Enterprise & Wireless — Nortel Networks

Jan 2004 – Dec 2009
  • Protocol-level troubleshooting across enterprise VoIP and 2G/3G CDMA; authored diagnostic automation that cut outage recovery time.

Selected Engagements

Multi-vendor total outage — Federal civilian agency.

Assumed incident command on a stalled three-vendor bridge during a full voice-services outage affecting 12,000 users; isolated root cause within 6 hours and authored the RCA the agency adopted as standing change-control.

Renewal recovery — Fortune 50 financial institution.

Inherited a $6M account 4 months from renewal with 25 open escalations; ran a joint remediation plan closing 90% of the backlog in 6 weeks and secured a multi-year renewal with expanded scope.

Clinical-critical migration — National health system.

Led zero-downtime cutover planning for clinical voice across 15 facilities; established the pre-cutover checklist reused on subsequent healthcare deployments.

Customer identities withheld; sector and scale only.

Independent Technical Projects

  • Agentic AI Orchestration Harness — model-agnostic multi-agent runtime (Python tool-execution, auth layer, multi-tier context-memory pipeline).
  • CLAM (Claim-based Adaptive Markup) — agent-native document spec with embedded validation contracts, reducing LLM token consumption.
  • Educational Applications — interactive learning apps for competitive math, reading comprehension, and music theory.

Education & Publications

M.S., Computer Science — University of North Texas (2001–2003)

B.E., Computer Science — University of Madras (1997–2001)

Boukerche, A. & Pattabiraman, V. "A Dynamic Bandwidth Management Scheme for Wireless Multimedia Networks." IEEE Local Computer Networks, Vol. 1, pp. 837–846.