Krishnaraj Jayaram, assistant IT manager, Crowne Plaza Bahrain. Krishnaraj Jayaram, assistant IT manager, Crowne Plaza Bahrain.

Krishnaraj Jayaram, assistant IT manager, Crowne Plaza Bahrain

ABOUT KRISHNARAJ

Khrishnaraj started off his IT career in 2001 as sale & customer support engineer for Guideline Innovations, India before moving to tech company Acer Middle East in 2004. He took the jump into hospitality in 2008 to become the asst IT manager at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bahrain, where he has shown a positive attitude and professionalism and developed good relationships with his internal and external customers.

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WHY WAS HE NOMINATED?

Krishna recently took on the task of upgrading of the hotel’s guest network, which involved transitioning from the old network, increasing its operational speed, all while maintaining operational costs. Khrishnaraj managed to set up the new network parallel to the existing network before pulling it down to ensure no downtime for the hotel’s guests, while he also took on the responsibility to do a market survey of internet providers in Bahrain to source an Internet Service Provider who faster speeds for the hotel, increasing bandwidth from 4Mbps to 20Mbps for the same price.

WHAT DID HIS TEAM SAY?

“Krishna is an individual that oozes confidence, he is available around the clock for guest IT support and whenever myself or my team have any computer related issues he is every ready to provide assistance. I have personally received plenty of positive comments about his work both with our guests and our team and along with his positive attitude he is a pleasure to deal with, a real gentleman and I look forward to working with him for many years to come.” Brendon Rozario Assistant Front Office Manager

WHAT DID HIS SUPPLIERS SAY?

“I would like to appreciate on behalf of Kanoo IT to Crown Plaza’s IT Team’s sincere efforts and co-operation regarding the IT projects especially the entire wireless infrastructure project and IT security solutions that specially Krishnaraj has been extending care during these projects. My team and myself have lot of respect for Krishnaraj for his simplicity, dedication, support and hard work and I am pleased to be associated with such a dedicated team. He is a wealth and treasure to the company.” Renish Poulose sr. account manager Kanoo Information Technology (Kanoo IT).

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