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Brandon Hack

Brandon Hack

IT Specialist
Austin,TX

Summary

I'm an IT Specialist with 2 1/2 years of experience offering outstanding support to users of various levels with all IT experience coming from TaskRabbit, I started off as a Customer Service Rep. and within 3 1/2 years I went from Customer Service to Junior, IT Specialist, and finally now to IT Specialist. I handled solo work with over 500 employees for a year, including onboarding and offboarding, training, article creation, and a roll out of Okta. Exceptional skills and knowledge in a Mac and Windows based environment. Established reputation as sharp technology expert when working with customers to identify and deploy solutions.


I love to contribute towards helping the department grow by providing feedback and suggestions. Absolutely enjoy fostering a wonderful work space with coworkers assisting in anyway I can to help alleviate issues or offer some tips to help level up team members. Practiced troubleshooter with excellent diagnostics and repair abilities, strong attention to detail and methodical approach. Boosts system performance by thoroughly evaluating and correcting different hardware and software issues.


At my very foundation, I care deeply about helping and assisting people. I found my love in problem solving and IT provides me with the challenges I like to interact with. Always willing to learn new things.

Overview

3
3

Years of professional experience in IT

11
11

Years of experience in customer service

Work History

IT Specialist

TaskRabbit
Austin, TX
08.2018 - Current
  • Configured hardware, devices and software to set up work stations for employees.
  • Explained technical information in clear terms to non-technical individuals to promote better understanding.
  • Analyzed issues to identify troubleshooting methods needed for quick remediation.
  • Assessed system hardware and software and suggested modifications to reduce lag time and improve overall speed.
  • Broke down and evaluated user problems, using test scripts, personal expertise and probing questions.
  • Created support documentation that enabled user community to extend skills, leverage system features and find resolutions to questions without intervention from support team.

BUSINESS SUPPORT SPECIALIST

VOLT AT APPLE INC
Austin, TX
08.2017 - 05.2018
  • Provide email support to business teams and postal carriers around the USA and Canada.
  • Maintained a positive environment for feedback and coaching opportunities within the team.
  • Utilize analytical skills to the utmost extent when handling customer orders, making them seamless and thorough for the best experience.
  • Accepted payments, issued credits and resolved billing issues.
  • Provided expert support and troubleshooting via telephone and web chat services.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT/TRAVELER CARE AGENT

HomeAway
Austin, TX
04.2016 - 06.2017
  • Provided a calm and amazing experience for customers that are escalated in high stress situations.
  • Proactively looked for new ways to improve skills within job role in order to improve customer and business relationship.
  • Offered new customers training to reduce frustration and improve customer satisfaction.
  • Excelled at being highly adaptable to business needs, such as, learning new roles in less than a week, and provide support where queues were struggling to meet SLA’s.
  • Able to adjust to the customer’s technical level to resolve customer issues.

Education

No Degree - Computer Science

Ivy Tech Community College
Michigan City
02.2013 - 05.2013

GED -

Grayson College
Denison
10.2007 - 12.2007

Skills

Technical issue analysis

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Additional Information

  • CUSTOMER AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Accomplishments

  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Promoted to Jr. IT Specialist to IT Specialist after18 months of employment.
  • Created multiple articles to assist new hires in IT with process we use along with creating user based articles to help with day-to-day issues
  • Assisted with the roll out of Okta to our whole organization which vastly increased production
  • Trained multiple new hires on orientation day with a walkthrough of IT and how to use their Macs
  • Handled over 500 employees worldwide with processing tickets and answering them within SLA

Software

Microsoft Office

Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, etc)

Google Workspace

Okta

Jamf

ZenDesk

Work Availability

monday
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Quote

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire

Timeline

IT Specialist

TaskRabbit
08.2018 - Current

BUSINESS SUPPORT SPECIALIST

VOLT AT APPLE INC
08.2017 - 05.2018

CUSTOMER SUPPORT/TRAVELER CARE AGENT

HomeAway
04.2016 - 06.2017

No Degree - Computer Science

Ivy Tech Community College
02.2013 - 05.2013

GED -

Grayson College
10.2007 - 12.2007
Brandon HackIT Specialist