Professional Help Desk Analyst with many years of experience providing phone, email and chat-based technical support to customers. Accomplished in gathering information from customers and conducting research to resolve complex technical issues. Detail-oriented with support ticket tracking and providing a comprehensive overview of issues and resolution attempts.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Help Desk Analyst/Workplace Engineer
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS)
09.2007 - 02.2025
Company Overview: The Help Desk Unit supports ACS Authors, Reviewers and Editors involved in all aspects of the manuscript submission, peer review and publishing process for 85 plus ACS journals
Responsibilities included resolving issues pertaining to application access; account management; application workflows; journal production, web content delivery; subscriber access; editorial offices practices, onboarding, decommissioning and delivery of workflow changes to stakeholders.
Provided exceptional remote support via phone, email, or chat, ensuring timely resolutions for geographically diverse users.
Managed front-line user support for open access publishing tools to fulfill open/public access requirements including consulting and technical support to researchers using Open Access Publishing services.
Provided hardware and software support to Editorial offices including Rackspace Webmail Management, Mobile sync for Webmail on Mobile devices including multi-factor authentication of accounts and cloud-based services.
Scheduled and managed client-web conferences, hosted Webinars for the Executive Partners, ACS Editors and Advisory Board Members at ACS National Meetings across the United States.
Collaborated with software development team on reported errors and bugs on newly released software and assisted in deployment of release fixes.
Actively contributed to organization's comprehensive knowledgebase, ensuring readily accessible information for internal and external users on key processes and procedures.
Generated reports to track performance and analyze trends.
Assisted in training new help desk staff, sharing best practices and technical knowledge for improved service quality.
Associate Systems Technician
GEICO
10.2006 - 01.2007
Responsibilities included: Using Service Center application to open, close, document, search, and assign tickets to the appropriate level 3 support team.
Prepared and configured images on laptops for field agents.
Achieved first call resolution by 80% for Regional and 90% for Remote agents.
Submitted daily paperwork to record completed jobs and related information.
Manager of Operations
CONOCO PHILLIPS, INC.
01.2002 - 12.2005
Company Overview: An international, integrated energy, and gas company
Responsibilities included: Operated a chain of Conoco Phillips, Inc
Reduced supply costs by performing market analysis
Prepared financial statements, month-end closing, payroll, scheduling and inventory
An international, integrated energy, and gas company