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Jawwad Saeed

Ashburn,VA

Summary

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
  • Successfully managed budgets, consistently meeting financial targets while maintaining high-quality standards.

Application Engineer Tier 3

HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS
03.2001 - 10.2001
  • Responsibilities included: Performed remote technical hardware and software troubleshooting on installation and configuration issues.
  • Developed technical material addressing software/hardware problems as used within the knowledge base system.
  • Integrated third party software/hardware applications for use with DirecPC satellite components.
  • Developed pilot testing and documentation procedure for alpha and beta product releases.

Education

Master of Business Administration -

Strayer University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems

Strayer University

Skills

  • Computer skills
  • Business writing skills
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Communication skills
  • Customer service expert
  • Security awareness
  • Strategic planning
  • Troubleshooting skills

Accomplishments

  • HDI Support Center Team Lead - Certified
  • Stanford Online - User Research: Informing Product Decisions with Customer – Certified
  • Lean Six Sigma - Yellow Belt

Timeline

Lead Help Desk Analyst/Workplace Engineer

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS)
09.2007 - 02.2025

Associate Systems Technician

GEICO
10.2006 - 01.2007

Manager of Operations

CONOCO PHILLIPS, INC.
01.2002 - 12.2005

Application Engineer Tier 3

HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS
03.2001 - 10.2001

Master of Business Administration -

Strayer University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems

Strayer University
Jawwad Saeed