Support professional prepared to deliver impactful results through effective team leadership and strategic problem-solving. Extensive experience in optimizing support processes and boosting team productivity. Known for fostering collaboration and adapting to changing needs, while excelling in communication and critical thinking.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Platform Support Team Lead
InVita HealthCare Technologies
04.2018 - Current
Answer Customer Questions via e-mail, service desk and phone on how to use the tissue and implant tracking software
Review customer databases quarterly and notify the customer of any issues in their database and how to correct.
Reduced response times for client inquiries by optimizing team workflows and communication channels.
Managed workload distribution effectively, ensuring timely resolution of tickets while maintaining a balanced workload for all team members.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to address systemic issues affecting overall customer experience.
Championed process improvements that led to increased efficiency within the support department.
Increased first-contact resolution rates by empowering team members with necessary tools and resources to resolve customers'' concerns promptly.
Developed training programs for new hires, resulting in increased team efficiency and productivity.
Created a culture of accountability within the support team, encouraging ownership over tasks while driving continuous improvement initiatives.
Coached team members on best practices in customer service, leading to consistently positive customer reviews and ratings.
Resolved escalated customer issues with empathy and professionalism, maintaining high levels of client satisfaction.
MI Representative
DOVENMUEHLE MORTGAGE
01.2017 - 03.2018
Remove mortgage insurance from loans when qualifications are met.
Process checks for appraisals.
Order appraisals.
Contact customers when additional money is owed for appraisals.
Customer Service Manager/Office Manager (Service Div.)
SKF USA INC
03.1992 - 09.2016
Effectively communicated with team members to maintain clearly defined expectations.
Resolved customer questions, issues and complaints.
Developed rapport with customer base by handling difficult issues with professionalism.
Recommended changes to existing methods to increase the accuracy, efficiency and responsiveness of the customer Service dept.
Developed, implemented and monitored programs to maximize customer satisfaction.
Managed on-site customer service representatives.
Interviewed, hired and trained prospective employees.
Performed annual employee reviews.
Quotation development.
Invoiced completed jobs.
Followed up on past due payments.
Created purchase orders.
Approved invoices for payment and coded to correct dept
Education
Bachelor OF Science - Elementary Education
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL
Skills
Coaching and mentoring
Team management
Client support
Customer engagement
Client communication
Ticket management
Customer relationship management
Training and coaching
Issue resolution
Call management
Issue escalation
Timeline
Platform Support Team Lead
InVita HealthCare Technologies
04.2018 - Current
MI Representative
DOVENMUEHLE MORTGAGE
01.2017 - 03.2018
Customer Service Manager/Office Manager (Service Div.)
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform