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Experienced Technical Support Engineer, Processes/Operation, Agile Product Management

Available from
Sep 18, 2019
Availability
100 %
on customer site
100 %
Areas

D1

Contact Settings

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Position

Comment

Seeking a career position in the field of advanced product support of product management that offers a challenging environment with room for growth

Projects

11/2017 - 03/2019

1 year 5 months

Support and manage Zalando ERP related incidents for internal users

Roles
Technical Support Manager
Customer
Zalando SE
Place of work
Berlin, Germany
Tasks
  • Support and manage Zalando ERP related incidents for internal users
  • Work closely with Product Specialists, report BUGs
  • Support for the entire order management process for Zalando users
  • Maintain internal catalog data using advanced support tools (SQLWiki, SoapUI)
  • Provide support for external suppliers – Web Invoice Portal

08/2016 - 08/2017

1 year 1 month

Provide immediate product related resolutions to customer’s queries

Roles
Technical Support Engineer
Customer
NewStore
Place of work
Berlin, Germany
Tasks
  • Provide immediate product related resolutions to customer’s queries
  • Investigate and document all reported issues, close collaboration with respective engineering teams
  • Set priorities according to the urgency of the case
  • Provide step-by-step manuals for educating on common technical capabilities of the product
  • Create how-to articles for internal use
  • Communicate customer feedback to Product teams
  • Turn reported feature requests into stories and ideas
  • Participate in launching phase and contribute to establishing procedures and workflows
  • Initiate processes to improve overall product development and support between various stakeholders

08/2011 - 05/2016

4 years 10 months

Holiday apartment with boutique travel consultancy

Roles
Owner and Founder
Customer
on request
Tasks
  • Holiday apartment hosted on AirBNB
  • Customer advisory service on most popular events in the city
  • Conduct a personalized tourist guide according to individual hobbies, budget and time limitation
  • Private personalized tours

05/2007 - 05/2011

4 years 1 month

Maternity leave

10/2007 - 10/2007

1 month

Immigration to Germany

11/2005 - 05/2007

1 year 7 months

Customer Support and Implementation

Roles
Customer Support Engineer
Customer
PFS TraderTools
Place of work
Raanana, ISRAEL
Tasks

The position included a full-time international professional support online, by telephone and email. The role consisted mostly of the following tasks:

  • Act as the primary technical point of contact for customers and support engineers at customer site
  • Instruct customers on product usage, features and add-ons
  • Troubleshoot and monitor system malfunctions
  • Analyze product LOG files and Windows event notifications for thorough failure investigation
  • Manage bug tracking and knowledge base, using Alexa
  • Work tightly with database administrators, QA, developers, and engineers to resolve complex issues
  • Install and configure client environments using VMware to reproduce failure scenarios
  • Manual QA of new modules and features, write test plans
  • Communicate customer feedback into future product development by cooperating with project managers
  • Manage monthly meetings for parallel cooperation between the members of QA, customer support and implementation
  • Represent customer support issues in a weekly team meeting for general updates and follow-ups
  • Responsible of passing relevant contents and guidance to the customer support representatives within the team
  • Initiate and implement the technical guide for troubleshooting LOG files for the internal company use

01/2000 - 08/2005

5 years 8 months

2nd and 3rd level technical support for the companies’ 1100 employees worldwide

Roles
IT Department – Senior Desktop & Networking Support
Customer
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.
Place of work
Petach Tikva, ISRAEL
Tasks

The position included 2nd and 3rd level technical support for the companies’ 1100 employees worldwide. The support was provided by telephone, e-mail and on user site and included:

  • User side application support – MS WindowsXP/2000, MS Office7-2000, emulations for AS/400, Intranet for companies’ internal applications, Internet browsers, email configurations (Exchange/IMAP/Pop3), printer/fax definitions, dial-ups, antivirus (Symantec corporate), Check Point Secure Remote. The remote connection to costumers was established by using Symantec PC-Anywhere, VNC and Windows tools
  • Administrative support – user management (definition, configuration, permissions) using Active Directory, antivirus maintenance (updates, batch files), printer/file server maintenance, overall system backups, email control using Mime Sweepers
  • Failure documentation using Vantive ticketing system
  • Technical support for Gilat’s genuine Satellite-based products for near 500 pilot users

Skills

Language Skills
English
very good
German
Level C1
Hebrew
fluent
Russian
mother tongue

Products / Standards / Experiences

Personal skills

  • Wide technical background
  • Fast learner
  • Rich guiding experience
  • Optimistic & dynamic personality
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Highly motivated
  • Team player
  • International background & multicultural mindset

Obligatory army service

04/1997 – 10/1999: Head of Guiding Center and Customer Support

Mamram Center of Computing and Information Systems, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL

Tasks:

  • Senior tutor in the field of Windows and MS Office, supervising a team of 6 members
  • Customer support for approx. 200 users for hardware and software technical issues


Training History

12/2014 – 01/2015: Recent Training

Institute: Dr. Galwelat cimdata GmbH - Berlin, Germany

10/2013 – 03/2014: Recent Training

Institute: Dr. Galwelat cimdata GmbH - Berlin, Germany

Web IT - Web Development Seminar, including 6 Modules

  • Webdesign, HTML5, CSS Basics
  • Webdesign, HTML5 Advanced
  • Interactive Websites with JavaScript
  • PHP, MySQL Basics
  • PHP, MySQL Advanced
  • TYPO3

Computer Studies

Degree: Bachelor of Science in Computer Studies

Institute: University of Derby - UK / Israel

German Language Skills

01/2013 – 08/2013: Qualification for Professionals

Degree: Level C1

TELC certificate - Berlin, Germany

02/2012 – 11/2012: German courses

Degree: Levels A1 – B2

Institute: JVHS, Berlitz - Berlin, Germany

Additional Certifications and Further Training

  • NT Administration
  • Programmer certificate.
    • Programming languages studied: C, C++, VC++, VB
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