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Wallene Abrahams

Wallene Abrahams

Technical Support Specialist
Cape Town

Summary

Professional with significant technical support background. Skilled in troubleshooting, problem-solving, and delivering effective solutions. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Known for adaptability, reliability, and excellent communication. I have experience working as part of a remote team and I am always eager to be challenged in order to grow and further improve my skills.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Technical Support Associate

Noodle
11.2023 - Current
  • Resolve support tickets within SLAs meeting Noodle customer service expectations
  • Provide exceptional support in written, oral, and live chat environments, including on-call support
  • Investigating and troubleshooting user and platform issues, including replicating the client experience, testing features
  • Provide remote troubleshooting sessions for complex issues to unblock employees quickly
  • Maintain knowledge base documentation to ensure it is kept up to date
  • Analyse ticket resolutions to identify common issues and improve self-help options
  • Manage user access, technology contracts, and vendor relationships
  • Liaise between learning and technology roles to ensure customer needs are clearly represented and executed
  • Serve as platform administrator for Noodle-managed LMSs and learning tools
  • Training of new staff
  • QA tasks including course configuration, user permissions, user roles, learning paths
  • Perform other duties as assigned
  • Provide Product Support to our customers and Partners, covering chat and ticketing.
  • Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are done in a timely manner.
  • Following standard procedures for proper escalation of unresolved issues to collaborate with the appropriate internal teams like Product, Engineering, Success to ensure we resolve client issues promptly and efficiently.
  • Be involved in cross-functional projects aimed at improving a delightful customer experience with operational efficiency
  • Work with the Snr team to drive operational efficiencies, change, and alignment with internal teams.
  • Liaise with a diverse group of professionals across multiple teams

Customer Solutions Specialist

Impact.com
12.2021 - 02.2023
  • Work in a SaaS Product based business
  • Investigating and troubleshooting user and platform issues, including replicating the client experience, testing features
  • Logging and management of any support tickets via Freshdesk
  • Familiarity with concepts like APIs, FTPs
  • Assist and maintain AI/chatbot technology solutions including automated conversations and custom knowledge base resources
  • Provide on-call support on an as-needed basis.
  • Provide enterprise-level Product Support to our customers and Partners, covering chat and ticketing.
  • Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are done in a timely manner.
  • Contribute to internal and external knowledge Base Support documentation. arching, diagnosing, troubleshooting, and identifying solutions to resolve customer and system issues.
  • Following standard procedures for proper escalation of unresolved issues to collaborate with the appropriate internal teams like Product, Engineering, Success to ensure we resolve client issues promptly and efficiently.
  • Be involved in cross-functional projects aimed at improving a delightful customer experience with operational efficiency
  • Work with the Snr team to drive operational efficiencies, change, and alignment with internal teams.
  • Liaise with a diverse group of professionals across multiple teams

Technical Support Specialist (First Line)

Strike Media
07.2017 - 11.2021
  • Configure various webchat, whatsapp, shortcode and USSD campaigns on respective dashboards
  • Use SQL Server and SQL statements to assist with problem-solving
  • Being on an on-call after hours support roster
  • Testing of the configuration to satisfy customer requirements
  • Ownership of project tasks; delivering through to completion
  • Provide prompt and accurate feedback to customers and team members of project tasks
  • Answer phone calls/emails from clients to troubleshoot and resolve Level 1 & 2 technical support
  • Multitask across systems and applications, analyse and resolve a variety of technical issues
  • Take ownership of issues or queries raised by clients or internally and manage them to completion using the issue tracking system JIRA
  • Updating the tracking system when an issue has been escalated or resolved
  • Manage the client relationship by providing regular feedback on issues/queries.
  • Liaise with the project managers and quality assurance teams on the delivery of bug fixes and expected dates for service packs
  • Act as an escalation point to the Devops manager
  • Remote desktop maintenance

Product Specialist - MarketPlace Department

Takealot (E-commerce)
04.2014 - 06.2017
  • Manage Zendesk for MP Catalogue Team
  • Liaise with sellers regarding product queries
  • Align with team and confirm new product listing requirements
  • Source data for new product listings from Sellers/Suppliers/Sales/Buyers and/or internet searches where relevant
  • Enter product data into upload tools (user or spreadsheets)
  • Verify product data by reviewing, correcting data and combining different data sources to remove duplication and complete missing info where necessary
  • Maintain list of new product listing work to allow for workflow prioritisation
  • Distribute zendesk queries to applicable persons and/or departments for resolution
  • Tracking/following up on distributed queries, where indicative of a larger or systematic problem, escalate to Team Lead
  • Training of new staff

Education

Matric - Grade 12

Strand High School
Strand, Western Cape
01.1996 - 12.2001

Skills

Office 365

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Equity Status

Coloured

Personal Information

  • ID Number: 8308020215082
  • Gender: Female

Timeline

Technical Support Associate

Noodle
11.2023 - Current

Customer Solutions Specialist

Impact.com
12.2021 - 02.2023

Technical Support Specialist (First Line)

Strike Media
07.2017 - 11.2021

Product Specialist - MarketPlace Department

Takealot (E-commerce)
04.2014 - 06.2017

Matric - Grade 12

Strand High School
01.1996 - 12.2001
Wallene AbrahamsTechnical Support Specialist