Customer-focused call centre professional with Tier 1/2 support experience, de-escalation, and clear communication. Improves first-response, reduces escalations, and shortens resolution times across high-volume phone/chat/email queues. Strong documentation habits and plain-language explanations for non-technical users.
- Built and managed a **peer-to-peer e-commerce operation** reselling digital items; exceeded **$50,000+ gross merchandise
value**.
- Closed transactions and **middlemanned for high-value trades exceeding $5,000+ deals)** with **250+ verified vouches**, maintaining **5-star satisfaction** and **zero unresolved disputes**.
- Handled **end-to-end operations and escrow**: sourcing, pricing, inventory, listings, secure payments and fulfillment.
- Implemented **fair-value pricing** and **bundle offers** to accelerate turnover and improve margins while reducing low-value inquiries.
- Standardized **ownership verification and middleman workflows** to mitigate **fraud/chargeback** risk on large trades.
- Tracked **P&L and cash flow**; reconciled payments and maintained records for auditability.
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- Delivered **Tier 1/2 frontline support** for CI/CD and Kubernetes issues via a ticket queue, improving **first-response time by 40%** through better triage and routing.
- Performed **incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis**; automated data capture/validation that resolved **80% of config errors** and **reduced downtime by 40%**.
- Wrote **clear, step-by-step knowledge-base articles** and troubleshooting flows that enabled Tier 1 to solve common probe issues, **cutting escalations by 30%**.
- Built a deployment **runbook** that standardized fixes and **reduced repeat contacts/tickets by 66%**; **shortened resolution time from 45 → 15 minutes**.
- Kept users informed with **concise status updates**, set expectations, and **de-escalated frustrated stakeholders** by focusing on next steps and time to resolution.
- Partnered with QA/DevOps to capture **root causes** of startup failures; implemented dynamic probes that **cut production launch issues by 50%**.
- Reproduced user-reported issues; wrote **concise repro steps** and a **known-issues + workarounds** note to reduce repeat questions.
- Partnered with devs to **prioritize fixes** from impact-driven triage and shipped **onboarding/troubleshooting snippets** that cut new-user setup pings, improved first-contact resolution, and kept user-facing notes up to date.
- **Provided direct user support** for a live NFT analytics
platform, resolving front-end filtering bugs and API
integration issues in real-time.
- **Developed a full-stack web application with PostgreSQL database** to analyze NFT rarity rankings, increasing market research efficiency by 80%.
- **Translated user requests into technical features**, implementing real-time PostgreSQL-powered filters that improved usability for non-technical traders.
- **Debugged and optimized API performance** under
load, reducing latency by 50% and enabling **3,000+
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