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Areej Ahmed

Richmond,VIC

Summary

I am a highly motivated and successful Support Lead with a proven track record in configuring and delivering end-to-end software services for 50+ clients annually. I excel in overseeing project scopes, coordinating teams, and ensuring client satisfaction. My expertise lies in support management, ticket triaging, incident resolution, and process improvements. With experience in onboarding new clients and implementing agile methodologies, I have consistently achieved increased efficiency. As a collaborative leader, I conduct regular retrospectives with the team to foster a friendly and inclusive work environment and drive continuous improvement.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Support Engineer

Localz
04.2021 - 05.2023
  • Managed end-to-end project delivery of client-requested software services for over 50 Australian and international clients across industries annually. This included: overseeing each client’s project scope; coordinating team delegation to meet project deadlines; maintaining client engagement throughout the project, and providing project tracking and reporting to the customer success team and stakeholders to ensure satisfaction with project outcome, and facilitate client go-lives
  • Managed a small support and quality assurance team. This included: daily support standups to manage team capacity and to triage, prioritize, and delegate incoming support requests.
  • Collaborated with executive management to address client feedback and implement process improvements to increase support quality and expedite ticket fulfillment efficiently.
  • Addressed urgent client Incidents: triaged incidents with the engineering team, liaise the communication to the affected client, customer success representative, the engineering team, and any stakeholders. Conducted Post-Incident Reviews with the involved team to address customer impact, investigate cause, what occurred, fixes implemented, lessons learned and contrive action items to prevent or mitigate it in the future
  • Onboarded new client projects: configured all aspects of the project, and integrated our solution with the client's API and tech platform
  • Oversaw the successful end-to-end onboarding process for new clients, ensuring smooth solution deployment, and maintained communication with the client and all stakeholders throughout the project
  • Implemented agile methodology and tools (such as Asana, Hubspot, and Slack) to improve team capacity and process, deliver high-impact project solutions and increase team efficiency by 60%.
  • Conducted quarterly “retrospectives” with the team. This involved assessing team processes, identifying areas of improvement and work out solutions.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Localz
11.2020 - 04.2021
  • E2E testing of product, features, and client integrations
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
  • Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases documentation for the entire team.
  • Incorporated delivery requirements into planning of testing schedules.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical)(Honours) - Engineering

RMIT University
Melbourne, VIC
05.2020

Skills

  • Configuration and implementation of SaaS solutions
  • Leading and managing a team
  • Incident triaging and escalation
  • Technical Support
  • Ticket triaging and management
  • Data Analysis

Timeline

Lead Support Engineer

Localz
04.2021 - 05.2023

Quality Assurance Engineer

Localz
11.2020 - 04.2021

Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical)(Honours) - Engineering

RMIT University
Areej Ahmed