Suguna Ravanappa

Operations Associate

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in Customer Support.
  • Proven track record in team management and customer satisfaction.
  • Expert in developing strategies for continuous improvement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Customer Support Leader with extensive experience in team management and process optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Customer SupportTeam ManagementCustomer InteractionEscalations ManagementTroubleshooting

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipIncident ManagementProcess ImprovementKPI ReportingSoft SkillsSalesforce.comDatabasesCustomer ExperienceMicrosoft Officedata warehouseSQLMSSQLHTMLSQL Server Management StudioSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

About

A Customer and Technical leader with 10+ years of experience in Customer Support. Customer-Oriented, Quality-focused , Results driven and pragmatic team player, maximising productivity, optimising workflow, building alliances, exceeding objectives, strengthening communications, and ensuring world class customer service. Outstanding ability to cultivate relationships with customers, staff and executive personnel, developing mutually respectful relationships. High level commitment to exceeding customer initiatives, implementing performance improvements and conquering challenges to drive business forward Key Competencies: Technical Support, Project Management, Knowledge Management, KCS, Process Improvement, Strategy and Planning , Incident Management, Escalation process.

Experience

12 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
2 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Manager, Technical Support Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Team Leader , Global Technical Support Engineering

May 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Algonomy

Technical Support Manager

May 2021Apr 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Hire, Manage, Mentor, Develop, Grow the CXP support team
  • Mentor and coach the team members on case management, processes and technical/soft skills
  • Identify knowledge gaps, training needs and opportunities.
  • Closely align with other leaders in the organization and execute on OKR’s (objectives and metrics) to measure the overall team’s success
  • Work within the broader ecosystem of Team Leads and Managers to improve the overall department and corporate operational efficiencies
  • Create and maintain Key CX Metrics and dashboards to evaluate NPS ,Resolution, CSAT.
  • Own the relationship between support and core engineering and, when necessary, help coordinate escalations across functional groups to help meet customer needs
  • Develop and execute on strategy for continuous improvement of our Support Team SLAs
  • Collaborating with other teams involved in Customer Success, such as professional services, CSM's
  • Develop policies and procedures: Policies and procedures make up the playbook that the team follows to resolve customer inquiries
  • Produce reports that demonstrate team effectiveness to Engineering, Product, and Leadership teams
  • Develop Automations & Self-Service that increases the speed to resolution for our customers and reduces friction and effort in the entire process
  • Develop growth plans for team members for career progression
Customer SupportTeam Management

Fivetran

2 roles

Lead Customer Success Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2018May 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Leading the Support team for APAC region. Foster a healthy, motivated, and collaborative culture while developing internal staff in their professional growth.
  • Incident Lead/commander for all the Major outages, responsible to take care of the incident from Open to Closure status.
  • Creating processes and policies to improve/establish/empower the team to provide high quality customer service.
  • Closely align with other leaders in the organization and execute on OKR's (objectives and metrics) to measure the overall team's success.
  • Develop and execute on strategy for continuous improvement of our Support Team SLAs.
  • Work closely with Premiere and Strategic Customers via call, email, video conferences and thereby creating relationships while providing exceptional customer support.
  • Create and maintain Key CX Metrics ( NPS ,Resolution, CSAT ).
  • Initial point of contact (POC) for the cross functional teams like Product,Engineering, Sales, Account.
  • Work closely with development and QA engineering on case escalations, providing step-by-step processes to diagnose of the issues and validate technical problems.
  • Responsible for writing technical content which includes Fivetran Documentation,
  • SOP's, KB Articles.
  • Leading KCS implementation in APAC. As a KCS Coach training the team members to be able to write solid Knowledge base Articles that act as references for CSE team members and the customers
  • Hiring the new team members and training them. Manage and Execute Training & Development.
Customer InteractionEscalations Management

Senior Customer Success Engineer

Sep 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr

  • Responsible for handling customer cases in Salesforce and Zendesk platform. Resolve any Production/ - Data integrity issues within the given SLA's. Mentored a team of 3 members on the Functional side to help them to be successful in their current role.
  • Increased Customer feedback on cases thereby contributing to CSAT and Team's contribution on NPS to 80%.
  • Documenting Knowledge Base articles that act as references for CSE team members and the customers
  • Providing root cause analysis, detecting bugs and reporting them to the Engineering team and planning their delivery using impact analysis.
  • Providing RCA and workaround for the issues in production and participating in source code change for the recurring problems.
  • Document and Escalate cases as and when needed
  • Responding to custom and standard integrations cases related to Fivetran Reporting and Web Services API’s (using Curl and GET calls)
  • Performed team member’s assessment help them upskill the product knowledge and add more value to the company
Customer InteractionTroubleshooting

Aptean

Customer Solutions Analyst

Jan 2014Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

  • Responsible for responding to and resolving complex customer problems via phone, email and remote access.
  • Follows standard practices and procedures in analysing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained.
  • Actively participate in some or all phases of the software development and maintenance cycle.
  • Working on customer-based problems dealing with both the Escalation Team as well Development on reproducing and researching customers’ issues, troubleshooting, debugging, documentation, building lab environments, software maintenance, and testing.
  • Publish articles in our in-house knowledgebase.
  • Achieve and maintain targeted KPA’s such as number of incidents resolved, average days to resolve, KB’s published etc. along with other established goals.
  • Document customer problem information, recommendations, and resolution in a clear and concise manner using CRM incident tracking system.
  • Ability to work on multiple issues and prioritize work accordingly to business processes.
  • An excellent customer service attitude and the ability to interact with customers in a professional manner are required
  • Ability to follow directions and be self-motivated
  • Experience in doing Technical Support for applications.
  • Good understanding of MS SQL Server, T-SQL.
  • Experience in working with Windows Operating system – particularly Windows installation, Log file analysis, Windows config files, EventViewer files
  • Basic Networking knowledge about workings of a Switch, Router and VLANs concepts.
  • Commit to continuous knowledge transfer with Technical Support Analysts to increase their technical expertise and to improve incident repair time
Customer InteractionTroubleshooting

Education

RNS Institute of Technology - India

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Aug 2009May 2013

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