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Dean Cullen

Dean Cullen

Belfast,Antrim

Summary

Dedicated professional with expertise in customer support, incident management, and emergency response management. Proficient in documentation creation and management, with a strong ability to work under pressure. Skilled in Linux command line interface use, ticket management systems, and hardware/software troubleshooting. Holds multiple Microsoft certifications including Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals; Azure AI Fundamentals; and Azure Fundamentals. Committed to enhancing technical skills through training and production support while maintaining flexibility in dynamic environments.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Support Engineer

Alianza
Belfast, Belfast
03.2025 - Current

Customer Support Engineering
-Supporting enterprise telecom customers globally with maintenance and software upgrades.
-Supporting a large number of different products
-Completing/documenting maintenance on customer systems
-Troubleshooting hardware, software and network issues
-Supporting both cloud and on-prem environments
-Working with both Fortune 500 companies and small local providers
-Triaging L1/L2 support tickets
-Monitoring for automated security alerts and alerting customers when needed, helping to diagnose false positives
-Maintenance of critical internal PBXs, including certificate renewals and software upgrades and alarm monitoring.
-Management of certificate renewals on behalf of customers (APNs/SSL)
-Use of linux command line interfaces and bash scripting
-Providing on-call support during weekends and holidays as part of the 24x7 emergency rota
-Completing incident reports in response to service impacting issues

-Service Desk Management
-Monitoring for emergency tickets from enterprise telecom customers.
-Meeting SLA targets for emergency tickets by engaging engineers with the relevent skills to assist in a timely manner
-Supporting multiple products and regions, escalating to expert technical support (L2/L3/L4) when needed.
-Passing critical information about ongoing emergencies between service desk shifts as part of the Follow The Sun support model
-Creating incidents in response to outages and service impacting issues
-Training engineers on service desk
-Creation and maintenance of internal process documentation for global service desk and centralised tasks (Sharepoint/Confluence)
-Management of 24x7 service desk staffing and rota during EMEA hours
-Resetting MFA for customers

-Ticket system administration (Freshdesk)
-Onboarding new internal users to the ticket system
-Managing ticket flow automations
-Managing ticket groups and processes
-Troubleshooting issues with ticket logic
-Troubleshooting login and account creation issues for both customers and internal users

Support Engineer

Microsoft
Belfast, Antrim and Newtownabbey
09.2022 - 03.2025

Customer Support Engineering
-Supporting enterprise telecom customers globally with maintenance and software upgrades.
-Supporting a large number of different products
-Completing/documenting maintenance on customer systems
-Troubleshooting hardware, software and network issues
-Supporting both cloud and on-prem environments
-Working with both Fortune 500 companies and small local providers
-Triaging L1/L2 support tickets
-Monitoring for automated security alerts and alerting customers when needed, helping to diagnose false positives
-Maintenance of critical internal PBXs, including certificate renewals and software upgrades and alarm monitoring.
-Use of linux command line interfaces and bash scripting
-Completing incident reports in response to service impacting issues

-Service Desk Management
-Monitoring for emergency tickets from enterprise telecom customers.
-Meeting SLA targets for emergency tickets by engaging engineers with the relevent skills to assist in a timely manner
-Supporting multiple products and regions, escalating to expert technical support (L2/L3/L4) when needed.
-Passing critical information about ongoing emergencies between service desk shifts as part of the Follow The Sun support model
-Creating incidents in response to outages and service impacting issues
-Training engineers on service desk
-Creation and maintenance of internal process documentation for global service desk and centralised tasks (Sharepoint/Confluence)
-Management of 24x7 service desk staffing and rota during EMEA hours
-Resetting MFA for customers

-Ticket system administration (Freshdesk)
-Onboarding new internal users to the ticket system
-Managing ticket flow automations
-Managing ticket groups and processes
-Troubleshooting issues with ticket logic
-Troubleshooting login and account creation issues for both customers and internal users

Sales Associate

Concentrix
Belfast, Antrim and Newtownabbey
05.2019 - 06.2022

-Sales of consumer broadband and mobile phone plans for a major telecoms provider
-Working with customers over phone and webchat
-Working as a team to meet KPIs
-Working with sensitive customer payment and personal data

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computing and Information Technology

Queens University Belfast
Belfast
09.2015 - 06.2022

Skills

-Customer support

-Documentation creation/management

-Incident management

-Emergency response management

-Training technical skills

-Working under pressure

-Linux command line interface use

-Ticket management systems

-Hardware/software troubleshooting

-Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

-Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

-Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

-Production support

-Flexible

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Support Engineer

Alianza
03.2025 - Current

Support Engineer

Microsoft
09.2022 - 03.2025

Sales Associate

Concentrix
05.2019 - 06.2022

Bachelor of Science - Computing and Information Technology

Queens University Belfast
09.2015 - 06.2022
Dean Cullen