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Peter Murtha

Harrogate,North Yorkshire

Summary

Following my university education, I have worked extensively in the customer support space, first providing managed service level support for customer's internal networking infrastructure, from workstation and server physical setup to account administrations, before transitioning to my current role providing technical support for a multitude of wholesale products, including VOIP telephony and VOIP service management (including tutorials on the use of API's), SMS services across portal applications, API's and SMPP as well as support for multiple connectivity and co-location products.

Though technically in a first-line position, my current role does not thoroughly mirror the ITIL framework. As such, the second-line role is actively split between senior first-line team members like myself and our dedicated third-line, meaning that the first-line team carries out more in-depth analysis during the initial investigations and all customer communication.

Over the last few years, I have also been promoted to the Training Coordinator, providing full training for support team staff members as they enter the business and assisting with training account management and finance team members on using our CRM and customer management systems. As part of this rule, I am involved in both the active training and mentoring of new staff and ensuring that training records are generated and reviewed to ensure staff are retaining the knowledge provided during the training.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior Support Technician and Training Coordinator

AQL LTD
Leeds
07.2016 - Current

During my time with AQL, I carried out the following duties:

  • Identifying faults with SMS services and liaising with carriers.
  • Identifying and correcting faults with SIP telecoms services, including SIP trace analysis.
  • Liaising with both the Technical and Systems teams on emergent system issues, and assisting with Triage.
  • Assisting Account management with commercial billing and Customer Work Orders.
  • Demonstrated professionalism and courtesy with customers at all times.
  • Contacting customers over issues and managing customer expectations.
  • Assisting team management with work allocation and leadership of junior team members
  • Providing training and support to new and junior team members.
  • Providing out-of-hours technical assistance to customers during emergencies, as well as supporting junior team members during these.
  • Writing customer-facing service and maintenance announcements.

Support Technitian

Oriium Consulting Ltd
Wetherby
06.2014 - 02.2016

During my time with Oriium I carried out the following duties:

  • Installed software, modified and repaired install's and resolved technical issues.
  • Provided base level IT support to non-technical personnel within client's systems.
  • Managed call flow and responded to technical support needs of customers.
  • Identified and solved technical issues with a variety of diagnostic tools.
  • Demonstrated professionalism and courtesy with customers at all times.
  • Followed up with clients to ensure optimal customer satisfaction.
  • Conducted research to address customer concerns.

Local Support assistant

Net365
Bradford
09.2012 - 05.2013

During my time at NET365 (a part time appointment during my time at university) I provided basic level assistance to users of the companies wide area LASER/radio internet network. This required on site checks of the clients equipment, coupled with assisting more high level technical work with the Owner of the Company (Server patching and installed equipment checks.)

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer System Administration

University of Bradford
Bradford
2014

A level's - ICT, Applied Science, Geology

St John Fishers Catholic High School
Harrogate
2009

Skills

First Tier Support Knowledge in:

  • SMS message flow and faults
  • SIP and Q850
  • Mobile data SIMs and L2TP
  • Networking and router issues
  • Wireshark
  • Ticket queue mangemnt
  • Customer communication via phone, email, ticket, or official announcements

Transferable skills:

  • Teamwork
  • Communicating with team
  • A polite and respectful manner
  • Capable of Independent work and learning
  • Willing to review issues with senior staff
  • Management of staff training and training documentation

Additional Information

Between April and June 2014 Provided my services as a Volunteer to ORB Community Arts in Knaresborough, assisting Vulnerable Adults with computer access in the pursuit of creating both Musical and Artistic creations in digital media.

Timeline

Senior Support Technician and Training Coordinator

AQL LTD
07.2016 - Current

Support Technitian

Oriium Consulting Ltd
06.2014 - 02.2016

Local Support assistant

Net365
09.2012 - 05.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer System Administration

University of Bradford

A level's - ICT, Applied Science, Geology

St John Fishers Catholic High School
Peter Murtha