Tom Nell Resume November 2016

Tom Nell, MBAHouston, Texas 832.316.5892 tomnell@outlook.com www.linkedin.com/in/tomnell/

Global Technical Support Director

More than 20 years’ experience in complex, data-centric help desk, IT support, and networking environments as the critical foundation for organizational success.

Expertise with building and managing customer teams that provide customized technical support solutions that meet service level agreements and consistently exceed customer expectations. Technically savvy with exceptional organization and time management skills.

Strategic Planning & Execution Project Management Technical Support Application/Software Support Quality Assurance System Installation & Integration Call Center Support Customer Relations

BENCHMARKS AND MILESTONES

Achieved 300% or better improvement within three months in five focused areas: initial response rate (350%), productivity, customer satisfaction, FAQs, and outstanding unresolved issues by implementing TLCS&K processes.

Increased Network speed more than 1,000%, decreased initial call response time 90%, and improved customer satisfaction 50% after reconfiguring existing routers and upgrading switches.

Cut duplication of efforts 90% by improving operating efficiencies, product and service quality, and communications between departments after instituting weekly interdepartmental meetings.

Boosted employee retention 50% and increased morale by developing, implementing, and communicating formal semi-annual performance management process.

Professional Experience And Accomplishments

VIDEO INSIGHT, INC.-Houston, Texas 2010–PresentDirector, Technical Services Organization | $1.5 million budget | 25 direct reports

Brought onboard to direct the daily activities of three independent companies: Video Insight (VMS Software), Advidia (IP Cameras), and BridgeVMS (Bundled Solution). Managed full customer experience lifecycle and assumed management of the Technical Services organization.

Ensured that customer service objectives were met by directing help desk and technical support team. Significantly improved customer satisfaction by streamlining and optimizing all technical service activities; implementing SOPs for Best Practices; enhancing problem tracking and resolution; conducting support volume driver and root cause analyses; and executing proactive escalation management.

Managed all IT infrastructures, internal IP surveillance cameras, and NVR servers. Delivered technical support to more than 25,000 customers including 4,500 universities and schools. Slashed deployment times from 7 hours to 5 minutes by introducing drive cloning/PXE environment. Increased initial response rate to 90% from 20%, resolving support calls within minutes by creating

and implementing formal training program including over 65 test issues and 4 exams on VMWare.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESULTS

Relocated Corporate Headquarters; Distribution and RMA Departments; and Technical Support and CSC Departments (Twice).

Converted company to VoIP Asterisk Phone System (free PBX); over 60 physical servers to cluster of VMware ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 hosts (over 240 virtual machines) with 13 Dell R7xx PowerEdge servers; and Developing and QA Testing environment to virtual environment.

Tom Nell, MBAPage 2 of 2 Houston, Texas 832.316.5892 tomnell@outlook.com www.linkedin.com/in/tomnell

COMPUTER ASSOCIATES (CA)-Islandia, New York 1997–2009

Progressive promotion through a series of increasingly responsible strategic planning and leadership positions delivering technical support company-wide for software, operating systems, and networks.

Senior Technical Support Manager (2005–2009)

Oversaw the daily activities of multiple customer technical support teams to ensure professional and courteous technical support. Established and communicated performance goals for managers, team leads, and engineers. Conducted employee reviews to measure performance vs. established metrics. Led team to achieve the most improved Technical Support Team company-wide. Improved productivity and eliminated redundancies by implementing new technical support and

training procedures across organization. Improved mean time to resolution (MTTR) and escalations by establishing problem solving

environment (PSE) calls to assist frontline managers with complex and unresolved issues. Established two global technical support centers to resolve U.S. client software problems.

Enterprise Support Manager (2002–2005)

Managed daily activities of technical support engineering staff including coaching, policy and procedure adherence, project scheduling/assignment/management, and escalation resolution. Attended high-level, cross-functional meetings in various departments from inception through final

release of enterprise products. Recruited, trained, and supervised experienced, top-talent personnel.

Support Engineer | Senior Support Engineer | Support Specialist (1997–2002) Main point of contact for all multi-platform and SAN-based storage environments. Partnered with product specialist to expedite resolution of customer’s Backup Disaster Recovery

(BDR) issues. Assisted with network planning and creating lab architecture. Reviewed documentation for accuracy before publishing.

Education and Certifications

TOWNSEND SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Master of Business AdministrationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering (B.Ch.E.)UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry

Cisco Certified Internetwork Troubleshooting (CCIT) Novell Certified Netware Engineer (CNE)Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Technical Skills

Microsoft Systems | VMWare (ESXi 5.1 & 5.5) | Cisco Networking | Firewalls (Sonic Wall)Voice over IP Systems (Asterisk Pone System; Free PBX) | Video Surveillance (VideoInsight VMS)Service Desk Software (CA Service Desk) | backup Technologies (CA BrightStore; CA Arcserve)PCI Management | Telecommunications and Circuits | DNS/DHCP | Dell R7xx PowerEdge ServersWorkstation Hardware | Disaster Recovery | Technical Writing | VPN | OpenFire | PFSensePanda | Network IP Cameras