Team Lead, Technical Support - Apj
Summary.1. Managed an All-Star team of 4 brilliant support engineers to provide professional product support & services to the Australia New Zealand (ANZ) region. 2. Introduced the Australia support shift hours - local business hour support (from 8:30am to 5:30pm Australia time) where the team have to report in to work as early as 6am (GMT + 8 Malaysia time) to better support the Australia market.3. Greater China Region (GCR) support coverage - Provided Tier 2 support services to 3 important Banking and Financial services companies in China namely: - Citic-Prudential Life insurance company ltd.- Bank Of China - China Construction Bank (CCB)Others.1. Coordinating support resources in order to fulfill support guidelines, as well as to meet needs and requirements of internal and external customers.2. Coordination of 3rd party product support (e.g. Kodak, Fujitsu, HP), system integrators and end-users.3. Establishing and maintaining a reporting structure for the team.4. Ensuring consistency in support replies (i.e. language and terms used).5. Ensuring that support/maintenance contracts are fulfilled in terms of response time and service level.6. Ensuring an escalation procedure is in place and is adhered to.7. Ensuring that extended support hours (e.g. during public holidays) are provided.8. Ensuring that reports, emails, chat, and Webex sessions are correctly achieved and monitored.9. Ensuring the support team has the necessary software, hardware and tools in order to fulfill the support requirements.10. Ensuring sufficient training for the support team.11. Proposing support guidelines for products (i.e. level of support, response times etc.)12. Proposing changes and enhancement of the support infrastructure, organization etc.13. Cultivating and maintaining a creative, enterprising, proactive and positive team spirit within the support team.14. Further Management-related tasks as and when added to the job responsibility or assigned.