It Placement - Core Technologies Support
London, United Kingdom
I undertook a placement year at GlaxoSmithKline's Global HQ in London.The Tech Operations department is responsible for supporting all of GSK's business applications and collaboration tools. I was assigned to the Web Broadcasting/GSK Tube support team where I provided support to end-users from across 150 countries during live web-broadcasts, before pulling viewer metrics reports for post-event distribution to management.My facilitatation of the weekly Comm Cell meeting helped the wider team align to a single set of agile goals and highlighted any individual successes for the period.The most challenging part of my job, however, was taking over the end-user support of GSK Tube; a YouTube like platform for internal video sharing.Testing the new system against the projects functionality and usability requirements was my first task, I recorded any bugs or defects in a shared log. From this, I gained an in-depth knowledge of the system and after the successful launch of the platform, I was made head of support.The job required a high level of technical knowledge, both general and application specific, and constant communication with global users via email, MS Teams, Remedy ticket etc.As my knowledge of the system advanced, I was able to provide expert 2nd line support and contribute regularly to 3rd line meetings.I created, improved and officially documented many different processes for the system which I am particularly proud of.