employment history...

10/20 - Present
Technical Account Manager III - GoDaddy, Inc., as a result of GoDaddy acquiring SkyVerge

• Customer & technical support for customers with regards to the SkyVerge WooCommerce plugins in English and French (and occasionally Italian)
• Troubleshoot and diagnose potential software bugs reported by customers
• Replicate issues on localhost and on staging to validate reports
• Answer presales questions from prospects for WooCommerce plugins
• Log detailed customer feedback in the Clubhouse app
• Occasionally validate or correct user-submitted translations and open pull-requests for merging into the plugins
• Liaise with the WooCommerce team for customer billing/subscription issues
• Write PHP code snippets as time permits
• Update public documentation
• Update internal documentation
• Help train new team members

06/17 - 10/20
Customer Support Specialist - SkyVerge, Inc. (until GoDaddy's acquisition of SkyVerge)

• Split time doing customer support for customers with regards to the SkyVerge WooCommerce plugins and the Jilt email marketing service, in English and French (and occasionally Italian)
• Troubleshoot and diagnose potential software bugs reported by customers
• Replicate issues on localhost and on staging to validate reports
• Answer presales questions from prospects for both WooCommerce plugins and the Jilt service
• Log detailed customer feedback in the Clubhouse app
• Open and edit GitHub issues to report bugs and other strange behaviours
• Occasionally validate or correct user-submitted translations and open pull-requests for merging into the plugins
• Translate various saved responses and the occasional SkyVerge webpage from English to French
• Liaise with the WooCommerce team for customer billing/subscription issues
• Liaise with other third-party developer teams as needed
• Write PHP code snippets as time permits
• Update documentation
• Help train new team members

08/15 - 10/16
Head of Customer Success - Vanilla Forums, Inc.

• Hired, on-boarded, trained and managed new Customer Success Managers
• Created and documented Customer Success processes
• Organized annual contract renewals
• Participated in extended management meetings, liaising with the executive team as well as fellow managers
• Other responsibilities as per the Customer Success Manager item below
• Client list included: Microsoft Hololens, Electronic Arts, SEGA (Relic and Creative Assembly studios), Adobe, Oculus Rift, Capital One, Edmunds, Procter & Gamble, Zenimax, Under Armour Connected Fitness (My Fitness Pal), Hearst Publishing UK, Zynga, Callaway Golf, College Confidential, Yahoo! Developer Network, Plex, Penny Arcade and more.
• Total number of clients for the team exceeded 150, totaling more than $200,000 in monthly recurring revenue

07/14 - 08/15
Customer Success Manager - Vanilla Forums, Inc.

• On-boarded and trained new high-end clients on the platform
• Advised clients on how to best moderate, manage and grow their communities
• Supported clients with basic technical support and liaised with developers to solve issues
• Presented at the monthly staff meeting
• Billed, refunded, credited and cancelled various accounts as needed
• Liaised with clients for other departments, such as Marketing for casestudy purposes or Operations for mass-migration purposes
• Total number of clients exceeded 100, totaling more than $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue

11/09 - 11/13
Webmaster - Studio Technique

• Converted PSD files into usable webpages, as well as overall website upkeep and maintenance
• Created blogs and set up forums for animation students to share their homework assignments with each other and the artistic director

05/08 - 09/09
French-Language Community Moderator - Mzinga, Inc.

• Provided online moderation, customer service and basic technical support to French-speaking users with regards to Microsoft Office Live Workspace
• Translated various technical solutions from English to French and translated user suggestions from French to English during the beta phase of the product

09/97 - 09/01
Chatting Online Guide - About.com, Inc.

• Wrote over 100 chat-related articles
• Sent bi-weekly newsletters to over 11,000 subscribers
• Moderated the three busiest chatrooms on the About network
• Managed a team of up to ten chatroom assistants
• Responded to user emails daily
• Optimized pages for search engines
• Consistently ranked within the top 10% traffic of all sites on the network from June of 1998 until Setepmber of 2001

education...

09/16 - 03/18
Diploma in Web Programming
- Concordia University, Continuing Education

May 2012
Bachelor of Arts, Specialization Sociology
- Concordia University

01/03 - 04/03
Certificate in Graphics Applications in Desktop Publishing
- Concordia University, Continuing Education

09/94 - 05/96
Social Science Program
- Dawson College

09/83 - 06/94
Grades 1-11
- Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School