Adrian Voss — Customer Support Lead
Denver, CO
Support lead with nine years across business software and hardware, now running 22 agents in two time zones for 6,900 accounts. Took median first response from nine hours to 38 minutes while ticket volume doubled, holding CSAT at 4.7 of 5.
Experience
Customer Support Lead, Bellrock Software · June 2021 – present
Leads 22 agents across Denver and Dublin covering 6,900 business accounts on a 24-by-5 queue.
- Cut median first response from nine hours to 38 minutes while monthly tickets rose from 4,100 to 8,600 and headcount grew by only six.
- Lifted first-contact resolution from 54% to 78% and has held CSAT at 4.7 of 5 across 31,000 rated tickets.
- Built the 140-article help center that now deflects 3,200 tickets a month, taking $420k a year out of cost to serve.
- Cut agent attrition from 41% to 14% with a three-tier career ladder and a four-week onboarding academy ending in written competency checks.
- Runs weekly triage with engineering; escalations open past 30 days fell from 210 to 18 in two quarters.
Support Team Manager, Quillhart Devices · September 2018 – May 2021
- Managed nine agents handling 2,400 monthly hardware returns; average turnaround fell from 12 days to five.
- Introduced call-quality scorecards and weekly coaching, lifting CSAT from 3.9 to 4.5 in three quarters.
- Took phone abandonment from 17% to 4% by rebuilding the shift schedule against hourly contact volume.
Support Specialist, Quillhart Devices · July 2016 – August 2018
- Closed 60 to 80 tickets a week at 96% SLA attainment across two years.
- Wrote the 40-page troubleshooting guide that halved average handle time on the five most common hardware faults.
Education
- B.A. Communication · University of Denver · September 2012 – June 2016
Skills
- Support operations: Queue and SLA design, Workforce scheduling, Escalation management, Knowledge base ownership, Quality assurance
- Leadership: Hiring and onboarding, Coaching cadence, Career laddering, Cross-time-zone handover, Performance reviews
- Systems: Zendesk, Intercom, Jira Service Management, Looker, SQL
- Measures: First response time, First-contact resolution, CSAT, Ticket deflection, Cost per ticket
Certifications
- ITIL 4 Foundation — PeopleCert
