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Customer Support and Education Director at Gladly who unified three functions and built AI tools that increased agent productivity by 50%.

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What I'm looking for

I’m open to Director or Head of Education, Support, or Enablement roles, and to senior individual-contributor or principal-level roles where hands-on program-building is the focus rather than people-management scope.

At Gladly, I unified Customer Education, Technical Support, and Enablement into a single operating model. I maintained a 4.7+ CSAT average and 95% SLA attainment across roughly 40,000 annual support tickets.

I built a custom AI tool that gives support agents real-time, in-context assistance and training, increasing agent productivity by 50%. I also designed Technical Support Search, an AI-powered federated search across Slack, GitHub, Notion, and Gong that improved user efficiency by 20%.

At Gladly, I defined the global Customer Education strategy and built academy infrastructure, including ADDIE-based learning paths, certifications, and product education. Structured onboarding learning paths reduced implementation time-to-value, while self-service content kept deflectable support volume under 15%.

Earlier, I built customer education and knowledge programs at SAP Taulia and Taco Bell Corporate, including a multi-language help center and interactive LMS training. I care about making it easier for people to succeed, whether I’m shaping an enablement strategy or writing a knowledge article myself.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Gladly logoGL

Director of Customer Support, Education & Enablement

Feb 2026 - Sep 2026 (7 months)

Expanded ownership into Internal Enablement

- Led a team that enables six internal functions — Sales, CSM, BDR, SDR, PMM, and Support — designing and delivering curriculum across group
- Created the AI Optimization Specialist role focused on optimizing and increasing AI usage and adoption across the customer base
- Automated capacity planning, task management, and content production using AI tool

Gladly logoGL

Director of Customer Support and Education

May 2025 - Feb 2026 (9 months)

Took on ownership of Technical Support, unifying it with Customer Education under one function for the first time.

- Saved Support costs by designing and executing a BPO outsourcing program, including vendor implementation, onboarding, and training
- Managed ~40,000 support tickets annually, maintaining a 4.7 CSAT average and 95% SLA attainment across L1 and L2/DSE tiers
- Increased agent product

Gladly logoGL

Director of Customer Education

Sep 2022 - May 2025 (2 years 8 months)

Defined and executed Gladly's global Customer Education strategy, building the academy infrastructure that became the foundation for the org's growth.

- Reduced implementation time-to-value through structured onboarding learning paths and role-based enablement
- Built and scaled academies, owning the full lifecycle — ADDIE-based learning paths, certifications, feature-based video tutorials, live

Gladly logoGL

Senior Manager of Customer Education

Jun 2021 - Sep 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Promoted to lead Customer Education as a standalone function, laying the groundwork for the academy model and education metrics program that followed.

Gladly logoGL

Manager of Technical Writing

Jan 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 5 months)

- Led the implementation of a new product documentation website (help.gladly.com) to support hyper growth of customer base and reduce support overhead
- Revamped the structure of the help site designed for product documentation growth
- Led the implementation of an LMS to support SMB and Enterprise customer growth
- Introduced a customer training program to automate customer training saving our C

WeWork logoWE

Technical Communications Lead

Aug 2019 - Jan 2020 (5 months)

- Created an internal communication playbook for WeWork Enterprise Technology.
- Built and managed external communication channels (CMS, teem support website, knowledgebase, WordPress, and Marketo).
- Re-built the support website (teem.com/support) to support CMS infrastructure and product guide growth.
- Built a release note process envisioned to scale with the Salesforce Community project.
- Imp

KeepTruckin logoKE

Knowledge & Content Manager

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 (2 months)

- Led and accelerated the design process for the knowledge base and support site.
- Initiated the implementation of a case management translation service for Salesforce Service Cloud.
- Evaluated the current state of technology used for support services to simplify the technology stack.

SAP Taulia logoST

Senior Content Manager

Jun 2017 - Jun 2019 (2 years)

Technical Support management team member owning anything content related. Supported our supplier/buyer audience to ensure their continued success and know-how in using our platform. Responsible for supporting our base of over 1.5M+ supplier companies with over $1TR+ worth of invoices processed through our platform. Also responsible for maintaining and providing self-service tools, lead customer we

Taulia Inc. logoTI

Content Manager

May 2014 - Jun 2017 (3 years 1 month)

Experience with Zendesk, SalesForce and Remedy content management.

‣ Manage a content team to develop and maintain knowledge materials for our SaaS platform.
‣ Manage mass product communication to our customers and user base.
‣ Implemented Language I/O, the case translation service to support virtually any language in SalesForce.
‣ Reduced "how-to" support escalations by 15% by exposing top supp

Taco Bell Corporate logoTC

Information Analyst

Jan 2012 - Apr 2014 (2 years 3 months)

‣ Service Desk SME and trainer for a team that handles 600k to 1m escalations annually. Managed a training program to support Windows and Linux systems, all restaurant hardware and above store software applications including business discrepancies and inquiries
‣ Created and published interactive LMS training programs for the Service Desk and interdepartmental teams using Camtasia and Articulate.

Taco Bell Corporate logoTC

Level II Service Desk Analyst

Jan 2011 - Jan 2012 (1 year)

‣ Worked with different core technologies and softwares like Linux, Windows, SQL, putty, VNC, FTP, Cisco broadband routers and yearly PCI compliance certification. Responsible for escalated incidents which includes operational, software and hardware related issues
‣ Remote installation of in-store POS, Back Of House (BOH) and broadband system
‣ Supported a team of over 100 Level I Analysts by trou

Taco Bell Corporate logoTC

Level I Service Desk Analyst

Feb 2009 - Oct 2011 (2 years 8 months)

‣ Technical and business inquiry support for Linux based TACO system and restaurant broadband network
‣ Ensured accurate logging of all incoming calls through Remedy and achieving required daily metrics. Ensured timely follow of all escalated calls as resolutions are reached
‣ Commitment to world class customer service plus mandatory yearly PCI compliance certification
‣ Network team member that p

BS

Adminstrative Assistant

Be Safe Water Systems

Jun 2006 - Mar 2009 (2 years 9 months)

‣ Handled potential customer inquiries as well as cold telemarketing and lead follow ups
‣ Maintained a team schedule of 15 sales associates for product demonstration
‣ Managed sales records and credit reports for customers who purchased items through credit union financing
‣ Handled bookkeeping and sales commission payouts for all associates

Disneyland Resort logoDR

Store Operations

Jan 2007 - Jan 2009 (2 years)

· Strive to maintain and exceed legendary Disney guest service and provide a memorable guest experience
· Adhere to strict company rules and guidelines
· Work with warehouse and stock management to maintain front of house merchandise
· Unload merchandise from boxes and place merchandise in their appropriate areas in the stockroom
· Count down registers and deposit cash in the s

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

GL

Gladly

LearnDash Course Certificate

Apr 2023

GL

Gladly

Academy | New Agent / Customer Service Hero Certification

Jul 2020

KS

Knowledge centered service

KCS v6 Certified

May 2018 · Expired Jun 2019

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