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Ruben Gonzalez

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Technical Support Manager at Alation, improving support delivery with AI-driven solutions and performance metrics.

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At Alation, I’m responsible for support delivery, escalation management, and team performance for the Chile Support Team. I balance operational efficiency and strategic oversight with AI-driven solutions while keeping human value central.

At PagerDuty, I managed the Automation Support Team, providing technical guidance to Automation Customers. Earlier, as a Technical Support Specialist II, I supported the PagerDuty suite of solutions.

At Cloudera, I worked with stakeholders and technical teams to improve support diagnostics, troubleshooting, and case sentiment prediction tools. Across my career, I’ve worked in technical support, customer operations, and IT infrastructure, including support for data and cloud solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Alation logoAL
Current

Technical Support Manager

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 9 months)

Responsible for Support Delivery, Escalation Management, Team Performance, and Cross-functional Alignment of the Chile Support Team. Working in the intersection of Operational Efficiency (Case Management and Metrics, Quality Assurance) and Strategic Oversight (Team Forecast, Process Management, Stakeholder Alignment). Balancing AI-Driven Solutions with real Human Value.

PagerDuty logoPA

Manager, Customer Support

Nov 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 2 months)

In this position, I'm responsible for directly managing the Automation Support Team charged with providing technical guidance to the Automation Customers in PagerDuty.

PagerDuty logoPA

Technical Support Specialist II

Jul 2023 - Dec 2023 (5 months)

Working as a Technical Support Specialist II providing support to the PagerDuty suite of solutions, for our world-class customers.

PagerDuty logoPA

Multi Product Technical Support Specialist

Jan 2023 - Sep 2023 (8 months)

Multi Product Technical Support Specialist via Variacode

Cloudera logoCL

Senior Support Product Manager

Oct 2022 - Dec 2022 (2 months)

Senior Support Product Manager working directly with Business Stakeholders, Managers, Engineers, and Support Specialists to improve the Diagnostics, Troubleshooting, and Case Sentiment Predictions tools, in favor of improving the Support Engineer troubleshooting experience, increasing Customer Satisfaction, reducing Case Time Resolution, and enhancing Management Awareness on critical cases.

Cloudera logoCL

Customer Operations Engineer

Aug 2019 - Oct 2022 (3 years 2 months)

Working as a Customer Operations Engineer responsible of providing support to the Cloudera Customers in the use of the Suite of Products from the Cloudera and Hortonworks portfolio, for Big Data and Cloud Solutions. Product suites include Data Wharehouse, Analytics, Data Science, Operational DB and Machine Learning solutions for High-end Clients.

Crossover for Work logoCW

L2 Customer Support Architect

Oct 2017 - Aug 2019 (1 year 10 months)

Level 2 Customer Support Architects are the technical wizards that use their technical expertise to resolve complex customer issues and improve the customer’s overall experience using a wide variety of tools to identify bugs, feature requests, and customization requests. The L2 agent is the person primarily responsible for delivering workable solutions to the customers and communicating with other

Huawei Technologies logoHT

IT Onsite Engineer

Mar 2017 - Oct 2017 (7 months)

IT Onsite Engineer, assigned by Accenture to Huawei Chile, to provide local support to Networking & Servers platforms, Video-Conference devices and User's Desktops and Laptops and other Legacy devices, while ensuring compliance with Global Service Level Agreements and maintaining Key Performance Indicators. Perform as an assistant Focal Point for the Country IT Manager.

PS

Technical Support Lead

PDVSA Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.

Jun 2011 - Dec 2016 (5 years 6 months)

Coaching and Supervision of Technical Support Unit Staff (7). Supervise the end user functionality for 1000+ users in 3 locations. Printing Platform Management. Desktop & Laptop Platform Management. Videoconference Platform Support. Development and Monitoring of Staff Performance Indicators. Monitor Compliance with Service Level Agreements. Windows and Linux Advance Platform Support, including Win

PS

IT Infrastructure and Support Analyst

PDVSA Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.

Nov 2009 - Jun 2011 (1 year 7 months)

Responsible for End User Support, Business Applications Support, Network Infrastructure Design and Support, Monitor Communications and Data Links, Manage Applications Portfolio. VoIP Telephony Management, as well as the conceptualization, design and implementation of the new data center of the Joint Venture Petrolera BieloVenezolana.

PV

Networking, Servers and Database Analyst

PDVSA Petroregional del Lago, S.A. (PDVSA & SHELL Joint Venture)

Oct 2007 - Nov 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Infraestructure Servers Administrator responsible for Active Directory Administration (Windows Server Environment), Domain Policies Administration (Windows Server Environment), DHCP and DNS Server Administration (Windows Server Environment), Mail Server and IM Server Administration (MS Exchange), Microsoft Systems Management Server Administration, Servers Backup and Restore Service Administration

PV

Bussiness Applications Analyst

PDVSA Petroregional del Lago, S.A. (PDVSA & SHELL Joint Venture)

Nov 2006 - Oct 2007 (11 months)

Responsible of the Applications Inventory Management, Installation and Support of Applications Suites and Mangement of Local Applications Servers, including UNIX and Windows Servers. License Management and Applications Contract Support. Also responsable of the Support of bussines oriented Applications as Field Engineering, Drilling Applications, Geophysics, PetroPhysics and Modelling Software.

Shell Oil Company logoSC

Applications Analyst

Mar 2005 - Dec 2006 (1 year 9 months)

Responsible of the Applications Inventory Management, Installation and Support of Applications Suites and Management of Local Applications Servers, including UNIX and Windows Servers. License Management and Applications Contract Support.

AC

Sales Service Executive

Antares Systems C.A.

Sep 2002 - Feb 2005 (2 years 5 months)

Responsible of customer acquisition and sales promotion for the company. Manager of pre and post-sales service and control product warranties. Inventory control. Responsible for product replenishment and management. Interaction with national and international suppliers.

Shell Oil Company logoSC

IT HelpDesk Analyst

Aug 2004 - Dec 2004 (4 months)

Support to the Shell Venezuela Global Infrastructure Platform (GI Platform). The position included the User Support, Applications Installation and Support, and Local Infraestructure Management (LAN Administration, Telephone Central Administration). Also provided support for the Local Systems Backup Operations, and the direct collaboration with other solutions teams, both local and global.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

CI

Centro Electronico de Idiomas

IELTS General Certification, IELTS - General Training

Overall Band Score 8.0
CEFR Level C1

AL

Alation

Alation Data Steward

Issued Feb 2025 · Expires Feb 2028

AL

Alation

Alation User Brilliance Badge

Issued Jan 2025 · Expires Jan 2028

FM

Force Management

Command of the Message Program

Issued Jun 2024

PA

PagerDuty

PagerDuty Foundational Practitioner Certification

Issued Aug 2023

AA

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Issued Aug 2021 · Expired Aug 2024

BC

British Council & The University of Cambridge

IELTS - International English Language Testing System

Issued Sep 2015 · Expired Sep 2017

UC

Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín

Master's Degree in Management of Research and Development Projects, Computer Science, Management, Projects

2008 - 2010

Specialized in management of research and development projects, while I studied technological learning and technology transfer in joint ventures in the oil sector in Zulia State, Venezuela.

UZ

Universidad del Zulia

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer and Information Sciences, General. Computer Programming

1999 - 2005

Specialized in the analysis, design, development and implementation of software applications for the solution of complex problems as well as process optimization using a wide variety of programming languages and database platforms. Also prepared for the optimal administration of complex systems platforms, where business continuity is a must.

CI

Consortium for Service Innovation

KCS v6 Fundamentals

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