Donald K. Abel
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SUMMARY
Seeking opportunity in admin / customer service / technical support (software). Accomplished in providing customer support, training and quality assurance, along with creation of documentation and in-house utilities. Applications used include business, manufacturing and database. Also served non-profits in these positions: president, marketing director and publicity.
SKILLS
Tools, Operating Systems
Applications – Google Suite, Microsoft Office 365, CMS/ecommerce packages, WordPress
Ticketing/CRM – Freshdesk, Salesforce, Zoho, ServiceNow, JIRA, Basecamp, Confluence
Graphics – Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Lucidchart, Visio
Languages – HTML/CSS, PHP/MySQL, Javascript/Bash
Microsoft Windows 95, XP, 7, 10, 11; Apple MacOS; Unix/Linux
EXPERIENCE
Summary: Provided quality technical support & admin, via phone, email, customer portals, chat, monitoring tools/alerts, etc. Support skills augmented by experience in programming and scripting.
Administrative Assistant – iFi Audio, San Jose (2023-2025)
Create domestic and international shipments
Monitor and reconcile U.S. expenditures
Maintain inventory including software upgrades
Research and recommend business and tax advisors
Helpdesk Administrator – CHRIMS, Inc., Pleasanton (2022-2023)
Set up helpdesk ticketing system
Integrate with Monday.com work management platform
Create user documentation and internal procedures, train ticketing personnel
File Clerk – Comcast, San Jose (2021)
Contracts auditing and conversion, scanning, file uploads
Office Administrative Assistant – Ellis Chi CPA, Saratoga (2020)
Answer/return client phone calls, schedule client appointments
Review, print, sort, scan, assemble, file tax information
Customer Support Representative – Serro LLC, Santa Clara (2013 to 2018)
Tier 1 technical support via phone, email, portal, monitoring tools
Create technical documentation and internal procedures
Train new support representatives; provision machines
Perform weekly system security checks and software upgrades
Prior: Web Developer (2002 to 2013), contracting with IQVIS Technologies Inc. and Hyperlinked Web Services. Also independently created web portals for non-profits.
website design & implementation; mods
technology appraisals, project management
package mods/installs incl. Ecommerce
photography / music performance
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento