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John is strongest in translating technical workflows and product capabilities into clear business value, using proactive engagement, feature education, health monitoring, and practical self\-resolution guidance to help customers realize value quickly\. John has managed a book of business of approximately 100 accounts of mixed sizes and has served as the end\-to\-end relationship owner for enterprise accounts\. Notable results include achieving a 100% adoption rate during a product rollout and handling a critical two\-factor\-authentication failure affecting enterprise customers\. John uses Vitally to track adoption, gathers customer feedback for product and engineering teams, and contributes through QA, technical documentation, performance analysis, mentoring, and cross\-functional collaboration\. John holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering and was fully recovered and cleared for full\-time work following a medical leave of absence from July 2025 through March 2026\. ## Services - Product Adoption & Onboarding - Cross\-functional Collaborations - Revenue & Commercial Awareness - Strategic thinking and proactive problem\-solving - Relationship Management & Building Trust ## Highlights - Works as a Customer Success Manager for credit management software, supporting SaaS customers across onboarding, adoption, success planning, retention, renewals, and expansion\. - Managed a book of business of approximately 100 customer accounts across mixed customer sizes, including end\-to\-end ownership of enterprise relationships\. - Achieved a 100% adoption rate during a product rollout\. - Uses Vitally to track customer adoption\. - Handled a critical two\-factor\-authentication failure affecting enterprise customers\. - Drives adoption through proactive customer engagement, feature education, demonstrations, training, regular check\-ins, account reviews, and Quarterly Business Reviews\. - Monitors customer\-health metrics, proactively addresses at\-risk accounts, and works to decrease churn through consistent engagement\. - Owns renewals and expansion revenue and identifies upsell and cross\-sell opportunities, including automation upsells aligned to customer workflows\. - Translates product features and technical workflows into business benefits and simple user terminology for stakeholders at all experience levels\. - Gathers customer feedback and communicates it to product and engineering teams to inform roadmap and training improvements\. - Conducted new\-client onboarding and collaborated with cross\-functional teams to get customers operational efficiently and on time\. - Delivered software demonstrations and group and individual training sessions for clients and prospective leads\. - Supported hospital risk managers, department coordinators, and law\-firm users through software demonstrations and training\. - Managed inbound customer calls, voicemails, web submissions, and emails documented requests through ticketing systems identified bugs and followed issues through resolution\. - Conducted periodic account reviews to address platform questions, account\-setup revisions, anticipated issues, self\-resolution techniques, roadblocks, and product feedback\. - Performed QA for program enhancements and bug fixes, including desktop testing in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome and mobile testing on Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Phone\. - Performed software\-based performance analysis and generated tabular and graphical operational metrics\. - Imported SSIS packages into SQL Server, wrote queries, and created custom reports\. - Prepared technical documentation for software modules\. - Coordinated client\-specific queries with an offshore technical team and routed tickets accurately to second\-level support when needed\. - Helped customers configure users, companies, regions, properties, assets, procedures, and schedules within a proprietary software platform\. - Provided platform guidance to new, recent, and existing team members and mentored and onboarded new hires\. - Participated in cross\-functional discussions on software enhancements, client roadblocks, procedures, communication, and company goals\. - Has experience across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle\. - Taught computer hardware, software, Windows features, security and malware protection, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation design, database development, image editing, internet use, and email use as a Computer Science Instructor\. ## Experience - **Health and well\-being at Career Break** (2025\-07\-01–2026\-03\-01) — Medical Leave of Absence \| July 2025 – March 2026 \| Fully recovered and cleared for full\-time work\. - **Customer Success Manager at \[confidential\]** (2017\-10\-01–2025\-06\-01) — Responsibilities Administering Support in the following areas: 1\. Conducting demonstrations of software service and its associated modules for potentially interested new client leads\. 2\. Conducting software\-based training sessions for applicable client departments, both at a group level and at an individual level\. 3\. Performing on\-boarding of new clients and collaborating with cross\-functional teams to get new clients up\-and\-running in an efficient and timely manner\. 4\. Acknowledging incoming customer calls, voicemails, web\-submissions, emails, identifying bugs, gathering all pertinent customer information and documenting their requests via a ticketing system\. 5\. Providing solutions through problem identification, analysis and troubleshooting procedures, proactively following up with customers from issue/inquiry submission all the way through resolution\. 6\. Conducting periodic account reviews with clients to go over platform\-based questions, make revisions to their unique account setup - **Customer Success Manager at \[confidential\-2\]** (2012\-05\-01–2017\-09\-01) — Responsibilities Administering Support in the following areas: 1\. Gathering all pertinent caller information and documenting customer requests in a ticketing system\. 2\. Acknowledging incoming customer calls, voicemails, web\-submissions, emails, identifying bugs and providing assistance for users experiencing difficulties\. 3\. Generating web trouble tickets and providing solutions through problem identification, analysis and troubleshooting procedures\. 4\. Following up with customers from issue/inquiry submission all the way through problem resolution\. 5\. Conducting demos and software training sessions for users such as hospital risk managers, department coordinators and law firm users at all levels of skill and experience\. 6\. Periodic meeting with other departments for enhancements/changes relating to software, procedures and communication\. 7\. Carrying out testing/QA for new program enhancements and bug fixes\. 8\. Preparing technical documentation for various software modules\. 9\. Carrying - **Customer Success Manager at \[confidential\-3\]** (2010\-01\-01–2012\-03\-01) — Responsibilities Providing Support in the following areas: 1\. Collecting all relevant caller information and documenting customer requests in a ticketing system\. 2\. Responding to incoming customer calls, voicemail, web\-submissions, emails, identifying bugs and providing assistance for users experiencing problems\. 3\. Creating web trouble tickets and providing solutions through problem identification, analysis and troubleshooting procedures\. 4\. Routing tickets accurately to second level support when needed\. 5\. Meeting with other departments for enhancements/changes relating to software, procedures and communication\. 6\. Performing testing/QA for new program enhancements and bug fixes on both desktop \(Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome\) and mobile environments \(Blackberry, iPhone and Windows Phone\)\. 7\. Importing SSIS Packages into SQL Server\. 8\. Writing queries and creating custom reports\. 9\. Assisting customers in setting up users, companies, regions, properties, assets, procedures and - **Computer Science Instructor at \[confidential\-4\]** (2009\-08\-01–2010\-07\-01) — Responsibilities Providing training in the following areas: 1\. Computer Hardware 2\. Computer Software 3\. Windows Features 4\. Security and Malware Protection 5\. Word Processing 6\. Spreadsheet Creation 7\. Presentation Design 8\. Database Development 9\. Image Editing 10\. Internet Usage 11\. Email Usage ## Education - Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering — \[confidential\] ## FAQ ### What does John do? G\. John is a Customer Success Manager for credit management software\. John supports SaaS customers across onboarding, adoption, ongoing success planning, account reviews, renewals, and expansion opportunities\. ### What are John’s professional strengths? John’s core strengths include product adoption and onboarding, cross\-functional collaboration, revenue and commercial awareness, strategic and proactive problem\-solving, and relationship management\. John is also experienced in clear communication, presentations, stakeholder management, technical translation, and building trust with customer leadership\. ### What kinds of customer accounts has John managed? John has experience supporting SMB, mid\-market, and enterprise customers and has managed a book of business of approximately 100 accounts with a mix of customer sizes\. John has also owned enterprise customer relationships end to end\. ### How does John drive customer adoption? John drives adoption through consistent customer engagement, proactive feature education, software demonstrations, group and individual training, regular check\-ins, account reviews, and Quarterly Business Reviews\. John also provides resources, best practices, and self\-resolution techniques to help customers realize value quickly\. ### What product\-adoption results has John achieved? John achieved a 100% adoption rate on a product rollout\. John tracks adoption using the Vitally customer\-success platform\. ### How does John handle customer escalations and critical issues? John has strong crisis\-management experience, including handling a critical two\-factor\-authentication failure for enterprise customers\. John works from issue submission through resolution by identifying problems, troubleshooting, proactively following up, and keeping customers informed\. ### How does John support retention and revenue growth? John monitors customer\-health metrics, proactively addresses at\-risk accounts, and uses consistent engagement to reduce churn\. John also identifies upsell and cross\-sell opportunities, owns renewals and expansion revenue, and matches automation upsells to customer workflows\. ### What did John do as a Customer Success Manager at the first confidential employer? At a confidential employer, John administered support for software demonstrations, departmental and individual client training, new\-client onboarding, ticket intake, troubleshooting, periodic account reviews, QA, technical documentation, cross\-functional enhancement discussions, and platform guidance for team members\. ### How did John support clients at the first confidential employer? At the first confidential employer, John worked with cross\-functional teams to implement clients efficiently, documented calls, voicemails, web submissions, and emails in a ticketing system, identified bugs, revised account setups, anticipated issues, and gathered feedback on desired platform changes and improvement areas\. ### What did John do as a Customer Success Manager at the second confidential employer? At a second confidential employer, John handled customer\-request documentation, inbound calls and messages, web trouble tickets, troubleshooting, and end\-to\-end follow\-up through resolution\. John also conducted demos and training for hospital risk managers, department coordinators, and law\-firm users at all skill levels\. ### What technical and cross\-functional work did John perform at the second confidential employer? At the second confidential employer, John performed QA for enhancements and bug fixes, prepared technical documentation, conducted software performance analysis, produced tabular and graphical operational metrics, coordinated client\-specific queries with an offshore technical team, and met with other departments on software, procedure, and communication improvements\. ### What did John do as a Customer Success Manager at the third confidential employer? At a third confidential employer, John provided support through caller\-information collection, ticket documentation, inbound customer response, bug identification, troubleshooting, and accurate routing of tickets to second\-level support when needed\. John also met with other departments about software, procedure, and communication changes\. ### What technical work did John perform at the third confidential employer? At the third confidential employer, John tested enhancements and bug fixes on desktop environments including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, as well as Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Phone mobile environments\. John imported SSIS packages into SQL Server, wrote queries, created custom reports, and helped customers configure users, companies, regions, properties, assets, procedures, and schedules in proprietary software\. ### What did John teach as a Computer Science Instructor? As a Computer Science Instructor at a confidential employer, John trained learners in computer hardware and software, Windows features, security and malware protection, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation design, database development, image editing, internet use, and email use\. ### How does John bring customer feedback into product improvement? John gathers and communicates customer feedback to product and engineering teams to help shape the product roadmap\. John also uses customer feedback to improve training and participates in discussions on software enhancements, customer roadblocks, and future company goals\. ### What are John’s QA and software\-development experience? John has experience testing and conducting QA for program enhancements and bug fixes, analyzing software performance, and preparing technical documentation for software modules\. John also has experience across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle\. ### How does John contribute to teams? John values collaborative culture, knowledge sharing, and team development\. John has mentored and onboarded new hires, shared skills and information with teammates, and provided platform guidance to new, recent, and existing team members\. ### What is John’s education? G\. John holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from a confidential institution\. ### What was John’s recent career break? G\. John took a medical leave of absence from July 2025 through March 2026 for health and well\-being\. John fully recovered and was cleared for full\-time work\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/g\-john\-5a99a7404