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Shelby combines Microsoft 365, Azure, ServiceNow, Jira, identity and endpoint\-security experience with a management approach centered on clear expectations, measurable outcomes, coaching, and collaboration rather than micromanagement\. Career highlights include building Niche\.com’s IT support function from the ground up designing Howmet Aerospace’s Major Incident Management process supporting SaaS migration hypercare at PwC leading regional enterprise support at JW Player and overseeing global help desk processes at Ansys\. Shelby holds ITIL, HDI, Microsoft 365, Azure, Lean Six Sigma, and Jira credentials\. ## Services - DevOps - Knowledge Management - Service Delivery - Information Technology - Cross\-functional Coordination - IT Leadership - Training and Development \(HR\) - KPI Dashboards - Organization Skills - IT Service Delivery - Managing multiple locations - Sales & Marketing Leadership - ITIL Service Operations - Service\-Level Agreements \(SLA\) - Executive Support - Continuous Improvement - Team Facilitation - User Training - Service Implementation - Major Incident Management - ServiceNow - Dock 365 Help Desk - Onboarding - Customer Satisfaction - Lean Fundamentals - Real\-time Monitoring - Single Sign\-On \(SSO\) - Conflict Resolution - ServiceNow Administration - Process Analysis ## Highlights - Serves as a senior escalation resource at PwC for a proprietary SaaS platform, investigating complex incidents and coordinating cross\-functional resolution within established SLA targets\. - Supported hypercare command\-center activities during a major SaaS\-platform migration at PwC, coordinating communication, issue triage, and stakeholder alignment\. - Established Pendo governance, analytics standards, and adoption\-measurement practices at PwC to inform user experience, feature adoption, and support\-demand forecasting\. - Uses AI\-enabled tools, dashboards, and trend analysis at PwC to accelerate root\-cause investigations, improve diagnostic accuracy, and optimize workflows and service operations\. - Built Niche\.com’s IT support function from the ground up, including support processes, service standards, ticketing workflows, and operational governance\. - Implemented and optimized Niche\.com’s ticketing platform with workflow design, SLA development, reporting, and knowledge\-management practices\. - Created service metrics, reporting standards, performance frameworks, documentation, and onboarding processes at Niche\.com for a growing remote workforce\. - Directed global service desk operations at Howmet Aerospace and served as the highest escalation point for major incidents affecting business operations\. - Designed and implemented Howmet Aerospace’s Major Incident Management process, including communication standards, escalation procedures, and post\-incident review practices\. - Built executive\-facing KPI dashboards and led automation initiatives at Howmet Aerospace to improve leadership visibility, efficiency, and service desk productivity\. - Led and developed Technical Support Engineers supporting JW Player enterprise customers across North and South America\. - Owned regional SLA attainment, customer satisfaction, operational effectiveness, escalation management, KPI frameworks, executive dashboards, and service\-health reporting at JW Player\. - Managed Microsoft 365 services and hybrid infrastructure at Ansys as an SME for Azure, Office, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer, and Skype\. - Helped migrate Ansys from Google to Microsoft, including Google Mail to Exchange and Google Drive to OneDrive, while developing migration training, FAQs, and adoption materials\. - Supported Azure AD directory synchronization, ADFS, SSO, Azure applications, SCCM, GPO, Active Directory, WSUS, BitLocker, McAfee, Bit9, patching, and compliance at Ansys\. - Oversaw a corporate\-headquarters help desk team of 6 plus 1 colleague in Concord, Massachusetts, and global help desk processes for 25 members at Ansys\. - Owned Ansys Incident, Request, and Knowledge modules and oversaw global ServiceNow ticket queues for routing and timely completion\. - Helped implement Azure\-based SSO at Ansys using SAML or proxy application configuration, provisioning, and PowerShell automation for licensing and account lifecycle tasks\. - Helped implement ServiceNow at Ansys, creating Incident Management, Service Requests, Knowledge modules, and catalogs\. - Served as technical lead for Ansys’s company\-wide MFA/2FA implementation through SSO/Azure and created enrollment documentation and FAQs for users of varied technical abilities\. - Provided Level 1, 2, and 3 endpoint support and vendor escalation at Ansys, including WDS, DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, GPO, cloud backup, disk encryption, mobile support, network troubleshooting, and malware incident response\. - Provided Windows 7, XP, and 2000 desktop support at Seabreeze, along with PC builds, hardware repairs, server and switch maintenance, cabling, Active Directory, DNS, backup and recovery, Barracuda firewall, ESET, PLC, printer, and IP\-camera support\. - Oversaw Special Olympics New York policy and procedure compliance across 6 counties serving more than 2,500 athletes, 60\-plus certified coaches, and 500\-plus volunteers\. - Managed the Special Olympics New York annual budget, volunteer training, orientations, sports training, competition operations, coach certification, vendor contracts, and stakeholder communications\. - Holds ITIL v4 Foundations, ITIL v3 Foundations, HDI Support Center Manager, Microsoft 365 Fundamentals, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, and Jira Essentials credentials\. - Uses structured performance improvement plans with clear metrics and has turned around an underperforming employee through that approach\. ## Experience - **Functional Business Analyst at PwC** (2022\-11\-01–present) — Serve as a senior escalation resource for a proprietary SaaS platform, investigating complex incidents, coordinating cross\-functional resolution efforts, and helping maintain service quality within established SLA targets\. • Assisted hypercare command center activities during a major SaaS platform migration, ensuring effective communication, issue triage, and stakeholder alignment throughout the transition\. • Partner with Product Owners, Engineering, and Technical Leads to manage defects, prioritize enhancements, and drive resolution of customer\-impacting issues\. • Develop and execute shift\-left support strategies through knowledge management, analyst enablement, onboarding, and mentorship, strengthening support effectiveness while maintaining adherence to established service standards and operating procedures\. • Established governance, analytics standards, and adoption measurement practices for Pendo, enabling data\-driven decisions around user experience, feature adoption, and support - **Customer Service Support Manager at JW Player** (2022\-03\-01–2022\-09\-01) — Led and developed a team of Technical Support Engineers supporting enterprise customers throughout North and South America\. • Owned regional support performance, including SLA attainment, customer satisfaction, operational effectiveness, and escalation management\. • Developed KPI frameworks, executive dashboards, and service health reporting to drive accountability and support continuous improvement efforts\. • Partnered with Product and Engineering teams to advocate for customer needs, address recurring issues, and improve software quality and platform reliability\. - **Customer Service Program Manager/Service Desk Manager at Howmet Aerospace** (2021\-06\-01–2022\-03\-01) — Directed global service desk operations and served as the highest escalation point for major incidents impacting business operations\. • Designed and implemented the organization’s Major Incident Management process, establishing communication standards, escalation procedures, and post\-incident review practices\. • Built executive\-facing KPI dashboards that provided leadership visibility into service performance, operational trends, and support effectiveness\. • Led automation initiatives that reduced manual effort, improved operational efficiency, and enhanced service desk productivity\. • Collaborated across support tiers and technical teams to improve escalation management and drive resolution of complex issues\. - **Information Technology Support Manager at Niche\.com** (2020\-10\-01–2021\-06\-01) — Built the organization’s IT support function from the ground up, establishing support processes, service standards, ticketing workflows, and operational governance\. • Implemented and optimized the ticketing platform, including workflow design, SLA development, reporting, and knowledge management practices\. • Created support metrics, reporting standards, and performance frameworks used to measure and improve service delivery\. • Managed vendor relationships, asset lifecycle processes, and support operations for a rapidly growing remote workforce\. • Developed documentation and onboarding processes that improved operational consistency and accelerated employee productivity\. - **Manager of IT Support at Niche\.com** (2020\-10\-01–2021\-06\-01) - **Systems Engineer at Ansys** (2018\-12\-01–2020\-10\-01) — ● Manage and monitor Microsoft 365 services and hybrid infrastructure\. Acting as SME for Azure, Microsoft 365, O365 \(Office, Exchange, Sharepoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer, Skype\) ● Develop and grow processes using Continual Service Improvement\. ● User education: one on one via Teams or ticket, KB articles, Stream videos, Yammer posts, Sharepoint sites etc\. ● Design, implement, and document deploying/updating third party applications ● Create and implement upgrade strategies for the current environment with specific attention to Microsoft SCCM, GPO, AD, and WSUS\. ● Work with L1 and L2 teams to train/educate on Microsoft 365 ● Managing directory sync into Azure AD\. Federation Services and Single Sign\-On \(SSO\), Active Directory Federation Services \(ADFS\) ● Member of team to migrate company from Google to Microsoft \(google mail to exchange, google drive to Onedrive, etc\.\) ● Create documentation for Microsoft Migration to include training, FAQs, and other information/activities to sociali - **Help Desk Manager at Ansys** (2017\-03\-01–2020\-10\-01) — Received ITIL v3 Foundations Certification • Received HDI Support Center Manager Certification • Overseeing Corporate Headquarters Help Desk team of 6 and 1 in Concord, MA • Owner of Incident, Request, and Knowledge modules within company • Business process analysis • Oversee Global Help Desk processes and procedures \(25 members\) • Manage relationship with L1 support team to maximize L1 efficiency, identify process improvements, and provide processes needed to process support requests\. • Oversee Global ServiceNow ticket queues to ensure proper routing and timely completion • Work with the help desk team and end users to provide quality support and service, as well as facilitate procedural adherence to ANSYS policy and SLAs\. • Proactively seek ways to improve workflow, identifying better ways to provide value\-added service\. • Gather, analyze, and publish metrics to benchmark the IT Support workload/performance and identify trends in support issues, making recommendations to improve se - **IT Help Desk Supervisor at Ansys** (2015\-03\-01–2017\-04\-01) — Member of lead group that implemented SSO using Azure\. • Implement business apps using SAML or proxy, configure as necessary and provision users and groups\. • High use of Powershell to monitor and modify accounts, apps, and resources • o Automate \(via powershell\) many tasks including license provision, account information update\(s\), and account activate/deactivate • Administrator of Enterprise applications of Azure, O365, Carbon Black, McAfee • Member of lead group that implemented ServiceNow and created the Incident Management, Service Requests, and Knowledge modules and Catalogs • Ongoing work with security team on project to implement full whitelisting and ensuring all assets are in properly defined group, ensuring all PCs have either FDE and/or MEPP, creating new/modifying policies to reflect current business needs\. • Currently establishing media encryption policy and testing • Technical Lead on company wide MFA/2FA implementation through SSO/Azure\. • Created necessary documentatio - **Sr\. Help Desk Analyst at Ansys** (2013\-12\-01–2015\-04\-01) — Laptop, Desktop, and Tablet support \(level 1,2, 3 and vendor escalation\) • Configure desktops and laptops using WDS • Configure network settings using DHCP, DNS, and third party software • Manage user and computer properties with AD and GPO settings • 3rd party software installation and support, including vendor escalation for products which include McAfee EPO, Webex, Checkpoint VPN and Endpoint Encryption, Image Now, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Adobe products\.\.\.etc\. • Administer cloud backup console to ensure user data is backing up properly • Administer disk encryption to monitor status of FDE and MEPP and create new policies to reflect current business needs • Mobile device setup and support including wireless account maintenance and management • Troubleshooting of various client facing network issues for end user systems, software, telecom, and servers\. • Virus/malware incident response and management\. • Communicate with global help desk team - **IT Computer Technician at Seabreeze** (2012\-03\-01–2013\-12\-01) — Provide desktop support for office staff using Windows 7, XP and 2000 • Routine maintenance on workstations such as new PC builds, hard drive clone/swap, RAM replacement, motherboard replacement • System administration duties such as DNS maintenance, user account control, group policy, file access/privileges, active directory, mange network resources/shares and remote access • Maintain core network resources including servers, switches \(layer 2 and 3\), NAS, copper \(cat 5e and 6\) and fiber cabling \(general maintenance and installation/termination of\) • Install and maintain business specific software • Email administration including outlook setup, password changes and Barracuda firewall management • Ensure backup and recovery plan is followed including software backup tasks and hardware swaps • Participate in new and/or upgrade software testing and implementation • Oversee Eset Administrator Console ensuring proper policy management to end user PCs • Work with access control and progra - **Director of Program at Special Olympics New York** (2008\-10\-01–2011\-04\-01) — Oversaw and ensured proper compliance of all Special Olympics policies and procedures which included 6 counties, 2,500\+ athletes, 60\+ certified coaches and 500\+ volunteers • Responsible for creation and maintenance of yearly budget • Developed and coordinated full volunteer training and education plan • Instructed Volunteer Orientations for new volunteers and sport trainings throughout the region • Oversaw event directors and/or games committees for each competition to ensure consistent and high quality competitions • Managed and supervised coaches to ensure proper certifications were up to date and training clubs meet safety, training and competition minimum standards\. • Worked with vendors to create contracts for food, transportation, uniforms, equipment and facilities • Provided consistent communication to all volunteers and coaches regarding important information including competition dates/deadlines, upcoming events, activities, fundraisers, announcements and any other pertine ## Education - A\.A\.S, Information Technology, Networking and Security — Finger Lakes Community College (2011\-01\-01–2014\-01\-01) - Bachelor's degree, Communication and Conflict Resolution — Juniata College (2001\-01\-01–2005\-01\-01) - Bachelor's degree — Juniata College - Associate of Arts and Sciences, Information Technology — Finger Lakes Community College - Bachelor's degree — Juniata College - Bachelor's degree — Juniata College - Bachelor of Arts, Communication, General — Juniata College ## FAQ ### What does Shelby do at PwC? Shelby is a Functional Business Analyst at PwC\. Shelby serves as a senior escalation resource for a proprietary SaaS platform, investigates complex incidents, coordinates cross\-functional resolution, and works to maintain service quality within established SLA targets\. Shelby currently handles Jira tickets for internal and external users as an individual contributor\. ### What are Shelby’s professional strengths? Shelby’s core strengths include IT Service Management, service delivery, service desk management, incident and major incident management, problem management, ITIL service operations, SLA management, knowledge management, KPI reporting, continuous improvement, process analysis, cross\-functional coordination, customer support, executive support, vendor management, onboarding, user training, coaching, performance management, and conflict resolution\. Shelby is experienced in translating unclear user requirements through education and collaboration and in using screen sharing to build customer trust\. ### What has Shelby accomplished at PwC? Shelby has supported a major SaaS\-platform migration through hypercare command\-center activities, including issue triage, communication, and stakeholder alignment\. Shelby partners with Product Owners, Engineering, and Technical Leads on defects, enhancements, and customer\-impacting issues develops shift\-left support through knowledge management, analyst enablement, onboarding, and mentorship established Pendo governance, analytics standards, and adoption measurement and uses AI\-enabled tools, dashboards, and trend analysis for root\-cause investigation, diagnostic accuracy, support\-demand forecasting, workflow optimization, and scalable service improvement\. ### What did Shelby accomplish at Niche\.com? At Niche\.com, Shelby built the IT support function from the ground up\. Shelby established support processes, service standards, ticketing workflows, and operational governance implemented and optimized the ticketing platform developed workflows, SLAs, reporting, and knowledge\-management practices created service metrics and performance frameworks managed vendors, asset lifecycle processes, and support operations for a growing remote workforce and developed documentation and onboarding processes to improve consistency and employee productivity\. ### What did Shelby do at Howmet Aerospace? At Howmet Aerospace, Shelby directed global service desk operations and served as the highest escalation point for major incidents affecting business operations\. Shelby designed and implemented the Major Incident Management process, including communication standards, escalation procedures, and post\-incident reviews built executive\-facing KPI dashboards led automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve productivity and collaborated across support tiers and technical teams on complex escalation resolution\. ### What did Shelby do at JW Player? At JW Player, Shelby led and developed Technical Support Engineers serving enterprise customers throughout North and South America\. Shelby owned regional SLA attainment, customer satisfaction, operational effectiveness, and escalation management created KPI frameworks, executive dashboards, and service\-health reporting and partnered with Product and Engineering to advocate for customers, address recurring issues, and improve software quality and platform reliability\. ### What was Shelby’s Systems Engineer work at Ansys? As a Systems Engineer at Ansys, Shelby managed and monitored Microsoft 365 services and hybrid infrastructure and acted as an SME for Azure and Microsoft 365 services, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer, and Skype\. Shelby used Continual Service Improvement trained users and L1/L2 teams through Teams, tickets, knowledge\-base articles, Stream videos, Yammer posts, and SharePoint sites designed third\-party application deployments and upgrades supported SCCM, GPO, Active Directory, WSUS, Azure AD directory synchronization, ADFS, and SSO helped migrate the company from Google to Microsoft performed incident root\-cause analysis supported BitLocker, McAfee, Bit9, patching, and compliance and created Azure applications with appropriate security and permissions\. ### What did Shelby accomplish as Help Desk Manager at Ansys? As Help Desk Manager at Ansys, Shelby received ITIL v3 Foundations and HDI Support Center Manager certifications, oversaw a corporate\-headquarters help desk team of 6 plus 1 colleague in Concord, Massachusetts, and oversaw global help desk processes and procedures for 25 members\. Shelby owned the Incident, Request, and Knowledge modules managed ServiceNow queues, L1 relationships, support metrics, process improvement, and adherence to policies and SLAs represented U\.S\. concerns on the Global Help Desk Leadership Team worked with the PC vendor on global portal standards served on the Google Apps Admin team using GAM collaborated with senior leaders including the CEO and CFO and assisted project managers with technical requirements, planning, testing, and implementation\. ### What did Shelby do as IT Help Desk Supervisor at Ansys? As IT Help Desk Supervisor at Ansys, Shelby helped lead Azure\-based SSO implementation, including SAML or proxy application configuration and user and group provisioning\. Shelby used PowerShell to monitor and modify accounts, applications, and resources and to automate license provisioning, account updates, and activation or deactivation\. Shelby administered Azure, Office 365, Carbon Black, and McAfee enterprise applications helped implement ServiceNow and build its Incident Management, Service Requests, Knowledge modules, and catalogs worked with security on application whitelisting, asset grouping, full\-disk encryption, MEPP, and media\-encryption policy testing led company\-wide MFA/2FA implementation through SSO/Azure created user enrollment documentation and FAQs maintained technical and nontechnical documentation and managed a local help desk while coordinating with Global Support\. ### What did Shelby do as a Senior Help Desk Analyst at Ansys? As a Senior Help Desk Analyst at Ansys, Shelby provided Level 1, 2, and 3 laptop, desktop, and tablet support as well as vendor escalation\. Shelby configured systems with WDS supported DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, GPO, cloud backup, disk encryption, wireless accounts, client\-facing network issues, telecom, servers, mobile devices, and malware incidents and supported software including McAfee ePO, Webex, Check Point VPN and Endpoint Encryption, ImageNow, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, and Adobe products\. Shelby also communicated with the global help desk team\. ### What was Shelby’s IT Computer Technician experience at Seabreeze? At Seabreeze, Shelby provided desktop support for Windows 7, XP, and 2000 built PCs cloned and swapped hard drives replaced RAM and motherboards administered DNS, accounts, group policy, file access, Active Directory, network shares, and remote access and maintained servers, Layer 2 and 3 switches, NAS, Cat 5e/Cat 6 and fiber cabling\. Shelby also maintained business software, Outlook and Barracuda firewall administration, backup and recovery tasks, ESET Administrator Console policies, access\-control and PLC systems, laser and thermal printers, IP cameras and video\-server integration, software testing and implementation, user education, and technical documentation\. ### What did Shelby do at Special Olympics New York? Before IT service management, Shelby served as Director of Program for Special Olympics New York\. Shelby oversaw policy and procedure compliance across 6 counties serving more than 2,500 athletes, 60\-plus certified coaches, and 500\-plus volunteers maintained the annual budget created volunteer training and education plans led volunteer orientations and sports training oversaw event directors and games committees supervised coach certification and safety standards negotiated vendor contracts for food, transportation, uniforms, equipment, and facilities communicated with volunteers and coaches and maintained compliance with sports rules and regulations\. ### What is Shelby’s education? Shelby holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, General, and a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Conflict Resolution from Juniata College\. Shelby also holds an Associate of Applied Science in Information Technology, Networking and Security, recorded as an Associate of Arts and Sciences in Information Technology, from Finger Lakes Community College\. ### What certifications does Shelby hold? Shelby lists ITIL v4 Foundations, ITIL v3 Foundations, HDI Support Center Manager Certification, Microsoft 365 Fundamentals, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, and Jira Essentials\. ### What technologies and platforms has Shelby worked with? Shelby’s technical background includes Microsoft 365 and Office 365 administration, Azure and Windows Azure, cloud computing, Active Directory, Azure AD, ADFS, SSO, MFA, BitLocker, endpoint security, networking, network security, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, LAN/WAN, Windows, Windows 10, operating systems, computer hardware, printers, system and network administration, Microsoft Outlook and Office, ServiceNow administration, Jira, Dock 365 Help Desk, DevOps, real\-time monitoring, application migrations, incident response, and technical troubleshooting\. Shelby also has experience with application programming, SaaS support, product management, product innovation, and Ansys products\. ### What kind of role and leadership approach does Shelby seek? Shelby has prior service desk management experience and prefers the people\-management side of service desk leadership while valuing hands\-on technical work\. Shelby uses clear expectations and concrete metrics rather than micromanagement, and has used a structured performance improvement plan with measurable criteria to turn around an underperforming employee\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/ACoAAASazLABZKZaibF24ySUGMlqDMOVHfUkd0E