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Fawne serves as a primary customer\-facing operator during high\-impact production events, translating business requirements into technical decisions that balance risk, scalability, and supportability\. At Netrix Global, environment and circuit audits she led identified service and cost risks corrective actions increased gross margin from approximately 20% to more than 40% within 10 months\. Earlier at mindSHIFT, a Ricoh company, Fawne delivered more than 20 concurrent implementation and migration programs representing over $4 million in recurring revenue, and she supported account retention at a sustained 98% rate\. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and HR from the University of Pittsburgh and has completed Google and AI\-focused professional certifications\. ## Services - Corrective and Preventive Action \(CAPA\) - ServiceNow - Customer Engineering - Organization Skills - Platform as a Service \(PAAS\) - Team Facilitation - Consultation - Transparency - OpenShift - Customer Experience - Revenue & Profit Growth - Executive\-level Communication - Service Delivery Models - Scope Planning - Account Expansion - Troubleshooting - Marketing - Upselling - Product Adoption - Team Leadership - Business Process Integration - Onboarding - Customer Success - Expansion Strategies - Executive Relationships - Customer Satisfaction - Renewal Retention - Google API - Customer Demos - Large Scale Business Transformation ## Highlights - Oversees day\-to\-day production operations for complex UCaaS and voice environments at Netrix Global\. - Leads Tier 3 and executive\-level escalations across Voice, SIP, Microsoft Teams Voice, and UCaaS platforms\. - Serves as the primary customer\-facing operator during critical incidents and high\-impact production events\. - Partners with Engineering, NOC, Project Management, and Customer Care to troubleshoot defects, resolve systemic issues, and improve reliability\. - Uses root\-cause analysis to drive complex issues to durable resolution\. - Oversees post\-implementation stabilization for new deployments and migrations, reducing Day One issues and accelerating operational maturity\. - Translates customer business and operational requirements into technical decisions that balance risk, scalability, and supportability\. - Identified service and cost risks through environment and circuit audits, helping increase gross margin from approximately 20% to more than 40% within 10 months\. - Maintains customer configurations, production data, and system records for accuracy, auditability, and continuity of support\. - Develops SOPs, onboarding artifacts, and customer\-facing documentation to improve consistency, customer experience, and escalation outcomes\. - Influences backlog decisions and corrective action plans for recurring customer issues\. - Provided delivery governance, escalation leadership, and operational accountability as a de facto Program Manager for enterprise CPaaS and voice environments at Netrix LLC\. - Coordinated end\-to\-end number porting and carrier provisioning across multiple telecom providers, including LOA and CSR validation and cutover management\. - Supported enterprise deployment, adoption, and optimization of SaaS platforms across distributed cloud\-service environments\. - Used AI\-assisted analysis tools to accelerate reporting, documentation, and customer insights while maintaining accuracy and transparency\. - Delivered more than 20 concurrent implementation and migration programs across VoIP, email, cloud, and infrastructure services at mindSHIFT\. - Managed programs representing more than $4 million in recurring revenue at mindSHIFT\. - Led cross\-functional teams of engineers, vendors, and stakeholders through complex implementations, migrations, cutovers, and go\-lives\. - Managed SOW development, scoping, resource estimation, RAID management, delivery risk, change requests, and production\-readiness planning\. - Advised customers on platform integrations and data flow to align technical solutions with evolving business processes\. - Provided white\-glove migration support for executive stakeholders\. - Provided on\-site leadership for enterprise workstation, data, email, and VoIP migrations\. - Standardized project delivery practices and mentored junior project managers\. - Managed customer\-success accounts with contracts up to $500,000 ACV\. - Owned renewals, expansion strategy, customer health, adoption, QBRs, and escalation prevention for enterprise accounts\. - Exceeded expansion targets through upsell and cross\-sell strategy\. - Helped sustain a 98% customer\-retention rate through proactive churn\-risk mitigation and adoption work\. - Designed customer\-success playbooks, onboarding processes, and escalation frameworks to scale enterprise\-account delivery\. - Owned strategic managed\-services account health, service escalations, business reviews, renewals, forecasting, and account expansion\. - Led a major enterprise recovery project under a tight two\-week deadline and made difficult decisions under pressure to protect project outcomes\. ## Experience - **Advisory Engineer at Netrix Global** (2017\-04\-01–present) — Own day\-to\-day production oversight for complex UCaaS and voice environments, serving as a trusted escalation point for enterprise customers during critical incidents and high\-impact service disruptions\. • Lead Tier 3 and executive\-level escalations across Voice, SIP, Microsoft Teams Voice, and UCaaS platforms, driving issues through root\-cause analysis to durable resolution\. • Act as the primary customer\-facing operator during production events, setting expectations, coordinating response efforts, and restoring confidence through clear, proactive communication\. • Partner closely with Engineering, NOC, Project Management, and Customer Care to troubleshoot defects, resolve systemic issues, and improve service reliability\. • Oversee post\-implementation stabilization for new deployments and migrations, proactively reducing Day One issues and accelerating time to operational maturity\. • Translate customer business and operational requirements into pragmatic technical decisions, balancing - **Advisory Engineer at Netrix LLC** (2017\-04\-01–present) — Own day\-to\-day production oversight for complex CPaaS environments, serving as a trusted escalation point for enterprise customers during critical incidents and high\-impact service disruptions\. Served as de facto Program Manager for enterprise CPaaS and voice environments, providing delivery governance, escalation leadership, and operational accountability across multi‑vendor platforms\. Owned end to end escalation management for enterprise clients, serving as a steady, empathetic point of contact during high impact incidents while partnering cross functionally to restore trust, resolve issues, and strengthen long term customer relationships\. Supported high\-volume, real\-time service delivery environments with operational dependencies similar to logistics and distributed systems\. Act as the primary customer\-facing operator during production events, setting expectations, coordinating response efforts, and restoring confidence through clear, proactive communication\. Partner closely with En - **Senior Project Manager at mindSHIFT Technologies, a Ricoh Company** (2012\-09\-01–2017\-04\-01) — Owned end\-to\-end delivery of 20\+ concurrent, complex implementation and migration programs across VoIP, email, cloud, and infrastructure services, representing $4M\+ in recurring revenue\. Managed program scope, schedule, and delivery milestones across multiple concurrent customer contracts\. Served as the principal point of accountability for customer satisfaction, delivery risk, and executive communication throughout high\-impact projects\. Supported proposal development through SOW creation, scoping, and resource estimation\. Led cross\-functional teams of engineers, vendors, and internal stakeholders, aligning execution plans to customer business objectives and operational readiness\. Acted as the customer\-facing leader during critical migrations and cutovers, coordinating real\-time decision\-making and issue resolution to ensure successful go\-lives\. Identified, communicated, and mitigated delivery and operational risks through rigorous planning, RAID management, and proactive stakeholder e - **Project Manager at mindSHIFT, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ricoh USA, Inc\.** (2012\-09\-01–2017\-04\-01) — Owned end\-to\-end delivery of 20\+ concurrent, complex implementation and migration programs across VoIP, email, cloud, and infrastructure services, representing $4M\+ in recurring revenue\. • Served as the principal point of accountability for customer satisfaction, delivery risk, and executive communication throughout high\-impact projects\. • Led cross\-functional teams of engineers, vendors, and internal stakeholders, aligning execution plans to customer business objectives and operational readiness\. • Acted as the customer\-facing leader during critical migrations and cutovers, coordinating real\-time decision\-making and issue resolution to ensure successful go\-lives\. • Identified, communicated, and mitigated delivery and operational risks through rigorous planning, RAID management, and proactive stakeholder engagement\. • Ensured smooth transition from implementation to production support by partnering closely with operations and account teams during stabilization phases\. • Provided on\-s - **Customer Success Manager at mindSHIFT Technologies, a Ricoh Company** (2007\-09\-01–2012\-09\-01) — Managed large diverse book of accounts with contracts up to $500K ACV, owning renewals, expansion strategy, and customer health across high\-value accounts\. Influenced expansion and upsell opportunities within enterprise accounts through data\-driven engagement and QBR insights\. Proactively identified patterns leading to escalations and implemented preventative solutions\. Monitored client health indicators including support trends, engagement levels, and operational risks to proactively identify and mitigate churn\. Built trusted relationships with customer executives and operational leaders by aligning managed services to business priorities, outcomes, and risk tolerance\. Coached and supported cross\-functional team members on client communication, escalation handling, and issue resolution best practices\. Consistently exceeded expansion targets through upsell and cross\-sell strategy\. Developed and executed customer success plans aligned to business goals, driving adoption, engagement, and - **Account Manager at mindSHIFT, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ricoh USA, Inc\.** (2007\-09\-01–2012\-09\-01) — Owned a portfolio of strategic managed services customers, serving as the single point of accountability for account health, satisfaction, and retention throughout the customer lifecycle\. • Built trusted relationships with customer executives and operational leaders by aligning managed services to business priorities, outcomes, and risk tolerance\. • Acted as the primary escalation owner, driving service issues through root\-cause analysis and coordinating resolution across Engineering, Support, and Product teams\. • Led regular business and operational reviews with customer stakeholders, assessing service performance, value realization, and opportunities for improvement\. • Proactively identified service risks and early churn indicators, developing mitigation plans that contributed to a sustained 98% customer retention rate\. • Partnered cross\-functionally to influence service enhancements and product improvements based on direct customer feedback\. • Managed renewals, contract details, a ## Education - BS, Marketing and HR — University of Pittsburgh (1998\-01\-01–2003\-01\-01) - Bachelor's degree, Marketing — University of Pittsburgh - Bachelor of Science, Marketing — University of Pittsburgh ## FAQ ### What does Fawne do at Netrix Global? Fawne is an Advisory Engineer at Netrix Global\. She owns day\-to\-day production oversight for complex UCaaS and voice environments, leads Tier 3 and executive escalations, and works with Engineering, NOC, Project Management, and Customer Care to improve service reliability\. ### What are Fawne's core technical and operational strengths? Fawne specializes in UCaaS and voice environments, including Voice, SIP, Microsoft Teams Voice, BroadWorks, CPaaS, cloud\-based service delivery, carrier provisioning, and number porting\. Her work also includes root\-cause analysis, production stabilization, customer engineering, platform integration, and service delivery operations\. ### How does Fawne handle critical incidents and escalations? Fawne leads high\-impact production\-event communications by setting expectations, coordinating response efforts, and serving as a clear, proactive customer\-facing point of contact\. She drives escalations through root\-cause analysis toward durable resolutions and advocates for customer needs in internal planning and backlog\-prioritization discussions\. ### What measurable result has Fawne achieved at Netrix Global? Through environment and circuit audits, Fawne identified latent service and cost risks and delivered corrective actions that increased gross margin from approximately 20% to more than 40% within 10 months\. ### How does Fawne improve service reliability after deployments? Fawne oversees post\-implementation stabilization for deployments and migrations to reduce Day One issues and accelerate operational maturity\. She also owns customer configurations, production data, and system records, and develops SOPs, onboarding materials, and customer\-facing documentation to improve consistency and reduce escalations\. ### What has Fawne done at Netrix LLC? At Netrix LLC, Fawne has overseen complex CPaaS environments and acted as a de facto Program Manager for enterprise CPaaS and voice environments\. She has provided delivery governance, escalation leadership, and operational accountability across multi\-vendor platforms, while supporting high\-volume, real\-time delivery environments\. ### What experience does Fawne have with telecom provisioning and porting? Fawne has coordinated end\-to\-end number porting and carrier provisioning across multiple telecom providers\. Her work includes managing dependencies, validating Letters of Authorization and Customer Service Records, and supporting seamless cutovers with minimal service disruption\. ### How does Fawne support customers beyond incident response? Fawne has conducted client check\-ins and usage reviews to align on progress, identify growth opportunities, and support strategic account planning\. She has also used AI\-assisted analysis tools to accelerate reporting, documentation, and customer insights while maintaining accuracy and transparency\. ### What did Fawne accomplish as a Senior Project Manager at mindSHIFT Technologies? As a Senior Project Manager at mindSHIFT Technologies, a Ricoh company, Fawne owned end\-to\-end delivery of more than 20 concurrent implementation and migration programs across VoIP, email, cloud, and infrastructure services\. These programs represented more than $4 million in recurring revenue\. ### What were Fawne's project\-delivery responsibilities at mindSHIFT? Fawne managed scope, schedules, milestones, customer contracts, SOW development, scoping, resource estimation, delivery risks, and change requests\. She led engineers, vendors, and internal stakeholders coordinated critical migrations and cutovers advised on platform integrations and data flow and managed transitions from implementation through stabilization and renewal\. ### What additional work did Fawne perform as a Project Manager at mindSHIFT? As a Project Manager at mindSHIFT, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ricoh USA, Inc\., Fawne provided on\-site leadership for enterprise deployments involving workstation, data, email, and VoIP migrations\. She delivered executive\-level status reporting, standardized delivery practices, and mentored junior project managers\. ### What did Fawne accomplish in customer success at mindSHIFT? As a Customer Success Manager at mindSHIFT Technologies, Fawne managed a diverse enterprise account book with contracts up to $500,000 ACV\. She owned renewals, expansion strategy, customer health, QBRs, adoption, escalation prevention, and retention and growth of recurring revenue\. ### How did Fawne improve retention and expansion at mindSHIFT? Fawne monitored support trends, engagement, operational risks, and other customer\-health indicators to mitigate churn\. She designed customer\-success playbooks, onboarding processes, and escalation frameworks influenced service and product improvements from customer feedback exceeded expansion targets through upsell and cross\-sell strategy and helped sustain a 98% retention rate\. ### What did Fawne do as an Account Manager at mindSHIFT? As an Account Manager at mindSHIFT, Fawne owned strategic managed\-services accounts as the single point of accountability for account health, satisfaction, and retention\. She led business and operational reviews, managed renewals and forecasting, owned service escalations, and expanded accounts through consultative recommendations\. ### What is Fawne's managed\-services and customer\-account experience? Fawne has nearly 20 years of experience working for managed service providers, including five to six years as a Customer Success Manager\. She has supported enterprise and mid\-level accounts across multiple vendors and customer verticals, including highly regulated and mission\-critical environments requiring transparency, auditability, and executive accountability\. ### What leadership and crisis\-management experience does Fawne have? Fawne coordinates cross\-functional technical staff, vendors, customer stakeholders, and leadership\. She is experienced in crisis management, including leading a major enterprise recovery project under a tight two\-week deadline, and she makes difficult decisions under pressure to protect project outcomes and timelines\. ### What is Fawne's education? Fawne holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and HR from the University of Pittsburgh, completed in 2003\. Her education is also listed as a bachelor's degree in Marketing and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the University of Pittsburgh\. ### What certifications has Fawne completed? Fawne's certifications include the Google AI Professional Certificate AI Fundamentals AI for App Building AI for Data Analysis AI for Brainstorming and Planning AI for Content Creation AI for Research and Insights and AI for Writing and Communicating\. She also completed the Google Project Management Certificate through Coursera, including Foundations of Project Management, Project Initiation, Project Planning, Project Execution, Agile Project Management, and the capstone Applying Project Management in the Real World\. ### What skills and tools does Fawne list? Fawne's listed skills include Corrective and Preventive Action, ServiceNow, Customer Engineering, Platform as a Service, OpenShift, Google API, Cisco Technologies, CRM, BroadWorks, BroadCloud certification, conversational AI, responsible AI, and AI literacy\. Her customer and business skills include account management, project management, customer success, onboarding, product adoption, account expansion, renewal retention, revenue and profit growth, risk monitoring, scope planning, executive communication, customer analysis, marketing, upselling, and large\-scale business transformation\. ### What type of role and professional growth does Fawne seek? Fawne prefers work that balances technical problem\-solving with executive stakeholder management\. She is open to learning across product types and industries, is comfortable managing multiple responsibilities, and is interested in growth beyond being solely an escalation expert, including a potential move to an in\-house role\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/fawne\-thomas\-577a843