AHMED ELGAMAL

AHMED ELGAMAL

Senior Customer Support Executive

UAE, Dubai

Profile summary

Senior Customer Support Executive with over 8 years of progressive experience in delivering exceptional technical and no technical support across banking, government, and technology sectors. Adept at leading support teams, managing escalations, and driving service excellence through process improvement and technical expertise. Skilled in incident and problem management, report generation, and cross-functional communication with stakeholders and senior leadership. Known for a proactive approach, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering high-quality customer experiences. Seeking to contribute to a forward-thinking organization with a strong support culture and opportunities for growth.

Career highlights

Improved incident reporting: Prepared and delivered performance reports highlighting trends and recommendations.

Enhanced Support Workflows: Reviewed and improved existing support workflows for efficiency and satisfaction.

Key skills

Skills
Technical DegreeJiraSLACustomer SupportIncident ManagementProblem ManagementSQLMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLProcess EnhancementKnowledge ManagementTroubleshootingHandling CustomerReporting and AnalysisGenerating Reports From DB and JIRACustomer Success Management PrinciplesCustomer SuccessCustomer Experience

Professional experience

Senior Customer Support ExecutiveJan 2025 - Present
Emaratech Emarat Technology Solutions (GDRFA project) | UAE, Dubai

• Lead daily operations of the support team and ensure timely resolution of incidents and service requests in line with SLAs. • Prepare and deliver detailed performance and incident reports to management, highlighting trends, root causes, and recommendations for improvement. • Coordinate directly with department heads, stakeholders, and upper management to align support operations with business goals. • Monitor escalated issues and work closely with L2 and L3 support teams to ensure timely resolution and communication. • Supervise and mentor junior support staff, offering guidance, training, and knowledge-sharing to ensure consistent performance and service quality. • Review and improve existing support workflows and suggest process enhancements to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction. • Take ownership of high-priority or sensitive tickets, providing hands-on technical and managerial intervention when necessary. • Participate in change management and UAT testing, and document findings and impacts for continuous system improvement. • Maintain and update internal knowledge base articles, ensuring accuracy and accessibility for team members. • Communicate directly with clients, providing high-level assistance and managing expectations with professionalism and empathy

  • Lead daily operations of the support team and ensure timely resolution of incidents and service requests in line with SLAs.
  • Prepare and deliver detailed performance and incident reports to management, highlighting trends, root causes, and recommendations for improvement.
  • Coordinate directly with department heads, stakeholders, and upper management to align support operations with business goals.
  • Monitor escalated issues and work closely with L2 and L3 support teams to ensure timely resolution and communication.
  • Supervise and mentor junior support staff, offering guidance, training, and knowledge-sharing to ensure consistent performance and service quality.
Customer Support ExecutiveApr 2022 - Dec 2024
Emaratech Emarat Technology Solutions (GDRFA project) | UAE, Dubai

• Responsible for Resolving Service Requests, Incidents and providing the Root Cause Analysis for encountered issues. • Attend incidents as per Incident Managements Guidelines. • Use Jira ticketing system for all workflows as per ITIL guidelines • Log in identified problems and assign them for L3 as per Problem Management Guidelines. • Utilize various applications and SQL Database to pull information relating to encountered issues. • Conduct UATs & PVTs for the rapid and continuous releases and updates of our applications, as well as with the new introduced applications. • investigating and resolving application errors, data discrepancies and answer queries, over emails, phone. • Maintain a high function knowledge Base, by creating and editing articles, keeping in mind the continuous lifecycle of articles. • Offer continues suggestion for system deployments and updates. • Suggest new Processes to enhance & drive forward a better user satisfaction & Business need. • Identify system bugs and coordinate with other teams for planned and hot fixes deployments. • submit daily & on demand reports according to pre-defined and demanded criteria. • Discussing topics with GDRFA Application stakeholders and create Change Requests and assigning them to the chain command when needed.

  • Responsible for Resolving Service Requests, Incidents and providing the Root Cause Analysis for encountered issues.
  • Attend incidents as per Incident Managements Guidelines.
  • Use Jira ticketing system for all workflows as per ITIL guidelines
  • Log in identified problems and assign them for L3 as per Problem Management Guidelines.
  • Utilize various applications and SQL Database to pull information relating to encountered issues.
Customer Support AssociateSep 2021 - Mar 2022
Emirates Islamic Bank | UAE, Dubai

• Answering existing and new customer's quires and questions about the bank products & services, required documents and the bank criteria. • Initiating Leads of the bank products and services such as current & saving accounts & online banking & mobile banking & credit cards & Debit cards. • Calling customers for offering new bank product & service Packages in the campaigns and for getting back our lost customer by giving them more offers for meeting the sales target. • Providing customers information about their bank products and service & Assisting customer with their online banking activation and other online bank services. • Handling customer's complaints defending on the bank's Image and giving the best assistance for solving customer's issues and getting customer's satisfaction.

  • Answering existing and new customer's quires and questions about the bank products & services, required documents and the bank criteria.
  • Initiating Leads of the bank products and services such as current & saving accounts & online banking & mobile banking & credit cards & Debit cards.
  • Calling customers for offering new bank product & service Packages in the campaigns and for getting back our lost customer by giving them more offers for meeting the sales target.
  • Providing customers information about their bank products and service & Assisting customer with their online banking activation and other online bank services.
  • Handling customer's complaints defending on the bank's Image and giving the best assistance for solving customer's issues and getting customer's satisfaction.
Application Support SpecialistOct 2016 - Sep 2020
Pioneers Solutions | Egypt, Cairo

• Support customers and internal employees with products or platforms. • Diagnose and troubleshoot software and hardware problems and help our customers install applications and programs • Provide the necessary advice and / or walk through with the emphasis of vast satisfaction and quality. • Support queries via phone, emails, live chats or even face to face interaction in a timely manner and keep log of them on the institutional ticketing systems. • Provide training to new customers and old customers for new releases, new features and product updates. • Act as L1 and L2 support, troubleshoot and help resolve technical issues in a friendly and accurate manner. • Collaboratively share feedback through appropriate channels related to tools, processes or systematic user/product issue. • Escalate issues by providing all relevant information and strive to resolve them in a timely manner. • Identify self-service documentation gaps. • Participate in project work as assigned. • Manage customer complaint related to operational issues. • Assign to the related department, follow up internally and assure proper resolution on a timely manner as per our SLA. • Close the loop with customers and generate feedback from them regarding the resolution provided.

  • Support customers and internal employees with products or platforms.
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot software and hardware problems and help our customers install applications and programs
  • Provide the necessary advice and / or walk through with the emphasis of vast satisfaction and quality.
  • Support queries via phone, emails, live chats or even face to face interaction in a timely manner and keep log of them on the institutional ticketing systems.
  • Provide training to new customers and old customers for new releases, new features and product updates.
Technical Support AgentOct 2014 - Apr 2016
Xceed Contact Center | Egypt, Cairo

• Troubleshoot systems to determine technical issues. • Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues, including network configuration. • Management and resolve customer complaints. • Properly escalate unresolved issues to appropriate internal teams. • Provide technical assistance to customers on inbound telephone tech support calls. • Register a ticket to the problem that faces the client. • Interact with customers or clients about the project status and solve their technical issues if any.

  • Troubleshoot systems to determine technical issues.
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues, including network configuration.
  • Management and resolve customer complaints.
  • Properly escalate unresolved issues to appropriate internal teams.
  • Provide technical assistance to customers on inbound telephone tech support calls.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Management of Information SystemsJan 2007 - Jan 2011
Higher Institute of Management and Information Systems