Desktop Support Specialist - Excelon solutions : Job Details

Responsibilities :

• Image and configure laptops and desktops for distribution to onsite, remote users and special projects.
• Provide hardware, software, network problem diagnosis / resolution via telephone, email, chat or remote support for customers end users
• Route problems to internal 2nd and 3rd level IT support staff.
• Coordinate and manage relationships with vendors and support staff that provide hardware / software / network problem resolution.
• Administer and provide User account provisioning
• Use the ticketing system to document and manage problems and work requests and their respective resolutions and circumvention's.
• Responds to telephone calls, email, instant messages, and assigned tickets from users; Assign work orders / incidents to appropriate support teams and follow up until closure.
• Respond to, and diagnose, problems through discussions with users, including problem recognition, logs, research, isolation, resolution, and follow-up steps; Provide level 1 remote desktop support and perform other activities based on SOPs
• Perform user account management activities
• Escalate complex problem to appropriate support specialists
• Responsible for activities relating to the evaluation, analysis, and setup of PC-based software products (e.g., word processors, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, database management systems, electronic mail, and communications)
• Troubleshoot client software and basic network connectivity problems
• Identify, evaluate and prioritize customer problems and complaints
• May train users and operators on a limited basis and/or may write training procedures
• Participate in on-going training and departmental development
• Routine maintenance updates with other IT staff and business units
• Provide all required documentation including standards, configurations and diagrams
• Provide knowledge transfer of End User Computing operations