(919) 555-0148 ◇ Raleigh, NC
dominika.hruska@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/dominika-hruska ◇ dominikahruska.com
Customer support team lead with 6 years in software support, currently leading a team of 11 support specialists at a payroll software company serving 14,000 small businesses. Raised team customer satisfaction from 86% to 94%, cut median first response time from 6 hours to 55 minutes, and brought team attrition from 36% to 9% a year. Leads by coaching on real tickets, removing blockers, and keeping the team close to the customer.
Coursework in Organisational Communication, Team Leadership, Customer Relationship Management, and Statistics.
Coaching, performance metrics, workforce planning, and knowledge management for support teams.
- Lead 11 support specialists handling about 9,000 tickets a month for 14,000 small business customers.
- Raised team customer satisfaction from 86% to 94% through weekly ticket reviews and a 12-point quality scorecard.
- Cut median first response time from 6 hours to 55 minutes by splitting the queue into 3 skill-based lanes.
- Resolved about 45 payroll and tax filing tickets a day with a 96% satisfaction score over 15 months.
- Handled about 60 escalations a month for complex tax cases, cutting escalations to engineering by 30%.
- Wrote 70 knowledge base articles that deflected an estimated 1,100 tickets a month.
- Answered about 60 chats and emails a day for a scheduling app used by 5,000 clinics, with a 93% satisfaction score.
- Logged 120 reproducible bug reports in Jira, 85 of which were fixed within 2 releases.
- Named top specialist of the quarter 3 times in a team of 20 for quality and volume.
Skill-Based Queue Lanes. Split a single support queue into 3 lanes for payroll runs, tax filings, and account questions, with routing rules in Zendesk and a daily staffing check, which cut median first response time from 6 hours to 55 minutes and lifted first contact resolution from 61% to 78%.
Team Quality Scorecard. Built a 12-point quality scorecard in Klaus with the team, reviewing 5 tickets per specialist each week in one-to-one coaching, which raised customer satisfaction from 86% to 94% and cut reopened tickets by 40%.
Retention and Career Path Plan. Introduced a 3-level specialist career path, monthly skills sessions, and a rotation into escalations and knowledge base work, which brought team attrition from 36% to 9% a year and led to 3 internal promotions.
- Member of a customer support leaders community, co-hosting 4 local meetups a year for about 50 people.
- Volunteer tax help desk greeter at a community free tax clinic during 2 months each season.
- Run a weekend hiking group of about 30 members exploring state parks across North Carolina.
- Lead a team of 11 support specialists, holding weekly one-to-ones and monthly career conversations.
- Hired and onboarded 8 specialists since 2023 with a 3-week onboarding plan and a named buddy for each.
- Represent support in the monthly product planning meeting, bringing the top 10 contact drivers.

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