Production Support Executive Resume Sample

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KennethPoole

Production Support Executive

Keeping live systems up and users unblocked

Phone:
+44 113 555 0711
Linkedin:
linkedin.com/in/kenneth-poole-support

Production support executive with eight years keeping business-critical applications running for a software and services company in Leeds. The person who keeps live systems healthy — monitoring, investigating incidents, fixing issues, and supporting users so the business keeps working. Cut recurring incidents by tightening monitoring and driving fixes back into the product. Handles incident and problem management, monitors systems and jobs, troubleshoots applications, databases and integrations, manages releases into production, and works to ITIL standards. Strong on both the technical troubleshooting and the calm, clear communication production support needs under pressure. Reliable on call and methodical on root cause. Looking for a production-support, application-support or site-reliability role with an organisation that depends on its systems staying up.

Professional Experience

Leeds Software & Services - Leeds, UK

Production Support Executive April 2016 to Present 10 years & 4 months

Keep all the business-critical applications healthy through the monitoring, the incidents and the fixes.
Cut the recurring incidents by tightening the monitoring and driving fixes back into the product.
Handle all the incident and the problem management and troubleshoot the apps, databases and integrations.
Monitor all the systems and batch jobs and resolve the issues to keep the business working.
Manage all the releases into production and support all the users with the clear communication throughout.
Drive all the root-cause analysis and work carefully to all the ITIL standards while on call.

Yorkshire IT Solutions - Leeds, UK

Application Support Analyst August 2014 to March 2016 1 year & 8 months

Supported all the live applications, the incidents and all the user queries.
Troubleshot the issues across the applications and the databases for the users.
Learned the ITIL, the SQL and production support practices on the job.
Gained the certification and then progressed into a production-support-executive role.

Yorkshire IT Solutions - Leeds, UK

IT Service Desk Analyst June 2012 to July 2014 2 years & 2 months

Worked on the service desk logging and resolving the user incidents daily.
Learned the incidents, the systems and the ITIL basics on the job.
Built up the support grounding that good production support is built on.
Then earned the move into a full application-support analyst role from there.
Education

University of Leeds

BSc (Hons) Computer Science (September 2011 to June 2014)

Computer science degree covering systems, databases and support, with a placement year. The placement led into application and production support. Built the technical foundation the role needs.

AXELOS / Microsoft

ITIL & SQL Support Certification (January 2016 to May 2016)

Certification in ITIL service management and SQL support covering incidents, problems and databases. It formalised the support toolkit used daily. Applied directly to incident and application support.
Highlights

Cut recurring incidents

Cut recurring incidents by tightening monitoring and driving fixes back into the product. Stopping the same issue recurring is where real production-support value lies.

Calm when systems break

Stays calm and methodical finding root causes when live systems fail and the whole business is waiting. Composure under real pressure is what restores service fastest.
Certifications

ITIL & SQL Support

AXELOS / Microsoft (May 2016 to Present)

Certification in ITIL service management and SQL support covering incidents, problems and databases. It formalised the support toolkit used daily. Applied directly to incident and application support.

SQL, Monitoring & Observability

Datadog (April 2019 to Present)

Certification in SQL, monitoring and observability covering queries, alerting and dashboards. It supports the proactive monitoring and the root-cause analysis that keep the live applications healthy.
ITIL Practitioner & SRE

ITIL Practitioner & SRE

AXELOS (January 2018 to June 2018)

Completed an ITIL practitioner and site-reliability course covering incident, problem and reliability practice. It strengthened the discipline used to keep live systems healthy and to drive recurring incidents down.

Cloud & Linux for Support

Linux Foundation (March 2021 to Present)

Course in cloud and Linux fundamentals for application support covering logs, services and scripting. It broadened the support skills into the cloud and the Linux side of the production estate.
Technical Skills
  • Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Application Support
  • System Monitoring
  • SQL Troubleshooting
  • Integrations
  • Release Management
  • Root-Cause Analysis
  • ITIL
  • User Support
Languages

English (UK)

Native or Bilingual Proficiency

German

Limited Working Proficiency
Personal Skills

Composure

Problem Solving

Communication

Reliability

Methodical Approach

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