Job Title:

Support Analyst III

Salary/Grade:

 Salaried

Hours Per Week:

40

Job Summary:

Under minimal direction, provide support to clients for relevant hardware and software. Function as a support resource and assist other support staff, providing ongoing guidance to the clients and support team.

Duties/Physical Demands:

1. Provide Tier III technical support to clients remotely or in the field by identifying, tracking, troubleshooting and resolving requests.
2. Work on complex issues proactively identify potential areas that may cause future problems.
3. Recommend and assess impact of customer service improvements.
4. Troubleshoot II and III technology issues including software, hardware, audiovisual, and networking issues.
5. Emergency ""on-call"" rotation
6. Escalate complex problems that cannot be resolved within the TSS team, and work with other non TSS Tier II & Tier III staff in the organization to assure resolution.
7. Train subordinate staff on balancing excellent customer service with efficient operations.
8. Assist with managing workload of student staff to provide the adequate level of support to meet the desired service level agreement.
9. Document solutions and work to provide excellent service and initiatives in the Knowledge Center Support Repository.
10. Organize and develop training, consulting, resources, support, and troubleshooting for clients, to include network software, application software, workgroup utilities and audio visual equipment
11. Actively seek and build positive relationships and serve as a liaison between areas within IT Services to coordinate technology projects requiring communication, sharing of information, and cooperation across many areas of expertise.
12. Provide and/or share technical knowledge with other support staff in the resolution of problems/requests related to the designated system. Identify major incidents, outages and security incidents when they are happening.
13. Develop and document resolutions or workarounds for incidents that lack documentation resolution.
14. Mentor others in evaluation of new computer hardware, software and audio visual equipment for use at the University, leading teams and synthesizing recommendations.
15. Mentor staff, in actively promoting a customer-oriented environment in which the client is treated professionally and courteously. Actively promote a customer-oriented approach throughout IT Services.
16. Mentor staff on how to exhibit strong customer service skills including the ability to constructively, diplomatically, patiently, and successfully handle customer complaints, problems, questions, conflict, and suggestions.
17. Participate in cross-functional projects. Identify roadblocks and report them to the team leadership.
18. Mentor staff on how to identify symptoms and break problems into distinct and manageable parts; analyze and interpret root causes associated with a given problem; look at problems from other perspectives; seek other resources/expertise to define solutions; assist in solving intra-team problems.
19. Write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles; get messages across that instigate appropriate actions.
20. Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate technical information to a variety of audiences including end users and clients.
21. Learn quickly and independently; seek opportunities to extend and deepen learning and effectively integrates new information and skills to enhance personal performance.
22. Show initiative to make basic decisions in daily work where risk is low, saving manager time; gather inputs and come to practical/sensible solutions; identify and escalates more significant