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Luis Alfaro

Customer Success Management / Technical Account Management
Costa Rica,Alajuela

Summary

Dynamic and results-oriented professional with over 15 years of experience in customer success management, technical account management, and team leadership roles. Proven track record of driving customer satisfaction, retention, and growth while leading cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional results.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Director Technical Account Management

Appvance
04.2023 - Current
  • Enhancement and consolidation of the onboarding process, ensuring streamlined operations across infrastructure, platform installation, configuration, training, and professional services planning.
  • Successfully implemented and onboarded Churnzero platform, leveraging best practices and experience to optimize customer journeys and playbooks.
  • Established and managed a high-performing team of technical advisors, fostering excellence in both technical proficiency and leadership skills.
  • Escalation management interacting with product and engineering team to consolidate the action plan and guarantee the traction and fast resolution.
  • Improve processes to leverage a better picture of each customer to be considered in terms of sales, renewal and upselling.
  • Apply agile methods to our activities to work
    smarter not harder.

Director Customer Success Manager

Appvance
11.2022 - 04.2023

• Ensure customer satisfaction, retention, and growth through different strategies cascaded from leadership team.
• Collaborated on defining and executing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), driving alignment with leadership to address pain points and achieve quality assurance objectives effectively.
• Deliver 360 performance review using Lattice to team members.

• Gather NPS and other KPIs from customer to mitigate churn risk and improve adoption.

Customer Success Manager

Appvance
04.2022 - 11.2022
  • Cultivate strong customer relationships, facilitating product and service adoption and ensuring smooth renewal processes.
  • Advocated for customer needs and priorities within scrum and development teams, actively contributing to sprint definitions and Jira Service Desk workflow adoption.
  • Project manager for various initiatives, coordinating resources and orchestrating efforts to exceed customer expectations.

Team Manager (Premium Service Division)

Tek Experts Costa Rica
05.2020 - 04.2022
  • Implemented a structured career path for engineers, tracking technical progress and personal development through KPIs and IDPs.
  • Led coaching sessions to encourage innovation and idea generation, fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
  • Orchestrated resource assignments based on customer needs and operational demands, optimizing team efficiency and performance.
  • Inform/adapt/execute in a timely manner the different projects and global goals assigned to the operation.

Senior Technical Account Manager

Tek Experts Costa Rica
11.2018 - 05.2020
  • Applied best practices to minimize operational risks for customers, delivering technical support and mentoring to increase their team's knowledge.
  • Built strong customer relationships through on-site visits and proactive support initiatives, enhancing overall customer satisfaction.
  • Managed team laboratory environment to expedite ticket resolution, utilizing VMs hosted on VCenter for streamlined troubleshooting.
  • Deliver quarter reviews through face-to-face meetings or remotely to demonstrate the accomplishments, challenges and planning the strategy for rest of the contract.


Previous Experience


  • Technical Account Manager Microfocus, 2017 – Nov 2018
  • Senior Support Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 2014-2017
  • Named Account Support Engineer Hewlett Packard, 2010-2014
  • Frontline Support Engineer Level 1 and Level 2 Hewlett Packard, Nov 2007-2010


Education

Software Engineering Degree - Software Engineering

UCEM
Costa Rica
05.2001 -

Skills

    Project Coordination

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Additional Information

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/luis-guillermo-alfaroh


Timeline

Director Technical Account Management

Appvance
04.2023 - Current

Director Customer Success Manager

Appvance
11.2022 - 04.2023

Customer Success Manager

Appvance
04.2022 - 11.2022

Team Manager (Premium Service Division)

Tek Experts Costa Rica
05.2020 - 04.2022

Senior Technical Account Manager

Tek Experts Costa Rica
11.2018 - 05.2020

Software Engineering Degree - Software Engineering

UCEM
05.2001 -
Luis AlfaroCustomer Success Management / Technical Account Management