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Mitzi Rodriguez

Mitzi Rodriguez

Technical Support Engineer
Cartago, La Union

Summary

Technical support professional with background in troubleshooting, configuration, and customer service.

Effective communication in high-pressure environments and collaboration with teams to solve issues.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
2030
2030
years of post-secondary education
10
10
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Technical Support Engineer

Veeam
02.2024 - Current
  • Provide technical support for Veeam products, focusing on backup, replication, and disaster recovery solutions within virtual and physical environments.
  • Manage and resolve customer support cases involving backup, replication, and storage configurations in virtualized environments.
  • Perform in-depth troubleshooting for backup jobs, repository management, and application-aware processing.
  • Document issues, solutions, and best practices in internal knowledge bases.

Technical Support Engineer

Paessler
  • Demonstrate proficiency in PRTG Network Monitor, a network monitoring tool, to deliver effective solutions to clients.
  • Conduct in-depth root cause analysis of network problems, utilizing PRTG's diverse set of monitoring protocols to identify underlying issues.
  • Assist clients in the installation, configuration, and customization of PRTG to align with their unique network environments and requirements.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to protocols commonly used by PRTG, including SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, ICMP, SSH, and HTTP.

Technical Support Engineer

VMware
09.2017 - 01.2024
  • Technical Support Engineer L1 September 2017 to August 2018
  • Technical Support Engineer L2 August 2018 to August 2019
  • Senior Engineer role handling elevations and escalations for Core Datacenter virtualization and storage
  • Senior Technical Support Engineer August 2019
  • Staff Technical Support Engineer 2022 -2024
  • Core storage and vSphere support for NASA GSS team, ensuring customer satisfaction and meeting team metrics.
  • Senior Engineer managing escalations for datacenter virtualization, storage, and disaster recovery solutions.
  • Documented and tested bugs, collaborated with VMware engineering on hotfixes, and ensured clear customer communication.
  • Prepared new team members through onboarding, training, and assistance with complex cases.
  • Delivered presentations at Tech Summits and collaborated with VMware Tech Academy for training sessions.
  • Represented at VMware Explore, engaging with customers and partners at the expert bar.

Technical Support Engineer L1-L2

Tek-Experts
11.2011 - 09.2017
  • HPE SiteScope: Monitored IT infrastructure performance and availability.
  • HPE Data Protector: Managed data backup and recovery solutions.
  • Supported Premier Customers and handled 2nd-level cases under special contracts.
  • Elevated cases from L1 as Senior Engineer.
  • Tested and reproduced potential application defects for troubleshooting.
  • Reported defects to the development team and created documentation for troubleshooting and installation.
  • Resolved issues involving protocols, tape libraries, storage technologies, databases, virtualization, and operating systems.

Computer and Networking Maintenance

San José Indoor Club
12.2008 - 10.2011
  • Computer and networking maintenance, installation, replacement, contact and support with vendors, licensing management.
  • Hardware and software installation for different departments based on their needs, financial, sales, restaurants, cashiers.
  • Basic databases queries on MySQL and SQL.

Education

Bachelor's degree - Information Technology IT for business

Universidad Latina de Costa Rica

Specialization - Data Bases

Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología
01.2015 - 01.2017

Course - SQL DB

Universidad Técnica Nacional

High School Diploma - Tech in Networking

CTP Mario Quirós Sasso
01.2003 - 01.2008

Skills

Virtualization Implementation Expert

Disaster recovery solutions

Storage protocols knowledge

Linux

Networking troubleshooting

SQL - PostgreSQL

Backup and restore troubleshooting

Basic scripting bash and Powershell

Network Monitoring Tools

IaC basics

Cloud computing

Certification

HPE Data Protector v9 - HPE Security - Data Security, 2016

Timeline

Technical Support Engineer

Veeam
02.2024 - Current

Technical Support Engineer

VMware
09.2017 - 01.2024

Specialization - Data Bases

Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología
01.2015 - 01.2017

Technical Support Engineer L1-L2

Tek-Experts
11.2011 - 09.2017

Computer and Networking Maintenance

San José Indoor Club
12.2008 - 10.2011

High School Diploma - Tech in Networking

CTP Mario Quirós Sasso
01.2003 - 01.2008

Course - SQL DB

Universidad Técnica Nacional

Technical Support Engineer

Paessler

Bachelor's degree - Information Technology IT for business

Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
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