Experience

Experience shaped by escalation ownership, leadership influence, and sustaining accountability

The experience below is written to show principal-level engineering depth, leadership in support operations, and readiness for lead or manager-track roles without overstating title history.

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Principal Support Engineer / Escalation Engineer

Apr 2011 - Present Remote / Hybrid Full-time

Owned principal-level escalation work for enterprise software customers, combining deep technical troubleshooting with leadership influence, support operations coordination, and sustaining accountability.

  • Owned Tier 3 and Tier 4 escalations involving complex cross-system issues across application, infrastructure, database, operating system, and service dependency layers.
  • Managed approximately 15 to 25 high-severity incidents per month, guiding technical direction, customer communication, prioritization, and resolution strategy across high-impact cases.
  • Led cross-functional coordination between Support, Engineering, QA, Product, and Operations so urgent issues moved efficiently from triage through diagnosis, hotfix planning, and corrective action.
  • Acted as a central decision point for escalation prioritization, balancing customer urgency, technical complexity, backlog impact, and sustaining timelines.
  • Mentored engineers, led training efforts, and improved case quality by reinforcing stronger troubleshooting methodology, clearer communication, and better escalation discipline.
  • Drove improvements in support processes and workflows that increased consistency, reduced cross-team friction, and strengthened operational readiness.