Rob Andrew Lees

Product Operations Manager

Professional Experience

DemandScience (formerly Terminus)

Delivery Operations Manager, Solutions Support

Remote | August 2021-Present

  • Manage Zendesk and Jira administration with focus on accurate ticket reporting, automation of ticket routing, and developing new workflows to improve specialists’ productivity and improve customer experience
  • Redesigned Jira project tracking systems for Data Cloud team (engineering/QA/data services), reducing missed deadlines by 50% and improving cross-functional visibility
  • Automated manual Slack-to-Jira ticket routing via Salesforce/Zapier integration, eliminating 70% of manual submissions and enabling real-time progress tracking for 12-member offshore team
  • Engineered GDPR-compliant email system using SendGrid API, notifying 500K+ users with less than 10% bounce rate through custom rate-limiting scripts that preserved 95% IP health score
  • Developed Python scripts to convert Zendesk API data into CSV reports, saving 4+ hours weekly in manual data processing and granting access to fields inaccessible from the GUI
  • Drove 37% increase in Help Center ticket adoption through workflow redesign, deflecting 100+ monthly support requests from sales teams
  • Implemented tiered Zendesk chat access using jQuery client-side scripting, enforcing a 72-hour SLA for non-paid inquiries and 1-24 hour priority response for paid customers depending on severity, which reduced non-paying user tickets by 40% and improved support team capacity by 25%

Synergy Associates (@David Zwirner Gallery)

IT Administrator

New York, NY | June 2018-August 2021

  • Delivered white-glove IT support for 30+ VIPs (including CEO, CFO, COO, and senior partners), achieving 99% uptime for critical systems (G Suite, Meraki VPN) across 3 gallery locations
  • Managed Mobile Device Management (Addigy) and cloud services (Egnyte, VOIP) for 180+ employees, resolving 98% of tickets within 4-hour SLA
  • Deployed secure finance and storage servers, reducing data access latency for cross-departmental teams across sites

Primary.com

IT Engineer

New York, NY | November 2016-December 2017

  • Served as administrator for internal SaaS, including G-Suite, Dropbox, ZenDesk and more
  • Maintained 90% uptime for office network systems (security, wireless, patch panels) through proactive monitoring

Education

University of the West of England
Bristol, UK | July 2007
Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Graphic Design

Bournemouth and Poole College
Dorset, UK | July 2004
National Diploma in Graphic Design and Communication

Technical Skills

Zendesk Salesforce Microsoft 365 Google Workspace RESTful APIs Zapier Jira Slack Bash Git Mac OS Windows Meraki VPN MDM