"Train Geek" Customer Support (Remote)
Loco
Aug 2015 - Aug 2018 (3 years 1 month)
Providing world-class customer support for a small tech startup that sells European rail tickets. This was a vaired and troubleshooting role that required me to clearly and empathetically explain the complexities of European rail travel, Loco2’s booking platform and after-sales procedures to our customers.
I was responsible for debugging search failures by analysing API responses (XML & JSON), reporting bugs to our technical team (Trello, JIRA) and writing our internal and customer-facing documentation. I gained my first exposure to HTML, CSS, XML, JSON and API responses in this role. It was also where I learned the fundamentals of agile working methodologies, problems of scale and remote working culture.
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