Helena Tong

VP; Production Support Specialist II

Pennington, New Jersey, United States

About

Senior technologist consultant with 15+ years of hands-on experience working with clients solving a variety of high-level escalations and technology application problems. Partners and communicates effectively across all levels and functions in an organization. Results-driven team leader consistently exceeding monthly targets. Surpassed client’s expectations on all IT projects.

Experience

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Pennington, New Jersey, United States)
    • Vice President; Production Support Specialist II
      Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Assistant Vice President; Production Support Specialist II
      Dec 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Assistant Vice President; Consultant-Expert Support Specialist
      Nov 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Selected as team lead ESS for Hopewell site location to guide, train and improve service desk agent’s ability to provide the best service for clients -Efficiently resolved all high- level GWIM/PB/ENTERPRISE escalations ranging from provisioning to application issues -Lead ESS partners to pick up and report upcoming outages and trends -Effective communicator and have become a ‘go to’ contact for many LOB’s to resolve escalated issues. -Improved training for our agents by doing scenario training, additional coaching, and mentoring to help new hires succeed -Entrusted GWIM SME thus visiting client branch office locations to assist/resolve any issues stemming from GWIM laptop deployment -Represented the service desk in key meetings regarding GWIM laptop deployment with FACTSET partners and meetings on how to improve onboarding process -Led team ESS meetings and assisted with streamlining day to day ESS duties between all sites -Improved our knowledge database by correcting and providing feedback to our KMS partners to update accurate data for our agents to use -Analyzed data and brought solutions to research our high repeated calls to the desk to see what trends we can improve -Assisted with improving AI virtual assistant by providing common questions and issues for VA to handle

  • Information Technology Analyst at Merrill Lynch
    Mar 2007 - Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Responsible for providing white glove service in supporting all revenue generating LOB. • Provided support for all Wealth Management applications.

  • IT Analyst at inVentiv Health
    Jan 2007 - Mar 2007 · 3 mos

    • Supported Target Mobile software and provided break fix support for 3000+ pharmaceutical sales representative via phone and on site peripherals shipped in for repairs. • Build databases off the SQL database Server and used Cast System, and Database SQL to search for rep’s info.

  • IMAC Lead Coordinator\ Desktop Support Analyst at CompuCom\ Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Jul 2005 - Dec 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Promoted to Team Lead with a direct report of 6 technical desktop support analysts. • Improved process by creating documented sheets to report monthly Remedy installs. • Exceeded monthly goals of Service Level Agreements set by upper level management. • Headed the Child Day Care Project by improving network capability and bringing the site off dial up to the BMS network.