Teemu Toivanen

Head of Support at UpCloud

Finland

About

Leading an international technical support team located in three different continents. Offering world class technical & customer support for customers in the cloud industry. Strong background in customer support, from leading the team and to hands-on tasks. Always thinking, how to help customers before they need to ask for help. Improving the flow of support to minimise the waiting time & removing the recurring questions by improving the product or public documentation or internal process.

Experience

  • UpCloud (6 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Support
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Support Operations Lead
      Apr 2020 - Apr 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Leading an international technical support team located in three different continents. Offering world class technical & customer support for customers in the cloud industry 24/7, 365 Strong background in customer support, from leading the team and to hands-on tasks. Always thinking, how to help customers before they need to ask for help. Improving the flow of support to minimise the waiting time & removing the recurring questions by improving the product or public documentation or internal process.

    • Interim Head Of Support
      Oct 2023 - Dec 2023 · 3 mos

      I will be working at C-level for the next two months and reporting directly to the CEO. Planning and implementing our support strategy for Q4 2023 and Q1 2024 Running our day-to-day global technical support operations.

  • Telia Inmics-Nebula ()
    • Team Manager
      May 2019 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr

      Leading a technical support team size of ~30 members as a human centric leading. Improving the customer experience from webhosting to equipment orders from Being part of the Telia One

    • System Specialist
      Oct 2018 - Apr 2019 · 7 mos

  • Sigmatic Oy ()
    • Technical Support and Sales Specialist
      Dec 2017 - Oct 2018 · 11 mos

      Customer service for web hosting by phone, email and real time chat. Sales of a virtual servers and web hosting. Junior level Linux administration. DNS, domains, email, WordPress, Apache, MySQL, Linux (Debian)

    • Technical Support Specialist
      Aug 2015 - Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Customer service for web hosting by phone, email and real time chat. Junior level Linux administration. DNS, domains, email, WordPress, Apache, MySQL, Linux (Debian).

  • Vendor at K-Supermarket Mustapekka
    Feb 2010 - Sep 2015 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    Face to face customer service.

  • Information technology Internship at Magnum Medical Finland OY
    Sep 2010 - Jan 2011 · 5 mos

    Basic IT support for employees.