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Operations and customer support, treated as the same discipline

SOPs, procurement, field execution and escalations — coordinated so work keeps moving and people stay unblocked.

Operations work has covered 6–7 business functions, a 12-member team, government-backed EdTech programmes, GeM tender compliance, vendor coordination and field execution across 28+ villages and a 300 km pipeline. Customer support work at Amazon and Knoah covered five queues across voice, chat and email. Both come down to the same thing: understand the escalation, then fix the system that produced it.

Measured outcomes

What it produced

Numbers taken directly from the roles below.

30%shorter process cycle time

Standardised SOPs and project controls over 6 months at Edwiser.

40%faster service delivery

Streamlined vendor coordination and procurement, within 2 months.

44%lower logistics costs

Infrastructure field sites, over a 3-month period.

95%+CSAT at Amazon

97–99.8% CSAT at Knoah Solutions across voice, chat and email queues.

Where this shows up

The roles behind it

Each of these is documented in full on the experience page.

  • May 2025 – Jul 2026

    Operations & Systems Lead

    Edwiser Innovation Hub Pvt Ltd

    SOPs, institutional documentation, procurement, GeM tender compliance, escalation paths and project controls.

  • Jun 2018 – Jul 2021

    Engineer

    The Indian Hume Pipe Co. Ltd.

    Water-supply infrastructure execution across 28+ villages with a 24+ member workforce.

  • Jul 2016 – Apr 2017

    Customer Support Associate (L2)

    Amazon

    Complex order-management queries and escalations across North American and Indian markets.

How the work runs

The approach

The same sequence, whatever the environment.

  1. Write the SOP the room actually needs

    Documentation is the deliverable that makes coordination survivable — 300+ troubleshooting and resolution paths were documented in support alone.

  2. Make throughput visible

    KPI visibility, tracked corrective actions and digitised records replace status meetings with something checkable.

  3. Treat escalations as inputs

    Around five field issues a month were converted into tracked corrective actions, cutting delays by 85%.

  4. Coordinate vendors like part of the team

    Procurement, material movement and site verification are scheduled together, not sequentially.

Skills in this theme
  • Cross-functional Operations
  • Program Coordination
  • SOP Development
  • Field Operations
  • Procurement
  • Vendor Management
  • Logistics Management
  • Governance & Compliance
  • Multi-channel Support
  • Escalation Management
  • CSAT Ownership
  • Knowledge Base Documentation
  • Zendesk
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