Amara Okonkwo
Customer Support Representative
Profile
Dynamic customer support professional with 3+ years of experience delivering high-volume, time-sensitive support in fast-paced digital environments. Strong grasp of online payments, identity verification, and fraud prevention. Known for owning outcomes autonomously, spotting issues before escalation, and using support tooling to drive both speed and quality.
Experience
- Managed 100+ daily customer interactions via live chat (Intercom) and email (Zendesk) for one of East Africa’s largest digital payment platforms.
- Resolved high-stakes account, payment, and gameplay disputes with empathy and precision, maintaining a 96%+ CSAT score across 18 consecutive months.
- Led identity verification (KYC) reviews during peak sign-up periods, flagging fraud patterns and escalating suspicious accounts to the compliance team.
- Monitored real-time platform dashboards for critical site issues; escalated payment gateway outages within 5 minutes, reducing resolution time by 30%.
- Trained two junior agents on Zendesk workflows, macros, and escalation protocols, cutting average first-response time from 6 min to under 2 min.
- Rewrote the most-used support macros for clarity and tone, increasing self-service deflection by 18%.
- Provided Tier 1 & 2 support for digital payments and mobile money products across 18 African markets, handling billing disputes, failed transactions, and refund requests.
- Collaborated with the engineering team to reproduce and document recurring payment bugs, accelerating fix cycles by an average of 2 days.
- Built a knowledge-base template library in Zendesk, reducing duplicate tickets by 22% within the first quarter of deployment.
- Maintained full compliance with PCI-DSS guidelines when handling sensitive financial data and user verification.
- Moderated community forums and social channels, responding to product and account queries within SLA targets.
- Assisted in writing FAQs and how-to guides for the self-service help centre.
- Escalated priority account issues to account managers, ensuring white-glove service for key customers.
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Volunteering
Mentor on a local tech-bridge programme, coaching first-time support hires through their first three months on the job: tooling, tone, and how to escalate well.