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Heather A. Rousseau

Support Operations Lead
Enablement Lead
Support Manager

Tech, SaaS Product & Billing Support

Previously at
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    Driving Excellence

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    Reduced time to productivity by 12%
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    Led teams to 4.7 CSAT

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    Ranked top-performing site for 12 consecutive months across every KPI benchmark

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    Prepared monthly deliverables for multiple billion dollar government contracts

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    Co-founder, producer,

    and event manager 

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    2009-2014

    MeadowGrass

    Music Festival

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    Co-founder, producer,

    and event manager 

    3-day music festival

    2009-2014

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    Event Management

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    Co-founder, producer,

    and event manager 

    3-day music festival

    2009-2014

    MeadowGrass

    Music Festival

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    Co-founder, producer,

    and event manager 

    3-day music festival

    2009-2014

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    Co-founder, producer,

    and event manager 

    3-day music festival

    2009-2014

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    Co-Founder

    Producer

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Work Experience

Microsoft Support Operations Lead

Subject Matter Expert

TeKnowledge Ops, Inc

Recognized for patience, leadership, and disciplined execution — resolving high‑risk escalations, coordinating stakeholder communication, and maintaining 99% SLA adherence while overseeing case health for up to 60 engineers across four U.S. teams. Drove major operational improvements, including a 70% reduction in aged backlog, achievement of a 4.7/5 CSAT goal for the first time in five years, and an 18% drop in escalations through AI‑driven case‑health analysis. Ranked top‑performing site for 12 consecutive months by implementing scalable training systems, authoring playbooks, and building a readiness knowledge base that reduced time to resolution by 15% and global ramp time by 12%. Led enterprise ringfence operations, scaled support during crisis‑level volume spikes, mentored technical leaders, and managed a two‑year global project to overhaul process documentation.

October 2021-December 2025

Technical Lead

TeKnowledge Ops, Inc

Served as escalation lead and technical expert for a 20‑engineer support team, driving cross‑functional issue resolution, documentation improvements, and user‑feedback loops. Recognized as a Modern Billing Expert while onboarding 100+ enterprise customers to MCA‑E and maintaining team performance through daily case reviews and backlog oversight.

February 2020-December 2021

Microsoft Cloud Support Engineer

TeKnowledge Ops, Inc

Provided front-line support for enterprise, startup, SMB, and nonprofit customers supporting SaaS billing and subscription issues across Azure platform. Resolved issues related to resource deployment, API integration, data inconsistency, authentication and access. Reconciled large data sets, analyzed usage and benefit allocation. 

September 2018-February 2020

FinTech Analyst

Summit Technical Solutions

Accountemps

Prepared monthly deliverables and built executive presentation slide decks for multiple billion-dollar government contracts, using Excel to filter, pivot, and transform complex datasets and visualize insights through charts and graphs.

October 2017-May 2018

Operations Director

La Foret CRC

Provided oversight of business operations and generated $500K+ in new revenue for capital improvements through fundraising, grant writing, and donor base growth.  Managed employee lifecycle from recruitment to retirement for up to 30 full-time and seasonal staff, processed payroll, and maintained employee records ensuring regulatory compliance and confidentiality.

November 2004-November 2014

Certifications

Leveraging Generative AI in Finance & Accounting

Certificate ID: 3b4d4e013c754e28f0e67e604bdd06234402ca8fddcfd5136ea6dbf497738574

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Intro to Service Management with ITIL® 4

Certificate ID: 502f86a454b7eb82c01623c8e0c7de4324d092785d99045ec3ae06ae0c57fe3b

Achievements

AI is a tool, not a threat. 

Work smarter, not harder, leveraging AI capabilities to automate workflows, surface data-driven insights, transform customer operations, and enable scalable innovation.

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Most employees will meet clearly communicated, accountable expectations — a small minority will struggle even with support, and another group will exceed expectations on their own drive. If that's true across the board, the variable isn't effort — it's expectation: what are you setting, and how are you driving it?

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Knowledge matters. Ability to effectively share knowledge and teach understanding beyond information on a screen was developed through extensive study of Adult Learning Theory and how people think, and grounded in deep expertise in cloud architecture.  Experienced building and managing a scalable learning platform and promoting a culture of learning and environment for knowledge sharing.

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Looking beyond the line graphs tracking metrics in a performance dashboard.  Digging deep into the numbers to uncover the hidden patterns that others miss and surfacing insight that matters.  Relating patterns to behaviors to see "behind the scenes" of the story told by the numbers, and using this insight to drive outcomes and deliver results.

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