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From: adenison@NeXT.COM (Allen Denison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: JOB: NeXT FRONTLINE Support Tech.
Date: 7 Sep 1993 20:26:03 -0400
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The following is to start immediately or ASAP.

Title: 	FRONTLINE Support Technician
Department:	FRONTLINE Support Team
Supervisor:	Allen Denison

This person will work on the FRONTLINE Support Team within the NeXT  
Support group.  The position is located in Redwood City.  This job is a  
good starting point for anyone interested in moving into a technical  
support or software engineering career.

Job responsibilities include:

 	Provide first-contact telephone and e-mail technical support to  
NeXT customers on our 800-number.  Verify these customers against our  
database of support contracts or establish a per-incident paying method.
 	Help customers with simple post-sales technical problems and  
questions.  Specifically, this person will help customers install and  
configure systems to run NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors.  This person will  
also use on-line documentation and NeXTanswers to answer questions over  
the phone.
 	Help customers in tracking down known problems or bugs in  
NEXTSTEP.  Using our bug-tracking application, the FRONTLINE Technician  
will work with software engineering to report and update bug information.   
This step is often critical in determining whether the customer should pay  
for support.
 	Set customers' expectation level regarding support.  This includes  
explaining our support policies and helping to sell support contracts.  It  
also includes determining to what extent support is complimentary.
 	Use our support problem-tracking application to log support calls  
that require greater expertise in system and developer issues.  This  
person will gather as much information as the customer can provide about  
the question/problem.  
 	Support the Telesales team in answering some of the technical  
pre-sales questions received.
 	Help the support team document common customer questions/answers  
to be integrated into our NeXTanswers system.

Skills and background required include:

 	Bachelor's degree.  (Computer Science or equivalent preferred)
 	Fundamental technical understanding of NEXTSTEP and its market.
 	Ability to work well both independently and as a team member.
 	Excellent oral and written communications skills, especially in  
communicating technical information.
 	Good problem-solving skills.
  	Experience with technical support preferred.

NeXT  provides equal opportunity in employment to all employees and  
applicants for employment. No person will be discriminated against because  
of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age,  
ancestry, marital status, medical condition, disability or veteran status. 

Please forward all inquiries and resumes via e-mail (NeXTmail) to  
Allen_Denison@NeXT.COM, call direct at (415) 780-2747, or send mail to 900  
Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, CA 94063 c/o Allen Denison.

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