Achemedes S. Goll has over 15 years of experience in customer service, technical support, and project management roles. He is skilled in Microsoft Office, Citrix, Oracle, and various CRM software. Currently he works as a Service Network Specialist at Asurion, where his responsibilities include ensuring compliance, communicating with field teams, and providing excellent customer service. He has held prior roles such as Resource Management Center Analyst, Customer Service Representative, Technical Supervisor, and System Analyst. Goll has a BSc in Business Management and certificates in customer service, IT, and computer literacy.
Managed, supported, and participated in technical support function; providing technical support to clients regarding the resolution of product hardware, software and operating system; managed resources allocations for computer operations; and provided life-cycle management solutions.
Developed, organized, and implemented IS/IT operational areas; assessed new technology opportunities, developed information management processes to monitor demand and capacity requests; and planned for services life cycle.
Provided full-scale technical support applications to enhance technical operation, and service; fostered, developed, deployed and executed cross-platform, cross-vendor, in-house,developed applications and shrink-wrapped applications; file conversion; security; template building applications; virus prevention; virus detection/eradication; and documentation/reporting; ensuring the integrity and security of corporate data in the transfer of these files to new applications,
Managed, supported, and participated in technical support function; providing technical support to clients regarding the resolution of product hardware, software and operating system; managed resources allocations for computer operations; and provided life-cycle management solutions.
Developed, organized, and implemented IS/IT operational areas; assessed new technology opportunities, developed information management processes to monitor demand and capacity requests; and planned for services life cycle.
Provided full-scale technical support applications to enhance technical operation, and service; fostered, developed, deployed and executed cross-platform, cross-vendor, in-house,developed applications and shrink-wrapped applications; file conversion; security; template building applications; virus prevention; virus detection/eradication; and documentation/reporting; ensuring the integrity and security of corporate data in the transfer of these files to new applications,
The Impact of Lending Rates on SME Growth: The Case of ZambiaWise Banda
Abstract
The business environment in which Small and Medium Enterprises operate plays a key role in determining their success or closure rates. In trying to make the stabilise the macroeconomic environment through such targets such as low inflation rates, stable exchange and growth rates, sustainable debt and balance of payment, sometimes these policies may result in undesirable outcomes which if undermined distorts the performance of other actors in the economy in the long run. Of particular concern is the impact of Lending rate policies on SME growth behaviour. Although from a policy perspective it is imperative to understand how Lending rates affect a firm’s ability to access finance and grow, it is astonishing to note that few studies have been done in this field.
This dissertation aims to bridge this gap and contribute empirical literature on the impact of lending rates on SME growth decisions, access to credit as well as the role of electricity supply in firm growth. The study focuses on Zambia and uses the data generated by the Bank of Zambia, World Bank, Central Statistical Office and the Zambia Data Portal. Using firm productivity as a measure of SME growth, multiple linear regressions were run on the data and the study reveals a negative correlation between high Lending rates and SME growth as well as negative correlation between Electricity usage and SME productivity. This result draws importance to the financial policies undertaken by policy makers whose impacts must be assessed in totality. It also supports the revelations of the World Bank (Enterprise Surveys, 2013) of the important role of adequate electricity supply in supporting the development of the SME sector. Furthermore, the study also finds a positive correlation between Credit Granted to firms and their productivity.
1. Achemedes S. Goll
11995 Coverstone Hill Circle, APT 1222. Manassas VA, 20109. Email: sggoll1@gmail.com
Telephone: 804 503 8663
Personal and Technical Skills
Excellent interpersonal skills; used to interact with clients- both internal and external to capture their needs and
then convert these into practical engineered solutions.
Self motivated, and result driven with supervisory skills; able to work thoroughly,with attention to detail and also
analyze problems and develop solutions.
Computer literate, skilled at using a wide range of standard office software, and also capable of understanding the
operating principles of proprietary software.
Fluent in Microsoft Office Suite , Citrix, Oracle, Electronic Service Activation System ( ESAS), CRM PeopleSoft,
SingleView CRM and Hyperion Brio.
Hardware: Assembly of PCs and Laptops.
Employment History:
Asurion
Service Network Specialist March 2014 – Present
Responsibilities
Ensure that established internal control procedures are in compliance by examining reports, records,documentation
and operating practices
Maintain good communication and interpersonal skills and provided customers with product and service
information.
Research and recommend technologies to assist field team in audit practices.
Prepare compliance audit packets for Field Teams; measured results and prepared findings to ensure that both the
client and the company’s expectations were met.
Work with the RSM, RIM, DSM teams (field teams), in the recruitment and on boarding of new Service Providers,
this includes managing work that is in progress and also addressing and correcting coverage and availability issues
Reassign dispatches when required to achieve and maintain 100% compliance; this includes researching statuses
and providing reports and feedback to both clients and team members in a timely manner.
Update Service Center Rate Sheets and tools.
Provide follow-up and track all open issues and projects; this included communicating any issues and work status
to Management team on a consistent basis
Research Service Center issues; ensure data issues are resolved or escalated to the appropriate department
Assist in the daily management of the compliance process
Work various Service Provide and Technician lists presented to the field teams to ensure those that need to be inac-
tivated for non-compliance are done so in a timely manner
Provide excellent customer service to prospective and current clients.
Assist teammembers in supporting clients
2. Asurion
Resource Management Center Analyst June 2013 – March 2014
Responsibilities
Maintained good communication and interpersonal skills and provided customers with product and service
information.
Responded to customer inquiries; handled and resolved customer complaints.
Dispatched calls to appropriate resource center.
Provided excellent customer service to prospective and current clients.
Assisted otherCustomer Service Representatives in supporting customers.
Access Worldwide (AT&T) Randstad
Customer Service Representative
April 2012 – December 2012
Responsibilities
Maintained good communication and interpersonal skills and provided customers with product and service
information; provided userfriendly customer service to prospective and current clients.
Respond to customer inquiries; this included resolving and or escalating priority issues.
Was responsible for processing orders and forms. and also routing calls to the appropriate resource center.
Ensure targets were met on a daily basis.
Global Network Solutions
Technical Supervisor & Helpdesk Support Assistant September 2010 – September 2011
Responsibilities:
Established and managed client relationships, this included understanding theirbusiness and quality needs to
define conceptualsolutions.
Supervised migration and configuration of systems/software,also managed the installation, configuration and im-
plementation of systems on site.
Supervised projects and also implemented methods with regards to packaged and customized software solutions.
Provided guidance,mentoring and management to my team this included utilizing systems and knowledge to
identify customer needs and trouble shoot technical issues.
Organized, managed and direct the activities of assigned operations,including third-party liaisons and
management.
Planned, scheduled and carried out processes and projects on time and within budget,to maximize efficiency.
Provided computer help desksupport and technical training on hardware/software to end users via telephone or
remote access.
Documented help desk tickets/resolutions,escalated tickets to the correct person and also provided overall assis-
tance in daily administration.
3. Was responsible for being the first response in answering, commenting and responding to open incidents in the
help desk
Assisted support staffwith field work as needed and also troubleshot minor equipment malfunctions and corrected
them as directed by computer operation manuals.
EVIIVO Front desk
Position: Customer Care Representative Sept 2007 –August 2010
Responsibilities:
Sold hotel software for small Bed and Breakfast establishments.
Provided daily updates to line manager
Provided help and advice to customers using the organization's products or services; and communicating
courteously with them through telephone.
Inmarsat Satellite Services
Position: SystemAnalyst July 2001 –July 2007
Responsibilities:
Was in charge of the technical support team resolving billing, CRM, SingleView and provisioning faults that were
reported to the technical help desk.
Provided computer help desksupport via telephone or remote access.
Provided customers with second-level technical support to resolve outages and problems affecting their equipment
by analyzing and troubleshooting.
Interacted with customers, engineers and satellite operators to resolve and escalate ground network, user equipment
and satellite problems.
Provided subject matter expertise in CRM regarding business area’s issues, data challenges, process, policy and
general needs required to operate current and future business.
Identified business area’s strengths and weaknesses and suggested areas of improvement.
Participated as an active member of project teams to provide business analysis and subject matter expertise for
proposed solutions.
Proactively identified issues related to the quality, timeliness or budget of a project and communicated solutions to
Business Unit Owners or Project Managers.
Followed Project Management Methodology (PMM) and completed the required templates for project
documentation.
Defined test conditions and test cases; was also tasked with defining the acceptance criteria for business solutions.
Identified and documented systemdeficiencies.
4. Educational Experience:
Penn Foster College- Bsc in Business Management
Courses:
The Hemsley Fraser Training program 2nd June 2003 Hemsley Fraser Learning and Development (UK).
Webi Training 11th November 2002 Danet GmbH (UK).
Millennium Training Initiative 27th January 1999 Mari Group Ltd (UK).
Information Technology 30th October 1998 Mari Group Ltd (UK).
Graphic Design 17th May 1993 ALFAG Computer Center (UK).
Certificates:
Customer Services and Operations June 2002 Inmarsat
RSA Computer Literacy and Information Technology December 1998 OCR
Evening Discipleship Program June 1994 Youth With a Mission
Computer Services June 1992 ALFAG Computer
Center