Customer Support, CX & QA · Available

Support that
feels human,
at machine speed.

Four years in the deep end of digital and physical collectibles — NFTs, billing edge cases, release-day surges — at a 15-minute average ticket resolution time.

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15
Avg. ticket resolution time
4+
Years at Funko's digital division
#1
CSAT on team, recognized by leadership
8+
Tools in daily support stack
01 — About

A support practice built on care, clarity, and good systems.

In short

I'm a customer support specialist who's spent the last four years in the deep end of digital and physical collectibles — billing edge cases, shipping mishaps, identity verification, NFT and blockchain wallet questions, and the occasional 2 a.m. release-day surge.

I'm happiest when I'm shortening the gap between "customer wrote in" and "customer's day is unblocked" — whether that means a tighter macro, a clearer Notion doc, or a quick Slack to product about a pattern I'm seeing.

Outside of tickets, I care about the unglamorous half of support ops: clean workflows, knowledge bases people actually use, and feedback loops that get customer reality back to the teams who can act on it.

02 — The work

Four years at Funko, seen four ways.

May 2022 — Present

Funko Inc.

Customer Support Specialist · Digital Division (NFTs & blockchain products)

Speed & volume

Maintained a 15-minute average ticket resolution time across billing, shipping, and identity verification — and held that pace through release-day surges on a digital product line where one bad launch hour shows up in CSAT for a week.

Web3 & digital fluency

Front-line support for NFTs and blockchain-based assets — wallet flows, on-chain transaction questions, identity verification in Persona, and the customer-side translation work that only-Web3 teams usually have to invent from scratch. I also did some minor QA work, digging for bugs that would even minorly affect the site-use experience.

Systems & documentation

Owned the team's Zendesk macros and workflows, processed refunds in Stripe, ran shipping flows in ShipHero, and built the Notion knowledge base still used to onboard new teammates. The kind of un-flashy work that quietly cuts handle time.

Product/shipping experience

Worked within Funko's internal systems to reship damaged product, helped manage critical shipping issues directly with our warehouse and shipping service, and helped develop alternate solutions for extreme cases where reshipping wasn't a possibility.

Before that

Graduated summa cum laude from NYU with a BA in History and a BFA in Dramatic Writing — a background that mostly shows up now as the ability to explain a refund policy without sounding like a refund policy. U.S. citizen — no visa sponsorship required.

03 — Toolkit

The stack I work in, daily.

Practice

  • Customer Successcore
  • Ticket workflow designcore
  • Knowledge base & docscore
  • Support operationscore
  • Refund & billing opsdaily
  • Identity verification / QAdaily
  • Product/damage opsdaily
  • Cross-functional collaborationalways

Tools

  • Zendeskexpert
  • ShipHeroexpert
  • Personaexpert
  • Stripedaily
  • Slackdaily
  • Notionfluent
  • Asanafluent
  • Figma · Microsoft 365fluent
Currently

Building knowledge-base playbooks for digital products, sharpening Zendesk macros that cut handle time without losing the human touch — and open to conversations about my next support, CX, or support-ops role.

Let's talk

Hiring for support,
CX, or support ops?

johnronaldapted@gmail.com