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TYLER JAMES NOVAK
Columbus, OH • (555) 338-2270 • tyler.novak.it@email.com • linkedin.com/in/tylernovakit
HELP DESK TECHNICIAN

Professional Summary

Help Desk Technician with one year of experience supporting roughly 400 end users for a managed service provider, following an internship at his university’s IT help desk. Comfortable troubleshooting Windows and Mac, Active Directory resets, and ticket volumes of 25-30 a day, and looking to grow toward a systems administration role.

  • Windows 10/11
  • macOS
  • Active Directory
  • Ticketing (Freshservice)
  • Remote Desktop Support
  • Network Troubleshooting
  • Microsoft 365 Admin
  • Hardware Imaging

Professional Experience

Scioto Valley IT Services - Columbus, OH
Help Desk TechnicianAugust 2025 - Present
  • Resolve 25-30 tickets a day in Freshservice for roughly 400 end users across 6 client sites, covering Windows, Mac and mobile device issues.
  • Manage Active Directory account provisioning, resets and permission changes for the firm’s largest client, a 150-person law office, including new-hire onboarding.
  • Image and deploy roughly 15 new laptops a month using a standardized build, cutting new-device setup time from about 90 minutes to 30.
Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
IT Help Desk InternJanuary 2025 - June 2025
  • Staffed the university’s student IT help desk, resolving password resets, Wi-Fi connectivity and printing issues for students and staff.

Education

Associate of Applied Science, Information TechnologyDecember 2024
Columbus State Community College - Columbus, OH
  • Coursework in networking fundamentals, Windows server administration and IT security basics.

Licenses & Certifications

CompTIA A+, CompTIA2024
CompTIA Network+, CompTIA2025

Technical Skills

Windows 10/11, macOS, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Freshservice, Basic Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP)

Volunteer Experience

Volunteer Tech Support2024 - Present
Columbus Senior Center
  • Help seniors with smartphone and computer basics at a monthly drop-in tech help session.

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What actually makes a it support specialist resume strong

Lead with ticket volume and resolution speed, the numbers a manager actually tracks

IT support is measured operationally: tickets per day, first-call resolution rate, average resolution time, number of end users or devices supported. These are the numbers a hiring manager already reports on to their own boss, so putting them on your resume speaks their language directly instead of making them infer your pace from a duty list.

Name your ticketing system and your environment specifically

Freshservice, ServiceNow and Zendesk are different systems, and Windows-only shops hire differently than mixed Mac/Windows or heavily Azure environments. Say which ticketing tool you have used and which operating systems, directory services and cloud platforms (Active Directory, Azure AD, Google Workspace) you support. It tells a hiring manager exactly how much ramp-up you would need.

Separate what you fixed from what you built or automated

Resolving tickets is the baseline of the job. What moves a resume forward is evidence you improved the process itself: a script that automated a repetitive task, a documentation rewrite that cut escalations, a new device-imaging process that saved setup time. If you have done any of that, it belongs above routine troubleshooting, not buried after it.

CompTIA and Microsoft certifications go in one place, current ones only

A+, Network+, Security+, and vendor certifications like Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator carry real weight in this field and some job postings screen on them directly. List them together with the issuing body and the year, and drop anything expired unless you are actively renewing it.

Questions people ask

How long should an IT support resume be?add

One page for a help desk role or anyone under about seven years of experience. Once you are managing a team, a budget, or infrastructure across multiple sites, two pages is reasonable if the extra length is real scope rather than padding.

Should I list every certification, including ones that have expired?add

List current certifications and anything you are actively renewing. An expired certification with no renewal in progress is more likely to prompt a question about why it lapsed than to help you, so it is usually better left off or noted as "expired, renewing."

How do I move from help desk into systems administration on paper?add

Pull anything you have already done that goes beyond ticket resolution to the top: server or Active Directory work, scripting, network configuration, projects you led rather than tickets you closed. Even a small amount of infrastructure exposure, described specifically, does more to signal readiness than a long list of routine support tasks.

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