State of WI Customer Handbook 2022 Enterprise SLED_ ELITE.docx

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IT - Combined Voice Network Services for Centrex and Voice Processing (Lumen - Brightspeed)
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505ENT-M07-COMBVOICCL-00
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Wisconsin

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This document is a Service Handbook for the State of Wisconsin dated October 24, 2022, specifically for Enterprise SLED (State, Local, Education, and Government) services provided by Brightspeed. The handbook outlines account team roles and responsibilities for managing the telecommunications services contract between Brightspeed and the State of Wisconsin government entity.

The services under contract include comprehensive telecommunications solutions encompassing voice, data, video, network, and hardware applications. Brightspeed provides 24/7 support with dedicated repair numbers for various services including POTS and HSI Services (833-692-7773), PRI/Electrical/Optical/DWDM services, Local Ethernet/ATM/Frame/DIA, and Customer Premise Equipment. The contract includes service assurance with Service Level Agreement management, change management, and escalation procedures. A dedicated account team structure is established with specific roles including Field Sales Representative, Sales Engineer, Customer Care Manager, Customer Success Advocate, and Operations Service Manager, each with defined responsibilities and direct contact information. The document does not specify pricing terms, contract amounts, or renewal periods, focusing instead on service delivery processes and team accountability structures.

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Service Handbook For State of Wisconsin

10/24/2022

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Account Team Roles & Responsibilities………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………3-4 Service Assurance & Repair Escalations……………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………4-5 Account Team Quick Reference Guide …………………………………….…………………………………………………………………..……………6

Brightspeed Account Team for State of Wisconsin

Field Sales Representative – Michael Mitchell Phone: 501.246.1560 email: Michael.mitchell@brightpseed.com

The Field Sales Representative’s primary responsibility is to understand the business goals and objectives, and to formulate solutions that help customer attain these goals. The Field Sales Representative guides and coordinates the efforts of the Account Team.

Responsibilities include:

· Assumes account responsibilities for new business applications, solution development, strategic long-term planning, and resource allocation

· Provides consulting services on existing and innovative technologies that include voice, data, video, network, and hardware applications

· Accountable for contract drafting and compliance

· Serves as first level escalation points for account relationships

Sales Engineer-William Alston phone: 704.314.2518.

email: William.Alston@brightpeed.com

The Sales Engineer will collaborate with you to identify technical options and define technical requirements for implementing your services. The Sales Engineer is responsible for understanding your existing network and serves as a technical advisor responsible for developing complexed design solutions based on Brightspeed’s product offering.

Responsibilities Include:

· Point of contact for network and application design

· Point of contact for product and network service capabilities

Customer Care Manager- Holly Bush phone: 704-314-2336 Email: holly.bush@brightspeed.com

The Customer Care Manager serves as a single point of contact for complex product needs while ensuring the highest level of satisfaction by exceeding deliverables and timelines throughout the customer journey. The Customer Experience Manager provides tactical day-to-day contact and acts as a consultant for the customer, Account Team, and Brightspeed internal departments.

Responsibilities Include:

· Manages interactions during order process

· Provides support, coordination, and guidance for service delivery processes

· Communicates order status and governance

· Provide Client Order Status Reviews

Customer Success Advocate-Angela Ward Phone: 501-366-3303 Email: Angela.ward@brightspeed.com

The Customer Success Advocate serves as the dedicated point of contact for assigned customers through the lifecycles and is a key member of the customer’s account team. The Customer Success Advocate is the pivot point for all things Brightspeed such interacting with Sales, Sales Engineering, Order Management, Business Care Center, Repair, Billing, and other internal organizations.

Responsibilities Include:

· Serves as the internal advocate for the customer – remove hurdles and internally driving needs/requests.

· Conducts stewardship reviews to improve customer experience, understand customer’s current business model, review customer key initiatives and expectation

· Serves as the escalation point for customer inquiries and issues

· Provides Client Business Reviews

Operations Service Manager – Ed Lundberg Phone: 704-314-2527 Mobile 608-397-3647 Email: edward.d.lundberg@brightspeed.com

The Operations Service Manager serves as a customer advocate and liaison into the Service Assurance team, assisting in the resolution and management of major service impacting events. As a member of the Service Assurance organization, the Operations Service Manager assists in identifying the potential for service improvement.

Responsibilities include:

· Analyze customer/network outage trends to identify actionable steps to improve service performance and initiate mitigation strategies to prevent or lessen the impact of future occurrences.

· Acts as a supplemental technical resource to assist in the development and testing of contingency plans in the areas of diversity and disaster recovery.

· Provide support, coordination, and guidance on service assurance processes and initiates service improvement plans

· Provide Operations reviews, Service Level Agreement (SLA) management, chronic ticket management, change management, contact management and Reason for Outage (RFO) reporting

· Acts as a supplemental escalation point of contact for service and maintenance escalations, i.e.: provide escalation and support when the established service assurance escalation process fails.

Brightspeed Service Assurance

Brightspeed provides 24/7 support for all your services. We encompass a strong operational value that is customer focused. In the event an issue arises with your service, Brightspeed will strive to work quickly to resolve any service issues. When repair issues are identified report the problem by visiting Control Center (not all products supported by Control Center) or by calling the repair numbers listed below. Please be prepared to provide the following:

· Complete telephone number/s or circuit IDs

· Detailed description of the trouble

· Call example with timestamps and error message (when applicable)

· Location of trouble, local contact name and number and access hours

· Billing Account Number (BAN)

Obtain the Brightspeed repair ticket number from the Brightspeed Repair Center for tracking purposes.

The Service Assurance team will provide regular status updates via ticket updates. At any time, you can engage your Service Manager for escalation assistance.

Product
Toll Free Number
POTS and HSI Services
833-692-7773
PRI/Electrical/Optical/DWDM
833-363-2888 Opt 1, 2
Local Ethernet/ATM/Frame/DIA
833-363-2907 Opt 1, 1

CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) CHE (Call Handling Equipment) 833-372-2555

www.brightspeed.com/ControlCenter
Portal Support: 833-369-1900
Change Management/Network Maintenance
833-363-2898

Trouble Reporting Repair Numbers & Escalation

Account Team Quick Reference Guide

Name
Contact Information
Manager
Contact Information
Manager
Contact Information

Michael Mitchell Field Sales Representative Phonet: 501.246.1560 Email: michael.mitchell@brightspeed.com

Paul Curlee Director Sales
Phone: 803.218.4303

Email:

Paul.curlee.@brightpeed.com Andy Rodriguez VP, Enterprise Sales Phone : 704-314-2482 andy.rodriguez@brightspeed.com

William Alston Sales Engineer Phone : 252.822.0239 E-mail : william.alston@brightspeed.com

Dustin Hutcherson Director, Enterprise Sales Engineering Phone : 256-454-2275 dustin.hutcherson@Brightspeed.com

Andy Rodriguez VP, Enterprise Sales Phone: 704-314-2482 andy.rodriguez@brightspeed.com

Angela Ward Customer Success Advocate Phone : 501.366.3303 E-Mail : angela.ward@brightspeed.com Lisa Bestel Manager, Customer Success Phone : 704-314-2294 lisa.bestel@brighspeed.com

Jason Taunton Director, Enterprise Inside Sales & Customer Success Phone : 985-710-0220 jason.taunton@brightspeed.com

Holly Bush Customer Experience Manager phone: 704-314-2336 Email: holly.bush@brightspeed.com

Melissa Kelly Manager, Customer Experience Enterprise & Wholesale Phone : 561-325-2870 melissa.kelly@Brightspeed.com

Leah Thornton Head of Customer Experience Phone: 404-433-2471 leah.thornton@brightspeed.com

Ed Lundberg Operations Service Manager

Phone : 704-314-2527 Mobile : 608-397-3647 E-mail :

edward.d.lundberg@brightspeed.com

Melissa Kelly Manager Customer Experience Enterprise & Wholesale Phone : 561-325-2870 melissa.kelly@Brightspeed.com

Leah Thornton Head of Customer Experience Phone: 404-433-2471 leah.thornton@brightspeed.com

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