Alvin Lopes monogramStrategy & Operations · Operator

I like building the company
around the product.

Strong products still need a business built around them. I work where strategy, operations, customer experience, and systems meet: finding what is missing, designing the plan, building the operating structure, and staying through execution.

01 · Selected results

Outcomes, with their context.

Each result names the role, the period, and whether the result was mine or shared with a team.

98%
Annual customer retention

Across a personally managed portfolio of enterprise accounts, as Enterprise Customer Success Manager.

2018 to 2021 · Individual portfolio
~900
Customer cases resolved in three weekends

Led a recovery effort that resolved approximately 900 customer cases across three consecutive weekends.

2024 · Led the recovery effort
~70%
Installation reviews approved automatically

Partnered with the systems team to automate installation review approvals within the CRM, reducing manual review work.

Order Operations · Partnered build
Scale of the workVolume handled, not a measure of improvement.
10,000+
Installations supported
Operations scale
60+
SOPs and frameworks written
Playbook scale
16,000+
Customer conversations
Front-line scale
03 · From the Work library

Operational thinking, made visible.

Two frameworks from the library. Open one to read the thinking behind it.

Explore the Work library →
Customer Lifecycle Architecture

When ownership disappears between teams, customers experience the gaps. This framework makes every handoff explicit.

Escalation Decision Engine

Severity should not depend on who picks up the issue. This engine decides once, in writing, and applies the same logic every time.

04 · Reputation

By far one of the best people from a third party I have ever dealt with.

Enterprise client
Thirteen recommendations, three audiences
Executive leadership · Colleagues and partners · Customers
Read them →
05 · Operating philosophy

Three of nine convictions.

Read the full Philosophy →
  1. I.

    Understand the whole system before changing part of it.

    Most problems that look like one team's failure are a handoff, an incentive, or a missing rule somewhere upstream.

  2. II.

    Human before automated.

    AI earns its place when it gives people better judgment, not when it simply removes them.

  3. III.

    Stewardship over ownership.

    The measure of a system is whether it still runs well after you leave it.

06 · Conversation

If something here resonated, I would enjoy the conversation.