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Education
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Exercising, hiking, programming, and a dog lover.
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Christofer Patrick Paes

Tempe,AZ

Summary

Enthusiastic Senior Customer Service Representative with more than twelve years of customer service and order management experience adds value to business by providing outstanding customer service, engaging customers and building relationships with buyers. Exhibits strong command of company's customer service policies and remains well-trained in product knowledge to offer quick and accurate assistance to customers. Operates at high level to consistently meet or exceed business quality and productivity standards.

With an education in applied computing,computer science, and leadership.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Care Representative/Customer service representative

Caremark
04.2016 - 05.2022
  • Provided assistance with prescription benefits to members through telecommunication mediums
  • Assisted members with placing prescription orders through telecommunication mediums
  • Verified members eligibility status, ordered members I.D
  • Cards, placed plan benefit overrides through telecommunication mediums, provided price estimates of drugs through the use of proprietary systems, and with any question that would be related to their prescriptions plan or the administration of their plan
  • Assisted members in locating which pharmacies that were in network under the members' plan
  • Worked as the Pharmacy Benefit Manager for commercial plans under CVS/Caremark as a third party plan administrator for prescription benefits.

Debt Collector Global

Recovery Group
11.2014 - 04.2016
  • First point of contact for inbound consumers for the first part of the team's shift, and during the second part of the afternoon shift and I would make outbound dials to generate incoming callers
  • Assisted consumers with coming up with a payment schedule
  • Followed up with consumers who were at risk of not meeting their payment arrangements
  • Set Call backs for consumers who could not be reached from the first point of contact
  • Reached out to failed payment arrangements with clients, and set new payment arrangements
  • Generated a high volume of calls daily, ensured consumer information was correct through proprietary systems, and recorded all contact details within the contact
  • System
  • Awarded as the top collector in the office and consistently collected over $30,000 every month
  • Developed technological solutions and ways to digitize information to reduce the number of calls and have higher conversion rates.

Senior Benefits Representative

Catamaran/Optum RX
07.2013 - 10.2014
  • Provided empathetic assistance to members with their prescription plan, answered members’ questions about coverage for certain drugs under their formulary listing, verified the eligibility of the member’s, placed I.D
  • Card orders, and assisted our member’s with using the member’s portal
  • Verified all required information before releasing any sensitive member information, followed HIPAA guidelines, and adhered to all client procedure documents
  • Protected and secured all members information, by following workplace security procedures and best practices,and this was in order to ensure our stations were secure when unsupervised
  • Recognized opportunities to assist members on new services offered by
  • Catamaran
  • Assisted clients in enhancing their health through the administration of their prescription benefit plan
  • Assisted Pharmacists and Doctors in recognizing adjudication errors in processing of prescription claims through telecommunication mediums
  • Provided feedback for web applications and mobile applications
  • Assisted in coaching programmers and IT staff.

Senior Inbound/Outbound Customer Service Rep

Revana/Nissan
04.2012 - 07.2013
  • Providing solutions to front and first line inquiries
  • Up sold and cross sold of products
  • Built lifelong relationships with consumers and provided outstanding customer service
  • Processed customer orders for client products and processed order replacements
  • Recorded the details of the consumer interaction
  • Educated and assisted with consumers on how to use the self service portal
  • Answered a high volume of calls daily
  • Managed consumer information.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Software Development

University of Arizona

Associate of Science - Computer Science

Maricopa Community Colleges - Mesa Community College
Mesa, AZ

Associate of Applied Science - Mobile Applications Development

Rio-Salado Tempe Community College
2021

Associate of Applied Science - Organizational Management

Rio-Salado Tempe Community College
2019

No Degree - Computer Programming

Rio-Salado Tempe Community College

No Degree - Organizational Leadership

Maricopa Community Colleges - Rio Salado Community College
Tempe, AZ

No Degree - Mobile Applications Programming

Rio-Salado Tempe Community College, Salado Tempe Community College

Skills

  • C, Java, Python, C, C sharp, Prolog, assembly(mips and x86) circuit design, data
  • SQL languages,swift, objective-c, HTML, javascript, CSS
  • LISP, Web Scraping(beautifulSoup), youtubeAPI, google analytics
  • IDE’s: Android studio, Xcode, google colab, and visual studio
  • Issue and Complaint Resolution
  • Interpretation and Translation Services
  • Customer Data Confidentiality
  • Call Documentation
  • Customer Retention Strategies
  • Responding to Difficult Customers
  • Courteous with Strong Service Mindset
  • Data Analysis

Accomplishments


  • Completed in writing a python program to test my hypothesis’ if comment counts have a greater effect on views more than likes do
  • In order to accomplish this task I had to gather the like count,view count, and titles of each video for particular chosen youtube channels, and the easiest way to do this was to use the youtubeAPI tool to gather the data, rather than using beautiful soup to scrape youtube
  • Afterwards, I wrote some functions to compute the means of the views and likes
  • While working for Catamaran and CVS I provided my feedback and knowledge of user interaction to assist in developing a more user friendly web and mobile application
  • Assisted in code review and development of other programmers
  • Other accomplishments:
  • While working for various pharmacy benefit managers I developed the documentation needed to adjudicate particular insurance claims
  • Awarded as the most productive employee at Catamaran, which saved countless dollars on labor and customer satisfaction rose in the company by 5% across my specific call center
  • Awarded top collector as a debt collector for Global Recovery Group incorporated within the first two months, and collected over $30,000 regularly every month, and was awarded for MVE(most valuable employee) due to my outbound calling to generate incoming calls for not only myself,but for my teammates
  • Awarded top seller for three consecutive months while working as a customer service/sales representative for Nissan/Infiniti, my conversion percentage was the highest in the center, and I was tied to more than 15 car sales almost every month
  • Links are for the applications I wrote on my own and please view and download the applications: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MavericksUSA.Vigenere
  • Cipher https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mavericks.uSA.calculatordemohttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hello.hell.hel

Exercising, hiking, programming, and a dog lover.

I enjoy being outside, observing nature, playing with my dog, and exercising when I have the time.

Timeline

Senior Care Representative/Customer service representative

Caremark
04.2016 - 05.2022

Debt Collector Global

Recovery Group
11.2014 - 04.2016

Senior Benefits Representative

Catamaran/Optum RX
07.2013 - 10.2014

Senior Inbound/Outbound Customer Service Rep

Revana/Nissan
04.2012 - 07.2013

Bachelor of Science - Software Development

University of Arizona

Associate of Science - Computer Science

Maricopa Community Colleges - Mesa Community College

Associate of Applied Science - Mobile Applications Development

Rio-Salado Tempe Community College

Associate of Applied Science - Organizational Management

Rio-Salado Tempe Community College

No Degree - Computer Programming

Rio-Salado Tempe Community College

No Degree - Organizational Leadership

Maricopa Community Colleges - Rio Salado Community College

No Degree - Mobile Applications Programming

Rio-Salado Tempe Community College, Salado Tempe Community College
Christofer Patrick Paes