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Courtney Walker

Summary

OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE Strategic and collaborative leader with strong focus on delivering business value, optimizing customer experiences. Catalyst of transformational change with value-added experience across all consumer products and multiple functions within financial service contact center operations. Inspirational leader who empowers people to deliver ambitious organizational goals. Core competencies include: Contact Center Operations Organizational Infrastructure Development Hiring & Training Vendor Relations Customer Experience & Service Excellence Budgeting Cost Savings & Controls Relationship Management Cross-Functional Team Leadership Operations & Process Excellence Program Redesign & Leadership SELECT HIGHLIGHTS Lead implementation of programs providing Consumer relief through home preservation with Wells Fargo and Citizens one Home loans. Enriched the customer experience – Voice of The Customer (VOCM), through tireless focus on a customer centric experience. Created and lead collections teams, resulting in industry leading delinquency and pre-charge off performance across multiple consumer products.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Vice President

Matrix Medical Network
09.2020 - Current
  • Contact Center Ops, Member Relations, Clinical Services Support
  • Lead team of 3 directs and 600 FTE including external vendor resources in a Contact Center and Service Support operations for Medicare and Medicaid insurance providers
  • Primary focus on scheduling members for comprehensive in-home health evaluations and support of clinical field operations
  • Implemented new compensation and pay for performance incentive model
  • Developed new qualitative quality monitoring scorecard
  • Improved Team Member engagement sores by 500 basis points
  • Increased Completed visit volume year over year from 684K to 722K

Service Delivery Leader 1

American Express
01.2017 - 04.2020
  • Director Past Due & Pre-Charge Off
  • Lead team of 15 directs and 170 FTE in a Collections operations which included Low/High Balance, 200K, Pre-Charge Off, Hiring, and MIS functions
  • Primary focus on Customer Centric contact through dialer management and portfolio ownership process
  • Met production, compliance, quality goals for roll rate management
  • Developed strategies to improve performance in a champion challenger environment
  • Consistently outperformed outside agencies by 1000 bps
  • Increasing overall TDC by 300 bps
  • Experienced 200 basis points improvement in outbound contact rate
  • Lead design and implementation of Account Management system for portfolio ownership experienced 20% increase in operational efficiency
  • Championed “Creating a Payer Culture” call model improving Voice of Cardholder rates by an average of 250 basis points
  • Developed and lead monthly performance management review for senior leadership across all Credit segments and geographies.

Area Operations Manager – Senior Vice President

Citizens One Home Loans
01.2015 - 01.2017
  • Loss Mitigation
  • Lead team of 6 directs and 100 plus FTE overseeing the Home Preservation and Servicing functions for GSE, FHA, and Bank owned portfolios
  • Managed Vendors, Capacity models and increased operational efficiency through process redesign and development of gap reporting for timeline management
  • Reduced average decisioning timeline to 23 days
  • Increased application intake capability by 20%
  • Improved decisioning timeline compliance to 99.3%.

Collections Manager III-Vice President

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
12.2008 - 01.2015
  • Mortgage Operations
  • Oversaw a team of 6 directs and 400 plus FTE over 3 Inbound/Outbound Call Centers
  • Managed daily Collections Operations for GSE and Investor portfolios including re-payment plans and prequalification for Loss Mitigation programs
  • Working closely with Credit Risk to developed delinquency forecasts and production goals
  • Drove opening of new 250 seat Customer contact call center
  • Lead implementation of Early Resolution HAMP prequalification process
  • Developed operational model and IVR routing for Single Point of Contact.

Program Associate

Wells Fargo Financial
10.2006 - 11.2008
  • Human Resources Lead Development/Project Management
  • Received nomination from president of Wells Fargo Auto Finance division and selected to participate in the Rotational Leadership Development Program within Wells Fargo Financial
  • Managed multiple projects and initiatives within the auto finance division
  • Created and managed functional teams within the assigned department
  • Developed repeatable and sustainable processes to complete project objectives.

Collection Manager

Wells Fargo Auto Finance
10.2004 - 09.2006
  • Loss Mitigation & Collateral Recovery
  • Managed team of 6 directs and 170 plus FTE with responsibility for Late Stage Collections, Repossessions, Redemptions, Insurance, Dealer Rebates, and Collateral Servicing
  • Partnered with Risk to develop inbound/outbound call strategies, metrics, and monthly loss forecasting
  • Focused on the reduction of Wells Fargo's loss exposure on its indirect and direct auto portfolios
  • Managed network of 300 repossession/recovery vendors focusing on performance and compliance
  • Lead the RDN (Recovery database Network) roll out designed to interface and manage the referral and assignment process for all repossession/recovery agents.

Default Operations Manager

GMAC Client Branded Solutions
02.1998 - 09.2004
  • Collections, Bankruptcy, Default Accounting
  • Execution of daily operations for Collections, Bankruptcy, and Default Support
  • Default Servicing System administration CS2000
  • Predictive Dialer implementation and administration
  • Knowledge Based Servicing System development

Skills

  • Public Speaking
  • Rules and Regulations
  • Process Optimization
  • Budget Oversight
  • Process Improvement
  • Performance Metrics Analysis
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Leadership and People Development

Certification

American Express & Harvard Certification in Leadership Excellence, January 2019SIX SIGMA Green Belt-DMAIC Process

Timeline

Vice President

Matrix Medical Network
09.2020 - Current

Service Delivery Leader 1

American Express
01.2017 - 04.2020

Area Operations Manager – Senior Vice President

Citizens One Home Loans
01.2015 - 01.2017

Collections Manager III-Vice President

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
12.2008 - 01.2015

Program Associate

Wells Fargo Financial
10.2006 - 11.2008

Collection Manager

Wells Fargo Auto Finance
10.2004 - 09.2006

Default Operations Manager

GMAC Client Branded Solutions
02.1998 - 09.2004
Courtney Walker