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Work History
Education
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References
Certification
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Jacob Thompson

Nashville,Tennessee

Summary

Resourceful Manager offering history of success coordinating and monitoring operations across various departments. Effective leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Highly committed with hardworking mentality to maintain quality of services and products.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Analyst - Team Lead

HCA Inc
02.2021 - Current
  • Collaborated with internal team members and customer representatives to clarify relationship of business and project goals and obtain enhanced perspective of development process.
  • Worked with development teams to define and implement customer change requests to enhance product functionality.
  • Communicated effectively with team members to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines.
  • Thrived in fast-paced, highly-adept team to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap.
  • Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
  • Analyzed metrics to measure product performance.
  • Spearheaded collaborative efforts to bring products to market.
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
  • Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
  • Conducted market research to identify new opportunities and target markets.

Success Manager

Healthstream Inc
  • Makes outbound calls to specific hStream clients using a prescribed agenda and outcomes-based communication strategy
  • Critically reviews and monitors client adoption of a product using various dashboards and metrics
  • Comprehends client-specific consumption of a product and provides analysis about how, why, and when a client uses the product
  • Develops best practices for administrators to rollout new features
  • Grows reference-able accounts each quarter in alignment with department and product set goals and benchmarks
  • Serves as the customer's advocate within the HealthStream operating environment, championing their ideas and needs and working to ensure a specific product is promptly and successfully addressed
  • Focuses on ensuring customer satisfaction and optimal utilization of HealthStream's products and services
  • Develops consultative relationships with customers to improve product utilization
  • Continues to develop and enhance tools and metrics for identifying low utilization patterns in existing customers
  • In conjunction with Support Operations, leads workshops and training sessions to drive adoption of product usage
  • Works closely with Operations staff to strengthen the client relationship and ensure a coordinated communication flow
  • Discusses product strategy and best-in-class adoption techniques
  • Shares successful or 'best' practices with clients as it relates to a specific product
  • This may include, but not limited to: internal/external-facing documentation, help guides, tutorials, etc
  • Up to 30% travel required to ensure client optimization, project completion, and completion of successful project onboarding
  • Travels and interaction within regional model or client base is required
  • Delivers and seeks timely, candid, and actionable feedback
  • Reduces complexity - brings order to complex and ambiguous issues or situations (e.g., clarifies, provides direction, sets plans and prioritizes)
  • Identifies and acts on opportunities to simplify
  • Owns his/her results, acts with urgency and makes it happen
  • Speaks up, shares ideas, and encourages others to do the same
  • Challenges the status quo to find better ways to do things
  • Acts boldly and captures new opportunities by anticipating customer needs
  • Tries new things and learns from them - using curiosity and risk management, open to change, risk taker using sound judgment and analytical foundation
  • Builds effective relationships with colleagues and clients to enable all parties to be successful
  • Shares ideas and resources across the company for scale and impact
  • Manage the resources effectively and efficiently.

Content Specialist

Healthstream Inc
  • Provided escalated phone, email, WebEx, and/or chat support to clients using company's proprietary software products; works closely with clients and internal resources to resolve client issues across multiple products/technologies
  • Troubleshoot and diagnosed reported client problems related to content and works to understand and correct problems; builds rapport and elicits problem/request details from clients; reports progress/results to clients in a timely manner
  • Identified software anomalies as it relates to content; tests anomalies to verify and determine scenarios under which they occur; documents verified anomalies
  • Participated in the alpha testing of new content releases prior to release to clients
  • Developed recommendations for enhancements to company content and courseware and communicates them to Manager.

Platform Support Specialist

Healthstream Inc
05.2017 - 05.2018
  • Kept records of customer interactions or transactions, recording details of inquiries, complaints, or comments, as well as actions taken
  • Checked to ensure that appropriate changes were made to resolve customers' problems
  • Referred unresolved customer grievances to designated departments for further investigation
  • Recommend improvements in products, packaging, shipping, service, or billing methods and procedures to prevent future problems
  • Provided troubleshooting on different platforms and products for the customer
  • Created and monitor defects for patches.

Account Manager

Forshaw Inc.
01.2017 - 05.2017
  • Resolved customer complaints regarding sales and service
  • Determined price schedules and discount rates
  • Monitored customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts
  • Consulted with department heads to plan advertising services and to secure information on equipment and customer specifications
  • Determined charges for services requested, collect deposits or payments, or arrange for billing
  • Compared disputed merchandise with original requisitions and information from invoices and prepare invoices for returned goods
  • Recommended improvements in products, packaging, shipping, service, or billing methods and procedures to prevent future problems.

Warehouse Manager

Forshaw Inc.
01.2016 - 05.2017
  • Planned and developed warehouse safety and security programs and activities
  • Reviewed invoices, work orders, consumption reports, or demand forecasts to estimate peak delivery periods and to issue work assignments
  • Responded to customers' or shippers' questions and complaints regarding storage and distribution services
  • Developed and documented standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing, shipping, or salvaging products or materials
  • Negotiated with carriers, warehouse operators, or insurance company representatives for services and preferential rates
  • Arranged for necessary shipping documentation and contact customs officials to effect release of shipments
  • Advised sales and billing departments of transportation charges for customers' accounts.

Education

BA Communication -

Trevecca University
05.2015

Skills

  • Heavily Experienced with Microsoft Office
  • Familiar with Sales software in tracking product demand growth, accounts receivable, and AFP
  • Project Management
  • Product Knowledge
  • Strategic Planning
  • Performance Metrics
  • HealthStream SME
  • Service Central SME

Accomplishments

  • 160% reduction in loss revenue by improving operational strategy
  • Proven leader in shifting cultural norms to meet growing business needs and company objectives
  • Adopted department-wide compensation strategy resulting in staff competency, certification, and recognition program

References

  • Daniel Jetton, Resident Director / Owner of Smokey Mountain Naturals, (615) 336-6681
  • Doni Sadler, Owner of Blind Ambition, (901) 606-5238
  • Mark Cavanaugh, Territory Manager (Forshaw Inc.), (615) 244-6600

Certification

Certified Customer Success Manager (CCSM)

LCoE Leadership Training



Timeline

Product Analyst - Team Lead

HCA Inc
02.2021 - Current

Platform Support Specialist

Healthstream Inc
05.2017 - 05.2018

Account Manager

Forshaw Inc.
01.2017 - 05.2017

Warehouse Manager

Forshaw Inc.
01.2016 - 05.2017

Success Manager

Healthstream Inc

Content Specialist

Healthstream Inc

BA Communication -

Trevecca University
Jacob Thompson