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JEREMY SPENCE-KUCERA

JEREMY SPENCE-KUCERA

Portland,OR

Summary

Experienced, inclusive leader, educator, motivator, and cross-functional collaborator seeking new opportunities to grow within an organization to higher levels of leadership. Proven leadership skills include interviewing, training, and leading new employees using metrics and reporting to identify individuals needing additional training or encouragement for growth, and individuals whose skills are showing readiness to grow further within the company.

Overview

10
10

Years experience with UKG Pro

15
15

Years experience training

Work History

ENGAGEMENT CENTER TEAM LEAD

RAPID RESPONSE
10.2018 - Current
  • Conduct interviews to determine who is best prepared for promotion
  • Educate representatives in skills and practices needed to succeed with customers
  • Create and facilitate workshops to prepare representatives for upcoming time-sensitive product knowledge changes, as well as workshops for skills improvement for representatives who require additional help
  • Run reports and use dashboards within RingCentral/InContact to identify how well representatives are doing in meeting metrics goals, as well as help identify when representatives may be struggling and require additional help
  • Use conflict management skills to engage customers in order to come to mutually-satisfying resolutions
  • Accomplishments
  • Created and led workshops for underperforming representatives, leading to 70% decrease in questions asked in support
  • Worked with multiple internal teams to transition company to Salesforce Lightning, including being responsible for transitioning e-mail templates from prior version of Salesforce into Lightning
  • Trained new employees and onboarded them to get them up to speed and answering calls within 8 weeks of starting.

Business Intelligence Support

UKG
07.2016 - 09.2018
  • Supported customers using Cognos Business Intelligence tools in SaaS environment with questions related to their custom reports
  • Educated customers in both specific technical problems and broader problem-solving techniques to enable customers to resolve issues on their own

Support Services Specialist

UKG
02.2014 - 07.2016
  • Provided support to customers in SaaS environment to resolve time-sensitive issues related to payroll, HR, and vendor interface-related issues, collaborating with colleagues in multiple departments as needed
  • Accomplishments
  • Promoted to Tier II support after 14 months as Tier I (4/6/15)
  • Promoted to Senior support after 13 months as Tier II (5/16/16)
  • Acted as Team Lead when current Team Lead was away or unavailable
  • Provided regular help training new Rising Stars and Rapid Response support professionals

FREELANCE TRAINING DOCUMENTATION CREATOR

04.2013 - 02.2014
  • Used self-taught skills to provide individual clients with guidance in facilitating workshops as well as creating training materials for various products and skills workshops
  • Develop original content through social listening and independent sources
  • Organized collected information to produce well-written articles
  • Wrote quality content for clients, enabling site visitors to quickly obtain information
  • Identified target audiences to analyze characteristics, behavior and media habits
  • Observed tight deadlines and strict budgetary controls to avoid waste and streamline costs

OPERATIONS LEARNING TEAM MANAGER

MERIT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
06.2010 - 03.2013
  • Created training material for company-wide upgrade of software to allow for asynchronous, self-directed learning for approximately 1000 employees
  • Facilitated educational workshops for groups of all sizes on use of software, internal company processes, and in-person site reviews and vendor interaction
  • Accomplishments
  • Used resources to become self-taught LMS administrator and Captivate training module administrator for entire company
  • Created new training method for teaching employees at all levels about various aspects of working in Homeowners Association industry using HTML, QR code technology and smartphones for just in time education.

Education

B.A. PSYCHOLOGY -

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA
6.1996

Skills

  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Business Development
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Staff Management
  • Staff education and training
  • Complaint resolution
  • Training development aptitude
  • Creative problem solving
  • Key stakeholder relationship building
  • CRM
  • Employee Evaluation
  • Technical Support
  • Knowledgeable in UKG Pro
  • Problem-Solving
  • Organization and Time Management

Work Availability

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