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Joanna Aguilar

Chicago,IL

Summary

Highly-motivated individual with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

Work History

Participant Engagement Specialist

Heartland Alliance Medical
Chicago, IL
01.03.23 - 01.03.23
  • Greeting guests, answering questions, and providing a superior experience.
  • Answering and routing phone calls, responding to emails, and managing communications.
  • Keeping the front desk tidy, maintaining schedules and calendars, and filing documents.
  • Mail and packages, receiving, distributing, and sending mail and packages, and signing for packages.

Lead Specialist

Central Infusion Alliance Medical
Skokie, IL
09.01.21 - 03.21.22
  • Researching companies to determine the likelihood of a sale, and qualifying leads to ensure they meet company criteria.
  • Creating and implementing strategies.
  • Conducting market research to identify potential leads, and developing lead generation strategies.
  • Communicating with potential leads and nurturing them through consistent interaction.
  • Collaborating with the sales team.
  • Ensuring a smooth handoff of qualified leads, and helping the sales team understand the likelihood of a sale.
  • Analyzing and reporting.
  • Tracking lead generation performance metrics, and staying up-to-date with industry trends and best practices.
  • Maintained daily dialer system.

Account Specialist

Castle Credit / First American Finance
Chicago, IL
01.01.21 - 08.02.21
  • Over the phone payment processing.
  • Assisting with any questions or concerns the customer has about the items they financed.
  • Made welcome calls to new customers.
  • Call past due accounts and collect payments.
  • Maintain 100-200 calls daily.
  • Collaborated with upper management on special projects.

Solar Energy Representative

One Energy Solutions
Chicago, IL
06.03.18 - 09.05.19
  • Develop and manage the contact and leads database, make outbound calls to drive on campus or on location appointments, conduct appointments and tours to complete the process; and represent Otterbein at various public functions.
  • Greet and assist onsite guests.
  • Answer inbound telephone calls, route and message appropriately.
  • Maintain safe and clean reception and common areas.
  • Create and maintain project tracking spreadsheets.
  • Undertakes daily administrative tasks to ensure the functionality and coordination of the department’s activities.
  • Supports marketing team members in organizing various projects.
  • Conducts market research and assists in media placement.
  • Updates / maintains spreadsheets and databases with statistical information.
  • Assists with organizing promotional events and traditional or digital campaigns.
  • Communicates directly with clients and encourages trusting relationships.
  • Organizes and schedules meetings, including contacting participants, booking rooms, and ordering catering.
  • Sorts and distributes all incoming and outgoing mail and other correspondence.
  • Prepares courier packages.
  • Assists department staff in meeting deadlines for various tasks and projects, as required.
  • Good understanding of office management and marketing principles.
  • Demonstrable ability to multi-task and adhere to deadlines.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Well-organized with a customer-oriented approach.
  • Epicor business software knowledge is a plus.
  • Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
  • Internet navigation savvy.
  • Sharp communication and people skills.
  • Outstanding attention to detail.
  • Possess excellent business etiquette when corresponding via email.
  • Multi-tasker with the ability to prioritize.

Account Specialist

Alorica
Greensboro, NC
01.01.17 - 05.02.18
  • Managing subscriptions, establishing recurring and usage billing processes, initiating manual discounts and invoice adjustments, and handling billing discrepancies and disputes.
  • Helped American Express customers with questions, comments or concerns of membership points.

Multiple Roles

Enterprise Recovery Systems Inc.
Oak Brook, IL
10.17.10 - 08.09.16

Enterprise Recovery Systems Inc.

Role: Account Specialist

10/17/2010-08/09/2016

  • Responsible for reaching out to customers to collect payment for overdue bills, loans, or other payments. Acts as the middle men between the client and customer.
  • Describe resolution options and benefits to the borrower, negotiating the best possible arrangement for the consumer, our client(s) and ERS.
  • Receive and respond to collection-related inquiries in a prompt and professional manner.
  • Maintain an expert and up-to-date knowledge of collection specialist job duties, requirements and abilities.
  • Comply with all policies, procedures, and relevant federal/state laws and regulations for client(s) being worked including but not limited to: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA),

Privacy Act and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA.

  • Ensure proper system notation is made for all activity on accounts.
  • Maintain a professional work demeanor and environment at all times.

Position: AWG (Administrative Wage Garnishment) Verifier

08/11/2014-08/07/2015

  • Responsible for obtaining verifications of employment and accurate location information for defaulted borrowers.
  • Skip-tracing.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite including and not limited to Word, Excel, and Outlook.
  • Assist Manager, fax, copy, scan, filing, mail out hearings, work on reports, send out notices to employers.
  • Quota Attainment required to maintain and handle over 200 accounts a day. Expanded support responsibility from a guaranteed loan associate to working for a federal contractor.
  • Assist manager by taking incoming calls for the department.
  • Expectations were to remain energetic, possess the ability to communicate effectively in order to transfer all customer interpersonal issues to correct personnel.

Role: Receptionist/Payment Processor

10/17/2010 - 08/1/2014

  • Create a positive first impression by welcoming visitors and clients in person.
  • Answer and route incoming calls, respond to voicemails and emails, and return missed calls.
  • Receive, sort, distribute, and dispatch daily mail.
  • Maintain calendars and schedule meetings.
  • Help visitors navigate the office, solve problems, and direct them to the appropriate person.
  • Make copies, prepare vouchers, handle transcription and faxing, and record office expenses.
  • Manage security and telecommunications systems, manage meeting room availability, and coordinate events.
  • Processed credit card payments.
  • Completed Daily reports to managers.
  • Worked with management (problem solving).

Customer Service Representative

PLS Loan Store
Chicago, IL
02.29.10 - 09.17.10
  • Processing title loans or smart loans to new customers.
  • Compute customer payments.
  • Marketing.
  • Providing superior customer service.
  • Making courtesy and past due calls to customers.
  • Cash handling.

Dialer Representative

Van-Ru Credit Corporation
Des Plaines, IL
01.05.08 - 08.09.09
  • Calling to verify certain information and obtain leads.
  • Transfer calls to specific departments.
  • Utilizing A.S.400 software system to verify information and take notes.

Education

Triton College
River Grove, IL

Skills

  • Management collaboration
  • Program Evaluation
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Quality Assurance
  • Documentation Management
  • Data Analysis
  • Teamwork and Collaboration

Timeline

Participant Engagement Specialist

Heartland Alliance Medical
01.03.23 - 01.03.23

Lead Specialist

Central Infusion Alliance Medical
09.01.21 - 03.21.22

Account Specialist

Castle Credit / First American Finance
01.01.21 - 08.02.21

Solar Energy Representative

One Energy Solutions
06.03.18 - 09.05.19

Account Specialist

Alorica
01.01.17 - 05.02.18

Multiple Roles

Enterprise Recovery Systems Inc.
10.17.10 - 08.09.16

Customer Service Representative

PLS Loan Store
02.29.10 - 09.17.10

Dialer Representative

Van-Ru Credit Corporation
01.05.08 - 08.09.09

Triton College
Joanna Aguilar