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Linda McCullough-Porter

Summary

Hardworking customer success professional, highly talented in training and maximizing customer satisfaction. Excels at building customer loyalty and generating repeat business opportunities. Enthusiastic about supporting businesses and customers in achieving goals.

Overview

Work History

Customer Success Manager (Remote)

Parallel
New York, New York
  • As the primary point of contact, build strong post-sale customer relationships focusing on customer's needs, goals, and district initiatives.
  • Manage the customer cycle from implementation and onboarding through renewal conversations, negotiation, contract and signature for new and returning customers.
  • Provide outstanding service to new and long-standing customers by attending closely to concerns and escalations and developing solutions.
  • Facilitate onboarding including the creation of implementation goals and action plans.
  • Proactively identify client needs regarding implementation gaps to develop and communicate additional action items and resources to ensure continuity of services.
  • Analyze client metrics to track implementation, success and progress toward goals.
  • Schedule and facilitate regular status meetings to share data, review progress, identify next steps to reach desired outcomes, and obtain feedback.
  • Ask probing questions to determine additional opportunities and manage those opportunities through closing the deal.
  • Communicate cross-collaboratively with internal teams to provide exceptional service.
  • Maintain up-to-date customer records and customer interactions in Salesforce.
  • Document customer success stories to share with internal teams.

Regional Manager of Customer Success (Remote)

Presence
New York, NY
  • Manage a team of Customer Success Managers to execute strategic plans to onboard customers, drive customer retention and growth for a portfolio of more than 25 million dollars.
  • Coach members of the Customer Success Team to drive professional growth and development.
  • Analyze data and trends to promote overall customer health and engagement and maximize cross-sell/upsell opportunities.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Marketing and Product to ensure customer success.

Customer Success/Training and Development Manager

USATestprep Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia
  • Proactively oversaw the customer experience life-cycle from product purchase through engagement, retention, and renewal.
  • Managed multi-level accounts with a high level of customer care that resulted in a 95% renewal rate, year over year.
  • Planned and conducted onboarding and training for customers - kick-off meetings, virtual training, webinars, and conferences.
  • Created, managed and assigned internal and external training resources that included videos, manuals and technical guides and help articles.
  • Built web-based training course content and certification tools.
  • Measured and improved training systems through evaluation and surveys.
  • Implemented tailored strategies and actionable customer success plans and ensured the product was utilized in ways that met customer's objectives and was effective within their organization.
  • Conducted on-going account meetings to communicate best practices, and develop plans for expanded functional usage, and communicate new feature releases.
  • Led weekly team meetings to develop efficient processes to promote a positive customer experience.
  • Developed and nurtured long-term relationships with stakeholders within assigned accounts through responsive and value-add communications.
  • Closely managed accounts to identify and eliminate risk attribution.
  • Worked cross-collaboratively with key stakeholders to produce required results.
  • Analyzed customer account trends and provided feedback to internal stakeholders to ensure quality standards and features were addressed and properly deployed.

Behavior Specialist

Griffin-Spalding County School System Central Office
Griffin, GA
  • Organized the district-wide strategic plan to drive development of effective behavioral skills and systems.
  • Leveraged data and collaborated with administration leaders to refine and improve discipline protocols across the district.
  • Devised and implemented individualized professional learning resources, systems and coursework to boost teaching aptitudes.
  • Led monthly professional learning attended by district employees to increase awareness and use of social and emotional learning, research based strategies.
  • Created and administered evaluations to assess training effectiveness and modify as needed to meet goals.
  • Developed and applied departmental support systems to meet district and school strategic objectives.

English Language Arts/Academic Coach

Fayette County Public Schools
Fayette, GA
  • Planned and implemented high quality, standards-based lessons that ensured equitable access for all learners.
  • Incorporated a variety of teaching strategies, to meet the academic and social needs of a diverse group of learners resulting in 90% of students meeting set targets.
  • Assessed student needs using multiple methods including formative and summative assessments and data and Universal Design for Learning strategies.
  • Coordinated and managed efficient testing environments for students including any special accommodations or modifications.
  • Utilized daily data to amend plans for more effective approaches and outcomes.
  • Supervised student teachers as they prepared to enter the teaching profession.
  • Coached teachers to improve instructional practices by assisting them in making classroom and instructional decisions based on data; coached teachers as they implemented strategies through modeling, conferencing, observation, and feedback.
  • Established positive relationships with students, parents, colleagues, administrators and stakeholders.
  • Participated in regular training courses to keep up-to-date with new teaching methods and developments in the field.
  • Kept accurate records of student performance, maintaining the confidentiality of student records and information at all times.

Education

Behavior Analysis

St. Joseph's University

Master of Science - Education - Literacy

Walden University
2007

Bachelor of Arts - Secondary Education - English/Communications

York College Of Pennsylvania

Certificate - Human Resource Management

Villanova University
2018

Culturally Proficient Coaching

Griffin R.E.S.A.

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Customer Success/Account Management
  • Training, Implementation, Onboarding
  • MAC and G-Suite Experience
  • CRM Solutions - Salesforce
  • Consultative Sales Methodology

Timeline

Regional Manager of Customer Success (Remote)

Presence

Customer Success/Training and Development Manager

USATestprep Inc.

Behavior Specialist

Griffin-Spalding County School System Central Office

English Language Arts/Academic Coach

Fayette County Public Schools

Behavior Analysis

St. Joseph's University

Master of Science - Education - Literacy

Walden University

Bachelor of Arts - Secondary Education - English/Communications

York College Of Pennsylvania

Certificate - Human Resource Management

Villanova University

Culturally Proficient Coaching

Griffin R.E.S.A.

Customer Success Manager (Remote)

Parallel
Linda McCullough-Porter