A versatile and customer focused business leader with a verifiable performance record within various industries with hands-on expertise in workforce training, staff development, customer service management, instructional design, program/project management, customer resolution, system/database oversight, and procedure implementation. Excels at delivering workforce readiness programs, resolving issues ranging from operational improvement and interpretation of tariffs. A polished workforce skill instructor who excels at facilitating high impact training programs aimed at bolstering operational processes, reduce costly redundancies, and maximize overall performance output. A solution-focused and reliable professional who is bi-lingual and develops an effective and highly skilled workforce that achieves key strategic objectives for high performance organizations.
Staff Development and Skill Training Contributions
• Quickly equip customer service staff on the requirements to operate a new customer service information system. Designed, pilot, implemented and conducted of a three-day training program that readied over 20 new personnel to immediately contribute.
• Charged to, on-board and trained all new hires and monitored their initial work performance, added innovative features to program, introduced a customer service career path tied to skill development workshop that influence staff retention.
• Spearheaded a full-service workforce training curriculum throughout the company. Routinely developed innovative performance tools and simplified work processes that improve daily work performance and on-demand conducted staff skill and cross-training.
Customer Focused Solutions
• Upgraded, co-designed, implemented a customer interface system featuring SAP, also served as the primary trainer facilitated the skill training for up to 60 customer service/billing personnel.
• Assigned department customer service troubleshooter, solving real-time challenges across a wide range of issues, direct customer interface, fielding hotline complaints and concerns, and served go-to customer service representative.
• Oversight of escalated customer issues and complaints, advised management team on correction of work process and procedures performance bottlenecks. Informal mentor for twenty plus staff team members. Maintained excellent customer service at all times.
• Created and provided skill instruction on SAP system and other aspects tied to electric service field, including understanding of billing, ERCOT, tariff regulations, and customer service protocols.
Work directly with customer of the company to answer questions, address complaints or concerns, and communicate as a representative of the company.