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Stacie Smith

Lago Vista,TX

Summary

Accomplished leader with over 20 years of experience driving performance and innovation within global teams. A proven track record of consistent promotions demonstrates a strong ability to adapt and excel in new functions while leading shared services to align resources and reporting with strategic objectives. Expertise in call center operations spans the insurance and banking sectors, leveraging both internal and vendor models to optimize efficiency and results. Recognized for exceptional collaboration skills that unite departments and functions, fostering a culture of achievement aligned with organizational goals.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Technical Director: Resolution, Technical Support and Defects

Farmers Insurance
02.2025 - Current
  • Identify trends driving friction for customers, agents, or employees and partner with others in the organization to prioritize and implement solutions.
  • Provide effective resolution of complex and challenging escalations and complaints.
  • Support the intake, triage, and review of defects in partnership with IT.
  • Lead and develop a team of senior customer care and help desk analysts.

Senior Technical Director: Workforce Management and Technical Support

Farmers Insurance
07.2024 - 02.2025
  • Provide Workforce Management support to include forecasting contact volumes across multiple channels, determining FTE requirements, coordinating hiring with the recruiting and training teams, providing real time monitoring, supporting BCP and incident management activities, scheduling front line staff, and supporting capacity planning.
  • Act as the business point of contact for budgeting, financial forecasting activities, and business case creation.
  • Lead and develop a team of Workforce Management and technical support professionals across multiple locations.
  • Partner with the Department Head and other executive level leaders to implement strategic initiatives and to propose and support actions that drive key performance indicators.

Senior Technical Director: Workforce Management and Reporting

Farmers Insurance
08.2023 - 07.2024
  • Provided Workforce Management support to include providing real time monitoring, supporting BCP and incident management activities, scheduling front line staff, and supporting WFM tools.
  • Led and developed a team of Workforce Management and Reporting professionals across multiple locations.
  • Acted as the business point of contact for goal setting.
  • Met the Reporting needs of the Service and Sales operations teams including building and maintaining Dashboards and providing analysis proactively or on request to facilitate data driven decision making.

Director/Technical Director: Workforce Management

Farmers Insurance
03.2017 - 08.2023
  • Provided Workforce Management support to include forecasting contact volumes across multiple channels, determining FTE requirements, coordinating hiring with the recruiting and training teams, providing real time monitoring, supporting BCP and incident management activities, scheduling front line staff, and supporting capacity planning.
  • Led and developed a team of Workforce Management professionals across multiple locations.
  • Collaborated with the operations teams to communicate the staffing outlook, provide options, and agree on actions to maximize staffing capacity, service levels, and employee satisfaction.
  • Partnered with the Department Head and other executive level leaders to implement strategic initiatives and to propose and support actions that drive key performance indicators.

Head of Global Workforce Management

INFO NXX/Conduit
08.2009 - 03.2017
  • Provided Workforce Management support to include forecasting volumes and/or FTE requirements, planning hiring needs, scheduling agents, and planning capacity needs for multiple customers and lines of business.
  • Managed Workforce Management functions for call centers in the U.S., Philippines, United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Morocco and Mauritius, as well as home agents in the U.S., Canada and the Philippines.
  • Supported internal and external customers across the Customer Care, Directory Assistance, and Text products as well across as multiple industries to include healthcare, utilities, telecom, technical support, and banking.
  • Set and communicated both short-term and long-term needs for all locations to the various business unit leaders to include the President of the Customer Care unit and the SVP of Operations for the other businesses.
  • Collaborated with the sales team and multiple departments on client presentations as well as contract negotiations, pricing models and ensuring adequate agent and support staff and compensation.
  • Acted as the main point of contact for budgeting functions across the various programs and business units.
  • Managed a global team providing Management Information and Reporting the Operations and Executive teams as well as to many customers.

Head of Global Voice/Sr Director of Call Center Operations

INFO NXX/Conduit
04.2006 - 08.2009
  • Oversaw operations for the Directory Assistance, Customer Care, Technical Support, and Text units.
  • Managed profit and loss for five call centers, dispersed in the U.S. and abroad.
  • Developed and managed local call center managers and directors to exceed performance expectations.
  • Helped forecast revenues and costs and assisted in determining pricing for potential customers.

Director of Call Center Operations

INFO NXX/Conduit
04.2003 - 04.2006
  • Oversaw operations for eight call centers in the U.S. and Philippines, including forecasting, staffing, and scheduling.
  • Supervised the National Workforce Manager that led workforce staff across five sites.
  • Worked closely with the Workforce teams and call center managers to improve efficiency and service quality.

Education

MS - Computer Information Systems

University of Phoenix
Tucson, AZ
01.2001

BS - Marketing

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
01.1998

Skills

    Cross Functional Collaboration

    Talent Management and Development

    KPI Development and Reporting

    Data Analysis

    Process Improvement

    Strategic Planning

    Global Workforce Management

    Stakeholder Management

Accomplishments

  • Contributed to 45% reduction in executive escalations between Q1 and September 2025 through data analysis, strengthening the closed loop process, identifying opportunities to reduce friction, and scope realignment.
  • Drove efforts to align defect intake, severity, and visibility across multiple brands in platforms resulted in a more wholistic view of customer and agent impacting issues and contributed to a 42% reduction in defects on systems utilized by Independent Agents.
  • Led work to build Insight Dashboards for WNS and shift manual reports full to the vendor model. The result was a reduction of more than 50% of manual reporting and alignment use of standard dashboards across the internal and vendor teams.
  • Led business case approval and implementation of Employee Engagement Manager for the service team to enable both employee shift flexibility as well as more effective alignment of resources to staffing needs. Since rollout, hundreds of hours of Voluntary Time Off have been approved.
  • Onboarded Business Insurance, Farmers New World Life, and Farmers Workplace Solutions onto the standard Workforce Management support model including tools and process.

Timeline

Senior Technical Director: Resolution, Technical Support and Defects

Farmers Insurance
02.2025 - Current

Senior Technical Director: Workforce Management and Technical Support

Farmers Insurance
07.2024 - 02.2025

Senior Technical Director: Workforce Management and Reporting

Farmers Insurance
08.2023 - 07.2024

Director/Technical Director: Workforce Management

Farmers Insurance
03.2017 - 08.2023

Head of Global Workforce Management

INFO NXX/Conduit
08.2009 - 03.2017

Head of Global Voice/Sr Director of Call Center Operations

INFO NXX/Conduit
04.2006 - 08.2009

Director of Call Center Operations

INFO NXX/Conduit
04.2003 - 04.2006

BS - Marketing

University of Arizona

MS - Computer Information Systems

University of Phoenix