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Tanya Fisher

Ocoee,FL

Summary

Professional with strong background in customer engagement and relationship building. Skilled in communication, problem-solving, and driving customer satisfaction. Known for fostering teamwork, adaptability, and delivering consistent, impactful results. Proven ability to manage changing priorities and exceed expectations in fast-paced environment.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Customer Engagement Specialist

United Healthcare, Optum
08.2021 - 07.2025
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by promptly addressing inquiries and resolving issues.
  • Established rapport with clients through active listening skills and empathetic problem-solving abilities in challenging situations.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather feedback and improve overall customer experience throughout various touchpoints.
  • Complied with corporate policies and promoted and followed company initiatives.
  • Educated customers about billing, payment processing and support policies and procedures.
  • Advised 50+ customers daily of benefits and cost share if applicable
  • Assist customers with any technical issues when using app or logging in.

Manager

THE FISHER GROUP CORPORATE SERVICES
01.2007 - 12.2018
  • Develop a strategic plan to advance the mission and objectives to increase revenue, profitability and growth.
  • Oversee company operations to ensure efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management of resources.
  • Promote and develop existing programs to enhance new concepts that ensure the highest possible quality and service.
  • Support Managers with projects, budgets and management oversight to ensure that quality assurance, exceptional performance and customer satisfaction are being enforced within the company;
  • Establish and maintain effective internal controls at each location, ensuring all employees are performing and excelling in their positions and duties.
  • Develop accurate and aggressive long and short-range financial objectives.
  • Lead discussions appropriate to all internal operational procedures, budget and planning areas, priorities of inventory movement, maintenance projects, and personnel.
  • Manage staff to ensure consistent delivery of our product and services within the standards of budget, policies, procedures, and quality to satisfy the requirements of the Franchisor.
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Successfully increased annual sales each year to highest level at $2.5M.

Assistant Project Manager

ABBOTT LABORATORIES
04.2002 - 03.2007
  • Worked closely with Project Managers and other team members to provide support on various projects in Phase I through IV studies to ensure drugs meet the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.
  • Tracked and monitored project schedules and budgets updating and reviewing financial status reports and ensuring deliverable deadlines are met.
  • Provided verbal and written communication; interfaced across organizations and worked effectively with teams in various environments.
  • Supported clinical trials in US, Germany and Japan of over 800 participants.

Release Manager

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES C/O COTELLIGENT (CONTRACTOR)
12.2000 - 04.2002
  • Responsible for ensuring maintenance and enhancement projects of existing web portals and sites are scheduled and implemented. Develop Risk Management Plan for each project.
  • Facilitate meetings and prepare timelines for requested maintenance and enhancements.
  • Worked with Marketing, Product, System Analyst, Developers and Testers to ensure issues were addressed and action plans communicated.
  • Managed multiple environments and projects with limited resources also required hands on activities of testing of functionality to be implemented.

Manager

AT&T
06.1990 - 12.2000
    • Responsible for maintaining verbal and written communication with Product Manager, Pricing, Contracts and Commerciality organization to achieve the common goal of producing a quality product to the GSA Schedule.
    • Established guidelines and timeframes to ensure the Product Guide was produced and distributed timely and within budget.
    • Responsible for representing Billing Operations on Service Project Teams.
    • Communicated all relevant service information to the appropriate teams.
    • Identified and coordinated all issues/resolutions and milestones to stakeholders in a timely manner to ensure successful implementation.
    • Responsible for supporting the delivery of a new billing platform by prioritizing the business/functional requirements through participation on various teams. The billing platform provided the ability to produce one combined bill that contained multiple services from different business units.
    • Performed analysis for direct billing and bundle strategies to determine if profitable and viable.
    • Responsible for the end process for Local Market entry by supporting Legal, Marketing, Operations, Product and Systems on implementation of request.
    • Responsible for understanding and communicating requirements, assisting in issue mitigation, providing status, and facilitation of negotiations.
    • Organized and conducted Local Test Plans to support various releases, provided test execution status and tracking.
    • Provided supervision and support to Contractors during the testing phase. Team was nominated for the Circle of Excellence Award in 1999.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - Project Management

BTII Institute
West Orange, NJ
08-2019

Some College (No Degree) - Web Designing

Fairleigh Dickinson University
Madison, NJ

Business Management

UNC, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Raleigh, NC

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration-Marketing

College of Saint Elizabeth
Morristown, NJ
05.1995

Associate of Arts - Executive Assistant

Norwich University @ Vermont College
Montpelier, VT
05.1984

Skills

  • Market Development
  • Operations Manager
  • Project Management
  • Client/Vendor Relations
  • Team Leadership
  • Staff Training Policy Development
  • Process Improvement
  • CRM software - Sales Force
  • Customer service

Timeline

Customer Engagement Specialist

United Healthcare, Optum
08.2021 - 07.2025

Manager

THE FISHER GROUP CORPORATE SERVICES
01.2007 - 12.2018

Assistant Project Manager

ABBOTT LABORATORIES
04.2002 - 03.2007

Release Manager

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES C/O COTELLIGENT (CONTRACTOR)
12.2000 - 04.2002

Manager

AT&T
06.1990 - 12.2000

Some College (No Degree) - Project Management

BTII Institute

Some College (No Degree) - Web Designing

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Business Management

UNC, Kenan-Flagler Business School

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration-Marketing

College of Saint Elizabeth

Associate of Arts - Executive Assistant

Norwich University @ Vermont College