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Tonya Zanella

Customer Service
Yorba Linda,CA

Summary

Experienced Customer Care Manager bringing 26 years of quality performance in customer support and serving as escalation point for clients and internal departments. Accustomed to defusing customer dissatisfaction and managing competing priorities with superior results. Focused on ensuring excellent service standards and maintaining high customer satisfaction. Experience providing product and services information, and resolving any emerging problems clients might face with accuracy and efficiency. Skilled in mentoring team members to deliver exceptional service and building team morale through effective communication and positive performance feedback. Delivers excellent client services while building and maintaining client relationships.

  • Exceptional interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines.
  • Exceptional attention to detail.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Customer Care Manager

Unitek
King of Prussia, PA
02.2007 - 01.2022
  • Handled complaints, provided appropriate solutions and alternatives within appropriate timeframes, and followed up to achieve resolution.
  • Conducted training and mentored team members to promote productivity, accuracy and commitment to friendly service.
  • Developed documentation for policy and procedures.
  • Built client/customer relationships by responding to inquiries, identifying and assessing customers' needs, resolving problems, and following up with resolution.
  • Applied best practices in customer service and employee management to exceed organizational goals.
  • Managed VIP accounts, including VIP commercial accounts.
  • Investigate and respond to BBB and Attorney General complaints.

1099 Contractor

Unitek
Burbank, CA
02.2006 - 02.2007

Recruited to investigate and evaluate current operations of the Burbank location.

Restructured dispatch call center for better employee relations and higher customer service experience. Hired and trained new employees for the call center. Up-trained existing dispatch and support staff.

Assumed Project Manager role and responsibilities until the position was filled

Area Manager

Mountain Satellite / Ironwood
YUCCA VALLEY, CA
01.2001 - 02.2006

Responsible for 7 offices from Ventura, California to Yuma, Arizona.

Manage, train, and develop management and supervisory staff to ensure sites were highly productive and profitable with adhering to company and customer policies.

Developed and wrote company policy and procures.

Traveled for other Area Managers to support their needs with training and developing their supervisor and management staff.

Ironwood purchaed Mountain Satellite, but my position remained the same.

Site Manager

Mountain Satellite
YUCCA VALLEY, CA
04.1996 - 01.2001

Managed 10 technicians, warehouse, dispatch

Customer service contact for all locations of the company

Traveled to train as additional sites opened

This location was also the payment center to pay your DirecTV bills (Taking in hundred to thousands of dollars each day, which had to be tracked and sent to DirecTV for final processing)

Education

High School Diploma -

Yucca Valley High School
Yucca Valley

Skills

Customer Relations

Research and due diligence

Complaint resolution

Personnel training and development

Inter-department collaboration

Customer-focused

Team Building

Exceptional interpersonal communication

Effective workflow management

Strategic planning

Timeline

Customer Care Manager

Unitek
02.2007 - 01.2022

1099 Contractor

Unitek
02.2006 - 02.2007

Area Manager

Mountain Satellite / Ironwood
01.2001 - 02.2006

Site Manager

Mountain Satellite
04.1996 - 01.2001

High School Diploma -

Yucca Valley High School
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