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WASEEM AKRAM SHAIK

Plano,TX

Summary

Throughout my career progression from customer care specialist to manager, I have never lost sight of the fact that employee satisfaction drives performance. Through comprehensive reporting of key metrics, I have consistently helped streamline customer care processes to improve customer satisfaction and increase sales.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Customer Care Manager

DBS
Frisco, TX
01.2021 - 11.2021
  • Led and developed a team of customer care specialists that grew from a team of 7 to 16
  • Actively monitored staff engagement, ensuring employees were engaged and fulfilled, resulting in an employee retention rate increase of 21%
  • Oversaw pending leads, sales, and service appointment scheduling of 10K+ new and existing customers while improving customer satisfaction
  • Identified gaps and bottlenecks in customer care, and instituted actionable and incentivized customer feedback cards that improved customer retention by 71%
  • Created training manuals and workshops for on-boarding and continuing education for customer care specialists.
  • Developed and implemented customer service policies and procedures.

Customer Service Manager

Medical Guardian
Dallas, TX
06.2020 - 12.2020
  • Built a comprehensive reporting infrastructure to allow for coaching of under-performing customer service specialists, improving their performance, on average, by 24%
  • Reworked existing processes to improve customer retention by 12% and customer satisfaction by 18%
  • Managed a team of 7 customer service specialists, and led the migration into HubSpot
  • Handled challenging claims left unresolved by team, and retained 92% of those customers.

Customer Service Specialist

Medical Guardian
Austin, TX
01.2020 - 05.2020
  • Maintained superior knowledge of Medical Guardian products and services to deliver accurate information for inquiries
  • Followed up with customers to update them on claim requests, resulting in a 95% customer approval rating
  • Streamlined the process of responding to billing inquiries by building a comprehensive flow chart for customer service specialists, saving over 25 hours of manual work each week.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
09-2023

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Employee satisfaction
  • Data analysis
  • Customer service reporting
  • Metrics-driven
  • Empathetic & courteous
  • Organized
  • Detail-oriented
  • Highly driven

Timeline

Customer Care Manager

DBS
01.2021 - 11.2021

Customer Service Manager

Medical Guardian
06.2020 - 12.2020

Customer Service Specialist

Medical Guardian
01.2020 - 05.2020

Master of Science - Computer Science

Indiana University Bloomington
WASEEM AKRAM SHAIK