Category: ADVOCATE

         CLIENT RELATIONS ADVOCATE       Career Overview     Seeking a challenging and rewarding career in Customer Service that would utilize acquired knowledge, training , and skills to achieve career growth potential and advancement. Dedicated Customer Service Representative motivated to maintain customer satisfaction and contribute to company success. Extensive experience includes performing needs assessments, gathering appropriate documents to assess efficiency, and analyzing processes and procedures.       Core Strengths         Responsible Bilingual English/Spanish written and spoken   Data Entry  Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, IUX    Type 47 Words Per Minute  10-Key Calculator  Strong organizational skills  Telephone Experience         Punctual  Hard Worker  Good Listener  Follows Directions   Team Player  Energetic work attitude            Accomplishments      Customer Assistance     Worked with company systems such as IUX and diligently completed all assigned tasks, working overtime as needed.     Customer Service     Researched, calmed and rapidly resolved client conflicts to prevent loss.         Work Experience     October 2009   to   March 2015     Company Name   City  ,   State     Client Relations Advocate       Answer telephones and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate individuals. Create, maintain, and enter information into databases. Set up and manage paper or electronic filing systems, recording information, updating paperwork, or maintaining documents, such as attendance records, correspondence, or other material. Operate office equipment, such as fax machines, copiers, or phone systems and arrange for repairs when equipment malfunctions. Greet visitors or callers and handle their inquiries or direct them to the appropriate persons according to their needs. Maintain scheduling and event calendars. Schedule and confirm appointments for clients, customers, or supervisors. Conduct searches to find needed information, using such sources as the Internet. Operate telephone switchboard to answer, screen, or forward calls, providing information, taking messages, or scheduling appointments. Hear and resolve complaints from customers or the public. Schedule appointments and maintain and update appointment calendars.        April 2005   to   February 2011     Company Name   City  ,   State     Respite Care Provider       Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children. Operate in-house day-care centers within businesses. Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children. Help children with homework and school work. Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs. Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas. Maintain a safe play environment. Dress children and change diapers. Observe and monitor children's play activities. Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues. Sanitize toys and play equipment. Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered. Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.         May 2000   to   October 2006     Company Name   City  ,   State     Customer Service       Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products. Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties. Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures, conferring with board members, organization officials, and staff members as necessary. Determine goods and services to be sold, and set prices and credit terms, based on forecasts of customer demand. Perform sales floor work, such as greeting or assisting customers, stocking shelves, or taking inventory. Manage the movement of goods into and out of production facilities. Confer with customers by telephone or in person to provide information about products or services, take or enter orders, cancel accounts, or obtain details of complaints. Keep records of customer interactions or transactions, recording details of inquiries, complaints, or comments, as well as actions taken. Check to ensure that appropriate changes were made to resolve customers' problems. Resolve customers' service or billing complaints by performing activities such as exchanging merchandise, refunding money, or adjusting bills. Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits. Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers. Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints. Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change. Establish or identify prices of goods, services or admission, and tabulate bills using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners. Greet customers entering establishments. Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies. Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales. Process merchandise returns and exchanges. Monitor checkout stations to ensure that they have adequate cash available and that they are staffed appropriately. Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items. Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans. Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins. Supervise others and provide on-the-job training. Stock shelves, and mark prices on shelves and items. Bag, box, wrap, or gift-wrap merchandise, and prepare packages for shipment. Compute and record totals of transactions. Offer customers carry-out service at the completion of transactions.         Educational Background          Maric College   City  ,   State  ,   US     Certificate  :   Medical Coding and Billing     Medical Coding and Billing Certificate: Medical Coding and Billing Sep 2007 Maric College San Diego, CA (Now Known As Kaplan College)             C. Crawford Senior High School   City  ,   State  ,   US     High School Diploma       High School Diploma Jun 2000 Will C. Crawford Senior High School	San Diego , CA             San Diego Job Corps   City  ,   State  ,   US     Certificate  :   Office Business     Office Business Certificate: Office Business	Jun 2002 Job Corps Imperial Beach, CA             South Western College   City  ,   State  ,   US       Child Development     South Western College	Chula Vista, CA         Certifications     Medical Coding and Billing Certificate, Office Business Certificate, High School Diploma       Languages     Bilingual English/Spanish written and Spoken       Skills     Greet, Telephone Customer Service, Cash, Credit, Sales, Vouchers, Optical, Payments, Training, Inventory, Pricing, Billing, Forecasts, Greeting, Sales Floor, Stocking, Correspondence, Databases, Filing, Telephones, Painting, Client Relations, Clients, Schedule Appointments, Scheduling, Switchboard, Cashier, Accounting, Answering, General Office, General Office Duties, Inventory Records, Payroll, Process Payroll, Purchase Orders, Customer Service, Data Entry, Excel, Microsoft Word, Punctual, Receptionist, Retail Sales, Team Player, Word, Coding, Medical Coding