janette benham
**** *********** **. . ********, **, 93560 . 818-***-**** .
abjbyw@r.postjobfree.com
Summary
Project Document Writer and Project Manager with over 20 years of
professional experience. Five years of dedicated customer service
experience. Excellent at overseeing all aspects of project management and
compliance interfacing with Programming, Forms Design, testing, customer
service, and support. Software experience includes Word, WordPerfect,
PowerPoint, Acrobat and Excel.
Professional Experience
Farmers Insurance Group., Los Angeles, CA
1988 - 2009
Administrative Services Specialist and Team Lead 08/2007
- 07/2009
Team Lead as well as a team player.
ResponsibIe for the training of a staff of four.
Responsible for the reviewing, editing, and publishing of procedure
bulletins authored by staff.
At the same time I authored the most critical difficult procedure
bulletins.
Established cancellation proof of mail procedures as well as documented
those procedures for companywide use.
Worked with Claims and the different States' Department of Insurance Market
Conduct Examiners to prove mailing of cancellations. If unable to prove it
may cost claims payments or fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars and
more.
Senior Administrative Services Analyst 10/1998 -
08/2007
Administrative Services Analyst (promoted 06/2004 to senior level)
Wrote company procedure bulletin. Wrote and edited project documents for
publishing. Documents could range in number of pages from 3 to 80. Can
provide samples upon request.
Procedure Bulletins are utilized for the following: Company historical
documentation, support training for personnel and support documentation for
testing of the newly implemented programming.
Instrumental in establishing automatic programming to collect earned
premium from the insured. This included authoring collection letters used
in this programming.
Processed rebills when discovered a policy was incorrectly billed based on
incorrect programming. Also authored the rebill explanation letters.
Manually rate tested new programming before implementing.
Authored all modifications for Personal Lines Operations Manuals as the
owner of such manuals.
Customer Service Representative 03/1993 -
10/1998
Handled Customer Service calls from Agents and clients. Fielded difficult
problems by finding solutions.
Pieced together accounting and coverage microfiche evidence to establish a
Policy Breakdown of money owed, credited and paid.
Covered phones for the billing company plus my daily regular work receiving
a spot bonus.
Took part in a company pilot cross training program as a section trainer.
Worked overtime daily.
JANETTE BENHAM
(Resume continued)
Senior Policy Coding Specialist 10/1990 -
03/1993
Policy Coding Specialist (promoted 01/1993 to senior level)
Data entry based on information from insurance application submitted by
Agents, along with other more complex manual transactions.
Manually quoted unusual or very high valued vehicles (for which programming
had not been implemented to handle).
Reviewed and responded to California Department of Insurance (DOI)
Complaints. Determined if complaint was justified. If justified fines may
be levied.
Senior Policy Coder 03/1989 -
10/1990
Policy Coder (promoted 09/1989 to senior level)
Data entry based on information from insurance application submitted by
Agent.
Auto Policy Checker 08/1988 -
03/1989
Data input and generated as a policy is crossed checked for accuracy
against application submitted by Agent-Quality Control.
Underwriting Telephone Classification Clerk 01/1988
- 08/1988
Contacted insureds (for Underwriting) following up on certain aspects of
their application.
Education
San Luis Obispo High School, CA
Certificate of Insurance Supervisory/Management