Daniel Le Blanc
Chatsworth, CA 415-***-**** ac0gxy@r.postjobfree.com
Operations & Customer Service Management Professional
Operations Manager Customer Service Manager Revenue Cycle
Ambitious and solution driven Management Professional with more than 20 years of experience and is smart, creative and dedicated manager who operationally has been very successful in many different fields. Demonstrates suburb time management and effectively problem solves in a fast paced environments. Uses exceptional organizational skills and is the player you want on your team. Has lead or been a critical part of many major process improvement plans or CORPORATE STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES and will see them all through to fruition. Demonstrated history of effective analytics and mentorship and recognized for successfully achieving optimum levels of customer satisfaction. Built and lead high functioning teams to meet annual goals and increase in sales in multiple roles.
Project Management Leader
Strong Eye on Reports and Data
Customer Experience Specialist
Multiple Systems Management
Litigated Judgements in Court
Successful Mentor
Gap Analysis Expert
Positive Team Player
High Level Client Relations
High Knowledge of HIPPA
Collections expert
Advanced MS Office & SAP
Metrics/KPI driven
Process Management
Professional Experience
Alere Home Monitoring, Livermore, CA October 2016 – April 2017
Director of Revenue Cycle
Hand selected by GM to manage & significantly impact change for AR, Billing, Cash Posting, & Claims
Direct reports 5 (Teams in Philippines, Orlando and Livermore)- Total staff 68
Lead teams for Corporate initiatives/Strategic Imperatives - Creation of application for Smartphones/Iphones for patients to report results, order supplies, update insurance, etc.
Heavy forecasting for AR to lower bad debt; recreating all reporting to find gaps & make necessary improvements with in the billing system for accelerated growth
High focus on Large Balance Collections from Clinics, Large Commercial Insurance Companies, & 3rd party Administrators - Collections increased 20% over previous year
Maintained relationships with high valued clients (hospitals, clinics and healthcare organizations including Medicare) bring AR to 90-95% collections
Increase controls on billing and denial of claims; Follow more advanced SOP’s
Reformulate strict processes to ensure cohesive work standards and efficient Collections of AR for all 3 sites - Performance metrics in place to achieve 15% more work with same staff
Form stronger bond with Compliance and regulatory to certify SOX requirement and full HIPPA regulations
Automated many cash posting and billing modules to restructure business and avoid human error
Manage and grow staff for a better autonomous work environment
Work directly with the Benefits to streamline departmental workflows and improve communications
Strong and open relationship with Finance to balance the GL, have clean budgets and balanced forecasting
Involved in current systems conversion from Carevoyant to SAP
Alere Home Monitoring, Livermore, CA April 2014- September 2016
Director of Customer Service/Quality Assurance
Hired to develop and manage Customer Service and Quality Assurance Teams (5 direct reports/45 total staff)
Assigned by CEO to lead Customer Satisfaction Strategic Imperative for division
Started with 6 staff; created and expanded to ONE call resolution team of 25, decreasing call abandoned rate 16%
Reached out and learned all facets of the organization(Logistics/Warehouse, IT, Patient Enrollment, Sales, Compliance, Project Management) to find key resources for success of newly created department
Strong relations with high valued clients (Hospitals, Clinics and healthcare organizations including Medicare) to ensure very low volume of complaints
Established strict call quality scoring & metrics for staff development & consistently raise Customer Service levels
Initial Customer Satisfaction Survey benchmark was 67% goal - achieved 97% or higher monthly
Created Sharepoint page - Customer Feedback Resolution Tracker; track reason & resolution for complaints, & to see trends to complete Root Cause Analysis - Decreased complaints from 50 per month to under 20 monthly
Responsible for communicating across all departments and informing on pertinent issues and process improvements; co-chaired several new process developments/new efficiencies along current processes
Understanding inventory of Meters & supplies to ensure supply availability complete Customer Satisfaction
Co-Chair for Product Recall(UMDC – Inratio Meter)- responsible for success and deadline for completion of recall
Pioneered sessions called Alere – Together as One; 1 hour sessions to assist with profession skill development for all staff
LMSA Financial, Phoenix, AZ January 2007 – April 2014
Operations Manager
Manage Western region of brick and mortar stores for small loan and check cashing facilities (includes 6 direct reports & staff of approx. 55 employees)
Forecast monthly, quarterly, yearly returns and prepare the correlating budgets
Monthly, quarterly and yearly reconciliation to the GL and bank statements
Maintain successful results to achieve a consistent positive collection percentage
Represented company in courts for Judgements against Delinquent Customers
Develop store strategies to increase the Customer Experience; Built an App for Customer use
Successfully controlled a systems conversion from the old accounting software (Qfunds) to our new software (SAP)
Developed a business plan to monitor each division closely to achieve maximum collections
Assisted in developing and implementing new products due to the close or restructuring of Payday loans(AZ, CO, and WA)
Created a successful Quality Assurance Team to focus on store accuracies and customer service
Monthly, quarterly and yearly reconciliations to the GL and bank statements
Ensured CFO received weekly delinquency reports for companywide cash flow
SOS Restoration Phoenix, AZ January 2006 - January 2007 Accounting Consultant – 1 year Consulting Contract
Reorganized AP to an efficient model for consistent invoices; eliminating past due invoices to vendors/contractors
Completed all reconciliation of General Ledger for 2006
Analyzed all outstanding AR construction invoices
Reorganized department to begin collections with Insurers & Insurance Companies to have an increased monthly cash flow
Developed financial reports to help analyze budgets and to increase the profit margins
Countrywide Home Loans Tempe, AZ August 2003 - December 2006
Loss Mitigation Manager
Supervise Account Managers handling Pre-foreclosure/foreclosure loans
Develop Strategies to reduce backend delinquencies
Forecast losses based on pending foreclosures and met monthly objectives and deliverables based on strategy
Ensure Account Managers are in compliance to avoid Book losses and following Quality guidelines
Documentation Prep for Litigation of Foreclosure
Liaison for quality calibration sessions for entire department
Lead Hurricane Katrina Relief Project for Loss Mitigation
Prepare loans from borrowers that require special assistance to avoid foreclosure
Analyze budgets monthly, quarterly and Yearly for Department
Allied International Credit Valencia, CA December 1997 - July 2003
Operations Manager
Managed 450 Call Center Representatives and controlled daily objectives of the Managing Coaches
Maintain targets given to the Managing Coaches to ensure achievement
Communicate with Clients (GE Capital, Bank of America, Department of Education, and Capital One) to share objectives
Prepared budget for branch to obtain Top-line
Participated in year-end financials with all divisions of Corporation and Strategy planning with Senior Executives
Track client targets through Batch reports to ensure success
Review historical data to calculate collection forecasts
Ensured training and refresher courses by Training Staff and staffing & disciplinary decisions
Training Manager
Conduct all New Hire Orientation
Facilitate Refresher training on the Basics of Collections
Managing Coach
Achieved client objectives by continually meeting collection goals Developed skills of Collection Officers and Team Leaders
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Finance, California State - Northridge, 2001
Professional Courses
How to Deal With Difficult People
Situational leadership
Insights
Myers Briggs
Conflict Management
Success on a TEAM
In Process of completing Certification Six Sigma
awards & Professional Accomplishments
Creating Customer Service at Alere and bringing the Quality of Service score from 67% to 97%
Being hand selected to lead several Corporate Initiatives and seeing them implemented to success
Create an App at LMSA for customer use to improve sales and convenience to customer
Hitting forecasts and budgets at LMSA Financial every year
Successful System conversion Project at LMSA
Multiple promotions at every job I have ever had
Industries
Financial Mortgage Construction Customer Service Healthcare
Software
Proficient in MS Office Suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access and Visio; SAP; ERN systems; People Soft ; Concur; ADP
Outside Interests
Avid Cyclist - Participating in AIDS Life Cycle (biking from San Francisco to LA - 554 Miles)
Almost followed in Father’s footsteps to become a Chef, but love to Cook and Entertain
Spending Quality time (Hiking, Soul Cycle, Keeping up with the Joneses, etc) with Daughter