Michael Truett Holt
San Antonio, TX 78207
*******@*****.***
Objective: I am seeking a customer service position in an organization that capitalizes my
interpersonal strengths and problem solving abilities to foster long-term relations with clients in
its efforts to prosper and grow.
Personal strengths:
• Super strong work ethic, attentive to details, highly adaptive to change, and able to find
the best in people and situations to nurture committed business-client relationships.
• Outstanding verbal and written communicator, with the ability to discern unarticulated
needs, and to nurture dialogue in challenging situations.
• Practiced sense of attendant focus on customer, able to smartly transform their perceived
problems into simpler issues with personalized remedies.
• Very results-oriented, recognizing that tasks are part of a greater whole, and that getting
things right the first time is a money-maker.
Significant experience:
• Veteran US Army officer and pilot, composed under pressure, persistently goal-oriented,
and adept at finding solutions beyond the obstacles.
• Customer satisfaction skills honed in enterprises as diverse as commercial aviation,
limousine services, commercial baking, retailing, hospitality, and food service industries.
• Sales experiences, while not recent, inculcated a determined effort toward the close, and
included work in automobile sales, a top-end fitness club, and remote-monitored fire-
detection and suppression systems.
Education and training:
• Intra-company store management training programs for both Starbuck’s Coffee Company
(2007) and Denny’s Restaurants (1987).
• Certificate (80 hours) Effective Supervisory Skills and Time Management (1994),
Professional Business Solutions, New Iberia, LA.
• Associates of Applied Technologies (1984), Ft. Steillacoom Community College, Ft.
Steillacoom, WA.
• Computer proficiency includes Word, Lotus, Excel, Office, Outlook, and Desktop
Publisher applications.
• Experienced with most common office technologies, e.g., multi-line phones and
switchboards, copiers, fax/modem and land based radio communication systems.