Andres Freites
Toronto, Ontario
Mobile: 647-***-****
**************@*****.***
Insurance Broker / Customer Experience / Sales
Over 10 Years of Experience in Insurance Industry
Polished, professional customer service rep offering:
Over ten years of experience providing customer support in insurance companies.
An unwavering commitment to customer service, with the ability to build productive relationships, resolve complex issues and win customer loyalty.
Strategic-relationship/partnership-building skills -- listen attentively, solve problems creatively, and use tact and diplomacy to find common ground and achieve win-win outcomes.
Professional Experience
Customer Service Agent
For local and international insurance companies
Handled incoming calls from policyholders, responding to inquiries, resolving problems and correcting policy errors. Provided quotes and executed online policy changes for auto, home and excess liability. Used consultative selling techniques to provide leads for telesales personnel.
Sales Representative
For local and international insurance companies
Handle customer inquiries, complaints, billing questions and payment extension/service requests, loss claims attention. Calm angry insureds, repair trust, locate resources for problem resolution and design best-option solutions.
Key Accomplishments:
Managed a high-volume workload within a deadline-driven environment. Resolved a high average of inquiries in any given week and consistently met performance benchmarks in all areas (speed, accuracy, volume)
Became the lead “go-to” person for particularly challenging cases as one of the company’s primary problem solver
Helped company attain the highest customer service ratings
Officially commended for initiative, enthusiasm, tenacity, persuasiveness, intense customer focus and dependability in performance evaluations.
Education
High School Diploma
Insurance Related courses
Technical Risks – Munchener
Fire and Machinery Breakdown
General Insurance (USF&G)
Industrial Security
2nd Advance Course General Insurance – Swiss Insurance Training Centre,
Zurich, Switzerland
Work Teams Management
Supervisors Basic Course
Effective Interview
Solid Foundations
Analysis and Interpretation of Technical
and Administrative Management of
Insurance Companies
Technical Risks Training Course
Engineering Insurance and Applications
Swiss Re
Skills
Skill Name
Skill Level
Last Used/Experience
Call Center
Service Operations
Expert
Currently used/8 years
Customer Service
Expert
Currently used/8 years
Dispute Resolution
Expert
Currently used/8 years
Sales Lead Generation
Expert
Currently used/8 years
Canadian Red Cross Standard First Aid and CPR/AED Level C Card
Toronto Paramedic Services EMS, First Aid and CPR Certification
Toronto 2015 Parapan Am (Technology–Swimming) Volunteer Participant 60 hours
YMCA Newcomers Income Centre and Human Resources Volunteer work 300 hours
CDI College – Community Services
Ontario Private Security Guard Licence