PABLO ORTIZ ARBUROLA
El Carmen Guadalupe, San José Costa Rica, Mobile: 8633-0209, Home: 2292-8723, *****.*****.********@*****.*** PROFILE
Since 1999 I have been developing my Leadership skills and since 2003, I have been in the Analysis, Reporting & Leadership fields. I have been able to lead small Workforce Teams, developing people and providing quality service to each of the companies I have worked for. I have a strong career path improving processes and performance of the Teams I have been involved with, not only in Call Center, but in the Digital Marketing, Manufacturing and Travel Industry.
I also have completed the Six Sigma Green Belt Training and recently the Scrum Master certification. I am very organized, honest; with strong people skills, emotional intelligence and continuous improvement mentality. I also work as a Consultant in my free time helping quite few companies in the reporting, analysis & process improvement areas. I have user knowledge in these platforms; MS office, Share Point, IBM Cognos, CMS Avaya, Cisco CUIC, AS400, SAP, IEX, Vantage Point, Verint, among others. I also have US visa. WORK HISTORY
CWT (Travel Industry) – Santa Ana, San José, CR
Real Time Manager, February 2018 - ongoing
Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the day to day monitoring of call volume reporting out on key KPIs.
• Responsible for Staffing Gap analysis to ensure proper coverage.
• Responsible for movement of workload to ensure proper balance of phone and e-mail SLA.
• 1st point of contact for Supervisors questions regarding scheduling, time off, etc.
• Monitor Teams performance.
Major Achievements:
• In charge of the whole Amazon account on the RTM piece.
• Successful in building relationships with Costa Rica Managers.
• Dependable point of contact in Costa Rica for the NORAM RTM and WFM teams.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing focus and/or priorities
• Improved daily usage reports to gather historical data.
• Improve internal communication with Agents.
• Implemented KPIs tracking reports for CR & US sites. SELF EMPLOYEED (Freelance) – San José, CR
Consultant, January 2010 – Ongoing
In my free time I provide different services as a Consultant, such as workforce analysis, reporting, process optimization, data tabulation, data analysis, measurement & performance controls. These are some of those companies:
• Total Connect Contact Center (Outsourcing/Offshoring).
• CRON (Outsourcing Solutions Provider).
• VyV Chile Construction (Construction Industry).
• Killer Hot Sauce (Food Services).
• La Reposteria (Bakery)
• G&M Publicity (Advertisement / Design).
• AIC (Contac Center Outsourcing).
• Centro Canadiense de Idiomas (Language Institute). BCD TRAVEL (Travel Industry) – Lagunilla, Heredia, CR Workforce Management Lead, December 2013 – June 2017 Key Responsibilities:
• Leading the Workforce Department for India, US & Costa Rica.
• Data Analysis to determine trends, patterns, volume spikes, etc.
• Generate Forecast based on the historical analysis.
• Provide accurate staffing requirements and shifts distribution based on Forecast.
• Managing schedule exceptions and permissions based on availability.
• Generating interval, daily, weekly & monthly reporting to Leadership, Management and VPs.
Major Achievements:
• Strengthen WFM relationship with Management.
• Increased the effective communication between Teams.
• Innovated and improved the Reporting portion to get automated weekly/monthly/yearly reports.
• Enhanced the Staffing files to obtain a wider variety of data to better measure the agents.
• Maintained the Forecast vs. actual with a difference of -/+ 2%.
• Currently creating an improved Forecasting & Staffing calculations files.
ECLIPSE IN ACTION (Contact Service Center) – San Pedro, CR March 2008 – August 2013 (5 years, 5 months)
At Eclipse in Action I was able to be promoted in few occasions that helped me to learn more about different aspects on each Department of the company:
Marketing Analyst for AREA 203 division (sister company of Eclipse in Acton), March 2012 – August 2013 (1 year, 6 months) Key Responsibilities:
• Planning and Development of Marketing Strategies
• Planned Quarterly Strategy Goals
• Monitored Campaigns performance
• Digital Marketing Analysis
• Marketing budget projections and monitoring
• Lead selling analysis and reporting
• Lead selling and buying Forecasting
• Reconciliation processes
• Worked with Compliance Team
Major Achievements:
• Always on time with Strategy deliverables due dates
• Forecast accuracy of -+5%
• Improved the Selling reporting process
• Expanded the analysis of the data
• Added new data to the reporting equation
• Optimized processes
• Created monthly review presentations
• Created dashboards not used before
• Expanded the analytical mentality of the Team
Workforce Leader for Barnes & Noble Account, October 2011 – February 2012 (5 months) Key Responsibilities:
• Business Analysis
• Scheduling and Staffing
• Forecasting and Reporting
• Real Time Monitoring
• Training Coordination
• Monitored Attrition
• Controlled Processes
Major achievements:
• Took care of the WFM account ramp up in CR
• Created the agents KPIs measurement system for CR
• Established the WFM processes and procedures
• Structured and implemented the agents Score Card
• Trained ALL Leadership for WFM matters
• Improved the analytical perspective of the Leadership Team
• Created a simple tool to monitor Attrition
Workforce Leader for CPS account, March 2008 – September 2011 (3 years & 7 months) Key Responsibilities:
• Operations and Business Analysis
• In charge of the WFM Team
• Scheduling, Staffing, Forecasting
• Reporting and Real Time Monitoring
• Trained CSRs and Leadership about WFM matters
• Also trained Leadership about excel, KPIs, Vantage Point and Cisco IP phone reports
• Responsible for the whole call center KPIs results
• Contributed creating processes for HR, QA, Training, etc
• WFM point of contact Chattanooga-CR
• Planning reviews with Operations/HR/Finance and QA Major Achievements:
• Helped to maintain a continuous Team Work results among WFM, Operations, HR, Finance, Training and QA
• Structured the WFM department
• Established WFM CR processes and procedures
• Implemented new ideas to improve KPIs achievement
• Implemented new metrics to be measured
• Planned and implemented new shifts for the whole center
• Maximized seating capacity by 100%
• Helped TLs and CSRs to improve their performance
• Kept a clean and open communication across the company
• Developed CSRs to become WFM members
WESTERN UNION, INTERNATIONAL (Financial Contact Center) - Santa Ana, CR Workforce Analyst, March 2003 to March 2008 (5 years & 1 month) Key Responsibilities:
• In charge of all employee’s transportation
• Real Time Monitoring for 6 accounts
• Scheduling for 2 accounts
• Ran the VPs daily report
• Trained Leadership and CSRs about IEX tool
• Handled basic AVAYA reporting
• Monitored Attendance
Major Achievements:
• Improved all transportation routes
• Obtained a 30% budget reduction in transportation
• Created better controls for transportation
• Improved the ASA for WFM requests from CSRs
• Generated a positive relation between WFM and Operations AIRPAK CR (Financial Institution) - San Pedro, CR
Agency Manager, March 2000 to February 2003 (3 years & 1 month) Key Responsibilities:
• In charge of the agency staff (5 employees)
• Monitored staff attendance
• Handled cash flow of $15,000 USD on a daily basis
• Generated weekly reports to CR Operations Manager
• Took care of the agency budget
• Measured CSAT
Major Achievements:
• Created a positive work environment
• Improved the internal communication
• Trained new staff
• Improved Agency efficiency
• Developed loyalty from regular customers
• Increased Agency workload
VOLUNTARY WORK
LDS CHURCH (Religious) – San José, CR
Active member (voluntary work), October 1999 - Ongoing
• I have been serving actively since October 1999 as a Leader in few different areas and also as Teacher. LDS CHURCH (Religious) - Guatemala, CA
Full Time Missionary (voluntary work), October 1997 - October 1999 (2 years)
• Served as a Missionary, developed Teaching skills and trained other Missionaries to improve their skills. EDUCATION & TRAININGS
The Scrum Institute - San José, CR
• Scrum Master Certified 2019
U.I.A - San José, CR
• Business Management – January 2017 - ongoing
• Industrial Engineering – January 2017 – April 2018 (paused) M.E.P - San José, CR
• High School Diploma
PXS / CICR - San José, CR
• Six Sigma Green Belt training, August - November 2010 NEW HORIZONS - San José, CR
• Microsoft Excel, June 2006
CENTRO COSTARRICENSE DE CÓMPUTO - San José, CR
• Windows Package, November 2001 - April 2002
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