References are available upon request
KARINA NIEVES
SYSTEMS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER
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Bilingual in Spanish Systems and telecommunications engineer, Scrum Master certified, 13+ years of experience in sales, customer service, IT consulting and IT service management. Highly skilled on Sales, Project Management, Scrum/PMP/ ITIL frameworks. A resilient motivator/IT leader that combines business acumen with analytical depth to align IT strategy with corporate goals. Expert in developing business initiatives, with a strong focus on customer service, effective work team leadership and stakeholder management.
MAIN SKILLS
• Highly skilled on sales and negotiation.
• Charismatic leadership.
• Customer service oriented.
• Bilingual (English and Spanish)
• Business integrator.
• Stakeholder management.
• Excellent verbal and written
communication skills.
• Project Management expertise.
• Motivational coaching skills
EXPERIENCE
JUNE 2021— PRESENT
SALES MANAGER CRICKET WIRELESS
NEW YORK
Main responsibilities:
•Training new staff, Sales strategy development and execution.
•Meeting Cricket KPI(key performance indicators).
•Store goals accomplishments.
•Contributions to sales strategy in different stores.
•Store..management.
Achievements
• Promoted to manager role due to my excellent performance.
︎ Top Google reviewer for best store: Cricket wireless Steinway
︎Top ranker for 4 consecutive months.
• Golden Dante awarded by Cricket Corporate in August and September 2021 due to top location(Cricket Astoria).
OCTOBER 2020— PRESENT
IT CONSULTANT GUIDEPOINT
NEW YORK
Main responsibilities: IT remote consultant for Guidepoint clients. Advisory in IT services, IT budget, IT roadmap, infrastructure, IT Governance, system audit, IoT(Internet of things), IT vendor business cases, software projects, among others. References are available upon request
FEBRUARY 2021—JUNE 2021
SALES REPRESENTATIVE BOOST MOBILE
NEW YORK
Main responsibilities: customer service, retail sales (phones, planes, accessories), sales
.strategy support.
DECEMBER 2020 – FEBRUARY 2021
SALES LEAD ARKADIA MEDIA NEW YORK
Main responsibilities: Sales team leader, training new staff, energy service sales. JUNE 2020— DECEMBER 2020
SALES TEAM LEADER ASN ADVERTISING INC. NEW YORK Main responsibilities: Sales team leader, customer service support, training new staff. JUNE 2019— MAY 2O2O
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT(FREELANCE) REMOTE GEMEVA NEW YORK-BOGOTA
Main responsibilities: IT projects management, customer service for new IT business cases and software projects.
Achievements
• Defined IT Strategic plan for 2019-2021.
• Defined IT processes based on ITIL.
JUNE 2016 — MAY 2019
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER VOLVO - BOGOTA, COLOMBIA Head of IT area.
Project leader of global teams located in India, Brazil, Poland, China, USA, among others, for the execution of business cases and technology/software projects, responsible for stakeholder demands management, customer service, end user support and IT budget. Achievements
• Executed IT outsourced services strategy achieving 50% monthly budget savings.
• Business case approval for SAP Master Finance implementation. AUGUST 2012 — JUNE 2016
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR ALLIANZ— BOGOTA, COLOMBIA Head of Service Desk and call center (1200 end users). Responsible for IT and infrastructure Projects
Superuser of Servicetonic (Incidents and requirements software). Achievements
• Designed and established KPI“s for area an SLA for Allianz internal clients.
• VMware project end user support scheme design for 800 users and virtual machines.
• IT equipment upgrade for 700 end users/160 K USD Project. JUNE 2009— JULY 2010
SALES ASSISTANT MANAGER L’OCCITANE — LONDON, ENGLAND
• Responsible for product sales and customer service. Achievements
Support on sales strategy design and implementation increasing profit margin by 3%. References are available upon request
Find additional experience here > https://www.linkedin.com/in/lkng/ EDUCATION
JULY 2020 - PRESENT
ELECTRONIC TRADING IN FINANCIAL MARKETS, NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF FINANCE In progress New York
JANUARY – MARCH 2020
BUSINESS ENGLISH, HUNTER COLLEGE
New York
JUNE 2019 – JULY 2020
MBA (MARKETING, STRAGEGY AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION) EUDE BUSINESS SCHOOL Online Scholarship awarded. Madrid, Spain
DECEMBER- 2012
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST SANTO TOMAS UNIVERSITYI Bogota, Colombia
LANGUAGES
Native Spanish speaker with full proficiency in English. References are available upon request