Linda Ford
**** *. *******, ***** *******, IL *0064 Home: 847-***-**** Cell: 224-***-****
CAREER SUMMARY
• Several years of work experience
• Outstanding customer service skills
• Proven leadership and supervisory capabilities
• Skilled in problem analysis and resolution
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Effective organizational and time management skills
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Senior Educator Advisor
• Receive inbound calls from retirement plan participants looking for assistance with Medicare health plans
• Explain the health plans available to inbound callers and recommend the most appropriate plan to fit their needs
• Interview individuals to gather required information to complete needs assessment to determine which plan client qualifies for
• Provide Medicare health plan education related to various Medicare health plan topics.
• Make warm outbound calls to customers who have expressed interest in obtaining assistance with enrollment into Medicare health plan.
• Explain HRA’s, Health Reimbursement accounts and YSA’s to client.
Inside Sales/Medical Records
• Perform inbound and outbound calls and document results of calls into FileMaker software program
• Ensure compliance of HIPAA regulations
• Determine eligibility of patients’ benefits
• Conduct patient intake by verifying insurance and financial information
• Maintain patients’ medical records
• Direct patients’ to make appointments with physicians
• Interpret policies and procedures and apply them to certain specific situations
• Update patient information utilizing electronic records via FileMaker software program
Stability Technician
• Responsible for all the preliminary phases of stability analysis
• Ensured a follow up in updating the stability results as well as identifying out of scope trends
• Managed stability samples according to protocols and maintained a rigorous inventory system
• Managed related documentation to the stability process
• Verified stability results
• Reconciled and verified external analysis certificates and update the results in the corresponding project file
• Organized and maintained inventory for all stability batch and their destruction thereafter completion of related stability analysis
Production Control Coordinator
• Maintained total budget for all domestic material destruct orders at Abbott Diagnostics Division
• Created and maintained data tracking of Retest/Review system
• Monitored and supervised a staff of 15 individuals from various departments
• Facilitated new technicians training on the retest/review process
• Provided additional technical training in other phases of operation as necessary
EMPLOYERS
• Spherion, Lincolnshire, IL
August 2010 – Present
• Planned Elder Care, Buffalo Grove, IL
January 2008 to July 2010
• Hospira, Stability Marketing,
March 2000 to October 2007
• Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL
October 1996 to September 1998
EDUCATION
• College of Lake County, Waukegan, IL
A.A.S. Applied Science
• Columbia University, Gurnee, IL
Bachelor’s, Criminal Justice - Attending
SPECIAL SKILLS: Typing 35-40wpm, Window XP, Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Outlook, WordPerfect Software Programs, Lotus SmartSuite, Freelance Graphics, Lotus AmiPro 3.1, Lotus Notes, Advanced Text Management System.