Customer experience leader with 8+ years guiding service teams across retail and operations. Turns voice-of-customer data into coaching plans that raise CSAT, lower escalations, and protect retention. Deep fluency across Customer Experience, Operations, Retail environments, with tooling and frameworks tuned to customer experience manager mandates. Representative wins: Lifted CSAT from 78 to 91 across a 32-person service team in 12 months. Reduced repeat escalations by 38% through a new coaching cadence. Known for translating career narrative, tenure framing, leadership presence into outcomes cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders can defend in the next QBR — and for leaving teams more capable than they were found.
- Delivered lifted CSAT from 78 to 91 across a 32-person team in 12 months.
- Reduced repeat escalations 38% with a weekly coaching cadence.
- Owned voice-of-customer reporting that informed quarterly service roadmap.
- Delivered cut average response time from 14 to 6 hours while volume grew 22%.
- Partnered directly with go-to-market leadership on CSAT strategy; converted recurring escalations into a documented playbook now used as the standard onboarding artifact across peer teams.
- Coached and mentored 5 ICs on voice of customer — two later promoted into senior roles — while continuing to ship the team's highest-visibility deliverable each quarter.
- Stood up the first service operations review board with engineering and finance; produced the quarterly business case that protected 3 headcount and a $2130K platform investment.
- Delivered cut average response time from 14 to 6 hours while volume grew 22%.
- Built escalation playbook adopted across three regional teams.
- Partnered directly with product leadership on retention strategy; converted recurring escalations into a documented playbook now used as the standard onboarding artifact across peer teams.
- Coached and mentored 5 ICs on team leadership — two later promoted into senior roles — while continuing to ship the team's highest-visibility deliverable each quarter.
- Stood up the first CSAT review board with operations and finance; produced the quarterly business case that protected 3 headcount and a $1040K platform investment.
- Led voice of customer initiatives spanning APAC for a 18-person cross-functional pod; reduced cycle time 43% by replacing ad-hoc handoffs with a shared intake and weekly risk review with data leadership.
- Built foundational expertise in customer experience by owning recurring deliverables for a 15-person team under a senior reviewer.
- Standardized retention workflows and templates that reduced rework 31% and were adopted as the team's reference set.
- Delivered promoted ahead of cohort after consistently shipping under volume; selected to represent the team in cross-functional working groups.
- Delivered earned trust to brief director-level stakeholders directly on customer experience progress, risks, and weekly priorities.
- Delivered closed out the role with a documented hand-off package — process maps, dashboards, escalation paths — still referenced by the successor team today.
- Delivered entered the field through a competitive cohort program; ranked top 12% of intake class on capstone evaluation.
- Delivered rotated across 2 functions to build the cross-domain context that still informs current customer experience work.
- Delivered recognized internally for reliability and judgment — selected to support a senior leader on the team's most visible team leadership initiative.
- Built the technical and communication habits — clear writing, tight follow-through, calm under pressure — carried through every role since.
CSAT improvement · Voice of customer · Team coaching · Escalation management · Service operations · Workforce planning · Zendesk · Salesforce Service Cloud · Customer Experience · Retention · Team Leadership · CSAT · Escalations · Coaching · Discovery & Requirements · Roadmap Planning · OKR Setting · Risk Mitigation
B.A. Communications — State University · 2017
- Delivered lifted CSAT from 78 to 91 across a 32-person service team in 12 months.
- Reduced repeat escalations by 38% through a new coaching cadence.
- Delivered cut average response time from 14 to 6 hours while volume grew 22%.
- 2025 · Selected for the executive talent-development cohort — one of 14 chosen from a 400+ applicant pool.
- 2024 · Top-decile performance rating (95th percentile) — awarded peer-nominated "Above & Beyond" honor.
- 2023 · Company-wide Customer Experience Manager of the Year — recognized by executive sponsors for outsized cross-functional impact.
- Customer Experience Manager Operating-Model Redesign. Led the redesign of the team's operating model — new intake, cadence, and KPI ladder — adopted across 3 peer teams within two quarters.
- customer experience Automation Initiative. Partnered with engineering to automate the team's highest-friction workflow; recovered 1402 analyst-hours per year and shortened cycle time 19%.
Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) · CCXP — Customer Experience Professional · Cornell: Strategic Storytelling for Leaders
Project Management Institute (PMI) — member · Women in Leadership Network — mentor
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