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Mimi Wong

Director of Community Experience at The Grommet
spamimi@gmail.com
A high energy, results-driven customer service manager with 5+ years experience leading effective customer- focused teams. Successfully implemented strategic initiatives to improve customer experience, increase staff productivity, and decrease turn over. A dedicated manager with the ability to produce outstanding results in a challenging, fast-paced environment. 20 years experience working with startups, e-commerce, SaaS, internet and software companies, and higher education. Background in customer advocacy and education, call center operations, multi-channel support, project management, team building, analytics, technical writing, QA, hiring, coaching and training.
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Work Experience

The Grommet

Director of Customer Experience
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Jan 2015 - Current
  • Successfully led a 15-person team to deliver excellence on all aspects of customer experience, from managing strategic objectives to defining customer service policies, plans, and initiatives • Ensured that entire team was adept at handling customer experience issues by overseeing every step of my team’s journey — recruitment, hiring, training and supervising • Expanded service level to provide consistent, high-quality, on-brand support by onboarding supplemental outsourced call center agency • Delivered the highest possible customer experience with promotions, loyalty programs and returns by working directly with Marketing, Product and Discovery management as well as with other departments throughout the company • Improved the pathways for customers to get faster, reliable resolution of issues by expanding multi-channel support (self-serve FAQs, live chat) and improving call center software • Generated and analyzed relevant KPIs to eliminate bottlenecks and identify areas of improvement Key Accomplishments: • Consistently maintained a higher-than-industry average satisfaction score of 90% (2016 e-commerce rating 82%) • Reduced time to first reply by ~20% and full resolution time by ~30%, from 2013 to 2016 • Implemented an automated Returns Portal resulting in a 15% overall decrease in tickets and a time savings of 60% when handling returns • Expanded Customer Support to two entities, B2C and B2B, to provide a tailored support experience • Designed and implemented a new help portal as a cost-saving measure, and to encourage self-service for customer base • Designed and implemented customer order dashboard for agents to reduce errors, accelerate training, and decrease time to resolution

OfficeDrop

Customer Experience Manager
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Dec 2011 - May 2013
  • Led support team to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction with minimal response time • Researched, implemented, and administered help desk systems including Zendesk, GetSatisfaction, and Salesforce’s Desk.com • As a member of the Product Council, analyzed trends in customer cases to inform decisions on product direction as related to user experience, new features, and bug fixes • Conducted usability testing and online surveys to understand user challenges, and wire-framed new functionality based on findings • Created online knowledge base and video tutorials for users

The Grommet

Sr. Customer Experience Manager
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May 2013 - Jan 2015

Fundtech - now part of D+H

Business Analyst
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Oct 2010 - Jan 2012
  • Communicated with stakeholders, SMEs, and Product team to document requirements and specifications for new application functionality (customers include Citibank, Santander, and Deutsche Bank) • Prepared business requirement documents, published release notes, wrote software user guide, and diagrammed workflow. • Worked collaboratively with QA to test use cases and to verify specification, performance, and reliability of releases

Bentley College

Project Manager
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Jun 2008 - Sep 2009
  • Independently planned and executed enterprise technology projects aligned with the University’s strategic goals • Scoped and initiated new applications and managed all phases of projects from RFP to training and maintenance • Managed internal and external relationships and acted as a liaison between customer and vendor Projects included: - Implementation of a power monitoring application for the Facilities department to reduce carbon footprint and increase energy efficiency - Replaced paper billing process for University’s summer camp registration with online e-commerce solution - Migrated Faculty Research Database from obsolete Banner application to a feature-rich hosted application

Lesley University

Information Technology Coordinator
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Sep 2006 - Jun 2008
  • Solely responsible for creating and populating University Technology knowledge base with original user support content • Usability testing and improvement feedback on University BlackBoard portal • Provided help desk assistance to Lesley community related to hardware and software issues

Yahoo!

Project Manager for Infrastructure (Datacenter) Planning
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Mar 2004 - Nov 2004
  • Orchestrated and mapped out execution plan for fiscal-related projects as well as M&A projects • Oversaw all aspects of projects: set deadlines, assigned responsibilities, and monitored and summarized progress of project

Yahoo!

Contracts Administrator
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2002 - 2004
  • Ensured existing contracts with vendors were managed to terms of agreement and expedited timely payment and credits • Assembled multi-million dollar fiscal budget for department • Executed high-level expenditure projects for upper management in the area of cost analysis and expense projections

Yahoo!

Lead Website Operator
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2000 - 2002
  • Hired, trained, and directed team of six, working on round-the-clock shifts in addition to general Web Site Operator duties • Monitored site on UNIX platform via systematic diagnostics and proprietary tools • Wrote shell scripts to automate server maintenance and data backup routines • Reported statistics and trends on server traffic to upper management

Website Operator
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1999 - 2000

Monitored and maintained the GeoCities website in an UNIX environment using diagnostic tools.

Customer Support Specialist
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Mar 1997 - Jun 1998

Investigated and resolved member issues related to in-house site building tools across various browsers. Delivered support to members via high volume e-mail and phone.

Education

Lesley University Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Counseling Psychology and Management, 2005 - 2007 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology, 1994 - 1996 Mimi Wong Director of Community Experience at The Grommet spamimi@gmail.com

2005 - 2007

Lesley University Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Counseling Psychology and Management, 2005 - 2007 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology, 1994 - 1996 Mimi Wong Director of Community Experience at The Grommet spamimi@gmail.com

1994 - 1996