Cari Colmenares

Cari Colmenares

Reception Supervisor

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Regulatory Affairs Associate at ViCentra

  • Education

    • Instituto Tecnologico Nuevas Profesiones

      1994 - 1998
      BA Tourist Administration
  • Experience

    • Hilton

      Mar 2000 - Jul 2002
      Reception Supervisor

      • Managed daily reception operation. • Assured high level of service of the reception area at all the times.• Supervised room reservations, account queries and cashier operations.• In charge of large international events and meetings, designated VIP guest representative. • Took appropriate actions regarding complaints.• Trained staff, acted as on the job supervisor, conducted performance reviews and feedback.• Supervised night shift, conducted audits and reported status.

    • Ashling Hotel Dublin

      May 2003 - Jul 2003
      Receptionist

      • Registered hotel guests, provided customer assistance, assisted with sales, cashiering, and preparing reports.• Assisted customers with booking. • Checked guests in/out of hotel.

    • Cafe Sol

      Aug 2003 - Feb 2012
      Store Manager
    • Dalicia Cadaques

      Jul 2012 - Oct 2012
      Assistant Shop Manager

      • Managed customer cash, credit and debit card transactions.• Set up and arranged marketing displays. • Restocked items and completed regular inventory for reorder. • Organized the stock room. • Received and restocked deliveries and unpacked, re-shelved and stored new merchandise. • Cleaned and organized the shop.

    • Baxter & Greene

      Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
      Cashier

      • Managed cash, credit and debit card transactions.• Responsible for resolution of customer queries.• Ensured highest level of customer service.

    • Web Reservations International/Hostelworld.com

      Jun 2013 - Aug 2014
      Account Executive for Spain, Latin America & Caribbean Islands.

      • Managing the existing accounts in my region.• Liaising with my clients daily and maintaining good relationships.• Looking for new leads to generate new accounts that I then manage.• Carrying out administrative tasks relevant to my accounts.• Covering for colleagues’ accounts when needed.• Translating presentations, templates and letters to foreign clients.• Detecting bugs in the system and reporting them to the technical department.• Working with the Customer Service Team to resolve customer queries satisfactorily.• Regularly assessing the quality of online content to ensure that photos and descriptions are of a high standard and accurate both in English and Spanish.• Checking and approving any changes made by the property to their online content.• Monitoring properties on a regular basis to ensure they are delivering a high standard of customer care and quality, monitor ratings and reviews.• Dealing with any issues, approving hostel owner responses to reviews and, when necessary, deactivating properties. Show less

    • Yahoo

      Aug 2014 - May 2016
      August 2014 – May 2016. Customer Care Specialist, Yahoo!. Dublin.

      • Providing first level customer care support through email and phone in USA, EMEA and LATAM for multiple products and markets.• Ensuring responses exceeded established metrics on response time, quality and customer satisfaction.• Handling abuse moderation, impersonation and fraud queries and escalating to Legal department when required.• Working with engineers and product support team to provide feedback, enhancements suggestions and ensure product- and help pages where updated.• Answering billing queries on Yahoo! Fantasy Sport.• Dealing with charging, refunding, cancellation and escalation to technical support of premium products such as Yahoo Mail Plus/Ad Free mail.• Handling customer complaints and directed them to appropriate department. Show less

    • Salesforce

      Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
      Global Success Agent Analyst (Tier 1)| Salesforce Technical Support

      Handling incoming calls from customers who use Salesforce’s technology products in the English and Spanish speaking markets involving current Salesforce products such as CRM, Marketing Cloud, Pardot, and CPQ. • Providing translations for Spanish cases handled by all technical support groups • Tracking, managing and resolving daily support requests, issues, and dealing with the administrative needs of users to keep pace with rapidly changing program operations and procedures. • Creating cases in the system and dispatching them to the appropriate technical support team.In addition to these core responsibilities I am the first point of contact for the Mission Critical Support (MCS), this involves looking after top customers and dealing with their queries in a timely matter. • Facilitating and maintaining positive relationships with MCS teams, customers, and partners • Monitoring critical cases with higher severity 2/1 and meeting SLA • Monitoring reports and creating alerts if needed. Show less

    • Michael Kors

      Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
      Customer Order Management Representative- Scandinavian Market
    • ViCentra

      Jul 2019 - now
      • Regulatory Affairs Associate - Salesforce Admin

        Apr 2020 - now
      • Regulatory Affairs Assistant

        Jul 2019 - now
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Cari Colmenares
      Yahoo Dublin - Winner of Customer Contact Center of the Year- Small Business Hosted by CCMA (Customer Contact Management Association). Nov 2015 The CCMA (Contact Centre Management Association) is a national body which promotes excellence and provides a forum for knowledge sharing and development for Irish contact centre professionals. Every year, their awards recognise the best and brightest in our industry, contact centre of the year being the most prestigious award.The award was presented by Damien English TD, Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation. It was a hotly contested category with Heineken, Musgraves, Northern… Show more The CCMA (Contact Centre Management Association) is a national body which promotes excellence and provides a forum for knowledge sharing and development for Irish contact centre professionals. Every year, their awards recognise the best and brightest in our industry, contact centre of the year being the most prestigious award.The award was presented by Damien English TD, Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation. It was a hotly contested category with Heineken, Musgraves, Northern Trust, RaboDirect and Ryanair also nominated. On presentation of the award, MC Oliver Callan said "Yahoo's success in delivering first class customer experience through their focus on resolution rate, CSAT, quality and personalised expereinces is applauded by the judging panel". Show less
    • Awarded to Cari Colmenares
      Award for Excellence "Hot Shot" Yahoo Customer Experience- 2015 Aug 2015 Recognition awarded by my colleagues for monitoring peers cases and for identifying examples of exceptional customer experience.
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Volunteer

      Issued by Dynamo on Jun 2017
      DynamoAssociated with Cari Colmenares
    • Volunteer

      Issued by Irish Cancer Society on Aug 2016
      Irish Cancer SocietyAssociated with Cari Colmenares
    • Fundraising Volunteer

      Issued by HERMANITAS DE LOS ANCIANOS DESAMPARADOS INC on May 2018
      HERMANITAS DE LOS ANCIANOS DESAMPARADOS INCAssociated with Cari Colmenares