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Kent Summers 

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Resume Headline: Kent Summers

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557 East 3150 North. Ogden, Utah 84414.Home 801-782-6968.Cellular 801-866-3900.summers@xmission.com

 

Kent Summers

Organizational Leader

 

Experienced leader with successful outcomes leading sales, training, operations, quality, and customer service functions within large and small business environments globally.  Excel at devising and executing tools and business solutions to deliver increased sales, marketing, quality, productivity, and ROI. Exceptional skills in adult education, process and customer service assessment, key performance measurement, competency based learning, learning assessment and remediation of employee behavior.

 

CORE COMPETENCIES

§ Adult Learning:  27 years of  teaching curriculum to the learning styles of any learner in classroom, distance and on-line learning experiences

§ Sales:  Retail, Direct, Door to Door, On-Line, B2B, and MLM. Taught and practiced relationship selling for over 30 years

§ Entrepreneurship:  Principal player in the following startup companies: Askesis (Online training and Learning Management System) SelfPublished.com (Online Digital Vanity Publishing) Automated Compliance and Training (Online OSHA Compliance) CMI- Compliance Management and Insight (Online Legal Services, Corporate Veil Protection) CoverMeNow (Current online Retailer)

§ Computer Skills: Social Media: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.   Mainframe, PC and Mac:  AS 400 MAS systems, Microsoft Office Suite including Visio, Plateau Systems Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard LMS and Authoring, Canvas LMS and Authoring, several in-house LMS Systems, PowerPoint with the Articulate Suite, Authorware, Adobe Photoshop, and Premiere as authoring systems

§ Budgeting:  Prepared, implemented and adapted budgets to the financial realities of the company of multiple Millions of Dollars

§ Needs Analysis:  Working with Subject Matter Experts (SME) break down and document the processes and outcomes of a system and understand the performance gaps and what needs to be done to change behavior

§ Instructional Design:  Competency based using the ADDIE model.  Both on-line and in the classroom

§ Training Evaluation:  Basing success on in-process and outcome predetermined process measures, using the 4 levels of the Kirkpatrick model

§ Project Management: Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

§ Six Sigma/Lean Manufacturing:  Educated and facilitated improvement projects and Business Process Redesign projects in manufacturing, office and service (call center) environments increasing productivity and reducing cost by several orders of magnitude. 

§ Human Resources:  HR Generalist for a large company and as an HR Manager for a small company.  I have recruited personnel, handled grievances, coached, promoted, used progressive discipline, fired, and laid off employees

§ International:  I have successfully worked as a team member or team leader for many global initiatives.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Microsoft, Salt Lake City, Utah January 2014 to Present

Store Teacher

 

§    Evaluate and Coach store employees in Sales, Customer Service and Product knowledge

§    Developed and implemented of needs based curriculum in person one on one and in a classroom setting

§    Increased metric 36% in the first month

 

MarketStar, Ogden, Utah January 2013 to January 2014

North America Training Coach

 

§    Evaluated and Coached Market Managers and Trainers of Team BlackBerry in the US and Canada

§    Developed and implemented of needs based curriculum delivered both on line, webinar and in person

§    Evaluated and coached team leadership in employee coaching

 

Waste Management, Oak Harbor, Washington June 2011 to January 2013

Senior Trainer

 

§    Managing trainer for 200 seat customer service call center. 

§    Developed and delivered all new hire and sales training for the Residential, Commercial, California Bay Area, and British Columbia lines of business.  New hire average handle time (AHT) reduced by 50% with newly designed training

§    Developed and delivered all supervisory and leadership training

§    Supervised other local trainers

§    Member of the Corporate training standardization team

 

Verizon Wireless, Salt Lake City, Utah September 2010 to June 2011

Customer Service Agent

 

§    Obtained first call resolution for cellular phone plan and device upgrades (sales), Tier 1 network and device troubleshooting, billing and credit resolution and create Verizon Wireless promoters.

 

Vangent Incorporated, Salt Lake City, Utah December 2009 to September 2010

Call Center Manager/Trainer  2010 United States Census Help Line (Temporary)

 

§    Managed an operations team of 32 for both in-bound and out-bound data collection and customer service call center at 99.4% quality

§    Certified and acted as an operations trainer for new hires

§    Obtained a US Federal Government  Security Clearance

 

Compliance Management & Insight, Salt Lake City, Utah April 2008 to April 2010

Chief Operating Officer

 

§    Lead all sales, marketing and operations for a start-up legal services firm.

§    Developed and implemented product rebranding including marketing collateral, webpage and a nationwide radio advertising campaign. Redesigned and automated all business processes including Customer Interaction Management, Customer Relationship Management, and mass on-line marketing

§    Opened and managed our internal call center

 

AOL, LLC, Member Services Dulles, Virginia 2006 to 2007

Project Manager eTrain Technologies,

Leadership Development Manager

 

§    Developed and implemented the “Leading the AOL Way”, and “Training the AOL Way” Call Center Leadership Development training for Member Services call centers and Business Partners in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Philippines, and remotely to India. (90% travel)

§    Developed and implemented leader remediation training processes from identification and evaluation to post evaluation of behaviors of first line call center supervisors.

§    Learning Management System (LMS) owner for Member Services on-line learning and enterprise training tracking.

 

Weber State University, Ogden, Utah 1987 to Present

Adjunct Professor, Sales and Service Technology

 

§    Adjunct Professor Teaching: Sales, Management, Supervision, and Marketing courses on-line and in the classroom

 

Convergys Corporation, Ogden, Utah 2003-2006                                                                                                                            Senior Manager/Internal Training Consultant, Continuous Improvement

 

§    Created Continuous Improvement Results for Facilities Organization (100MM Budget)(Certified Green Belt)
Implemented global operations standards and training for all locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Philippines and India

§    Created and implemented organization wide business process redesign training and projects with multimillion dollar savings

§    Instructional Designer and instructor for training process in the Global Facilities Management organization

§    Coached multiple Six Sigma teams that saved millions of dollars in actual and avoided costs in multiple departments (20% travel)

 

Stevens-Henager College, Ogden, Utah 2004-2005

Professor/Student Advisor 

 

§    Classroom Teaching: Sales, Management, Supervision, Business Law and Marketing courses

§    Student Advisor for all business majors approximately 200 students

§    Coordinated all student events, parties, mini graduations and graduation

§    Author, photographer and layout of the monthly campus newsletter

 

 

 

 

Demarche Consulting Group Inc., Seattle, Washington 2002-2003

Consultant/Vice President, Business Process Redesign and Training

 

§    Led Business Process Redesign projects for two municipal clients in the Seattle area

Client one:  Reduced product delivery time from 90-100 days to 5-10 days.

Client two:  Implemented TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)

§    Developed and implemented communication plans and training for both clients

§    Government Contract Proposal Writing (Sales)

 

Parker Hannifin Corporation - Seal Group - Engineered Polymer Systems Division, Salt Lake City, Utah 1998-2002

Inside Sales Manager/Safety Manager,

Group and Division Quality/Safety Manager

 

§    Directed 15 sales representatives in 3 geographic locations with a an annual sales increase of  9%

§    Implemented a "Balanced Scorecard" method of process measurement, bringing balanced measures to traditionally "soft" difficult to measure functions. (Sales, Service, Office Administration)

§    Proactively led all Environmental Health and Safety Activities including training for the division

§    Directed the achievement and maintenance of QS-9000 Certification at two locations in the division.

§    Maintained our ISO-9000 certification at two locations in the division

§    Implemented video based operator training for Rubber Manufacturing Business Unit

§    Achieved cost savings in the Quality Assurance function through productivity improvements - reduced headcount from 18 to 6.

§    Seal Group Lean/Six Sigma Leader, created, piloted, trained and implemented Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma for both the division and the group.

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

Master of Science, Business Education, Utah State University, Logan, Utah

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Minor: Marketing Minor - Education, Utah State University, Logan, Utah

Associate of Applied Science, Sales and Retailing, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah

 

 

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION:

 

Industrial Training Area Studies Certificate (Post graduate studies) Utah State University, Logan, Utah

Secondary Education Teaching Certificate, State of Utah, Business and Marketing Endorsements

TQM/Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma certification from Thiokol, Parker Hannifin, and Convergys Corporations

Project Management Professional, (PMP) certification from Project Management International (PMI)

DDI Learning Systems Facilitator, certification from Development Dimensions International

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Store Teacher

Microsoft

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)

Years of relevant work experience:

More than 15 Years

Date of Availability:

Negotiable

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

Active Confidential

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

US citizen

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Manager of Training and Development

Desired Job Type:

Employee

Desired Status:

Full-Time

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

Education/Training

·         Corporate Development and Training

Human Resources

·         Corporate Development and Training

Manufacturing/Production/Operations

·         Operations/Plant Management

·         General/Other: Production/Operations

Quality Assurance/Safety

·         General/Other: Quality Assurance/Safety

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-UT-Salt Lake City

Relocate:

Yes

Willingness to travel:

Up to 75% travel