EXPERIENCE

FREELANCE

WEB DEVELOPER

DENVER, CO

JANUARY 2025 - CURRENT

  • Provide responsive website designs that help add to clients’ public images while furthering drive their business or brand.

  • Give clients web hosting for their sites including unlimited SSL and backups to ensure secure data transfer.

  • Provide clients with available custom URL domains that can be used to uniquely find them in any web browser.

  • Offer multiple site packages including elevated options that provide clients with an online shop and store manager.

  • Provide clients that sell items or services secure checkout their customers can use to pay with any major CC or PayPal.

  • Provide automatic invoicing which archives and sends invoices to customers via email every time they place an order.

  • Give clients the ability to allow their customers to book appointments based on their weekly and monthly availability.

  • Provide clients with periodic analytic updates such as number of site visits, site clicks, financial reports, and more.

  • Provide online store owners with periodic order updates such as unfulfilled orders and past orders in the form of a CSV.

  • Give site owners their own personalized business email accounts that are personal to them and their site’s URL.

  • Ensure site optimization through use of CDN to provide faster speeds and enhanced SEO to be found by search engines.

  • Provide site owners the option to publish their sites in multiple languages helping lead to being seen by a wider crowd.

  • Provide clients with ongoing site maintenance such as requested updates, performance monitoring, and bug fixing.

  • Simple file sharing and asset obtaining from clients through use of shared cloud folders and outgoing request documents.

  • Ensure clients can stay in touch with customers who opt in through use of email newsletters they can send them.

  • Ensure client sites are compliant by including any necessary policies such as cookie policy, privacy policy, and more.

DECKERS BRANDS

SOCIAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS COACH

DENVER, CO

JUNE 2023 - CURRENT

  • Keep customer-facing help info housed in Help Centers across five branded websites organized, updated, and digestible.

  • Help manage small team who responds to low-rated reviews published on all product pages across four different brands.

  • Maintain public-facing informative articles regarding company policies with use of Gladly Administration account.

  • Archive all internal and public facing informative articles within OneDrive including dates of when updates were made.

  • Train team how to respond to low-rated product reviews posted across our brand sites within legal SLA timeframe.

  • Analyze product review data to better understand how certain styles across each brand are being accepted by customers.

  • Train team how to edit policy articles found in Gladly Answers resource list as well as their archived OneDrive versions.

  • Create training resources to assist teammates in learning new skills across the communications side of our team.

  • Create shadowing videos for Deckers employees interested in learning what the communications team is responsible for.

  • Analyze performance data to better understand how teammates are performing monthly, quarterly, and annually.

  • Keep hundreds of company employees updated on future product launch and collaboration information across six brands.

  • Assist with branded automated email templates that are sent out to customers in case of certain situations.

  • Assign multiple teammates to different roles daily to ensure communications workload is handled within teams SLA.

  • Work cross-functionally with other teams to help communicate consistent policies and resources across all departments.

  • Help create monthly Ops Newsletter which provides updates from multiple teams under the Operations umbrella.

  • Inform hundreds of employees across multiple teams of important operations updates by sending out Ops Newsletters.

DECKERS BRANDS

SOCIAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS REPRESENTATIVE

DENVER, CO

SEPTEMBER 2021 - JUNE 2023

  • Communicate with customers via social media CS systems to help mitigate their issues across six different brands.

  • Assist with handling over 140,000 annual contacts across 18 social media accounts spanning across six brands.

  • Respond to publicly viewed social media inquiries on behalf of our six brands which total over 4.2 million followers.

  • Efficiently navigate back-end systems to assist customers within team’s agreed SLA timeframes.

  • Maintain company communication files, training files, and resources for quick reference by hundreds of employees.

  • Use social media to assist escalated customers who were unable to resolve their issues through our branded Help Centers.

  • Communicate company updates regarding internal policies, current products, and services to hundreds of employees.

  • Collaborate with marketing teams across each brand to communicate new releases, promotions, and collaborations.

  • Handle incoming ticket requests for company information to be edited within our employee’s resource database.

  • Assist multiple Leads across different teams with any new documents or customer care updates that may be needed.

DECKERS BRANDS

CUSTOMER CARE REPRESENTATIVE

DENVER, CO

OCTOBER 2020 - SEPTEMBER 2021

  • Provide premium service and build relationships with customers through telephone and chat correspondence.

  • Strong knowledge of Deckers and its subsidiary brands including UGG, HOKA, Teva, Sanuk, and Koolaburra by UGG.

  • Organize customer data for simple understanding and reusability.

  • Create tasks assigned to appropriate teams to help customers who are facing issues on their end.

  • Quickly type and document complex customer situations for future or escalated employee reference.

SKILLS

CUSTOMER SERVICE: Written Communication, Verbal Communication, Active Listening, Brand Specific Tone

ECOMMERCE/CUSTOMER SERVICE SYSTEMS: Oracle E-Business Suite, Gladly Administrative, Sprout Social, Shopify, Sprinklr, PowerReviews, Cordial, Yotpo, ProProfs

WEB DEVELOPMENT: HTML, CSS, SEO, User Experience, Deployment

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP, SQL

DATABASES: Oracle DB, Tableau, MySQL

NETWORK/SECURITY: Access Control, ID Management, Audits/Assessments, Policies, Procedures, Awareness, Data Defenses, Physical Security, Application Defenses, Perimeter Defenses, Network Defenses, Host Defenses

MISCELLANEOUS: Mobile Game Development, Interface Design, Data Analysis, A/B Testing, Experimental Testing, Wireframes/Diagrams, Hypothesis Testing, OOP, Microsoft 365, Adobe Creative Cloud, GIT

PROJECTS

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DESIGNED AND DEPLOYED A FULL ECOMMERCE SITE WITH A SHOP INCLUDED FOR A COLORADO-BASED COMPANY WHO PROVIDES VEHICLE AND BUILDING UPGRADE SERVICES. CUSTOMERS ARE ABLE TO VIEW INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR SERVICES, SCHEDULE CONSULTATION APPOINTMENTS, SHOP SERVICES, SECURELY CHECKOUT WITH PAYMENT, AND MORE.

DESIGNED AND DEPLOYED A WEBSITE FOR A COLORADO BASED ARTIST FOR THEM TO PROMOTE THEIR MUSIC, PROVIDE EVENT HIGHLIGHTS, ALLOW BOOKINGS, AND MORE. USERS CAN ALSO LISTEN TO EMBEDDED RELEASES, VISIT SOCIALS, EMAIL IN, AND MORE.

REDESIGNED LAYOUT OF THE CUSTOMER CARE HELP CENTER ON UGG.COM FOR REFERENCE BY CUSTOMERS BOTH IN THE UNITED STATES AS WELL AS IN CANADA. PLACED CUSTOMER-FACING HELP ARTICLES IN ORGANIZED SECTIONS FOR EASIER NAVIGATION UPON VISITING THE PAGE. OPTIMIZED INFORMATION WITHIN EACH ARTICLE BY ENSURING ALL POLICY INFORMATION WAS UPDATED FOR EASY AND QUICK ACCESS. UPDATED FORMATTING WITHIN EACH CUSTOMER HELP ARTICLE TO EASILY IDENTIFY TOPICS, LINKS, AND DISCLAIMERS.

REDESIGNED LAYOUT OF THE CUSTOMER CARE HELP CENTER ON HOKA.COM FOR REFERENCE BY CUSTOMERS BOTH IN THE UNITED STATES AS WELL AS IN CANADA. PLACED CUSTOMER-FACING HELP ARTICLES IN ORGANIZED SECTIONS FOR EASIER NAVIGATION UPON VISITING THE PAGE. OPTIMIZED INFORMATION WITHIN EACH ARTICLE BY ENSURING ALL POLICY INFORMATION WAS UPDATED FOR EASY AND QUICK ACCESS. UPDATED FORMATTING WITHIN EACH CUSTOMER HELP ARTICLE TO EASILY IDENTIFY TOPICS, LINKS, AND DISCLAIMERS.

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