Niki Odolphie

Customer Experience Leader

Profile

Call Centre team manager with up-to-date people and technical skills. I have a proven track record of engaging and empowering staff to want to succeed with demonstrated results in reduced absence, improved performance and self-motivation.

Skills

People Management

Associate member of the Chartered Management Institute, I have a broad knowledge of psychology and specific Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) knowledge.

HR Experience

Experienced in performance management, delegation, performance reviews and attendance management. I have also chaired many higher-risk disciplinary cases resulting in clear outcomes.

Technical Skills

I hold a B.Sc. in Computing and Informatics. I have an understanding of systems architecture, project management, data and information management focussing on making data accessible to users. I have a keen interest in current technologies.

Experience

BSkyB Ltd.

Customer Experience Leader

2006 - Present

Responsible for a team delivering escalated technical support to BSkyB customers with broadband and telephony. Ensuring the team are competent, equipped, motivated and performing to a high standard through regular performance monitoring and coaching. I also handle serious complaints providing feedback to each agent and manager.

Additional project responsibilities include the creation and management of the department intranet sites, identifying and delivering process improvement, delivering business information.

I chair quarterly planning sessions with my peers, agreeing consistent approaches to realtime management and to build on team cohesiveness.

I have also created and led workshops for new team managers, ran recruitment, developed subject matter experts and coached people to reach their goals with three of my earlier team members subsequently becoming team managers.

Through 360 reviews I have identified and managed my development opportunities and continue to track highly in team and colleagues satisfaction in the support I offer them.

Easynet PLC

Team Leader

1999-2006

Technical Support team leader working 24/7 shifts managing a group of 10 support operators. Handling customers complaints through to resolution meeting ISO standards. I was seconded to the training department for 6 months when we launched ADSL where I created and delivered all ADSL training to all support staff. I have led change management focus groups, met with customers during negation stages and have consistently gained the highest rating in end of year reviews

Telewest Communications - Croydon

Technical Administration

1999

As a liaison between managers and civil planners, I was responsible for maintaining an MS-Access database and producing reports for managers. Providing software training to colleagues in the whole range of the MS Office suite. I was offered a permanent position but declined in order to further my career in more of a people management area.

Education

2010-2011 - Chartered Management Institute - Diploma Level 3

  • Resource planning
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Being a leader
  • Managing team dynamics
  • Improving team performance
  • Workshop day with the London School of Coaching

1997-1999 - University of Portsmouth - B.Sc. Degree in Computing

Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems Analysis and Design, PRINCE 2 Project Management and Programming.

1995-1998 - University of Portsmouth - HND in Software Engineering

Distinction gained in Final Year Project, Distinction for Working With & Relating to Others.

1993-1995 - Trowbridge College - BTEC National Diploma in Computer Studies

Quantitative Methods, Marketing, Programming Project and Business Systems.

Technical Competencies

  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • Excel VBA programming
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • PHP
  • Data visualisation
  • Objective C
  • OS X and iOS expert
  • Windows XP/Vista
  • Avaya telephony

External interests

Photography

Getty Images licensed photographer with works published internationally.

Music

100,000 views on YouTube for piano performances.

Software

I have a range of Apps published for iPhone/iPod for photography and hobbies.

Niki Odolphie — niki@odolphie.com — 01373 301159