Wil Montoya is a director-level professional providing over 20 years’ experience and success launching contact center and workforce management operations, developing and analyzing workforce analytics, creating staffing model strategies, initiating and guiding efficiency projects, and optimizing technologies in highly visible large corporate environments.
Wil Montoya is a director-level professional providing over 20 years’ experience and success launching contact center and workforce management operations, developing and analyzing workforce analytics, creating staffing model strategies, initiating and guiding efficiency projects, and optimizing technologies in highly visible large corporate environments.
Wil Montoya is a director-level professional providing over 20 years’ experience and success launching contact center and workforce management operations, developing and analyzing workforce analytics, creating staffing model strategies, initiating and guiding efficiency projects, and optimizing technologies in highly visible large corporate environments.
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Workforce Optimization | Capacity Planning | Contact Center Operations Director-level professional providing over 20 years experience and success launching contact center and workforce management operations, developing and analyzing workforce analytics, creating staffing model strategies, initiating and guiding efficiency projects, and optimizing technologies in highly visible large corporate environments. Recognized for ability to predict and respond to staff behavior for availability and productivity, resolve service issues while maintaining and decreasing budget, collaborate with professionals throughout organization, and elevate overall service performance consistent with objectives. Fluent in Spanish. Competencies | Strengths | Experti se Workforce Administration | Staffing Model Methodology Capacity Planning & Workforce Management Teams Staff Training & Supervision | Agent Skills Profiles Custom Call Routing Strategies | Capacity Planning Call Routing | Workforce Management Software Requirements Forecasting | Efficiency Metrics Needs Assessment | Disaster Recovery Strategic Planning & Initiatives | Project Management Productivity Improvement Aspect eWFM | IEX | Avaya
Career Highlights & Accomplishments Vice President, Workforce Management National City Bank (Prior to merger with PNC Bank) Project Unite: Facilitated 8% reduction in fulltime employee requirements through development and introduction of contact center enterprise-wise efficiency and skill group leveraging strategy; initiative impacted 5 contact center groups supported by approximately 1,200 customer service agents and resulted in consolidated hiring plan, talent pipeline and career path within newly combined customer service unit. Vice President, Workforce Management National City Bank Consolidated Enterprise Contact Center Annual Hiring and Cross-training Plans: Increased agent utilization from 56% to 67% and decreased staffing requirements 7% through organization cross-training and talent leveraging for contact center units (checking/savings, online banking, small business, credit card and branch support hotline). Director, Workforce Planning Nationwide Insurance Conditional Routing Strategy for Customized Plans: Formulated initiative and enabled satisfaction of both customized group and general group service level targets; reversed service level inconsistency of 7 vital public sector plans (33% of call volume) negatively impacting staffing levels and performance of other 67% of contact center (accumulating penalties and risking loss of business); initiative established foundation for career pathing, cross-training and hiring plans. Director, Workforce Planning Nationwide Insurance Staffing Model Development & Implementation for Back-office Operation Units: Enabled entire organization to optimize day to day and seasonal staffing capacities through introduction of metric methodology for staffing requirements and production values; models attributed to 18 units comprising 350 frontline associates. Vice President, Workforce Management PNC Bank (Subsequent to merger with National City Bank) Flexible Scheduling Initiative: After merger, fusion of 2 PNC and 4 NCB sites with subsequent additional scheduling requirements, created solution scheduling 800 agents into resulting operation; introduced opt-in and performance-based bid process filling 90% (180 of 200) of schedules for least desired shifts by volunteers. Vice President, Workforce Management PNC Bank (Subsequent to merger with National City Bank) Staff Requirement Plan for Call Center Merger of 2 Organizations: Created and launched interval staffing models for inbound customer service units (covering initial 15 days of 4 integration waves); increased capacity 250% through hiring, training and resource leveraging; maintained/exceeded service level objectives. Assistant Vice President, Telephony Manager Chase Call Center Technology Implementation: Orchestrated simultaneous implementation of new ACD software and IVR platforms throughout expansion of Cleveland, Ohio facility. Wil Montoya Rsum Page 2
Career History & Experience Nationwide Insurance Columbus, Ohio 2011 to Present Insurance and financial services company; specializes in insurance, investments and banking; employs 31,000 associates. Director/Manager of Capacity Planning, Reporting Solutions and Workforce Management Administered staffing operations of both inbound contact center and back-office fulfillment units within retirement planning business; coordinated and supervised forecasting, modeling, scheduling and workforce administration ensuring provision of staffing levels to accomplish service level objectives; generated and delivered reports addressing service level and individual/peer performance. Created and maintained contact center payroll budget (utilized for 100 fulltime employees); reviewed and responded to capacity levels and leveraging opportunities; addressed attrition and staff performance forecasts contributing to hiring and training; oversaw and delegated assignments to 7 business analysts. Within 90 days, navigated inbound contact center success to consistent attainment of service level targets and objectives through introduction of workforce management practices; main unit had not consistently met goal since 2009. Overcame resistance to culture modification transitioning decision-making based on actual performance metrics; strategies comprised placement of workforce management principles within inbound contact center units and staffing model methodology within back-office fulfillment units. Lowered staffing requirements 10% through efficiency strategies including implementation of contact center agent performance metrics as well as routing strategy based on call sharing. Reduced management time monitoring agent availability and performance 50% through introduction of desktop wallboards for inbound contact center units. Resolved issue with service levels in New York office (caused by system conversion generating 25%+ increase in contact volume and average handle time challenges) through development of strategy sharing contact volume with Ohio office and cross-training 20% of staff to take direct and overflow contact volume. Optimized staffing level performance through close collaboration with production units and finance to forecast production probabilities and justify fulltime employee expense. Contributed to merger of retirement plans and private/public sector contact center divisions (taking place simultaneously during hire and on-boarding). Improved productivity through implementation of both detailed contact-type specific average handle time and schedule adherence reporting (individual and peer performance); 3- month project executed in collaboration with contact center leadership. Introduced individual and team scorecards as components of annual performance review; initiative delivered quantifiable methodology for measuring and reporting performance of frontline personnel. Provided management with ability to review project queues, delegate assignments and monitor capacity of individual associates and associate teams through provision of MS Access capacity planning tool for project management and non-production groups.
PNC Bank (Previously National City Bank) Columbus, Ohio 2002 to 2011 Financial services corporation, with assets of approximately $271.2 billion. VP, Call Center Capacity Planning Manager Guided forecasting, scheduling, workforce administration and project management functions for retail direct division (both pre and post-merger); ensured performance of 16 staff throughout 4 geographic locations; forecasted $60 million and 2,000+ call center staffing budgets in contact centers across 5 sites; organized and directed hiring for 5 locations. Wil Montoya Rsum Page 3
Proactively controlled and decreased operating expenses throughout contact centers consistent with short and long-term business plans; simultaneously improved service level commitments. Decreased annualized staff attrition from 56% to 35% within 1 year for main customer service unit (calculating to reduction of 75 agents annually) through development, introduction and coordination of hiring plan, including detailed attrition tracking and reporting. Introduced automated standard process for agent vacation planning resulting in 70% decrease in processing time, 50% reduction in administrative support and 10 fold increase in response time to agents. Facilitated hire of 600 agents annually through placement of standardized hiring process; ultimately resulted in fill rates higher than 95%. Enabled automation of 30,000 annual scheduling items through launch of scheduling automation solution; included agent self-scheduling initiative introducing overtime, voluntary time off, schedule trades and training signup via core workforce software. Formulated and created consolidated industry standard workforce management team able to support inbound contact center units throughout organization (replacing previous team disproportionately providing contact center support); additionally created volume/requirement forecasts, communications with finance and real-time site traffic control. Led consolidation of 3 customer service environments into single virtual customer service environment; merge increased efficiencies while decreasing staffing requirements 5%-10%. Coordinated and served as previous chair of Aspect Ohio User Group.