
Vice President, Contact Solutions at American Customer Care
Greater New York City Area

Vice President, Contact Solutions at American Customer Care
Greater New York City Area
Customer Service Professional with over 25 years of contact center experience; energetic, motivating, and very well networked in the contact center arena. Sam’s experience in the customer service industry began at the Sony Corporation where he was involved with strategic planning, store operations, and customer service. Sam is known for his honesty in evaluating the customer service strategy and implementing a plan to improve the process, the people, and the technology of the companies he manages.
Inbound Customer Care - high level, quality focused; professional college educated agents taking calls and emails for companies who expect first call resolution with a world class expectation.
(Privately Held; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Customer service strategist, 25 years experience, previously managed customer service programs in organizations at the corporate and retailer levels. His start was at the Sony Corporation working in strategic planning, store operations, and customer service. His backgound is in strategic planning, management and customer service.
Sam is the networking professional. He is energetic, motivating, and a highly skilled contact center consultant specializing in the very high level niche marketplace.
Sam has been an active member of SOCAP and has served in various roles on New York Board of Directors for 12 years. He also has held various positions on with the New York Metro SOCAP chapter, The New York Jaycees, and the ICSA New Jersey Chapter. He was New York Metro Chapter President of SOCAP in 2000 and was the National SOCAP Membership Chair in 2006. He is an active member of SOCAP, NESDA, CEA, and ATA. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Management from Rutgers University.
(Consumer Services industry)
October 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 3 months)
World Class customer service professional with 24 years of expeience in the industry.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Services industry)
May 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 7 months)
National Sales for CE and Appliance markets.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Services industry)
November 1998 — April 2002 (3 years 6 months)
Manage CE clients in mutiple locations, sold into the CE arena
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
August 1993 — October 1998 (5 years 3 months)
Managed Customer Service, Customer Delievery, and Customer Installation for the 60 store chain as Vice President of Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)
1983 — 1993 (10 years)
Strategic Planning, including business plan & sales strategy development for Sony stores in the U.S.
BS , Management , 1981 — 1985
golf, fishing