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Cynthia Hernandez

Cynthia Hernandez

OREGON

Summary

GLOBAL OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT LEADER Results-driven customer support professional with management experience in multicultural and multilingual environments with experience managing teams across the globe. Committed to delivering measurable results and fostering cross-functional collaboration to achieve organizational objectives. Motivating leader effectively managed teams of up to 200 people using proactive communication and resourceful approach to problem-solving. 19-year track record of collaborating with senior management to implement company-wide policies.

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Work History

Senior Technical Support Manager

Sabre Corporation
  • Lead Airline Technical Support teams with employees based in Montevideo, Bangalore, Florida and Texas, in charge of supporting LCC customers in the usage of the Radixx portfolio.


Senior Manager Customer Support

Sabre Corporation
  • Lead a workforce of +60 employees across different locations: Dallas, Los Angeles, Montevideo, Krakow, Manila and Bangalore supporting a variety of Sabre Corporate products; GetThere, TripCase, Sabre Virtual Payments, Sabre Profiles and Trams.

Director Customer Support

Sabre Corporation
  • Lead a diverse 200+ workforce across Sabre’s Global Support Centers
  • Responsible for Service Strategy, Staffing, KPIs and Customer Satisfaction ensuring staff was properly trained and up to date with product strategy
  • Coordination with Site Leaders, Headquarters, HR and Teach teams and C-Suite

Manager Product Support LATAM, EMEA, APAC

Sabre Corporation
  • Lead a workforce across different countries providing technical support to OTA’s, TMC’s and Airlines in the usage of the Sabre System and related applications including Sabre Red Workspace, Ticketing, Shopping & Availability
  • Responsible for transitioning support functions from high cost to low-cost locations; London, Sydney and Hamburg to Montevideo and Krakow support centers
  • Relocated to Poland 2008-2009 to establish a multilingual, multichannel 24/7 support team within the local development center in Krakow.

Supervisor

Sabre Corporation
  • Held customer support entry level, L2 and supervisory positions at Sabre Corp 2004-2007

Education

Bachelor of Science - BA in Communications Science

UDELAR
Uruguay

Skills

  • Cross-functional Team Leadership
  • Continuous Process Improvement
  • Analytical Skills
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Communication
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM, Salesforce, Jira, Genesys contact routing)
  • Global Distribution Systems (GDS)
  • Managing Service Level Agreements
  • Process Oversight
  • Vendor Relations
  • Escalation Management
  • Staff Training
  • Customer Support
  • Continuous Improvement Planning
  • Operations Oversight
  • Case Support
  • Customer Issue De-Escalation
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally
  • Employee Coaching and Mentoring
  • Performance Tracking and Evaluations

Certification

  • Executive Education: Management in Information Technology, ORT 2015
  • Design Thinking edX, 2018
  • Programing Foundations, 2019
  • Scrum Master (SMPC), 2019

Accomplishments

  • Drove 26% of backlog reduction in a three-month period for the Airline IT LCC segment by changing work methodology and personal accountability of results (Nov22-Jan23)
  • Key stakeholder and sponsor implementing Salesforce and Genesys across the tech support organization. Worked in establishing MVP and supporting cross functional teams to deliver the projects timely. This resulted in effectively visualizing KPIs both at customer and employee level to enable support improvement with data driven decisions.
  • Transitioned several workforces responsible for in country support to global centers, including securing knowledge transfer, which resulted in important cost efficiency for the company as well as alignment in process and resolution of customer issues.
  • Responsible for maintaining and annually testing Business Continuity Plan for the Support Organization which was executed during COVID. Our customers received flawless support as we were able to maintain undisruptive service.

Languages

Spanish
Native language
English
Proficient
C2

Timeline

Senior Technical Support Manager

Sabre Corporation

Senior Manager Customer Support

Sabre Corporation

Director Customer Support

Sabre Corporation

Manager Product Support LATAM, EMEA, APAC

Sabre Corporation

Supervisor

Sabre Corporation

Bachelor of Science - BA in Communications Science

UDELAR
Cynthia Hernandez