Matt Kennedy

Customer Focused Leader with a distinct blend of Sales & Marketing, Operations, and Technology expertise.

Role
Director, IT - Dts Technology Partner at Direct Energy
Location
Houston, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Matt Kennedy

Driven to understand and delight the customer through data and analytics, market insights, and direct feedback enabling focus on the design of great customer journeys and experiences, exceeding customer expectations, building partnership and loyalty, and delivering value to the business. Attuned to key emerging technologies to ensure that the products and services used by the business and offered to the customer are best in class. Proficiencies• Customer Strategies for Retail Energy, Communications, Home Services, and Technology including Connected Home• Customer Experience; Voice of Customer, Journey Mapping, and Experience Design• Sales; Digital Marketing, Channel Marketing, Telesales, and Upsell/Cross-sell• Contact Center; Implementation, P&L, Contract Negotiation, Vendor Management, and Transition Plans, Domestic, Nearshore, and International operations experience• Multi-channel Customer Service and Technical Support, Key Sales and Support KPIs, Self-Service Support, Change Management, Agent Readiness and Training • Consultative Sales Methodology, Training, and Practical Application

Experience

  1. Director, IT - Dts Technology Partner

    Direct Energy

    Nov 2019 — Present · Houston, TX, US

    Responsible for guiding the IT investment, development, and strategy for the Data Insights & Analytics, Product Development, and Business Development teams.• Supported the operationalization of an AWS data lake for Direct Energy Home from a distributed on prem model to deliver more efficient and reliable access to key data for BI reporting, analytics, and data science (CustomerLifetimeValue, Churn models).• Supported the delivery of a residential energy concierge switching service in USN named Bounce Energy under an aggressive 4-month timeline, Dec 2019 - Apr 2020.

Education

  • Louisiana State University

    Social Work

    2001 — 2003

  • Louisiana State University

    Bachelor's, Sociology, Psychology

    1994 — 2000

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