Christopher Barnes Email & Phone Number

Chicago

I write music reviews for the underground magazine.

Milwaukee

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Trained in continuing district level management courses by Half Price Books corporate standards• Manage retail staff of 20 employees• Exceed productivity goals• Resolve in-store crises with prompt professionalism• Provide extensive training and instruction for staff and new management from district area stores• Regularly administer extensive day to day scheduling and bookkeeping• Design and construct store displays and store layouts and set-up for new or remodeled district locations• Assist in interviewing and hiring of new staff• Complete in-store and district reports including legal and police procedural documents for stolen merchandise and other criminal activity

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Quickly promoted to section leader for a multitude of subject teams throughout the store• Responsible for the pricing, sorting, display, and maintenance of vinyl LP collection• Trained in buying and assessing used materials according to company standards • Ranked among the top buyers in company• Fluent in Point of Sale software and praised in cash handling abilities

Milwaukee, Wi

Team Lead in charge of a Provider Relations team.• Oversee a team of 5-6 employees in handling reconsiderations and appeals by medical providers for denied payments• Responsible for weekly documentation and presenting of quality and production statistics for each member of the team• Conduct weekly and quarterly reviews for each team member and weekly team meetings for troubleshooting and procedure updates• Contribute regularly to management meetings involving work distribution and company changes and improvements in procedure and protocol

• Trained in Medicare and state specific standards for payment and denial of medical treatments based on coding and documentation• Trained in a variety of medial forms and a vast library of codes• Responsible for data entry and quality analysis of medical information• Consistently exceeded production and quality goals• Regularly assisted the Intake and Distribution team in sorting mail and medical forms• Used down time to take advantage of a variety of Rising provided online courses including many courses on Microsoft Excel