About Me, My Hobbies & Interests!

Jim is a 33-year veteran of the call center/BPO industry. His responsibilities for Etech include Strategy, Marketing, Business Development, Program Implementation, Operational Excellence, and SaaS Product Development across all of Etech’s existing lines of business – Etech Customer Engagement Solutions, Etech Insights, and Etech Technology Solutions (ETS). He is passionate, driven, and an energetic business leader with a strong desire to remain ahead of the curve in outsourcing solutions and service delivery. Jim has an impeccable track record of innovation and advanced business intelligence. He has been instrumental in setting up solutions for brands looking to optimize and automate their daily customer experience needs. Having spent a major part of his career in contact center operations, Jim has an exceptional understanding of customers’ challenges, requirements, and processes. He takes a consultative approach to recommend the right solutions. This has helped him develop, implement, and retain some of the most successful, award-winning programs that deliver consistent ROI. The gained experience over the previous years has enabled him to be a subject matter expert for call center solutions, with specialties including Strategy, CX, Live Chat, Operations, Training and Developing Leaders, Relationship Management, E-Commerce Strategy and Reporting, Quality Monitoring, Speech Analytics, IT & Outsourcing. Jim is an eminent speaker and has conducted various workshops sharing his experiences with effective quality monitoring techniques and insights. The real-life examples shared during these workshops have benefited many industry leaders in adopting the latest technology. Jim also serves as a panelist for several forums empowering people to understand and overcome contact center challenges. Due to his level of expertise, Jim has been featured in numerous publications, including CIO Review, Contact Center Pipeline, Connections Magazine, and was also listed as one of the ‘Top 20 Influential People to Follow’ on Twitter by “Iwantitnow.” Jim has co-authored three books with his lifelong friend, mentor, and coach, Matt Rocco. Quality Monitoring in a Contact Center: Making Sure Your Contact Center Works for Your Business The Future of Contact Centers: Leveraging People, Processes & Artificial Intelligence Delivering Customer Experience That Matter: Combining Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence to Delight Your Customers and Gain Market Share In addition to his responsibilities at Etech, Jim enjoys spending his spare time cooking and coaching people on how to make Sushi, and volunteering for various charitable organizations including the Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce, the United Way of Nacogdoches County, the Boys and Girls Club of East Texas, and the Glory Gang Ministry, a Christian service organization that is dedicated to assisting and teaching disadvantaged youth.