Salesforce.com Expertise
- 11 years +7 full life-cycle implementations
- Featured Admin Keynote Speaker at Dreamforce '15, Houston User Group (co-leader) & Dreamforce 2013 session speaker
- Certified Developer (401) & Administrator (201)
- SFDC Partners: Apttus CLM certified, Pardot, ExactTarget, The Conga Suite
- Microsoft: Project, Visio, and Office with expertise in Excel (+10 years)
Duff & Phelps – Houston, TX
Vice President, Legal Management Consulting
04/2015 - Present
- Details Coming soon
ION Geophysical – Houston, TX
Salesforce.com Specialist
09/2010 - 03/2015
- Managed the +1200 user EE SFDC environment, including priority-setting for the Salesforce.com Administrator’s assignments 
- Directed multiple implementations of SFDC for segmented teams across the company including requirements gathering, process re-engineering, customizations, training, data-mining, and post implementation support 
- Oversaw the SFDC integration with the on-premise ERP system 
- Initiated the company SFDC Champions Team of power users representing each of the five business units for driving adoption 
- Initiated “SFDC Power Hour” training courses, including designing, developing, executing and maintaining the Salesforce.com training curriculum and materials 
- Represents the Information Technology team on the Steering Committee with the executive level SFDC Sponsors 
- Consolidated three separate instances of SFDC into one in order to provide one global sales database system 
- Identifies ways to use SFDC’s scalable platform to create applications for non-sales related teams such as Telecom wireless reporting, and Employee Active Directory change files 
- Established the bi-monthly release process for enhancements, including authoring release notes 
- Translated requirements from the business to developers for custom code work 
- Acted as the point of contact for CRM-related vendors like Conga, BigMachines, EscapeNotes, Cloudingo, Eloqua and Pardot 
Chevron Corporation (contractor) – Houston, TX
Salesforce.com CRM Analyst
09/2007 – 9/2010
- Facilitated reflective team discussions on business needs to revamp existing applications or customize applications needed to best support business needs 
- Business process work-flow documentation 
- Design and enhance configurations to best meet business needs 
- Created QA test-scripts and facilitate User Acceptance Testing 
- Designed, developed, executed and maintained the Salesforce.com training curriculum and materials 
- Authored the monthly Release Notes as a supplement for each release 
Dekolink, Inc. – Montgomery, TX
CRM Program Analyst
06/2007 – 09/2007
- Gathered business process information for re-engineering in order to enhance productivity 
- Customized the company’s instance of Salesforce.com tailoring it to fit the company’s needs and enhance productivity. 
- Authored the operations manual for business processes for Engineering and Sales teams 
- Created business-process workflows to correlate with the operations manual for Engineer and Sales departments 
- Streamlined sales processes, commissions, and project management in Salesforce.com 
- Developed custom applications to support the Human Resources, Engineering Services, and Customer Service departments 
- Created templates for running custom reports and dashboards for the Sales and Engineering Services Team. 
MedServe, Inc. – Houston, TX
Marketing Administrator and Project Coordinator
05/2005 – 05/2007
- Customized Salesforce.com to fit the specific needs of the company; creating custom objects, applications, and formula fields 
- Created curriculum for in-house Salesforce.com training: develop training materials for salesforce.com as it relates to company-specific goals and objectives. 
- Administered Salesforce.com CRM program: setting up new users, password resets, assigning tasks to active users, and database clean-up. 
- Developed formulas for commission calculations and created departmental form templates. 
- Analyzed and strategically assigned sales territory lines for Regional Account Executives. 
