Salesforce Consultant Resume
Baltimore, MD
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- 7+ years of experience in I.T in Design, Development, 4+ years experience as Salesforce Developer, Administrator and Business Analyst.
- Proficiency in SFDC Administrative tasks like creating Profiles, Roles, Users, Page Layouts, Email Services, Validation Rules, Approvals, Workflows, Reports, Dashboards, Actions, Tasks and Events
- Experience in working with Salesforce.com sandbox and production environments.
- Experience integrating SFDC with applications like Microsoft Outlook, Tibco, Marketo.
- Expertise in Force.com technology stack: APEX, Visual Force, SOQL, SOSL
- Experienced in analyzing business requirements, Entity Relationship diagram and implementing them to Salesforce custom objects, Junction objects, master - detail relationships and lookup relationships
- Thorough knowledge in security and sharing model which is used to finely control user’s access to different data.
- Experience with data migration and updates through Data Loader, DataLoader.io and Import Wizard in Salesforce.com
- Installed Sales Force AppExchange Apps, configured and maintained user security permissions in compliance with organizational needs
- In-depth knowledge of SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) and process methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM etc.,
- Extensive experience of using declarative features like validation rules, workflows, approval process, dynamic approval process, sharing rules automation for satisfying complex business process automations.
- Experience with Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
- Highly proficient in preparing Business requirement documents (BRD) and supported in preparing Systems requirement Documents (SRD), and Technical requirement Documents (TRD).
- Expertise in gathering business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions.
- Experienced in Scoping Phase, Gap Analysis, Testing, and Implementation Phase.
- Expertise in Modeling the system using Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
- Experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases.
- Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.
- Highly motivated and aggressive team player with an aptitude to learn.
- Good communication skills, interpersonal skills and problem solving ability.
- Result oriented & committed to meet goals. Experienced in working in tight schedules.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Salesforce Technologies: SOQL,SOSL, Data Loader, Dash Boards, Custom Objects, Apex, Workflow & Approvals
Languages: SQL, PLSQL, C,VB script
Database: SQL Server2K5 & 2K8, MS Access, Oracle 9i, 10g,11g,12g
Operating System: Windows, UNIX, LINUX and Mac
Bug/Document tracking tools: QC, Rally, JIRA, Sharepoint, ALM, Appirio
Tools: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Project, Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint
GUI Tools: SQL Developer, Oracle enterprise manager 10g, SQL*Plus, TOAD, SQL* Loader, Rally tool for Agile, MS office 2007, 2010, Open office 3.3
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Baltimore, MD
Salesforce Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Improved validation rules that reduced lead duplicates by 40%.
- Enhanced Speed to Outreach functionality improving number of opportunities called by Enrollment Advisors in under 5 min by 9-10%.
- Periodically refreshed and maintained sandbox environments.
- Worked closely with business partners/stakeholders to determine details and priority of requirements.
- Planned and conducted requirements elicitation meetings with the business to collect functional and non-functional requirements relating to university enhancement and initiatives.
- Created data flow diagrams and process flow diagrams to facilitate better system understanding.
- Participated in Program Increment and Sprint planning sessions and ranked stories.
- Conducted /Participated in Scrum and daily stand up meetings.
Environment: SFDC, Force.com, Data Loader, Apex Language, Workflow & Approvals, Triggers, SSO, Service Cloud console, JavaScript, HTML, Appirio, Rally, Quality Center, SQL, Toad, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Project, Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint.
Confidential, Newton, MA
Salesforce Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Duties included design, development, integration and administration of salesforce.com applications for Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical industry.
- Involved in all phases of project like gathering and analyzing the information, documenting functional and non-functional requirements.
- Administrated and monitored company’s Salesforce applications. Created workflows for automated lead routing, lead escalation and email alert.
- Created Profiles, Roles based on Organization role hierarchy and implemented Record-Level and Field-Level security and configured their sharing settings.
- Developed and configured various Reports and Report Folders for different user profiles based on the need in the organization and associated them to Dashboard.
- Created Custom Objects and fields for transactional and contractual information. Designed and deployed Custom tabs, validation rules and Auto-Response Rules.
- Implemented pick lists, dependent pick lists, lookups, master detail relationships, validation and formula fields to the custom objects.
- Created workflow rules and defined related tasks, email alerts, and field updates.
- Created templates, approval processes, approval page layouts and defined approval actions on them to automate the processes.
- Worked on Record Types, Validation Rules, Triggers and Page Layouts.
- Designed and developed a base model on Salesforce Community Cloud for Patient Registries, which could be easily customized by each client based on their customer base.
- Worked on integrating Human API (Authentication widget you embed into your website or application to allow your users to share their health data with your applications and services).
- Designed and developed a portal on Force.com for Adverse Events Tracking for Life Sciences.
- Application goal was to present a visual representation of the events that come from various sources for the Pharmacovigilance Analysts to eliminate false positives.
- Used Force.com developer toolkit including Apex Classes, Apex Triggers and Visualforce pages (immensely customized using HTML5 and CSS3 for intuitiveness) to develop custom business logic.
- Used SOQL & SOSL for data manipulation needs of the application using platform database objects.
- Worked on integration of two instances using Apex REST API call-outs.
- Performed GAP analysis around business rules, requirements, business and system process flows and user administration
- Carried out regular meetings and walkthroughs with development team members, Project Manager and Quality analyst to better understand system functionality
- Involved in Agile methodology, Scrum which improved productivity and reduced errors.
Environment: Saleforce.com platform, Apex Language, Apex Triggers, Visualforce (Pages & Components), Salesforce.com Data Loader, Workflow & Approvals, Reports, Custom Objects, Custom Tabs, Email Services, HTML, Java Script, Web Services, WSDL, Mavensmate for Sublime Text, Windows.
Confidential, CA
Salesforce Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Involved in salesforce.com application setup activities and customized apps to match functional needs of the organization.
- Migrated tables like Opportunities, Accounts and Contacts to Salesforce CRM Standard objects.
- Customized dashboards to monitor lead activities based on sales geography.
- Designed, developed and deployed Custom objects, Page layouts, Custom tabs, Components.
- Responsible for the creation of custom Apps, and Reports using the Salesforce CRM cloud computing model.
- Worked on Email-To-Case settings so that the emails can be created as Service Requests automatically and assigned to the associated internal user.
- Created Triggers for sending emails to users whenever account information is updated.
- Configured and Maintained Sandbox Environment for easy collaboration of Development.
- Responsible for all the activities related to configuring data loader, uploading data in csv files into salesforce.com, checking for the correctness of the data.
- Created Workflow rules and defined related tasks, time triggered tasks, email alerts, field updates to implement business logic.
- Developed Apex Classes and Apex Triggers for various functional needs in the application.
- Interacted with various business user groups for gathering requirements for salesforce.com CRM implementation.
- Maintained user roles, security, profiles, and workflow rules wherever necessary.
- Create and Customize Custom Objects, Formula Fields, Cross Object Formulas, Roll up summary fields, validation rules, dependent picklists, and complex page layouts.
- Involved in Requirement Scoping, RFP documenting and analyzing high priority requirement for implementation; Created BRD, functional Requirement documentation and use case documents
- Tracked bugs and reported them using ALM as a defect tracking tool and performed Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Involved in writing test cases for every sprint and participated in scrum meetings to determine which functionality takes the priority.
- Tracked daily issues and dependencies and coordinated with common team to work on the impediment list.
- Involved in creating and reviewing Handover Document that helped support team to identify and resolve issues.
- Managed changing the requirements, which includes establishing a baseline, keeping track of the history, determining dependencies that are important to trace, tracing relationship between related requirements and maintaining version control.
Environment: Force.com, Data Loader, Apex Language, Workflow & Approvals, Triggers, ALM, JIRA,HTML, SVN, Microsoft Excel, Quality Center, Sharepoint, SQL, Toad, Scrum, SOAPUI 5.0, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Project, Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint
Confidential
Application Developer/ Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Worked with end users to capture business requirements and create functional specifications documents.
- Initiating Requirement Document Review Meetings and conducting Gap Analysis if any, on the basis of requirements given at the initial stage of the project.
- Conducted project review meetings with users to track and keep stakeholders updated on the project progress.
- Participated in various stages of data and requirement analysis for project needs.
- Initiating Change Requests and planning session with Development and Design teams.
- Coordinated with development team to help them better understand the requirements.
- Conducted weekly meetings with testing and development teams in keeping track of the project
- Developed Test Cases, Test Scripts and performed UAT for web applications developed and tracked test results in Sharepoint.
Environment: Sharepoint, Microsoft Excel, VB script, Quality Center, Win XP, Linux, SQL, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Project, Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint
