Kara Allen's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Principal Solution Engineer @ Salesforce Bend, Oregon AreaTour Guide @ DuVine Adventure Successfully planned and executed five-day luxury bicycle tours for groups of four to fourteen clients focused on wine and gastronomy in Burgundy and Bordeaux, France. From 2006 to 2006 (less than a year) Senior Solution Architect & Community Cloud Practice Manager @ Perficient *Leads key, strategic Salesforce Communities projects at our enterprise customers. Responsible for managing the client relationship, requirements gathering, solution and integration design, data migration planning and execution as well as overseeing development team, ensuring that the solution delivered is architected to scale.*Works alongside Sales to scope out projects, providing the team structure, timelines, scope and budgetary estimates. Reviews Statements of Work (SOWs) to ensure that delivery and sales are aligned with what will be delivered and that it is clearly documented so that sales, delivery and our customers are aligned from day one.*Responsible for thought leadership through blogging and internal lunch-and-learns, as well as ensuring the designs recommended to customers are staying cutting edge, taking advantage of newest Salesforce tools. Works with sales and delivery to educate them on new tools and prescribed solutions.*Meets with Salesforce Product Management to provide them guidance on what we are seeing in the market (how their tools are being used, key customer asks, etc.) and to learn what is on their road map to ensure that we guide our customers in their implementations based not only upon what is currently available, but also, based upon what is coming, to avoid custom-building features that are on the Salesforce road map. From June 2014 to December 2017 (3 years 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Project Manager @ Perficient *Manages a team of eight Salesforce.com Lead Business Consultants, Senior Business Consultants and Business Consultants. Responsible for professional development of team members and ensuring consistent high quality of delivery across all Projects.*Lead Consultant or Project Manager for Salesforce.com projects at key enterprise customers. Responsible for managing the client relationship, requirements gathering, solution design, data migration planning and execution, and project management as well as overseeing teams of consultants and developers performing build, testing, training and deployment. *Develops tools to support our implementation methodology, such as documentation templates and Salesforce.com applications, to enable consultants to deliver consistent, high-quality projects to clients. *Defined the test methodology for the Salesforce business unit and built tools to support the methodology.*Facilitates internal knowledge sharing through brown bags and other internal tools to ensure consultants are aware of the creative solutions we have architected for other customers, and can bring that knowledge to their own projects. From May 2013 to June 2014 (1 year 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaPractice Manager @ Clear Task Manages a team of six Salesforce.com consultants and engagement managers. Focused on professional development of team members, ensuring consistent high quality of delivery across all of my team's projects, driving key company goals, developing tools to support our implementation methodology and facilitate internal knowledge sharing, and improving business processes. Leads Salesforce.com projects at enterprise customers. Responsible for requirements gathering, solution design and project management. Oversees project teams made up of consultants and developers, ensuring that the solution is built, tested and deployed according to spec. From November 2012 to May 2013 (7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Consultant @ Clear Task Managed Salesforce.com projects at key customers; responsible for project management, requirements gathering, solution design, documentation, system configuration, testing, training and deployments. Oversaw project team and ensured that all configuration and development work was done to spec and on time. Mentored new hires, including assisting with training on Salesforce.com, professional services and company policies as well as holding weekly 1:1s. From February 2012 to October 2012 (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaConsultant @ Clear Task * Works directly with customers to create Salesforce-based solutions to streamline and automate their business processes * Participates in projects from initial requirement gathering through application configuration, testing, and deployment * Works with the extended team, including developers, architects, and account executives, to ensure customer success From February 2011 to February 2012 (1 year 1 month) Marketing Manager @ San Francisco Wine Center •Created and managed all B2B and DTC marketing campaigns, press relations and strategic partnerships.•Oversaw Marketing Assistant to ensure successful execution of all marketing initiatives.•Optimized the company’s online presence, leveraging both traditional and web 2.0 channels to organically grow business. From August 2010 to February 2011 (7 months) Marketing & Public Relations Manager @ The Mark Wine Group *Manages all marketing and public relations programs, including website development, online marketing, and print materials for The Mark Wine Group.•Works alongside partner wineries to create compelling B2B marketing programs to help them successfully grow their on-premise national accounts business.•Customized newly purchased Salesforce.com account to simplify and improve the company’s business practices; trained users on how to integrate this powerful tool into their daily workflow and change the way they run their business. From November 2010 to January 2011 (3 months) Marketing Specialist @ Boisset Family Estates •Manages company’s online presence and is currently leading a major renovation of its website to increase its functionality, SEO optimization, and ability to capture leads.•Determined the need for a CRM system, investigated different options, then negotiated terms of the contract with the chosen system and is managing its implementation and is the CRM’s administrator.•Created and now manages company’s social media presence on Facebook and Twitter for multiple brands, organically attracting hundreds of fans and followers.•Oversees and tracks blogging efforts by winemakers, ensuring post content is timely, appropriate and compelling as well as brainstorming interesting content to drive readership.•Creates printed marketing materials for the company’s entire imported wine and spirits portfolio (15+ brands) and works alongside Marketing Manager on brand planning.•Manages press samples for entire company portfolio (20+ brands); works alongside a PR firm to create compelling strategies for them to execute.•Manages a small-production luxury wine brand, creating all marketing materials, determining pricing, and working alongside the National Sales Director to find distributors for the brand. From March 2009 to June 2010 (1 year 4 months) Events Coordinator @ Boisset Family Estates •Successfully planned and executed a five-city winemaker tour, attracting 100+ members of the trade in each location.•Successfully planned and executed a national cocktail competition on both coasts in conjunction with Santé Magazine & the New York Bar Show, attracting top mixologists from the U.S. and Canada.•Managed donation and sponsorship requests, determining which events to sponsor based upon the audience, brand positioning, visibility, and chance for ROI; implemented strategies to obtain the best ROI possible.•Managed participation in national trade and consumer events; coordinated nationwide participation in events.•Coordinated trade visits to domestic and international wineries.•Created marketing materials including PowerPoint presentations, tech sheets, sell sheets, and press clips for imported brands (15+ brands).•Annually planned and executed the company’s National Sales Meeting, including creating the itinerary alongside top executives, coordinating all travel arrangements, and managing the creation of all materials for the meeting. From November 2006 to March 2009 (2 years 5 months) Independent Salesforce Consultant @ Self-Employed Consulted on Salesforce Communities and AppExchange related projects. From January 2018 to September 2018 (9 months)