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Leigh Villahermosa

Dynamic BSA, Product Owner, And Administrator
Lake Oswego

Summary

Results-driven Salesforce Business Systems Analyst, Product Owner, and Administrator known for guiding stakeholders with an open heart and an insatiable curiosity. Possesses a creative and adaptable mindset, continuously seeking knowledge to deliver tangible action steps that drive exponential growth and value. Thrives in dynamic environments, excelling at problem-solving and effective collaboration. Focuses on addressing root causes to empower customers, enabling them to achieve desired outcomes swiftly while expanding their Salesforce presence and overall confidence in their investment. Specializes in orchestrating seamless transitions between product management and business analysis, ensuring that Salesforce solutions are strategically aligned with business goals and consistently optimized for peak performance

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
10
10
Certifications

Work History

Salesforce Business Systems Analyst

DAT Freight and Analytics
03.2023 - Current

Results-oriented Business Systems Analyst skilled in analyzing, optimizing, and revolutionizing business systems and processes within Salesforce.


  • Trusted collaborator fostering strong rapport with stakeholders and driving transformative impact through collaboration with stakeholders to identify business needs and recommending best practice solutions.
  • Skilled in translating requirements into actionable user stories and creating essential documentation, such as process flows, requirements definitions, and data models.
  • Proficient in project management, leading Salesforce initiatives, managing timelines, and mitigating risks.
  • Resourceful Jira Administrator adept at creating, configuring, and managing new intake and agile processes within Jira to support the application development lifecycle.
  • Experienced in Salesforce administration, user acceptance testing, data migration, integration, and providing ongoing support.
  • Committed to staying up-to-date with Salesforce updates and industry trends to maximize platform potential.

Salesforce Product Manager

DAT Freight And Analytics
10.2023 - 03.2024

Salesforce Product Manager with a knack for innovative problem-solving and a focus on maximizing ROI by guiding the development of Salesforce tools. Collaborated closely with the business and cross-functional teams, created strategic roadmaps, and ensured efficient project execution while staying updated on the latest Salesforce advancements.

  • Guided the development of Salesforce tools supporting DAT business functions within the Technology Operations Leadership team.
  • Collaborated with the Business Applications team and business leaders to drive innovative Salesforce usage for revenue generation and productivity improvements.
  • Managed the entire product lifecycle, including needs analysis, product roadmap planning, enhancement development, and successful implementation.
  • Serves as a Jira Administrator for Business Applications, creating, configuring, and managing new intake and agile processes within Jira in support of the application development lifecycle.

Success Guide

Salesforce
07.2021 - 03.2023
  • Spearheaded engagements for Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, Getting Started with
  • Salesforce, and Salesforce Maturity serving SMB and Canadian customers
  • Advised, partnered, and co-created action plans with customers as they streamlined value realization, growth potential, and success
  • Oversaw delivery of one-on-one consultative engagements to champion customer onboarding and product adoption
  • Liaised internally to evaluate account risk and mediate by mapping client-defined goals to Salesforce capabilities, KPIs, and curating personalized strategies towards objectives
  • Optimized SOPs to foster continuous process improvements and ensure transparency
  • Tested new Salesforce features/functionalities for Success Guide org to assess pertinence/productivity and launch within daily procedures
  • Mentored and coached teams focusing on value discovery and professional development
  • Developed supportive enablement materials for onboarding Success Guides
  • Key Project #1 Engaged and influenced Closed/Won renewals across MAE (Manufacturing, Automotive, Energy), AMER Small Business, and Canadian segments by leveraging potential opportunities within assigned territories, collaborating cross- functionally as "one Salesforce," and building/delivering roadmap of success engagements
  • Influenced $27.2M towards renewals by end of 2022
  • Key Project #2: Interacted with new Salesforce clients to drive Customer Success value, nurture relationships, and offer customer strategy to safeguard successful implementation/achievement of starting business goals
  • Engaged with account teams and implementation partners as required to gain better understanding of their account needs to further curate delivery and drive retention, impact, and growth
  • Achieved 15% higher license activation rates for new customers where Getting
  • Started/Onboarding engagements were delivered.
  • Built personal relationships with guests to promote positive experiences

Business Analyst & Salesforce

Golden Gate University
01.2019 - 09.2021
  • Liaised with business and IT teams under the management of the Associate Director of
  • Application and Development
  • Conducted business process analysis with clients
  • Internally to identify next-gen technology solutions meeting operational demands
  • Gathered business and functional requirements through interviews, workshops, questionnaires, team visits, use cases, process modeling, and other documentation tactics
  • Analyzed, outlined, and documented requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware/operating system environment, multi-system interfaces, and checks/controls internally and externally
  • Defined project requirements by determining and examining requirements, project milestones, stages, and aspects
  • Led, presented, and substantiated all tested solutions with users by building test plans and logging/prioritizing all glitches.| Page
  • Engaged with business users to develop and deploy solutions to augment business operations internally and manage all administrative tasks for Salesforce platform
  • Key Project #1: Inherited Salesforce org riddled with technical debt and inefficient user interface and automations
  • Met with key internal stakeholders to map their current business processes in Salesforce and offer solutions on how to optimize
  • Configured all changes in Salesforce and interfaced with team power users to confirm functionality operating as intended
  • Optimized team business processes in
  • Salesforce, increasing adoption by 52%, data integrity by 65%, and daily productivity by 75% in less than year
  • Key Project #2: Conducted business interviews to gather requirements and researched/interviewed several SMS third-party providers to assess business needs as
  • University Advising team was looking to expand their student advisee reach by including SMS capabilities in their communication options and integrating it with
  • Salesforce
  • Selected vendor and partnered with third-party team to implement solution and create layouts and automations per business requirements
  • Posted individual testing and engaged with departmental power users on UAT prior to go- live deployment
  • Results included University advisors being able to increase communication and response from their students by 35% in 6 months, influencing term registrations by 47%.

Assistant Registrar

Golden Gate University
02.2018 - 09.2019
  • Facilitated student-related administration, quality management systems, information services, and academic records maintenance for the University and School of Law
  • Led
  • Registrar operations and communications, including responding to requests from students, staff, and faculty regarding student records, processes, transcripts, and degree/enrollment confirmation
  • Initiated course schedule for each term in collaboration with University Academic
  • Administrators
  • Replied to all student registration inquires and delivered reporting associated with student enrollment, active programs, course schedules, and other matters
  • Forwarded status reporting on student financial aid recipients to National
  • Student Clearinghouse
  • Expedited UAT post-release of upgrades and new functionalities and managed data integrity within student information system
  • Resolved complex issues on student information system (Ellucian Colleague) and interpreted institutional policy to execute registration and deregistration in support of
  • Student Accounting Services
  • Maintained and released academic records in adherence with privacy guidelines, including FERPA.

Project Lead & Salesforce Administrator

Restoration Hardware, RH
11.2016 - 01.2018
  • Managed information systems for internal/external end users and led inquiry projects while executing change management efforts for process improvements
  • Supported information management services for 600+ customer care team members using robust business acumen to drive retention
  • Partnered with IT and business teams to aid Salesforce functionality while administering training processes
  • Built dashboard reports per productivity guidelines and implemented project enhancements according to deliverables
  • Expedited administrative functions, enabling improved data management for clients
  • Created documentation in Jira and Confluence to monitor new business requests
  • Trained team members internally and facilitated end user training to enhance customer journey
  • Steered UAT for all new functionality and engaged with IT staff on pre- and post- release
  • Rolled out Salesforce accounts and Customer360 favorably across care centers and galleries, enabling seamless transition of data migration into new systems
  • Key Project: Championed "Salesforce 2.0" launch to create learning paths, virtual content, and in-person training as company was struggling with Salesforce adoption due to users utilizing homegrown or older systems versus complying with new
  • Salesforce business processes, placing $1M investment in jeopardy
  • Selected/trained team of 10 Salesforce trailblazers to "table touch" and drive new learnings and processes
  • Adoption increased by 52% enabling sunset of older systems within 6 months of launch of Salesforce 2.0
  • Boosted care center associate productivity and business process efficiency.

Salesforce Technical Writer

Restoration Hardware, RH
01.2015 - 05.2016
  • Created pioneering Salesforce documentation leveraged across organizational levels for increased functionality within care centers
  • Spearheaded design of transparent documentation to aid Salesforce training processes for call center personnel.

Education

Certificate - Salesforce Coding/Development

RAD Women
Virtual
10.2023 - Current

Certificate -

Co-Active Training Institute
San Rafael, CA
11.2022 - 11.2022

Certificate -

Co-Active Training Institute
San Rafael, CA
09.2022 - 09.2022

Bachelor of Arts - English

University of The Pacific
Stockton, CA
12.2014 - 05.2015

Skills

Salesforce CPQ/Billing

Jira Team Project Administration

Confluence

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Visio, Powerpoint)

G-Suite

Slack

LucidChart

GitHub

Certification

2019-09 Salesforce Certified Administrator (Credential 20287201)

Affiliations

Salesforce Women in Tech (WiT), Member, 2022 - Present PDX Women in Tech (WiT), Member, 2021 - Present PDX Salesforce Admin Group, Member, 2023 - Present Salesforce Mental Health and Illness Group, Member, 2023 - Present

Timeline

Salesforce Product Manager

DAT Freight And Analytics
10.2023 - 03.2024

Certificate - Salesforce Coding/Development

RAD Women
10.2023 - Current

Salesforce Business Systems Analyst

DAT Freight and Analytics
03.2023 - Current

Certificate -

Co-Active Training Institute
11.2022 - 11.2022

Certificate -

Co-Active Training Institute
09.2022 - 09.2022

Success Guide

Salesforce
07.2021 - 03.2023

Business Analyst & Salesforce

Golden Gate University
01.2019 - 09.2021

Assistant Registrar

Golden Gate University
02.2018 - 09.2019

Project Lead & Salesforce Administrator

Restoration Hardware, RH
11.2016 - 01.2018

Salesforce Technical Writer

Restoration Hardware, RH
01.2015 - 05.2016

Bachelor of Arts - English

University of The Pacific
12.2014 - 05.2015
Leigh VillahermosaDynamic BSA, Product Owner, And Administrator