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MAZHER SHAMSHUDDIN

Lake In The Hills,IL

Summary

SALESFORCE ADMINISTRATOR Dedicated, Customer-Focused Analyst who builds and maintains solid, productive partnerships with leadership, business stakeholders, end users, and technologists. Digs into issues to determine root cause and provide rapid resolution. Proactively monitors systems, reviews log files, and provides application health checks. Transitions repetitive tasks to offshore teams—freeing onshore resources for higher value tasks. Creates detailed, step-by-step documentation and knowledge sharing articles to ensure seamless handoff to new resources / teams. Champions SDLC methods and best practices to ensure high quality.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Salesforce Consultant

EY
Chicago, IL
03.2022 - 03.2023

Project: Salesforce Development/Configuration
Client: Starbucks
Description: Provided Configuration solutions to for the Starbucks Salesforce CLM project
Role: Salesforce Admin/Developer
Responsibilities:
- Create custom objects and fields per the epic story
- Created email templates in both Salesforce Classic and Lightning environment
- Helped with Data migration/load from client's legacy system
- Salesforce Configuration


Project: Formability/One Stop Portal Support

Client: State of Maryland

Role: Support Analyst

Responsibilities
- Responded to and resolved issues for users of OneStop portal for State of Maryland Residents

- Identified system bugs within the OneStop portal and worked with development team to write bug reports and drive them to solution.

Tier II Production Support Advisor

CVS HEALTH / COGNIZANT
, State
04.2018 - 03.2022
  • Serve as technical team lead supporting multiple mission-critical applications—including 2 separate instances of OpenText Intelligent Capture (formerly Captiva) across multiple business units—and as trusted partner and go-to person for all support questions
  • Work closely with customers and IT stakeholders to rapidly resolve issues—including batch and system issues and SEV 1 / SEV 2 incidents
  • Monitor Windows / Unix servers and recognize / resolve issues
  • Analyze recurring / escalated issues for management and development teams
  • Create SQL queries and analyze data to determine issue root cause and trends
  • Respond to application support tickets and ensure achievement of all SLAs
  • Perform application and server health checks
  • Work closely with vendor on licensing, with Windows and SQL Server teams on patches, and with development team on functional and non-functional requirements
  • Develop and maintain documentation
  • Establish best practices and consistency
  • Propose process improvements
  • Address external and internal audit requests
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor, coach, and address escalations / questions for 4-5 resources
  • Lead monthly EITS Enterprise Information Technology Services maintenance window for all PBM Tier 1 applications
  • Collect resource information for 20 total apps
  • Attend rehearsal meetings with other technical teams
  • Coordinate health checks for Tier 1 apps during post maintenance window
  • MAZHER SHAMSHUDDIN
  • Mazher.shamshuddin@gmail.com
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  • MAJOR PROJECTS
  • Analyzed fragmented patching process supporting Medicare-D Captiva instance and recognized significant gaps—including post-patching issues reported by business—that had been unresolved for 2 years
  • Proposed and gained buy-in for business validation immediately following IT validation
  • Eliminated all business-impacting issues
  • Recognized discrepancies in data fed to Splunk reporting tool—resulting in empty reporting emails since 2018
  • Coordinated project with Tier III and Splunk teams to overcome disconnects
  • Brought critical reporting back online—including reporting on critical audit items and PII / PHI data
  • Hand-selected by manager to develop and execute DR plan for FastStart Tier I application
  • Coordinated with DR team and worked with Tier III to validate test plan
  • Delivered successful test exercise
  • Directed DR test exercises for two Captiva Capture instances
  • Met weekly with DR team and verified process / test cases
  • Ensured robust DR capabilities for key application
  • Recognized and presented lessons learned from previous Captiva Capture upgrade to Tier III team to streamline subsequent upgrade process
  • Ensured no gap in SQL Server reporting following upgrade.


Program

TechBridge Technology
Atlanta, GA
10.2021 - 01.2022
  • A 12 week Salesforce- focused cohort that comprises of Professional Development, Financial Literacy, project-based presentations, and technical training in order to receive a Salesforce Administrator certification.

IT and Business Consultant

BUILDING CENTER
01.2016 - 01.2018
  • Partnered with company owners to drive transformation and modernization of business processes
  • Built relationships with key clients
  • Implemented electronic quote and invoicing processes—retiring legacy manual processes and significantly growing speed and efficiency
  • Built first web and social media presence—directly driving new revenue.

Imaging Operational Support Analyst, Assistant Manager / Customer Service Rep

AON HEWITT
01.2007 - 01.2016
  • Supported and configured global imaging environments—including IBM and Captiva—from lower lifecycle to production
  • Partnered with clients to identify opportunities to enhance business / systems to improve efficiency and productivity
  • Directed upgrades with multiple technical teams—including Unix, Windows Server, and DBA
  • Served as key technical advisor and escalation point for consultative services and onsite / offshore developers and end users
  • Diagnosed issues to identify root cause and develop solutions
  • Supported internal / external and on- / offshore users
  • Directed multiple successful data extract, import, and conversion projects
  • Trained on- and offshore teams
  • Spearheaded transition of daily tasks to offshore teams—reducing costs and improving operations
  • Partnered with leadership and networking and development teams to deliver 1st successful DR test for Charlotte, NC, scanning center—and created reference document to streamline future DR activities
  • Closed 98% of all remedy tickets in 3 days—achieving all department SLAs
  • Architected process to extract data from imaging system for departing clients
  • Eliminated need for 3rd-party solution and associated licensing costs
  • Previous, includes First Cellular Partners as

Education

BA -

University of South Carolina Upstate

Salesforce Administrator Certification -

Salesforce

Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder -

Salesforce
05.2001 -

Salesforce Certified Business Analyst -

Salesforce
05.2001 -

Skills

Agile & Scrum Adoption Consulting & Collaborative Skill Requirement Solicitationundefined

Timeline

Salesforce Consultant

EY
03.2022 - 03.2023

Program

TechBridge Technology
10.2021 - 01.2022

Tier II Production Support Advisor

CVS HEALTH / COGNIZANT
04.2018 - 03.2022

IT and Business Consultant

BUILDING CENTER
01.2016 - 01.2018

Imaging Operational Support Analyst, Assistant Manager / Customer Service Rep

AON HEWITT
01.2007 - 01.2016

Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder -

Salesforce
05.2001 -

Salesforce Certified Business Analyst -

Salesforce
05.2001 -

BA -

University of South Carolina Upstate

Salesforce Administrator Certification -

Salesforce
MAZHER SHAMSHUDDIN