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Navin Ganeshan

Salt Lake City,UT

Summary

Experienced Salesforce Developer with a proven track record in designing, developing, testing, implementing, and supporting technical solutions using Salesforce development tools and technologies. Skilled in Salesforce development with expertise in Apex, Native, VisualForce, Lightning framework, SOQL, REST & SOAP APIs, and RESTful web services. Adept at collaborating with Agile teams and digital product managers to deliver robust cloud-based solutions that enhance user experiences and drive financial empowerment for millions of Americans. Passionate about staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with new technologies, and actively participating in both internal and external technology communities. Committed to mentoring and guiding fellow engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. Skilled in leading development projects and implementing Salesforce solutions in accordance with industry best practices.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President - CRM Engineering

Goldman Sachs
07.2018 - Current
  • Orchestrate the development and management of mission-critical CRM solutions, optimizing operations and sales functions.
  • Write comprehensive design specifications (functional specifications, solution design document, technical design document). Direct product strategy, deployment, and adoption of processes and systems.
  • Lead cross-functional teams in defining process goals, objectives, and components, to migrate processes from legacy applications to Salesforce.
  • Establish and maintain an effective SDLC process on CRM and aligned product roadmaps with organizational strategies.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate Salesforce with other enterprise systems, ensuring seamless data flow and system integration.
  • Create standard development practices that align with internal policies and work with engineers across the division to develop data integration solutions using tools such as Informatica and Alteryx.
  • Lead design and implementation of automated workflows on manual processes through internally developed task application, removing manual steps for operations.
  • Lead the evaluation, onboarding and implementation of 3rd party software, Automation Anywhere (RPA), Sapience (Business Decision Modelling) and Alteryx (Analytics).

Vice President - Intelligent Automation

Goldman Sachs
05.2010 - 10.2015
  • Led the Intelligent Automation team focusing on development and management of internally developed product and programs.
  • Developed and communicated product vision, strategy, and roadmap for internal products, aligning them with business goals.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders and technical teams to gather and define detailed product requirements for email and task (Appian) workflow tools, RPA (Automation Anywhere), and business decision modeling solutions.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including engineers, designers, quality assurance, and compliance specialists, to drive product development and ensure successful launches.
  • Developed proactive product analytics, plans to monitor and manage product's deployment and adoption.
  • Led the evaluation, onboarding and implementation of 3rd party software, Automation Anywhere (RPA), Sapience (Business Decision Modelling) and Alteryx (Analytics).

Sourcing Analyst

Honeywell Technology Solutions
10.2006 - 05.2010
  • Responsible to audit Indirect Sourcing contract documents negotiated by commodity managers and advice on correction and ensure accuracy of the information
  • Involved in projects to simplify the contract management process for Indirect Sourcing across businesses
  • Perform spend analysis of expired contracts; contracts vs
  • Non-contract spend, etc
  • Involved in projects to increase working capital savings for different commodities through contracts management.

Business Process Expert

Hewlett Packard
05.2006 - 10.2006
  • Review and establish new standards and processes for logistics and shipment department
  • Identify automation opportunities to reduce manual touchpoints in a process
  • Analyzing and monitoring implemented changes to business processes and making adjustments as needed
  • Performing ongoing analyses on business processes related to productivity, quality, costs, and time management.

Sr. Process Executive

Infosys (Progeon Ltd.)
06.2003 - 05.2006
  • Started my professional journey at Progeon Ltd
  • In 2003
  • Managed short shipment and logistics challenges on behalf of clients
  • Collaborated with clients to troubleshoot technical server configuration issues
  • Ensured agents consistently met daily targets
  • Conducted daily team huddles to strategize the day's activities
  • Pursued operational efficiency through process automation
  • Conducted quality audits to maintain and improve service standards.

Education

Masters in Business Administration -

Annamalai University
Chidambaram, Tamilnadu
05.2011

Masters in Computer Application -

Indira Gandhi National Open University
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2009

Bachelors of Sanskrit and Computer Science -

Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati Viswa Mahavidyalaya
Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu

Skills

  • Salesforce
  • Apex
  • LWC
  • Process Improvement
  • Process Engineering
  • JavaScript
  • Low-Code Automation
  • Communication skills
  • Team Leadership
  • Critical Thinking

Accomplishments

  • Development of a complex feature in Salesforce which allowed users to send emails in bulk to clients. This resulted in reducing the number of outgoing emails by 45%.
  • Collaborated on integration of client specific metrics with Salesforce to generate and distribute alerts to various coverage roles like sales and service reps. This highly scalable integration led to onboarding of 200+ metrics from 20 different applications in just 5 months.
  • Evaluated and implemented a custom solution to enable the ability to send attachments through Salesforce by designing the integration between internal and external applications, which resulted in reduction of client confidentiality breaches by 60%.
  • Designed and implemented a workflow in Salesforce for processing account association on cases, which focuses on dedicated resource allocation, overcoming a Salesforce limitation known as record row lock.
  • Led the development of message publishing/subscription feature by integrating with Kafka framework, to reduce the dependency on Salesforce's native platform event and scale the performance of the application. This resulted in increasing the number of messages delivered from 125k (per 24 hrs) to unlimited messages and enhanced logging capabilities.
  • Established data archival processes and standards, to ensure efficient storage usage. The new process focused on moving emails (highest volume contributor) in Salesforce to a staging area and then to internal data lake platform. This resulted in immediately reducing storage usage by 60%.
  • Led the integration of Salesforce with internal workflow application to establish task management and approval processes, resulting in efficient usage of Salesforce licenses.
  • Designed and implemented the integration of Salesforce with 3rd party applications (e.g Qualtrics), to collect client feedback and initiate automated workflows (tasks and alerts) based on feedback sentiments.
  • As part of BRICS strategy, worked with various stakeholders in the BRICS locations to develop process workflow models and identified automation opportunities which reduced manual touchpoints and decreased client confidentiality breaches by 95%.
  • Product managed and launched internally developed applications for operations productivity, focusing on email and task management and operations capacity risk prediction.
  • Designed process to convert 100% of client onboarding ruleset into executable business decision models, improving client experience during onboarding. Decision models included various regulatory and legal requirements along with internal risk policies.
  • In collaboration with the risk and human capital teams, established a dedicated career progression track for Operations personnel, focusing on enhancing their proficiency in low-code solutions. The inaugural cohort of low-code solution practitioners consisted of 200 individuals, and today, the program has successfully trained and developed over 700 professionals proficient in a wide range of low-code solutions.

Timeline

Vice President - CRM Engineering

Goldman Sachs
07.2018 - Current

Vice President - Intelligent Automation

Goldman Sachs
05.2010 - 10.2015

Sourcing Analyst

Honeywell Technology Solutions
10.2006 - 05.2010

Business Process Expert

Hewlett Packard
05.2006 - 10.2006

Sr. Process Executive

Infosys (Progeon Ltd.)
06.2003 - 05.2006

Masters in Business Administration -

Annamalai University

Masters in Computer Application -

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Bachelors of Sanskrit and Computer Science -

Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati Viswa Mahavidyalaya
Navin Ganeshan