Brian Pickering Email & Phone Number

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Design customized Salesforce solutions that address the client’s unique CRM and business processes – solutions that are scalable yet flexible enough to grow and adapt with them as their organization evolves.
• Lead discovery sessions with clients to understand business requirements and recommend optimal solutions based on their needs.
• Develop comprehensive solutions with the right balance of declarative vs. code-driven changes that drive various front-end and back-end improvements in Salesforce, often with a focus on automating business processes.

Fort Worth, Texas, US

• Led Salesforce implementation – Defined overall Salesforce strategy, including conducting user interviews, documenting user stories, refining requirements, releasing new features, and training end users.
• Influenced overarching data standards strategy within the company beyond just Salesforce, using Salesforce as the central integration tool to improve process efficiencies and transparency across previously siloed.
• Sales Operations / Revenue Operations - Worked with over a dozen portfolio companies with very different business models to create solutions custom-tailored to their sales process, while keeping data and processes.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Responsible for overall Salesforce strategy, implementation, and user training - decided on data to be collected, created database schema, ensured data integrity and security, and automated business processes.
• Internally promoted the capabilities of the platform, galvanizing employees to make Salesforce an integral part of our business strategy and the bedrock for all sales data.

US

Successfully marketed a small business to help elementary, middle, and high school students achieve learning objectives and higher grades in English/Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Math (up through Calculus); Prepared over 30 students for the SAT/ACT, with average score increases of 250+ (SAT - 2400 pt. scale) and 5+ (ACT) points under my tutelage.

Burlingame, CA, US

Prepared elementary and middle school students for standardized tests required to apply to local private schools (e.g. HSPT, ISEE, SSAT); Helped high school students with Math and Science courses; Tutored students one-on-one in their homes, mostly in Woodside, Atherton, and Palo Alto.

San Francisco, California, US

UCSF - Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience:Assisted principal scientist with animal surgery and care; Responsible for protocols; Conducted independent research to investigate whether motor function was influenced by early exposure to Citalopram, a common antidepressant; Participated in research on the reversibility of age-related cognitive decline.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology

High School, Diploma