Maria is passionate about understanding client needs, delivering solutions to meet those needs, and helping organizations succeed with adoption and roll out of their Salesforce and cloud implementations.Maria brings over 20 years of corporate management experience with 12 of them in professional services and application development. Most recently, Maria served as Client Services Director and Salesforce Practice Director with Apps Associates, a professional services company. Prior to this, Maria was a Managing Partner for Ethos Solutions, a Salesforce consulting company.Her leadership role experiences encompass all areas of operations, including client engagement, program management, project oversight and delivery, business development, operations management, as well as contract management. She has led Salesforce project delivery teams with an excellent track record of successful project go-lives using software development life cycle process and methodologies.Maria previously had a successful career with Merck & Co., Inc. in pharmaceutical sales, sales management, and operations management. As Associate Director, Maria worked closely with senior sales management for national business units, while her team of analysts provided decision analysis and strategic planning for executive management and regional markets. She managed an annual budget of $100+MM and provided leadership and oversight of national initiatives and business processes. She brings a depth of experience in utilizing technology to monitor business analytics, data modeling, and regression analysis.