Aakanksha Patel
Salesforce Solutions Architect at Cisco
SF Solutions Architect | Application Architect | 8x Salesforce Certified | 2x Copado Certified
Graduated from Master's program in Management Information Systems (May 2021) - from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

A 2xRanger with an experience of 5+ years in designing and developing enterprise-level, highly scalable solutions using Salesforce CRM, Salesforce CPQ, and Apttus - served clients in various industries such as Technology, Media, and Telecommunications. (Find me: https://trailblazer.me/id/apatel62)

Certifications:
• Application Architect
• Data Architecture and Management Design
• Salesforce Sharing and Visibility Designer
• Platform Developer 1 and 2
• Salesforce Admin and App Builder
• Salesforce CPQ Specialist
• Copado Certified (Admin and Developer)

Specializes in : Salesforce CPQ | Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud | Copado Implementation  

Skills and Interests: Solution design, architecture roadmaps, business development, communication and presentation skills, critical thinking, problem-solving and detail-oriented

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Cisco
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco
Salesforce Solutions Architect
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Slalom
https://www.linkedin.com/company/slalom-consulting
Salesforce Consultant
Chat-Bots for a Social Media Tech Giant
- Designed and developed a reusable chat-bot framework to automate payroll management in Salesforce integrating with Workday, Mulesoft, and Workplace

Enforcing SF and DevOps Best Practices (Salesforce | Copado)
- Provided recommendations and architectural changes for quality gates and best practices in implementing SCA tools on Salesforce platform including PMD, CodeScan, and CheckMarx
- Analyzed DevOps implementation for existing projects and recommended Copado best practices and implementation solutions to integrate with client's existing ecosystem 
- Produced solution presentations, designed implementation strategy, and built technical run books to be leveraged by larger teams
San Francisco Bay Area
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Liquidnet
https://www.linkedin.com/company/liquidnet
Sr. Salesforce Developer (Summer Intern)
- Led the design and development of lightning components for an equity trading platform in handling misplaced trade orders
- Pioneered a standardized process to automate source data migration into Salesforce, reducing repetitive manual work from 5 days to 120 minutes
- Created dashboards and reports that consolidated data into Salesforce from three siloed platforms 
- Developed Lightning components, Apex classes to display hierarchical roll-up activity history related accounts, contacts and opportunities
New York, United States
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Deloitte Consulting
https://www.linkedin.com/company/deloitteconsulting
Salesforce Technical Lead (Sales Cloud | SF CPQ)
Quote-to-Cash Management
- Solution designing and implementation of Quote, Contracts & Order management for handling 1000 products, orders, and subscriptions in SF CPQ integrating with MuleSoft, NetSuite, Zuora, and DocuSign
- Led a team of 12 in materializing new-business & amendments for an end-to-end large cart solution 
- Acted as SME on three other Salesforce CPQ/ Apttus implementations for Deloitte's SF practice

Business Development Activities
- Key team member in delivering 10+ RFPs that led to a sale of $16.5 MN 
- Led 7+ client workshops to gather, define, document complex business requirements into functional process components

Firm Reinvest/ Leadership Activities
- Created a working prototype of a VR based marketplace solution for displaying inventory, pricing, and orders (presented at Dreamforce '16)
- Built accelerators and reusable artifacts - tools, templates, and scripts
- Led mentoring sessions for 400+ underprivileged school children as part of Deloitte's CSR activities
- Interviewed 15+ Salesforce/ Apttus experienced hire candidates
- Delivered classroom trainings to 30+ new hires on Salesforce CRM & CPQ
Hyderabad, India
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Deloitte Consulting
https://www.linkedin.com/company/deloitteconsulting
Salesforce Developer (Sales & Service Cloud | SF CPQ | Apttus)
Sales Cloud & Service Cloud Implementations
- Extensive experience on Apex programming, Controllers, Triggers, Batches, Lightning components, VF pages, SOQL, SOSL and aggregate queries across various SFDC projects
- Sharing and Security Governance configurations through profiles, permission sets, data visibility, OWD, role hierarchies and sharing settings
- Good command on SFDC configurations with workflow rules, visual flows, process builders, approval rules, and validation rules

Salesforce CPQ Development Experience
- Product management with Bundles, Options, Option Constraints, Attributes, Subscriptions and MDQ products, Product Rules etc.
- Pricing management with contracted, overage, block & cost pricing, price rulesets and lookup queries, discounting, etc.
- Quote management for new-business, amendments, renewals, QLE custom actions, quote documents and templates 

Apttus CPQ Development Experience
- Product configurations with multi-tiered bundles, options, option groups, categories, 40+ constraint rules, 10+ attribute rules, search filters, customizations through product-filter callback, and asset callback 
- Pricing configurations using PBs, price dimensions, price rulesets, discounting, pricing APIs and customizations through pricing callback and validation callback classes
- Approval management and Quoting templates with X-Author
Hyderabad Area, India
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GEEks of Pune
https://www.linkedin.com/company/geeks-of-pune
Engineering Intern
Intelligent Network Security Agent (Open V-Switch Plugin)
-	Designed a light-weight Linux kernel module which implemented Open-Flow protocol based interfaces for eliminating security threats for a virtual data centre
Pune Area, India
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Master's degree in Management Information System
Texas A&M University - Mays Business School
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Information Technology
Bachelor's degree
Cummins College of Engineering, Pune
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Outstanding Award
Deloitte USI
Recognised for owning up and developing a complex module for the deliverability of the project.
Spot Award
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Recognised for designing and architecting a critical module for the project.
Project Appreciation
Sourav Datta: Deloitte USI
Recognised for managing the Quoting lifecycle in the project by being a technical lead.
Moments that matter
Aditya Komanduri : Deloitte USI
Received 'Moments that matter' appreciation from the manager for being able to deliver a critical piece of the project in the crunched timelines.
Applause Award
Krishna Kishore Yallapragada : Deloitte USI
For being a star performer and providing deliverables on time with quality.
Advanced Database Management
ISTM-622
Advanced System Analysis and Design
ISTM-624
Applied Predictive Analytics
ISTM660
Data Warehousing
ISTM637
Engineering Data Analysis
ISEN613
IS Design and Development Project
ISTM631
MIS Project Management and Implementation
ISTM-630
Professional Internship
ISTM684
Accounting
ACCT-640
Business Information Security
ISTM-635
Business Process Design
SCMT645
Corporate Information Planning
ISTM-643
Smile Foundation
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Community Development Volunteer
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Salesforce Application Architect
20478
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Certification
22502721
Salesforce
Salesforce Data Architecture Management Designer
22534229
Salesforce
Copado Certified Fundamentals 2
014701
Copado
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer 1
22392914
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II
22417194
Salesforce
Copado Certified Fundamentals 1
014361
Copado
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
21LZ-35LB-A5L3
Texas A&M University - Mays Business School
Salesforce Sharing and Visibility Designer
20280205
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified CPQ Specialist Certification
20165766
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified Administration
18278537
Salesforce
https://www.linkedin.com/in/0319-ankit-shah
Ankit Shah
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Austin, TX
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Shiva Pasumarty ☁
Principal at Slalom
New York City Metropolitan Area
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Jesika Kanani
Manager at SS&C Technologies
Austin, TX
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Nikit Shah
Senior Manager | Cognitive & Analytics | IBM
Austin, TX
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Sana Fatima
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Vaibhav Bijola
Data Enthusiast || Business Operations at SoFi(Galileo) || MS-MIS
Salt Lake City, UT
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Himanshu Parashar
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San Francisco, CA
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Karan G.
BIE @ Amazon | Texas A&M Class of 2021 | COEP Class of 2016
Austin, TX
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Vanshika Varshney
Product @ Dell | Edge Solutions
College Station, TX
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Ferin N.
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New York, NY
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Aditi Patil
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Dallas, TX
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Nitesh Parmar
Program Manager at Google
India
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Shrey Sharma
Youngest Salesforce MVP in the World 2019 | Entrepreneur since the age of 13 | Cyntexa | Salesforce Hulk | S2 Labs
Jaipur
https://in.linkedin.com/in/neena-aggarwal-b10a1033
Neena Aggarwal
Software Engineer MTS at Salesforce
Hyderabad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cselhost
Corey Selhost
Cloud Architect at Datalogics, Inc.
Greater Chicago Area
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Kyle Hendrickson
Network System Engineer at Amerihub Technologies
New Lenox, IL
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Parinita Mahindrakar
VP, Capital Planning Management at Citi
Tampa, FL
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Daniel Rizov
Product Analyst at Tassat
New York, NY
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Mason Holbrook
Business Analyst
Brentwood, TN
Aakanksha Patel
https://in.linkedin.com/in/aakanksha-patel-ba43a514b
Financial Analyst - Hedge Fund Services Northern Trust Corporation
Pune
Aakanksha Patel
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Managing Director at Vedanta Organics
Mumbai
Aakanksha Patel
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Android + Flutter Developer
Ahmedabad
Aakanksha Patel
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Country Head at OLIVER Agency, Co-Founder of KËFIR Culture
Mumbai