Below are the 3 Solutions Architects, 4 Certified Salesforce Developers & 4 Cloud Engineers/Architects with cutting edge tools & other systems experience. The Thor Group® provides Salesforce business analysts, project managers, systems analysts, systems administrators, systems engineers & Salesforce software implementation/training professionals on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

What can a solutions architect with Salesforce CRM, Oracle and Force.com specializations, as well as work background in IT services, entertainment and energy industries bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve Salesforce CRM, Oracle, Force.com Explorer, Force.com Migration, Informatica on Demand, SOQL, Process Builder and Force.com Excel Connector. The individual graduated with Bachelor’s in Computer Science.

Working with areas such as assisting in migrating the company financials from AutoTask application to FinancialForce and ERP on the Salesforce platform, and using FinancialForce’s PSA module for their project management needs and FFA module for financials were some of the responsibilities of this solutions architect. Duties covered managing a complex Salesforce.com instance, supporting 120 users, along with providing recommendations to the CEO, controller, VP of sales, and VP of consulting by tailoring Salesforce.com to meet business needs. Creating process flow diagrams was done to finalize the existing process and help map that to the process flows within the Salesforce and FinancialForce application.

Other functions consisted of recommending, designing and implementing a marketing process in Salesforce to automate communications between sales and marketing, associate campaign influence on opportunities for ROI reporting, and to provide real time status on campaign members. The job covered analyzing current processes, while also making recommendations for automated notifications to sales representatives when maintenance renewals were due and when outstanding invoices needed attention; sales AE’s reports were standardized. Other skills included CRM platforms and client-server architecture, large scale enterprise applications, all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), quality management systems and project life cycle processes, as well as Salesforce.com (SFDC) administration, configuration and implementation.

Could your organization use a solutions architect with Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Pardot and Oracle proficiencies, as well as experienced in IT and financial services industries? Technical proficiencies cover Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Pardot, Oracle, SAP, JD Edwards, PHP, Java, Jira, MySQL and QAD. Educational background includes B.S. and Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering with a focus on Computer Science. Certifications consist of MS SQL Server Database Architecture, MS SQL Server Database Administration, Project Management Professional (PMP) and Applied Project Management.

Some impact contributions of this solutions architect included partnering up with the organizations/ departmental leaders of the company and clients to evaluate the current state of the products, teams, infrastructure, and creating a short- or a long-term roadmap. Other functions involved defining the vision, identifying solutions, building, coaching and managing the engineering team, in addition to implementing and delivering products that met the organizational goals/ objectives. Evaluating several inventory management systems, implementing a system compatible with ERP (QAD) and integrating that with Salesforce for two-ways database update were completed.

Skills brought to the table involved evaluating internal applications, external portals, databases, and infrastructure, along with creating a short-term/ long-term plan and budget for addressing discovered issues, deficiencies, or product risks. One of the functions covered creating a new e-commerce platform where customers could place orders to purchase various products such as precious and non-precious alloys (more than thousand SKUs), Zirconia, implant parts, and devices. Customers had the option of ordering products to be delivered on demand, or on a recurring delivery schedule. Core competencies included designing, building and delivering highly scalable enterprise systems.

Would a solutions architect with Salesforce CRM, Agile and Scrum skills, as well as familiar in business services and IT industries help your organization achieve greater success? Technical specializations cover Salesforce CRM, Agile and Scrum Methodology. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. This individual is a Salesforce Certified Administrator.

Making a positive difference with participating in projects following Agile/Scrum methodology and communicating technical solutions and design tradeoffs to business stakeholders were some of the key focuses of this solutions architect. Responsibilities covered designing and implementing systems following Salesforce.com best practices while meeting clients’ core business needs. Solutions that leveraged Salesforce.com platform’s standard functionality were developed. Duties consisted of refining the backlog in order to develop sprint ready user stories and leveraging out of the box functionality within the Salesforce platform.

Notable tasks included designing the role hierarchy, profile settings, permission sets, roles and record types, in addition to designing then building assignment rules, sharing rules and validation rules. This individual determined system access through trusted IP ranges, IP ranges, password policies and login hours. Building and designing approval processes, as well as automating workflow using process builder and visual flow were some of the functions. Regarding customer relationship management, the individual used sales experience dealing with both business-to-business as well as business-to-consume to provide open communication between clients and business offerings; organizational skills were used to provide seamless customer service and provide transparency for executive management.

Would a Certified Salesforce CRM developer who is familiar in software, financial services and energy industries help your organization achieve greater success? Technical specializations cover Salesforce CRM, Visualforce, Apex Classes and Methods, Lightning Components, data modeling, custom objects, permissions, SQL queries, SFDC parameters and user defined objects. Educational attainment includes Masters of Technology and Bachelors of Engineering. This individual is a Salesforce Certified Administrator (ADM 201) and Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I (DEV 401).

Making a positive difference with marketing cloud for marketing, call center and customer service operations system administration was one of the key focuses of this certified Salesforce CRM developer. Responsibilities covered designing and developing the custom objects, validation rules, Page layouts, Custom tabs, Components and Visualforce Pages to suit to the needs of the application. One of the duties involved crating technical designs for new product functionality on the Salesforce CRM platform. This individual led the design and development of custom solutions comprising of work in Apex, Visualforce, Salesforce APIs, SOQL, application integration, data migration and in core web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, angular, jQuery and CSS.

Notable tasks included updating Salesforce to Lightening version and using Salesforce Lightning combining the new Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder and Lightning Components to enable anyone to quickly and easily create modern enterprise apps build on Salesforce 1 Platform. Areas of expertise included designing and deploying Custom tabs, Custom Objects, Components, Visual Force Pages, validation rules, Approval Processes and Auto-Response Rules for automating business logic, as well as creating profiles, roles and users.

Could your organization use a Salesforce CRM certified Force.com developer experienced in insurance, real estate and software industries? Technical proficiencies cover Salesforce CRM, Apex Classes, Triggers, Controllers/Controller Extensions, Components, Test Methods, Apex Code, Visualforce Pages, Java and J2EE. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical). This individual is a Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer, DEV 401.

One of the primary tasks of this Salesforce CRM certified Force.com developer included creating custom objects, tabs, records and views within SFDC to support new workflow processes. Using and developing Apex Triggers, Apex Classes and Test Methods and other queries were also handled. Key roles covered using SOQL & SOSL for data manipulation needs of the application using platform database objects and taking part in identifying, planning and implementing new Salesforce.com features and functions (new screens, workflow, Force.com objects, reports and Apex code) to meet business requirements.

Contributions involved designing, developing and deploying Custom objects, Page layouts, Custom tabs, Components and Visualforce Pages to suit to the custom needs of the application. Creating Custom fields, pick lists, dependent pick lists and validating formulas to the custom objects were also efficiently managed. Many-to-many relationships were implemented and junction objects between custom objects were created. Creating and deploying the package into Salesforce were part of the job. Assistance was provided in creating and coding Apex classes and Visualforce pages to develop the Newsletter application. Data Loader features were used to import the layout data. Core competencies included Salesforce.com CRM integration, developing and deploying custom integration solutions, as well as creating/troubleshooting/modifying Apex code and Visualforce pages.

What can a certified Salesforce developer with work background in consumer goods, logistics and financial services industries bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve Salesforce CRM, Force.com, Apex Classes, Apex Triggers, Test Classes, Visualforce Pages, SOQL and SOSL. Educational background includes Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science. This individual is a Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer and Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Administrator.

Working with areas such as creating, monitoring and measuring campaigns with Salesforce CRM were some of the skills brought to the table by this Salesforce developer. Duties covered working on Apex programming with JavaScript in Eclipse IDE 3.4 resolving conflict issues in Eclipse IDE 3.4, as well as designing and developing Apex classes and Apex Triggers for various functional needs in the application. Designing Visualforce pages with XML, HTML along with custom controllers and controller extensions were some of the tasks. Key roles covered designing custom components and using them in Visualforce pages and AJAX for partial page refresh. This individual was involved in Salesforce.com application setup activities and the apps were customized to match the functional needs of the organization.

One of the responsibilities consisted of working on data migration from databases to SFDC using Data Loader. Several workflows, validation rules, Triggers and Apex class were customized. Part of the tasks involved writing SOQL statements within custom controllers and developing Apex class, Controller class and Apex Triggers from various functional needs in the application. An additional role covered customizing several Validation Rules, tasks, Workflow rules, Triggers and Apex classes to achieve the complex business functionality.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this Salesforce certified Force.com platform developer with work background in insurance, technology and banking industries? Technical competencies involve Salesforce CRM, Visualforce Pages, Components, SOQL, SOSL, DML Statements, Apex Classes, Apex Data Loader and Web Services. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. This specialist is a Certified Force.com Platform Developer (DEV 401 – Certification).

Important contributions of this Salesforce certified force.com platform developer included working extensively in customizing Service Cloud Console by embedding Visualforce pages in custom console components, highlight panel and interaction log, as well as working on various Salesforce.com standard objects like Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Campaigns, Reports and Opportunities. Tasks covered designing, implementing and deploying the custom objects, page layouts, custom tabs and components, to suit to the needs of the application. Skills brought to the table involved creating and customizing Email template and configuring them to the email alert within the workflow rule for a standard/custom object.

Key roles involved implementing the requirements on Salesforce.com platform and Force.com IDE Plug-in using Eclipse and ensuring Apex code working seamlessly within governor limits. In addition, this specialist was involved in Salesforce.com application setup activities and customized the apps to match the functional needs of the organization. Ongoing Salesforce.com maintenance and administration services were provided, including periodic cleansing, custom objects and workflows. Apex Triggers, Apex Classes and Test Methods were also developed. Other proficiencies included Salesforce.com development, administration, configuration and support, as well as enabling business process automation working with Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this senior cloud DevOps engineer/architect who is proficient in Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Service Cloud and Oracle, as well as work background in insurance, retail and IT services industries? Technical competencies involve Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Service Cloud, Oracle, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant, Git, GitHub, SVN, Ant and Maven.

Important contributions of this senior cloud DevOps engineer/architect included working on cloud infrastructure AWS services (S3, EC2, ELB, EBS, Route53, VPC, Auto scaling) and Microsoft Azure (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, Azure SQL, Azure Storage). Tasks covered designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, ELB and auto scaling groups. Cloud as a code with Ansible was managed. Skills brought to the table included working on Salesforce.com based development enhancements and implementing Lightning applications from scratch. Aside from interacting with various business user groups for gathering the requirements for Salesforce implementation, the business and software requirements were documented. Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Java, C, C++, Perl, Shell, Angular.js, Node.js, J2EE, Golang, XML and Ruby was applied.

Key roles involved architecting and implementing numerous backend web services using C#.NET, along with developing controllers and action methods for user interaction logic using C#.NET. Duties consisted of designing Salesforce Service Cloud console to enhance productivity with dashboard like interface, in addition to applying extensive experience with the Salesforce.com development life cycle, application design patterns, integration patterns and deployment planning. Other skills included continuous integration/ delivery (CI, CD), Linux administration, cloud engineering, build, automation/ release management and cloud infrastructure.

Does a cloud engineer who is skilled in Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Orgs and Oracle, as well as experienced in retail, manufacturing and financial services industries pique your interest? Technical knowledge involves Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Orgs and Oracle, Talend Studio, Talend TAC, Talend Runtime, Talend Jobserver, Talend ESB, Oracle ODI and IBM Cognos. Educational attainment includes Bachelor’s in Computer Science.

One of the major responsibilities of this cloud engineer included developing with the BigFix APIs (SOAP, REST). Key roles involved applying experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Resource Management templates, Virtual Networks, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Azure Active Directory, as well as driving end to end deployment of various components on the Azure Platform. Using experience in Salesforce.com CRM integration, developing and deploying custom integration solutions, in addition to supporting major Salesforce Orgs deployments for B2B and B2C instances were some of the key roles. Setting up private networks and sub-networks was completed using Virtual Private cloud (VPC) and security groups were created to associate with the networks.

The job covered applying experience in Agile Methodologies, Scrum stories and sprints experience in a Python based environment as well as Excel data extracts. Functions consisted of branching, merging and managing release activities on Version Control Tool GIT. GitHub was used as version control to store source code and Git was implemented for branching and merging operations for Java Source Code. Core competencies included DevOps management and system engineering, as well as designing and implementing continuous integration, continuous deployment, continuous delivery and DevOps operations for Agile projects, working with technologies and platforms including UNIX/Linux, Java, Subversion, GitHub, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, VMware, AWS and Ansible.

What can a cloud architect who specialized in Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Einstein, Oracle and SAP HANA, as well as work background in telecommunications, wholesale and manufacturing industries bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Einstein, Oracle, SAP HANA, Big Data, MySQL, MS SQL Server, HDFS, Cassandra, MongoDB and CouchDB. Advantages includes several years’ experience on cloud technologies as chief solution architect for AWS Solutions, Microsoft Azure, Google cloud network. Educational background includes Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. This individual is an AWS Certified Solution Architect.

Working with areas such as designing and implementing cloud solutions for various companies and in various vertical industries were some of the skills brought to the table by this solution architect. Duties covered building an AWS machine learning to for supervised data to understand how many customers were leaving, as well as setting up and configuring Salesforce Einstein for feeding the data directly into Einstein to get real time machine learning reports and predictions on supervised data. Setting up and configuring a private Blockchain were done using AWS as well as BAAS on Azure environment. This individual built and led new cloud service brokers team to architect and implement new public/hybrid/private cloud platforms.

Responsibilities consisted of developing new cloud management product features for ScaleXtreme platform and leading the data center transformations projects to migrate client/server applications and platforms to cloud environments. Developing cloud reference architecture, governance policies, security models and best practices was part of the tasks. The system was created using AWS Cloud formation. Other proficiencies included architecting highly scalable, distributed systems using different open source tools, as well as designing multi-terabyte data warehouses.

Could your organization use a Salesforce marketing cloud developer who is proficient in Salesforce CRM, Informatica and Apex, as well as experienced in IT and business services industries? Technical proficiencies cover Salesforce CRM, Informatica, Apex, SOQL, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Agile, HTML, XML, CSS, JSP and JavaScript. Educational attainment includes Bachelor’s of Sciences and Master’s in Computer Science. This individual is a Certified Salesforce Platform Developer I.

Important contributions of this Salesforce marketing cloud developer included developing and maintaining large volumes of deadline-driven email campaigns and assets. SOAP API was used to invoke triggers and create redundant data. One of the key roles covered using SOQL for data manipulation needs of the application using platform database objects. Experience in Cast Iron for Salesforce.com configuration was applied. This individual was involved in data migration using Data Loader and Informatica PowerExchange. The roles of Salesforce.com developer and administrator in the organization were performed. The Sandbox was used for testing and the code was migrated to the deployment instance after testing.

Tasks in other jobs consisted of setting up, maintaining and optimizing the email marketing campaign utilizing Exact Target/Salesforce Marketing cloud. Integrating with Salesforce was completed by using marketing cloud connector (V5). Configuring Salesforce and marketing cloud integration user along with configuration in Salesforce were efficiently completed. Creating custom landing pages and approval pages was part of the job. The creating process in Salesforce from landing pages was led. Areas of expertise included Salesforce CRM administration/development, administration setup, managing users, security controls, data management, validation and customization, as well as SFDC CRM, service cloud, sales cloud and marketing cloud functionalities.