Derek Black

Head of Customer Success at revVana: The Revenue Operations Platform for Salesforce
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States, US

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Credentials

  • Moover FSL Reference Data Deployment Certification Workshop
    Prodly, Inc.
    Jul, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
    Salesforce
    Jun, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Salesforce Advanced Administrator
    Salesforce
    Feb, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
    Salesforce
    Aug, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • Salesforce Certified CPQ Specialist
    Salesforce
    Jan, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • Salesforce Certified Administrator
    Salesforce
    Dec, 2016
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of Customer Success
      • May 2022 - Present

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Customer Experience
      • Sep 2021 - May 2022

    • Director of Customer Success
      • Jun 2019 - Sep 2021

      Making customer's product dreams come true and managing Customer Success and Support teams.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • CSG - Senior Product Manager
      • Oct 2017 - Jun 2019

      Responsible for creating Accelerators, coaching Success Specialists, and ensuring needs of the Salesforce customer base are being met. Responsible for creating Accelerators, coaching Success Specialists, and ensuring needs of the Salesforce customer base are being met.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Consultant
      • Jul 2015 - Oct 2017

      Worked as Solution Architect on 150+ SteelBrick / Salesforce CPQ Projects. Worked as Solution Architect on 150+ SteelBrick / Salesforce CPQ Projects.

    • United Kingdom
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director Customer Success
      • Feb 2015 - Jul 2015

      • Grow, manage and mentor a team of Customer Success Managers, spanning the following disciplines:o Trainingo Upsell and cross-sello Coordination with sales and partner channelso User community developmento Product feedbacko License renewalso Transformation• Develop and maintain a positive and professional working relationship with customers, internal and external, as a trusted advisor, allowing the full potential of the sales-I solution to be realized• Ability to travel to major customers for face-to-face meetings• Help develop marketing strategies to upsell existing and new products to existing customers.• Quickly identify, manage and help resolve customers’ business issues via strategies using the platform or resolve platform related issues.• Drive usage and adoption of the Enterprise platform through on-going usage reviews, account performance planning and establishment of best practices• Seek opportunities to identify and leverage sales-i Product and Service offerings• Deliver a very high level of customer satisfaction on basic and advanced trainings• Publish internal and customer status reports

    • Senior Customer Success Advisor
      • Jun 2013 - Feb 2015

      Guide adoption of BigMachines software to our largest customers. Guide adoption of BigMachines software to our largest customers.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Customer Success Advisor - West Coast
      • Aug 2012 - May 2013

      -Maintain relationships with a select group of BigMachines customer accounts.-Deliver best practices and training to customers to ensure best use of BigMachines product-Arrange meetings with customers to keep them up-to-date with product enhancements-Answer technical questions regarding customer implementations, suggest solutions to problems-Perform site reviews to find any areas for improvement in customer implementations-Construct plans for adoption of new functionality, and plans to boost general user experience and logins.

    • Customer Support Manager
      • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

      -Lead and coordinated team of 25-30 customer support engineers-Reviewed, revised, and implemented company processes and practices to improve efficiency-Created technical training for areas key to supporting BigMachines customers-Created reports for company metrics in Salesforce.com-Acted as a technical adviser for problems beyond the abilities of subordinate engineers-Interviewed candidates for job openings

    • Customer Support Engineer
      • Dec 2011 - Jun 2012

      -Won company's BigBrain award for Innovation in February 2012.-Completed BigMachines "Blue Belt" Admin certification (Highest Level attainable at the moment) -Troubleshot and repaired problems with customer software implementations on the BigMachines platform.-Owned support for 35+ customer accounts simultaneously (including HP, Sophos, RedHat)-Created help articles for guidance in use and debugging of BigMachines applications-Worked on the development team for internal management and version control tools (Javascript, Firefox extensions, SOAP API)-Trained customers to maintain and update their own BigMachines solutions-Effectively utilized the BigMachines platform, middleware solutions (WebMethods and/or Cast Iron) and web technologies including XML, HTML, XSLT, Python, and AJAX (Javascript) to meet customer requirements-Improved the customer service process-Adhered to all BigMachines security policies, standards and procedures in the performance of job duties-Participated in security training provided by BigMachines-Created numerous internal training documents, presentations-Led training classes for new hires

    • Knowledge Engineer
      • May 2010 - Aug 2011

      - Created and maintained knowledge libraries for Math, Physics, Chemistry, Statistics, and Data Management. - Wrote algorithms for autonomous computer solutions of scientific and mathematical problems. - Created and maintained knowledge libraries for Math, Physics, Chemistry, Statistics, and Data Management. - Wrote algorithms for autonomous computer solutions of scientific and mathematical problems.

Education

  • Purdue University
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics
    2001 - 2005
  • Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
    Applied Mathematics, Pre-Pharmacy + Mathematics
    2006 - 2009

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