kevin carothers
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Experience
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Verizon Media Platform
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Salesforce Developer
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Jun 2014 - Present
Santa Monica, CA Development of APEX triggers and controllers. Custom Visualforce pages.
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Sr. Consultant
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Aug 2013 - Jun 2014
Greater Los Angeles Area
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IAC
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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CRM Engineer
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Feb 2012 - Aug 2013
Hollywood, CA • Salesforce Administrator for a user-base of over three hundred users. • Developed workflows for queuing sales leads, and general Salesforce Admin tasks. • Developed Apex scheduled tasks, controllers and trigger classes for re-assignment of leads according to enterprise rules. • Developed complete commissions reporting system natively in Salesforce using Apex and Visualforce. • Wrote several triggers for UrbanSpoon.com and Citygrid for assigning leads to various sales teams –… Show more • Salesforce Administrator for a user-base of over three hundred users. • Developed workflows for queuing sales leads, and general Salesforce Admin tasks. • Developed Apex scheduled tasks, controllers and trigger classes for re-assignment of leads according to enterprise rules. • Developed complete commissions reporting system natively in Salesforce using Apex and Visualforce. • Wrote several triggers for UrbanSpoon.com and Citygrid for assigning leads to various sales teams – this technique worked much better than standard lead assignment, leading to increased revenue of over 30% for the company. • Used web-to-lead for interfacing web apps (servlets on Tomcat) to Salesforce. • Developed several integrations with existing systems, with data from several data sources, including Oracle, SQL Server and Business Objects. • Developed and maintained several integrations with Urbanspoon.com and Citygrid Media.com for accessing proprietary API’s in-the-cloud, used to integrate existing systems with Salesforce users on the desktop – eliminating the need to be logged in to several tools at the same time. • Developed lead page overrides which allow management to see how many times leads are read and accessed – eliminating the need for inaccurate reports that depend on standard SFDC fields that aren’t accessible to custom formulas (Lead.IsReadByOwner) • Wrote several JSON HTTP callouts to integrate account and opportunity information to existing systems, via custom Visualforce pages and custom buttons on Opportunity and Account pages. • Managed nationwide deployment of several Salesforce call centers using Insidesales.com ‘powerdialer’ product (deployed inAtlanta, Charlotte and Los Angeles) • Project management using Agile development for all releases, using a combination of Rally (for basecamp reporting) and JIRA for trouble ticketing. Show less
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Salesforce cosultant
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2011 - 2012
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Zurich Insurance
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Switzerland
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Insurance
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700 & Above Employee
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Subject Matter Expert
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Jan 2001 - Nov 2011
Agoura Hills Securities Licensing, Database Administration, Cloud Computing, FileNet (Capture), Interwoven/Teamsite, Crystal Reports, Perl, VB, C and data audit. Enhance and support nationwide agent licensing system (SQL Server and Microsoft Access) . • Handle software development, database administration, system administration, future requirements planning, PC hardware/software support, user support and daily operations. • Implemented extensive office automation projects, involving automated… Show more Securities Licensing, Database Administration, Cloud Computing, FileNet (Capture), Interwoven/Teamsite, Crystal Reports, Perl, VB, C and data audit. Enhance and support nationwide agent licensing system (SQL Server and Microsoft Access) . • Handle software development, database administration, system administration, future requirements planning, PC hardware/software support, user support and daily operations. • Implemented extensive office automation projects, involving automated PDF generation (Crystal Reports), data replication processes (Salesforce Workflows), web-reporting of managerial reports (Perl and Salesforce reports) and data backup (SQL batch jobs). • Implemented automated Cloud reporting system utilizing the Force.com platform and the Salesforce Bulk loader utility. • Use Interwoven TeamSite for web content versioning. • Exceptional data auditing skills, and knowledge of accounting principles relating to payables and receivables, as relating to mutual fund selling. • Used Salesforce WSDL and Java for automated send and update of Agent Account and Contact information for update of SFDC objects. • Used Perl and cURL and XML for most daily and ad-hoc purposes, including accessing and parsing online HTTP reports, sending Salesforce XML-SOAP requests. • Visual Basic programming for hosting SEC-required Annual Compliance training and weekly Agent training. Show less
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Senior Software Engineer
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Feb 2000 - Dec 2000
Designed, coded and managed Java/WebSphere system for online credit transactions on AIX/Unix and DB2.
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Assistant to Director
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Jul 1985 - Feb 2000
Santa Monica, CA System programming in VRTX, BSD Unix, Data Warehousing with Oracle, Redbrick database (IBM), DB2 and C/C++.
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SW Engineer
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1979 - 1982
Designed communications software and worked on test team for hardware that was being sent to Kennedy Space Center.
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Tech Staff
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1978 - 1982
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Tech Staff
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1978 - 1982
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Education
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Pepperdine University, The George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management
MBA, General MBA -
Florida Atlantic University
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Software Engineering