Spencer Pelzel

2x Certified Salesforce Administrator


Certifications

  • Salesforce Certified Administrator

  • Salesforce Certified User Experience Designer


Work Experience

Hearth - Austin, TX (Remote)

Jr. Salesforce Administrator | Apr 2022 - Present

  • Salesforce Administrator for 100+ users Salesforce Enterprise Edition instance.

  • Collaborated closely with multiple Salesforce RevOps teammates to create scalable solutions for individual departments and company-wide efforts.

  • Defined standards for back end and front end for all UX development, including naming conventions, flow screen appearance, and error handling.

  • Performed regular Data Audits and reduced the number of SFDC fields by 25%.

  • Managed multiple projects and deadlines utilizing Jira through weekly sprints.

  • Utilized Copado and Dev environments to manage testing and deployment of changes.

  • Reimagine existing process builders and flows for optimal future-proofing utilizing best practices.

  • Analyzed and proposed ways to cut down click conversions by 50%.

  • Built key Lightning Components to standardize user experience across Salesforce Lightning Pages and Screen Flows.

  • Updated with end-users and stakeholders to ensure needs are being met while the projects are being developed.

  • Shadowed end users and performed discoveries to find new process improvements and drive team efficiency.

  • Assisted with escalated end-user support and defined and managed the "Known Issues" process for the full Salesforce support team.

  • Investigated incidents to determine root causes and develop processes and mitigation plans to prevent them in the future.


Istation - Dallas, TX

Virtual Learning Coach | Oct 2020 - Apr 2022

  • Work with customers to ensure successful Istation implementations.

  • Track usage, progress, and reports in order to consult with campuses and districts to ensure usage fidelity.

  • Work with educators of all levels to establish and maintain relationships by answering questions through outgoing calls, program walkthroughs, data consultations, and emails.

  • Create documentation and presentations as need.

  • Troubleshoot customer issues and find creative solutions.


Istation - Dallas, TX

Sales Development Manager | Jan 2019 - Oct 2020

  • Interviewed, hired, trained, and coached a team of 6 Sales Development Representatives in order to consistently set high-quality meetings with educators.

  • Evaluated the existing Sales Development process and implemented changes that provided better-qualified leads while being more efficient and allowing the team to exceed SQL goals.

  • Increased the SDR Teams’ Closed Won New Business sales by $385,000 over last year.

  • Worked with the upper management team to establish updated processes and metrics to support the Sales Development, Inside AE, Outside AE, Retention, Operations, and Marketing teams.

  • Managed the database for the team’s territories and performed basic administration and cleanup procedures.


Istation - Dallas, TX

Sales Development Representative | Apr 2017 - Jan 2019

  • Worked closely with Territory Managers and Account Executives to develop targeted lists, call strategies, and messaging to drive opportunities for new business.

  • Generated $1.1 million dollars in New Business via prospecting campaigns and phone outreach.

  • Accurately documented all the campaign execution and lead/opportunity management activities into Salesforce.

  • Created custom workflows, dashboards and processes to ensure proper pipeline management in Salesforce.

  • Implemented SEMrush and applied SEO best-practices to fix over 13,000 issues on Istation.com and subdomains.

  • Provided Marketing with content optimization on Blogs, Landing Pages, and Pillar Pages.

  • Boosted organic search web traffic by 16.5% of all users, 15.5% of new users, and 40% to all non-current customer landing pages over last year’s traffic.

  • Worked closely with Sales & Marketing Managers on various projects in support of accomplishing sales goals.

  • Executed an established daily cadence of prospecting and conversations to qualify leads and create new Sales Qualified Opportunities.


National Cheerleader’s Association - Garland, TX

Graphic Design Artist | Nov 2015 - Apr 2017

  • Consult College, High School, and Middle School representatives to determine the design needs and budget of the schools.

  • Accurately tracked customer and company objectives, cost, and completion timelines into Salesforce.

  • Design or Redesign logos to meet factory sewing standards to put on cheerleading garment patterns.

  • Close design sales based on pricing for Lettering Costs, Sewing Costs, and Material Costs.


Georgeco Inc. - Dallas, TX

Content Strategy & SEO Specialist | Oct 2011 - Nov 2015

  • Led the user experience strategy for multiple projects, including user research, UI design, content strategy, and graphic design for Georgeco and its sister companies.

  • Successfully implemented an e-commerce site to produce an additional $400,000 a month in revenue.

  • Collaborated with the General Managers from all sister companies to establish marketing direction, promotions, and design concepts.

  • Managed all web content including digital graphics, email campaigns, SEO, and user profiles for the Dallas, Austin,

  • Michigan Barnsco branches and Erect-A-Line Branch.

  • Efficiently unleash cross-media information while maintaining timely delivery dates.

  • Researched trending key terms to maximize customer viewability while maintaining relative and quality content.

  • Tracked website ranking with Google Analytics and SEOmoz, while also managing email campaigns with Hubspot.

Skills

  • Ability to implement professional development programs and assist professional development specialists in progressive course planning for multiple workshops

  • Knowledge of hardware, software, digital tools/media, online courses and other technologies for use in an instruction and facilitation setting

  • Dynamic presenter with superior communication and interpersonal skills; Strong grasp of in-person presentation skills and web-based presentation skills

  • Experience performing sitewide SEO Audits and using the results to drive keyword research, internal and external link building, and landing page optimization initiatives

  • Ability to consistently develop sales skills, market understanding, product knowledge and customer approach to generate valuable and highly effective business processes

  • Excellent customer service skills; responsive, credible, consultative, knowledgeable

  • Strong facility with teamwork and an ability to learn and adapt quickly

  • Comfortable reviewing and analyzing various sales and marketing reports designed to convey progress made in improving efficiency results to exceed gross margin growth

  • Knowledge of the digital marketing landscape and consumer marketing and an ability to learn rapidly

  • Experience with intermediate HTML and CSS markup

  • Good collaboration skills for working with the sales and marketing team, a strong team member that enjoys winning in a team environment

Tools

  • Salesforce Sales Cloud

  • Slack

  • Jira

  • OwnBackup

  • Copado

  • DataLoader

  • Google Suite

  • Google Analytics

  • Google Search Console

  • Adobe Creative Suite

  • SEMrush

  • SEOmoz

  • HubSpot

  • Groove

  • Microsoft Office

  • Confluence

  • Clearslide

  • Figma