Michèle Koch

☁️ Freelance Salesforce Consultant/ Solution Architect

Michèle Koch
Winsen, Germany

Experience

Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
7 months

Salesforce Solution Architect

Stellwerk GmbH

Products: Sales Cloud | Field Service Lightning

Role: Took over the project from the previous partner to save it from failing. Re-built the custom architecture to ensure a stable and sustainable system. Built solutions to meet the client's business requirements and introduced Field Service Lightning to schedule Technicians and let them document appointments with the FSL Mobile App.

Methodology: Scrumban | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Salesforce Change Sets

Skills: Sales Process Management | Reporting | Field Service | FSL Mobile

Aug 2023 - Present
1 year 7 months

Salesforce Consultant / Architect

Zwilling J.A. Henckels AG

Products: Service Cloud | Commerce Cloud | Marketing Cloud | Amazon Voice

Role: Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the global customer service infrastructure based on Salesforce Omni Channel.

Methodology: Scrumban | Jira/ Confluence

Skills: Vendor Management | Omni Channel | Chat | Voice | Case Management | Reporting

Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
1 year 2 months

Salesforce Solution Architect

Grüner Blitz

Products: Sales Cloud | Service Cloud | Experience Cloud | Field Service Lightning

Role: Took over the project from the previous partner to save it from failing. Re-built the custom architecture to ensure a stable and sustainable system. Built solutions to meet the client's business requirements and introduced Field Service Lightning to schedule Technicians and let them document appointments with the FSL Mobile App.

Methodology: Scrumban | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Salesforce Change Sets

Skills: Sales Process Management | Reporting | Field Service | FSL Mobile

Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
9 months

Salesforce Solution Architect

jobs4refugees

Products: Non-Profit Cloud | Experience Cloud

Role: Designed and successfully delivered a public job portal and was responsible for completing maintenance tasks and built smaller solutions based on the business requirements.

Methodology: Scrumban | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Salesforce Change Sets

Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
6 months

Lead Solution Architect Salesforce

Volta Trucks

Products: Sales Cloud | CPQ | Service Cloud | Field Service Lightning

Role: As the Lead Solution Architect, responsible for designing high quality, scalable and performant solutions inside Salesforce and ensuring all architectural decisions fit together into a coherent and stable solution. As the service stream lead and Proxy Product Owner, led workshops and ensured all requirements were gathered, documented and signed-off by the customer. Took on partial Scrum Master responsibilities, establishing scrum ceremonies and ways of working.

Methodology: (Salesforce) Scrum | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Git | Scratch Orgs | VS Code

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Workbench | Data Loader | Proxy Product Owner | Requirements Engineering | Project Management | VS Code/ GitHub | Scrum | Jira/ Confluence

Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
4 months

Salesforce Solution Architect

jobs4refugees

Products: Non-Profit Cloud | Salesforce Experience Cloud

Role: Detach a managed package and rebuilt functionality with as less code as possible to enable j4r to maintain Salesforce themselves without the need of a proper developer.

Methodology: - | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: -

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Customer Community | Non-Profit Cloud | Jira/ Confluence

Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
4 months

Salesforce Solution Architect

Zattoo

Products: Salesforce Media Cloud | Industries CPQ

Role: Trained the inhouse Salesforce team on how to administer Media Cloud and set up Industries CPQ.

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Industries CPQ | Omni Studio | Jira/ Confluence

Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
7 months
Hamburg, Germany

Salesforce Technology Architect

BearingPoint

Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 1 month

Salesforce Admin

Hazemag

Products: Sales Cloud | CPQ

Role: As a Salesforce Admin, mainly responsible for maintenance work but delivered smaller features as well. Created Reports & Dashboards, refactored Flows and built new Apps.

Methodology: Kanban | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Copado Light | Change Sets

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Jira/ Confluence

Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
9 months

Stream Lead Sales

bofrost*

Products: Salesforce Marketing Cloud | Salesforce Service Cloud | Salesforce Sales Cloud | Salesforce Analytics

Role: As a stream lead and Proxy Product Owner, led workshops and ensured all requirements were gathered, documented and signed-off by the customer. As the deputy project lead and Scrum Master, solved blockers that kept the team from making progress.

Methodology: (Salesforce) Scrum | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Git | Copado

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Workbench | Data Loader | Proxy Product Owner | Copado | Jira/ Confluence

Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
6 months

Business Analyst, Proxy Product Owner

Grohe

Products: Salesforce Sales Cloud | Salesforce Experience Cloud | Salesforce Consumer Goods Cloud | Loyalty Cloud

Role: As Proxy Product Owner and Business Analyst, led workshops to gather all the requirements and wrote user stories for the project backlog. Prepared small POC demos for the stakeholders to help them understand Salesforce capabilities or UI behavior better.

Methodology: (Salesforce) Scrum | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Git | Scratch Orgs | VS Code

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Proxy Product Owner | VS Code | Jira/ Confluence

Jan 2020 - Present
4 years 2 months
Hamburg, Germany

Salesforce Solution Architect

Freelance

Responsible for various Salesforce projects as a freelance consultant

Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
8 months

Salesforce Solution Architect & Project Lead

Brillux

Products: Salesforce Sales Cloud | Salesforce Field Service | Salesforce Maps

Role: As the Project Lead, ensured delivery of a high-quality solution within the given time and budget. As the Solution Architect, responsible for designing high quality, scalable and performant solutions inside Salesforce and ensuring all architectural decisions fit together into a coherent and stable solution.

Methodology: (Salesforce) Scrum | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Copado Essentials

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Copado Essentials | Jira/ Confluence

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
3 years
Hamburg, Germany

Managing Salesforce Consultant

adesso SE

May 2019 - Dec 2020
8 months

Salesforce Consultant

Beos AG

Products: Salesforce Sales Cloud | Salesforce Maps

Role: As a Salesforce consultant, gathered requirements, wrote User Stories and designed and implemented solutions as well as trained end users.

Methodology: Scrum Light | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Change Sets

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Jira/ Confluence

Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
2 months

Salesforce Consultant

Deutsche Wohnen

Products: Salesforce Service Cloud | Salesforce Experience Cloud | OData

Role: As a Salesforce consultant, gathered requirements, wrote User Stories and designed and implemented solutions as well as functioned as a sparring partner for the inhouse Salesforce Admin.

Methodology: - | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Change Sets

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Jira/ Confluence

Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
3 months

Salesforce Consultant

FFN Radio Station

Products: Salesforce Sales Cloud

Role: As a Salesforce consultant, gathered requirements, wrote User Stories and designed and implemented solutions as well as trained end users.

Methodology: (Salesforce) Scrum | Jira/ Confluence

DevOps: Change Sets

Skills: Salesforce Architecture | Jira/ Confluence

Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
3 years
Berlin, Germany

Project Manager & Salesforce Consultant

Eigenherd GmbH

Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
1 year
Berlin, Germany

Product Owner Backend & Salesforce Admin

Realbest GmbH

Jan 2014 - Dec 2019
5 years
Berlin, Germany

Senior Product Manager & Salesforce Admin

Classic Trader GmbH

Summary

As a seasoned Salesforce Consultant and Solution Architect, I specialize in delivering high-quality, scalable, and performant solutions. With extensive experience across various Salesforce products like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Field Service Lightning, I bring a comprehensive understanding of Salesforce architecture and project management. I excel in maintaining and optimizing workflows, leading workshops, and gathering and documenting requirements. My proficiency in tools like Jira, Confluence, and Git ensures streamlined project execution. I have a proven track record in both commercial and non-profit sectors, having worked with clients like Zwilling J.A. Henckels AG, Volta Trucks, and jobs4refugees. Certified in multiple Salesforce domains, I am adept at both technical and strategic roles, from Salesforce Admin to Lead Solution Architect. My goal is to empower organizations to leverage Salesforce to its fullest potential, ensuring seamless integration and user adoption. For more details and availability, please visit my freelancermap.de profile.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

University of Applied Science – FH Kiel

Bachelor's Degree · Business Administration · Kiel, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Salesforce Certified Administrator (SCA)

Salesforce Certified Business Analyst

Salesforce Certified Field Service Consultant

Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder Certification

Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant

Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant

Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect