Kevin Parecha
Chicago
Summary
Qualified Project Manager with proven track record in leading teams and driving operational efficiency. Demonstrated ability to implement strategic initiatives that enhance productivity and foster growth. Known for utilizing strong leadership and communication skills to facilitate team collaboration and achieve organizational goals.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager
Accenture
10.2021 - 10.2025
- Responsible for owning and managing client relationships and overseeing successful end to end program delivery.
- Conduct roadmapping workshops with C-suite to identify and build enterprise wide strategic vision that can be quantified and measured.
- Develop and execute go-to-market strategy for Salesforce Energy and Utility Cloud which includes upskilling resources, training plan, developing marketing content and industry specific assets.
- Identify capability gaps and recognize areas of opportunities to assist clients in creating business cases and value propositions.
- Manage large scale global Salesforce transformations for 50+ member teams.
- Lead business development activities for the Consumer Markets practice which resulted in $15M+ in sold revenue and managed services of $6M+ over the past year.
- Design and implement a multi-year CRM and IT strategic roadmap for C-suite to gain agreement on the rollout plan, in order to increase sales and decrease inefficiencies and costs.
- Establish a CRM corporate governance strategy to ensure proper evaluation procedures are in place to allow leadership to assess and address capabilities requested by leadership.
- Sales and Delivery Executive in the Accenture Song practice with primary focus on Energy and Utility clients.
- Led cross-functional teams to implement innovative solutions, enhancing operational efficiency and client satisfaction.
Manager
KPMG
09.2019 - 09.2021
- Managed Global Sales pursuits ($1M-$5M) for clients in US, Canada, UK, EMEA; Identified opportunities; responded to Client RFPs; managed Oral Presentations with clients; wrote Statement of Work (SoWs) and Engagement Letters for client.
- Led a successful 16 weeks current-state assessment for a client leading to a $8M multi-year SFDC engagement across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CPQ.
- Managed the delivery of internal engagements, creating SFDC accelerators and global assets, including managing a global 10 person team, creating detailed project plans, managing budget and expenses, and regularly meeting with Partners on project updates.
- Provided leadership and strategic guidance to junior team members, to ensure that they continue to grow and provide value for our clients.
- Led a team of consultants to develop Einstein accelerators and Center of Excellence on Salesforce capabilities.
- Architected and implemented enterprise wide solutions on the Salesforce platform which require integrations with SAP, Workday, Oracle via Informatica, Fusion and/or Apigee.
- Ensured on-time program delivery, within budget, that adheres to high quality standards and IT governance, which meets or exceeds client expectations.
- As one of the first 10 hires in the newly created Salesforce practice, worked closely with practice leadership on GTM strategy and as a delivery lead.
Project Manager
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
12.2014 - 12.2019
- Worked as the PM/BA on three end-to-end SFDC Lightning migration engagements, including requirement gathering, sales process transformation, assessing level of effort on conversion of visual force pages to lightning components, and owning all deliverable documentation.
- Gathered functional business requirements, interacted with users, developers and SMEs to understand business processes, consolidated and optimized processes (Consistently met or exceeded Project KPIs by 10-15%).
- Provided functional and technical expertise/coaching to junior team members, to ensure that the team is always increasing their knowledge base and adding value to client(s).
- Worked with client stakeholders to set up the project and team structure to ensure the team has all the necessary tools to deliver the solution.
- Collaborated with client stakeholders to understand business sales processes and provide industry web best practice guidance, which can be leveraged using Salesforce.
- Managed full-life cycle implementations of Sales and Service Cloud solutions, including ownership of the solution, management of the overall stream(s) and project financials.
- As one of the first 40 hires in the Salesforce practice which grew to over 2,000 globally, worked as a PM and as the Blueprinting Lead in the CoE.
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
09.2013 - 10.2014
- Managed an offshore team by communicating business processes so developments and deployments can be made around the clock.
- Captured requirements for various global business units, while gathering written functional and technical specifications for subsequent technical design and implementations.
- Managed and led project workshops, SIT, UAT, and Train the Trainer for multiple global clients to ensure they have a profound understanding of the functionality that was built and how to use it.
- Built positive client and peer relationships by gaining a deep understanding of the core business and how to make it more efficient.
- Created detailed documentation/ deliverables including Configuration Workbook, Source-to-Target mapping, Functional Requirement Specifications, and Knowledge Transfer Documentation.
- Managed multiple stream projects and strategically allocated resources for both onshore and offshore teams to ensure requirements were developed in a timely manner to meet or exceed client expectations without overloading resources.
- As one of the first hires in the Salesforce practice (Deloitte Digital), worked as a PM / BA on Salesforce engagements, managing offshore teams.
Consultant
Capgemini
04.2012 - 09.2013
- Conducted process reviews & interviews with SMEs and stakeholders; design workshops with business & technical groups, project sponsors, and product owners. (Regularly improved SLA turnaround by 10-20%+).
- Conducted JAD session with Business team and Development team and SMEs to capture the business requirement specifications.
- Created custom formulas, fields and utilizing work-flow rules in order to ensure that accurate and reliable data is being reflected in reports and dashboards.
- Built reports and dashboards in Salesforce.com and in addition to providing hands on training for the Reporting Team and Service Agents to leverage.
- Designed, developed, and implemented Salesforce Administrator and Salesforce Developer processes so that they can be streamlined.
- Hands-on configuration experience including all declarative builds on Sales, Service, Marketing Clouds; experience with CPQ development and build; techno-functional ability to trouble-shoot APEX.
- As one of the first hires in the Salesforce practice, worked as a Business Analyst on various Salesforce engagements, managing offshore teams.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Finance
Northeastern Illinois University
Chicago, ILSkills
- Strategic Objective Execution
- Program Oversight
- Budgeting
- Program Management
- Business Case Development
- Business Value Assessment
- GTM Strategy
- System Design
- Agile Methodology
- DevOps
- Program Architecture
- Change Management & User Adoption
- Journey Mapping
- Offshore Project Delivery
- Capability Mapping
- User Persona Definition
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Operations management
- Cross-functional team coordination
- Documentation and reporting
- Organizational improvement
- Partnership development
ORGANIZATIONS SERVED
- AES (Arlington, VA)
- Ameriprise Financial (Minneapolis, MN)
- CitiBank (New York City, NY)
- ConEd (New York City, NY)
- Cushman and Wakefield (Chicago, IL)
- DTE Energy (Detroit, MI)
- Pulte (Atlanta, GA)
- Enmax Energy (Calgary, AB, Canada)
- Equifax (Atlanta, GA)
- Eversource Energy (Springfield, MA)
- Grainger (Lake Forest, IL)
- Groupon (Chicago, IL)
- Ingersoll Rand (Davidson, NC)
- Kraft Foods (Northfield, IL)
- JP Morgan Chase (New York City, NY)
- LHH (New York City, NY)
- Motorola Solutions (Chicago, IL)
- Olympus (Center Valley, PA)
- Paramount Pictures (Los Angeles, CA)
- PG&E (Oakland, CA)
- Phillips (Alpharetta, GA)
- Synchrony Financial (Stamford, CT)
- Thames Water (Reading, Berkshire, U.K.)
- Xcel Energy (Minneapolis, MN)
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Professional Working
Hindi
Limited Working
Gujarati
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Manager
Accenture
10.2021 - 10.2025
Manager
KPMG
09.2019 - 09.2021
Project Manager
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
12.2014 - 12.2019
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
09.2013 - 10.2014
Consultant
Capgemini
04.2012 - 09.2013
Bachelor of Science - Finance
Northeastern Illinois University