Certifications
- Salesforce Administrator
- Salesforce Platform App Builder
- Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Consultant
- Kindsight ascend Configuration Specialist
- Salesforce Education Cloud Consultant
- Salesforce Business Analyst
- FormStack for Salesforce
Education
- B.A. in Economics from Loyola University Chicago
- M.S. in Information Systems from DePaul University
The Bench is Deep at Team Heller
Alison Benes
Senior Consultant
A creative consultant who leans on Salesforce expertise (she’s completed over 100 Trailhead badges!), Alison is passionate about helping nonprofits succeed. Her career is centered around partnering with inspiring clients to thoroughly understand their needs and leveraging Salesforce functionality to support strategy. Alison joined the Heller team after working for more than 7 years at Cara Collective, a leading workforce development organization in Chicago. At Cara Collective, Alison administrated the entire organization’s Salesforce instance and even developed a web portal for Cara participants to manage their job search and view their status within the program all by using Salesforce. When not working, she is probably attending a film festival and eating New York-style pizza while extolling the benefits of being a Gemini.
Featured Project
Alison was the project lead on this multi-faceted project for Loyola University Chicago that included two-rounds of system testing and data conversion, complex and customized integration requirements, supporting new reporting and data warehouse needs, and installation and configuration of multiple third party Salesforce applications.
After implementation, Alison continued to work closely with Loyola on post-launch enhancements, including the launch of their Constituent Portal via Experience Cloud.