15+ years of enterprise sales operations expertise, now available to small businesses. From CRM administration and pipeline governance to forecasting, territory design, and full sales tech stack optimization.
What I Do
With 15+ years leading sales operations at enterprise companies, I bring a level of strategic and technical depth that small businesses rarely get access to - without the agency overhead. You get a true partner who's been in the trenches.
Full Salesforce & HubSpot admin support - setup, configuration, ongoing management, and optimization across both platforms.
Build reliable forecasting models, pipeline review cadences, and stage-gate discipline so leadership always has an accurate view.
Design and implement territory structures that align rep capacity with market opportunity - and track performance inside your CRM.
Get more from your existing tools - Gong, ZoomInfo, Outreach, and more - integrated and optimized alongside your CRM.
Custom dashboards in Salesforce, HubSpot, and Power BI that surface the KPIs executives actually need to make decisions.
Streamline your quote-to-close process with automated contract creation workflows using DocuSign and integrated CRM tools.
Eliminate duplicate records, fix bad data, and establish governance frameworks so your CRM stays clean long-term.
Align your CRM with your sales process - lead routing, cadence automation, playbooks, and tooling from first touch to close.
Strategic sales operations leadership - process documentation, cross-functional alignment, KPI frameworks, and scalable revenue playbooks.
Role-based training for Salesforce, HubSpot, ZoomInfo, Gong, and Chili Piper - built to drive real adoption, not just attendance.
Practical, hands-on training that gets your team using Microsoft Copilot effectively in their day-to-day workflows.
Book a free 30-minute consultation. I'll review your current setup and give you a concrete action plan - no strings attached.
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I’m a Sales Operations and GTM leader based in Irvine, CA, with 15+ years of experience building the revenue infrastructure high growth teams rely on, from CRM administration and forecasting to territory design and sales tech stack optimization. I’m also an experienced technical trainer who enjoys turning complex systems and processes into practical, scalable solutions people can actually use. I hold a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCSD, and an MBA from the University of San Diego.
My career spans sales operations leadership, CRM administration, program management, and business intelligence across industries including enterprise SaaS, healthcare, hardware and software, and internet services. I've led North American sales operations through periods of rapid expansion, earning recognition in the top 2% of a global company for my contributions.
I've designed and administered Salesforce orgs from the ground up, migrated teams off spreadsheets and legacy systems, built executive forecasting dashboards, and driven adoption of the full modern sales tech stack - Gong, ZoomInfo, Outreach, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, DocuSign, Seismic, Chilipiper, and more. I also bring a formal background in technical training design and delivery, having trained 300+ end users across sales, recruitment, and operations functions.
I founded Shear Consulting to bring this enterprise-level depth directly to small businesses - without the agency overhead, without a junior consultant as your day-to-day contact, and without cookie-cutter solutions. Every engagement is hands-on, practical, and built around your specific business goals.
A CRM should make your business faster and smarter - not create more work. I've seen too many small businesses invest in Salesforce or HubSpot only to end up with an expensive, underused tool. That's the problem I'm here to solve.
My approach is always practical first. I learn how your team sells, where your data comes from, and what decisions you need to make - then I configure your CRM to support all of that, not fight against it.
"Your CRM should be the single source of truth for your business. When it is, your team sells better, your managers coach better, and your executives forecast better. Everything else follows."
- Jeff Shear, Founder, Shear ConsultingEvery engagement starts with a discovery call where I learn about your business, your goals, and the specific pain points you're experiencing. From there, I develop a clear, scoped proposal with defined deliverables and timelines.
I work on a project, hourly basis, or on retainer, depending on your needs. Some clients need a one-time cleanup and dashboard build; others want ongoing admin support so they always have an expert in their corner. Either way, you'll always have direct access to me.
What I Offer
Every service is designed around one goal: making your CRM work harder for your business so your team can focus on selling, not wrestling with software.
End-to-end Salesforce admin services - from initial org setup and configuration to ongoing management, optimization, and troubleshooting. I handle the complexity so your team can stay focused on customers.
Messy data kills CRM adoption and leads to bad decisions. I audit your existing data, eliminate duplicates, standardize formats, and build governance rules to keep your CRM clean going forward.
I build reports and dashboards that give your leadership team real-time visibility into pipeline health, rep performance, revenue forecasts, and marketing ROI - in a format that's actually intuitive to read.
Beyond reporting, I dig into your CRM data to uncover patterns, bottlenecks, and revenue opportunities. I translate complex data into clear strategic recommendations your leadership can act on.
Managing users, roles, permissions, and access controls is often neglected - and it creates real security and data integrity risks. I handle all of this proactively and establish scalable structures as your team grows.
I align your CRM with your sales process to remove friction and accelerate deals. From lead routing and cadence automation to playbooks and email templates - your reps should spend time selling, not clicking.
Even the best CRM configuration fails without user adoption. I deliver practical, role-based training that gets your sales reps, managers, and admins using the system correctly and consistently from day one. Training is available for Salesforce, ZoomInfo, Gong, and Chili Piper.
Unreliable forecasts erode leadership trust and lead to bad decisions. I implement the pipeline governance frameworks, stage-gate discipline, and forecasting models that give your leadership team a number they can actually stand behind.
Most small businesses have never formally designed their sales territories - reps inherit accounts organically, and coverage gaps go unnoticed. I build territory structures that align rep capacity with market opportunity and track performance inside your CRM.
Your CRM is only one piece of the puzzle. I help you get more from your full revenue tech stack - ensuring Gong, ZoomInfo, Outreach, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Seismic, Chilipiper, and other tools are properly integrated, adopted, and driving real efficiency.
When your CRM reporting isn't enough, I extend your analytics into Power BI and other BI tools - building executive dashboards that pull from multiple data sources and give leadership a complete, real-time picture of revenue performance.
Beyond the CRM, I bring strategic sales operations leadership to your GTM motion - helping you build the revenue infrastructure that scales: process documentation, cross-functional alignment, KPI frameworks, and the operational playbooks your team needs to grow efficiently.
Let's talk through your situation. I'll give you an honest assessment of where your biggest opportunities are - and a clear plan to get there.
Book a Free ConsultationProven Results
Every engagement has a before and after. Here's what that looks like for clients who've worked with Shear Consulting.
The Situation
The Customer Success team was managing customer activity and account planning data entirely in Google Sheets. The process was manual, difficult to maintain, and not reportable. Because the data lived outside of Salesforce, there was no scalable visibility into customer health, engagement trends, or expansion indicators - and reporting required constant manual refreshes that introduced data integrity risks.
What Was Done
Partnered with CS leadership to conduct requirements gathering and understand how data was being used in account planning and customer lifecycle management. Designed and implemented a structured data model in Salesforce - including standardized picklist fields for reporting consistency and controlled free-text fields for qualitative context. Led a soft launch with senior CSMs to gather feedback before full rollout, and re-engineered individual CSM dashboards to surface the new fields and key engagement indicators.
The Result
Successfully migrated the process from spreadsheets into Salesforce, creating a single source of truth for customer engagement data. This enabled scalable reporting, improved account planning rigor, increased leadership visibility into the post-sales funnel, and significantly reduced manual administrative overhead.
The Situation
During a migration from Salesforce Classic to Lightning, significant technical debt had accumulated across core objects - Account, Opportunity, Contact, and Lead. Redundant and unused fields had been added over time without governance, leaving page layouts cluttered, rep workflows inefficient, and users spending unnecessary time navigating excessive fields - negatively impacting productivity and adoption.
What Was Done
Led a cross-functional audit working with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Channel teams to ensure integrations were maintained. Conducted a usage analysis to determine which fields were actively populated, identify reporting dependencies, and assess automation and integration impacts. Based on that analysis, consolidated overlapping fields, deprecated low-adoption fields, and removed approximately 20% of existing fields across key objects. Restructured page layouts to align with role-based workflows, improving field prioritization and reducing user workload.
The Result
The initiative significantly improved CRM usability and Lightning adoption, reduced friction in daily workflows, and enhanced data quality. By streamlining the data architecture and enforcing governance, the project created a more scalable CRM foundation that supported cleaner reporting, stronger pipeline visibility, and long-term operational efficiency.
The Situation
Over time, inbound lead quality had deteriorated, causing reps to waste time chasing low-value leads. The legacy lead scoring model was outdated, leads were being distributed manually, and there was no visibility into how quickly leads were being actioned - or which ones were falling through the cracks.
What Was Done
Participated in a cross-functional team - meeting weekly over 2-3 months - to review and overhaul the legacy lead scoring model in collaboration with Marketing and Sales. Added custom metadata fields in Salesforce to infer Region and State for accurate SDR assignment routing. Worked with the Salesforce admin to design a custom dashboard surfacing lead response times and unactioned leads, giving leadership full visibility. Re-tooled SDR dashboards so reps could see this information directly. Incorporated automation to distribute leads to SDRs automatically and retooled scoring to reflect genuine hand-raising activity.
The Result
Improved incoming lead quality by 35%. Gained clear visibility into how quickly leads were being actioned. Modernized the lead scoring model from a legacy system to a current, activity-based approach. Automated lead distribution eliminated manual routing, increasing speed to lead and ensuring no inbound leads were missed.
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