Rick Rice

CTO, Director of Technical Consulting at Salesforce

Greater Boston, United States

About Rick Rice

Rick Rice is CTO, Director of Technical Consulting at Salesforce. Location: Greater Boston, United States.

Deeply technical implementer and visionary with 15+ years of experience as strategist and doer dedicated to helping innovative companies change the world. He has a record of more than 45 successful, high-impact engagements including companies and projects across FMCG, High Tech, Financial, and Education solving a wide variety of business challenges. Significant agentic portfolio including Agentforce, other Salesforce agentic tech and multiple frontier models in development workflows and operational contexts. Current independent research in agentic reasoning and RAG alternatives with one patent pending. Rick’s structured approach to understanding the strategy, business, domain, and technology demands of every initiative is based on years as a top tier management consultant, architect to NASA and programming since age 10. Along the way he has honed a collaborative and effective leadership style, as practice, program, and project leader, coach and mentor. Primary Practice Areas: - Design Thinking, Strategy Execution - Agentic Transformation of Sales, Dev and Ops - Offensive and Defensive Security - Customer Relationship Management / Partner Relationship Management - Planning: Project, Program and Portfolio/Risk Management - Change Management, DevOps Transitions, Turnarounds - High Performance Application/Product Development, Formal Verification - Agile (Scrum/Kanban/Scrumban) Leadership, Hybrid Teams, Lean Management, - Enterprise Architecture and Software Development Industry / Domain Experience Technology and Strategy Consulting Entertainment Financial Services - Front, Middle, Back Office - FinTech Higher Education, Admissions, and Financial Aid Insurance Tech - Salesforce - AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM - ETL/MDM - Security - Data Science - BI Javascript, PHP, Python, SQL, XML, XSL CSS3/Sass Blockchain | Crypto Research: Blockchain (Ethereum/HyperLedger/Corda chains - 2-3 years) Smart contracts, DApps, Solidity and formal verification Related: Investments 5 yrs Technology Mgmt Consultant 8 yrs in FinTech 2 yrs as VC Analyst Highlighted Metrics/Results:: Documented project success rate of greater than 95%. - More than 20 applications successfully developed with 5 product launches: (one licensed, one sold to large technology vendor). multiple awards, and documented high user satisfaction (>85%). - 10 large corporate evaluations (DR/GDPR) protecting $Billions in assets and millions of pieces of HRCI Key Competencies: - Relationship Building, - Team Management - Analytical Skills - Analytical Solutions - System Performance

Skills

  • Information Security
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • AI

Additional experience

  • Senior Manager and Sr. Program Architect, Salesforce Professional Services

    Salesforce

    May 2021 – January 2022

Education

  • BS, Harvard University
  • Post Graduate Degree / MA, University of Antwerp