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⭐️ Trailhead is the fun way to learn. It’s a gamified platform where you develop valuable skills while earning badges you can display on your profile. With over 500 badges to choose from, Trailblazers can get hands-on with Salesforce products and other technologies. You can even learn soft skills!🎯 I'm on the Trailhead Content team, and we run the publication house for Trailhead. We generate ideas, we write and edit content, we develop hands-on challenges, and we publish badges to Trailhead every week. We believe that content on Trailhead should be conversational, brief, and encouraging.🤖 I automate the Trailhead content authoring, testing, and publishing processes so that teams can get more awesome, high-quality content in to the hands of Trailblazers sooner.👨‍💻 I evangelize the Salesforce platform as a content writer for Trailhead, creating engaging and fun modules and projects for developers and technical architects to learn leading technologies like Salesforce DX, Heroku, Lightning Components, and Apex, either online or in a classroom.

⭐️ Trailhead is the fun way to learn. It’s a gamified platform where you develop valuable skills while earning badges you can display on your profile. With over 500 badges to choose from, Trailblazers can get hands-on with Salesforce products and other technologies. You can even learn soft skills!🎯 I'm on the Trailhead Content team, and we run the publication house for Trailhead. We generate ideas, we write and edit content, we develop hands-on challenges, and we publish badges to Trailhead every week. We believe that content on Trailhead should be conversational, brief, and encouraging.🤖 I automate the Trailhead content authoring, testing, and publishing processes so that teams can get more awesome, high-quality content in to the hands of Trailblazers sooner.👨‍💻 I evangelize the Salesforce platform as a content writer for Trailhead, creating engaging and fun modules and projects for developers and technical architects to learn leading technologies like Salesforce DX, Heroku, Lightning Components, and Apex, either online or in a classroom.🚀 I co-developed demos for the Admin Keynote at Dreamforce '19 with Josie Chiles, Mike Gerholdt, LeeAnn Rimel, and Andy Schmiechen.👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsWaWMpvMw0🚀 I co-developed the Trailhead Playground Starter App to provide a seamless experience for learners to install packages into their orgs, reset their credentials, and learn how to get started.👉 https://www.zdnet.com/article/salesforce-launches-a-new-trailhead-app-for-easier-hands-on-learning👉 https://medium.com/trailhead/trailhead-playground-starter-app-f3bfefe4fff5👉 https://searchcustomerexperience.techtarget.com/news/252478112/Salesforce-Trailhead-Playground-launches-starter-app-to-help-users👉 https://twitter.com/TheChrisDuarte/status/1217989310969810944

👨‍💻 I evangelized the Salesforce platform as a content writer for Trailhead.com, creating engaging and fun modules and projects for developers and technical architects to learn leading technologies like Salesforce DX, Heroku, Lightning Components, and Apex, either online or in a classroom.🚀 I collaborated with product managers, developer evangelists, platform engineers, and other technical writers to create, curate, and set the vision for the developer content roadmap for Trailhead.✅ Published 3 hands-on projects on Trailhead.com that teach learners how to develop Lightning Components, troubleshoot with the Apex Replay Debugger, and develop apps with Salesforce CLI and version control.🎯 A key part of success in this role includes engaging with our Trailblazer community, both online and in person, to get customer feedback on the quality of our content and to identify gaps to ensure our learners have the right content to help them on their career journey in the Salesforce ecosystem. https://twitter.com/DouglasCAyers/status/1089203184126574592

👨‍🏫 Pairing my passion for teaching and advocating Salesforce by creating developer curriculum and hands-on projects for Trailhead (https://trailhead.salesforce.com) in both self-paced and instructor-led formats.🎯 Promoted adoption of platform features including Apex, Lightning Components, Salesforce DX, and Heroku.✅ Developed a two-day hands-on workshop introducing developers to application development with Salesforce DX, Git, and GitHub for TrailheaDX '18 and Dreamforce '18 pre-conference bootcamps.✅ Introduced and led development for automating testing of Trailhead content, including superbadges and projects, using Selenium, Java, and Salesforce DX. Impact saves curriculum developers hundreds of hours each major release, reduces defects, and increases customer trust.📺 Presented "Understanding the Value of Dependency Injection" at Dreamforce '18https://success.salesforce.com/sessions?eventId=a1Q3A00001XoCSUUA3#/session/a2q3A000001WZTYQA4📺 Presented "Tips for Organizing Metadata to Adopt Unlocked Packages" at Dreamforce '18https://success.salesforce.com/sessions?eventId=a1Q3A00001XoCSUUA3#/session/a2q3A000001WZTZQA4📺 Presented "Fun with the Salesforce Buildpack for Heroku" to Bay Area Developer Groupyoutube.com/watch?v=GDdIfnN2KsE

Mountain Point is a digital transformation firm specializing in the Salesforce Platform, CloudERP, and the Manufacturing vertical. We leverage our technological expertise to help businesses transform their processes in order to be ahead of the curve in the digital age.http://mountainpoint.com

Our mission is to help workers whose families were previously dependent on the coal industry develop job skills that will enable them to work as part of the Information Age workforce.http://www.centralapp.us

• Organize and lead meetings for users/developers/administrators• Spearhead a social presence across multiple platforms for our Communityhttp://www.meetup.com/Nashville-Salesforce-Developer-User-Group/https://twitter.com/NashvilleSFDC

Coached two 10-week long cohorts of 8 women each, teaching the basics of Apex and SOQL development on the Salesforce platform.The primary goal of Radical Apex Developers (RAD) Women is to provide a supportive and collaborative environment for women Salesforce developers to help advanced women Salesforce admins build upon their existing click-based administration skills and learn to program on the Force.com platform.

GearsCRM is a Salesforce Partner providing consulting services for implementation and app development.http://gearscrm.com- Design and implement variety of solutions using Salesforce, SharePoint, and Heroku- Design and develop Apex triggers, Visualforce pages, Process Automation, and ETL integrations- Architect asynchronous solutions with Batchable, Schedulable, and Queuable Apex- Provide administration support to clients (user setup, security, analytics, customizations)- Advise clients on Salesforce development and integration strategies- Mentor junior team members on solution and software design best practices- Develop proof-of-concepts and assist Salesforce Solution Engineers with demos

Virsys12 is a Salesforce Consulting Partner focused on healthcare vertical. My key projects involved EHR/EMR integrations to Salesforce and developing custom console views for outbound call centers for Sales, Support, and Telehealth.http://virsys12.com- Design and implement variety of solutions using Salesforce, Talend, and Trinisys- Design and develop Apex triggers, Visualforce pages, Process Automation, and ETL integrations- Architect asynchronous solutions with Batchable, Schedulable, and Queuable Apex- Provide administration support to clients (user setup, security, analytics, customizations)- Advise clients on Salesforce development and integration strategies- Mentor junior team members on solution and software design best practices- Develop proof-of-concepts and assist Salesforce Solution Engineers with demos

Fruit of the Loom is a global company specializing in the design, manufacture, and marketing of apparel and sports equipment including icons brands Vanity Fair, Russell Athletic, Spalding and many others.When company bought Salesforce at end of 2012, I stepped forward to be the lead architect to design, implement, and rollout the new system which included replatforming many in-house business apps.Recruited and managed 3 developers responsible for Salesforce CRM global architecture, design, and governance for 7 business divisions ranging from multiple lines of business in Sales, Marketing, Customer Service to IT, HR, Legal, and Finance.- Support 3,000+ users including employees, contractors, and partners- Develop ERP integrations with MuleSoft, Dataloader.io, Apex Data Loader, and SOAP API- Configure and manage BMC Remedyforce for IT Help Desk (ITIL); contributor to BMC Community- Design and develop IT On Call push notifications via Salesforce1

Fruit of the Loom is a global company specializing in the design, manufacture, and marketing of apparel and sports equipment including icons brands Vanity Fair, Russell Athletic, Spalding and many others.I started my career as a Java web developer building business applications backed by Oracle SQL Databases. Took on increasing responsibility around requirements analysis, application design, user training, and development.- Lead 7 person agile technical team, manage development, project strategy, and recruitment- Researched and trained team in Scrum, presented benefits to CIO and corporate IT- Architect and code reliable and maintainable cross-domain business solutions- Established monthly tech talk series that inspires innovation with development groups- Established monthly leadership series that fosters growth and collaboration among managers