Russell O’Brienis a Salesforce Solution Architect with a depth of experience in the Computing industry from mainframe and client server to cloud and mobile. He has operated his own Integration Consultancy and has also had extensive involvement in Quality Assurance including Agile Testing. Russell currently lives in Australia and has 13 Salesforce certifications. Lightning Component Interview with Russell O’Brien  In recent times much has been published about Salesforce “Lightning” technology…. Read More

Here is another interview with a Focus on Force community member, Veronika Peycheva. She shares her experience of working with Salesforce of learning by doing and getting certified.

Recently, we did another interview with a Focus on Force community member who shared his experience of working with Salesforce and getting certified. Meet Chris Rolfe, an architect working in the non-profit and education sectors. Chris Rolfe tells us about his journey to becoming a Salesforce solution architect.

Rob Kaplan is another successful Salesforce learner who is willing to share his experience with the Focus on Force community. He is a Salesforce senior administrator and business analyst, as well as the co-leader of a Salesforce user group. For his latest certification, he studied using the usual resources and combined it with a social activity that exercises other learning styles. Continue reading to find out more about Rob’s learning process.

We always want to hear and share successful Salesforce stories. By getting to know people who have had experience working with the platform, you can find out how Salesforce can help you grow in your future career. This time we spoke with Kim Carlo Noceda, a Senior Salesforce Developer in a consulting company in Dubai. As a senior Salesforce Developer, his role is to provide solutions and build the system… Read More

Richard Clarke is a Salesforce Consultant and runs his own Salesforce Consulting company called Artisan Consulting. He currently lives in Australia, and has 22 Salesforce certifications. Find out more about his extensive experience and journey below. How and why did you get started with Salesforce? My journey with Salesforce started in 2007. I was running my own business as a Microsoft Gold partner based out in New Zealand, and we… Read More

Brian Leuken is an Application Architect for a large healthcare corporation. Rumor has it, that they have the largest Service Cloud healthcare implementation in the U.S. The implementation is growing right now – they’ve got licenses for 6,000, and it’s growing to around 21,000 in the next five years. The user population varies from frontline call center representatives to back office processing of all of the mountains and mountains of forms,… Read More

Jordan Elkin is a Technical Consultant. He always knew that Technology Consulting was going to be his field, but he was on the look out for how to get started. Soon enough, he learned of the existence of Salesforce, and wanting to get to know it, watched some of the online sessions from Dreamforce 2015. He developed his Salesforce skills over the next few months, received his certifications, and now works… Read More

Aymeric Zito is the CEO of ProQuest Consulting. In this article, he discusses how ProQuest have been so successful using the Agile project methodology to deliver Salesforce projects. Before we learn more about how Proquest uses Agile, can you tell us about your background and how you got started with Salesforce? My background is in neuroscience and software engineering. I started my career programming enterprise web applications in Java J2E and moved… Read More

Alex Bassett is a Salesforce Consultant based in Vancouver, Canada. Alex was originally working as a Data Reporting & Information Analyst, but upon learning about Salesforce and its opportunities, decided to begin his climb to get certified. After receiving his Certified Salesforce Administration designation in June 2016, he quickly found a job as a Salesforce Consultant. Learn about Alex’s Salesforce journey below. How and Why did you get started with Salesforce?… Read More

Nick Liechty is a next-generation innovative Salesforce leader with a unique combination of technical expertise and enterprise experience across a variety of industries. Having architected and led dozens of clients through their journey into the Salesforce ecosystem, he is definately one of the leaders of the pack. Below he shares some of his experiences and tips with you: How and Why did you get started with Salesforce? I was doing… Read More

Nancy Johnson is a high level Project Manager hailing from Sydney, Australia. Having focused on being a Project Manager and Business Analyst during her career, getting Salesforce certified was her next logical step. Nancy shares her Salesforce journey with us below. How and Why did you get started with Salesforce? I am a very experienced Project Manager and a friend asked me to be a Project Manager at her organization… Read More

Neal Lightfeldt works as a Sales Excellence manager and in this post, shares his Salesforce journey with us. How and Why did you get started with Salesforce? Our parent company began a new initiative several years ago focused on applying OpEx principles to the front end of the business. Part of that initiative included implementing Salesforce. I already had experience implementing and administering our previous CRM system (SalesLogix), so I… Read More

I have been a Salesforce.com consultant for two years in Wellington, New Zealand. A career in IT was not a focus while I was studying both a Marketing and Psychology degree. I even completed a couple of IT papers while at university, wondering why they were compulsory. Having worked a series of different jobs in different industries in the build up to this role, I observed different businesses and processes… Read More