Glenn is a U.S. Army veteran and member of the Merivis Foundation Cohort III Salesforce training program. He is currently a Salesforce System Admin for a small energy company, Elect Energy based in Plano, Texas. Through the Merivis Foundation in partnership with Vetforce, I have recently gone through the Salesforce Admin 201 training program in Learn More »
Merivis Grads Get to Experience TrailheaDX! This blog post was written by Merivis cohort II grad Chrissy Wojtewicz who recently attended TrailheaDX in San Francisco with fellow grads Yann and Sheldon. Attending TrailheaDX, two words come to mind: the first is ‘whirlwind’, the second is ‘blessed’. I got a call that along with Yann and Sheldon, Learn More »
Recently, I finished reading General Stanley McChrystal’s book entitled “Team of Teams” which outlines a massive strategic change in how the U.S. Special Forces operates overseas. These changes reflect much of what is happening in the software development world today and within many teams working on Salesforce delivery teams. McChrystal outlines how working in smaller, nimble teams Learn More »
Merivis Foundation programs are supported entirely by individual and corporate donations; because of that we’re proud to have the support of Capgemni as our program sponsor for Cohort III. Our guest blog written by Nolan Melson, Merivis Foundation board member and senior consultant at Capgemni shares more about their commitment to supporting and hiring military Learn More »
Once again Dreamforce 2016 is upon us next week and we are looking forward to the new product announcements, keynotes and so much more. For those of you who are new to Dreamforce or simply want a few tips on how best to tackle the massive event, check out this video blog of me and Learn More »
As you can probably tell, its been a while since I have posted anything on the Merivis Blog, almost 6 months to be exact. I started this blog as a passion project of mine to share knowledge about technology, process and most things related to Salesforce. Over the last six months, I have moved, started a new Learn More »
(Credit and contributing material for this post goes to Adam Olshansky, Jayvin Arora and Nicole Alford – THANK YOU!) This blog post will focus on passing the Salesforce advanced admin exam using Trailhead and is really a continuation from a post back in January. I want to thank Adam, Jayvin and Nicole again for allowing me to share some of their content from Learn More »
South by Southwest is here again, and for several days in March, Austin will transform itself into the media, technology, movie, and music capital of the world. I have had the opportunity to attend South by Southwest for a few years now and mostly as an observer and party goer. The energy and shared creative Learn More »
(Credit and contributing material for this post goes to Adam Olshansky, Jayvin Arora and Nicole Alford – THANK YOU!) My Dreamforce 2015 was focused entirely around VetForce and supporting that great organization, so I did not have time catch a lot of Dreamforce sessions. When Dreamforce 2015 wrapped up last September, I did my usual routine of reviewing sessions/keynotes I had missed. About the time, Learn More »