Gemma

Member Stories: Ashley Allen 🇺🇸

June 28, 2019May 20, 2018 by Gemma

Ashley Allen was born and raised in Southern California. USA. She is an entrepreneur, mother of 3, a non-binary lesbian and Salesforce consultant.

Shortly out of college, having just relocated to Buffalo, NY with her now ex-husband, Ashley found out she was pregnant with their second daughter. Broke and desperate for a job, she wanted to find work at home so that she could keep working after the baby was born. Ashley couldn’t afford to take time off because she was on partial government assistance at the time, and skipping work meant there wouldn’t be any food on the table.

The Story of How We Started

June 28, 2019May 17, 2018 by Gemma

Gemma Emmett, founder of Ladies Be Architects, was featured as a Trailblazer in a moving video by Salesforce. It tells the story behind how Ladies Be Architects began – from a desire to bring others along the architect path too.

Member Stories: Niki Vankerk 🇨🇦

June 28, 2019May 8, 2018 by Gemma

Niki is one of our study group leaders; she’s been facilitating a weekly integration study group with Nadina, Susannah and Edith and it’s been a great resource. We are very pleased to feature her story.

Niki started out on Salesforce with an Admin bootcamp way back in 2002, then began her own consulting business in 2004 – working exclusively on Salesforce. She’s never looked back. When she’s not working, Niki loves to play board games and be on the water in any type of vessel.

Integration Study Group: Multi-Org, Security, JSON, Backup / Restore

July 19, 2018May 8, 2018 by Gemma

The third in a series of deep dives; this week we get into multi-org integration, security, JSON and backup.

Presented by:

Edith Valencia-Martinez
Nadina D Lisbon
Susannah-Kate St Germain
Niki Vankerk

Salesforce World Tour London 2018: Partner Forum

May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 by Gemma

We are very pleased to announce that Gemma Emmett, founder of Ladies Be Architects, will be guest equality speaker on the developer track at this year’s Partner Forum. This is being held on 16th May 2018 at the Brewery, London, and you can register here.

Integration Study Group: Security

July 19, 2018May 1, 2018 by Gemma

The second in a series of deep dives; this week we get into Integration security and state management.

Presented by:

Edith Valencia-Martinez
Nadina D Lisbon
Susannah-Kate St Germain
Niki Vankerk

Member Stories: Priscila Renwick 🇧🇷🇬🇧

June 28, 2019April 29, 2018 by Gemma

Let’s spend a few moments with the lovely Priscila Renwick, Business Analyst and adrenaline junkie at Wandera! She lives in Highgate, North London with her husband, calls herself quite the geek and is always reading something, except now some of her reading includes Salesforce! Priscila has a pretty unusual hobby – flying trapeze – like that one you see in the circus where someone throws some somersaults and someone else catches you on the other side (!).

You can see some videos on Priscila’s Instagram if you’re curious.

April 2018: Study Group IV: Project and System Governance

July 19, 2018April 25, 2018 by Gemma

This month the group voted to work through one of the key topics in the Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer exam: project and system governance. We covered the following: