Gemma, Author at Ladies Be Architects

Sponsorship Opportunities

June 17, 2020July 17, 2019 by Gemma

Why Sponsor?

Sponsoring Ladies Be Architects is not only great PR, it gives you access to a community of incredibly talented people, helping you widen your network and get your products and job opportunities out there. Architects work directly with customers, build teams and are recommending the best apps and experiences. Make sure they’re recommending yours!

With Salesforce targeting 3.3M more Salesforce jobs by 2022, helping us to grow our community of Salesforce architects could help you in many other ways too.

Meet our Ambassadors: Vickie Jeffery 🇳🇿

June 28, 2019 by Gemma

Vickie’s background is in IT Administration and Management. She’s worked in the IT world for the past 20 years, starting in systems and network administration before moving into management and strategy positions. She inherited Salesforce during a company merger in 2011 and hasn’t looked back. The depth and flexibility of the product and the ability to build quickly and dynamically feed her need to be creative, and the Salesforce Ohana has been pure magic.

We recently asked Vickie to join the Ladies Be Architects team as an ambassador, spreading the word in the Land Down Under, and we were thrilled when she said yes! Here’s her story!

Meet our Ambassadors: Emily Hay 🇳🇿

January 4, 2020June 28, 2019 by Gemma

Emily Hay is a Salesforce Women in Tech group leader, Dreamforce speaker, and Salesforce Certified Application Architect with over 9 years of experience working with the Salesforce platform. She’s a Kiwi currently living in Brisbane, Australia. We recently asked Emily to join the Ladies Be Architects team as an ambassador, spreading the word in the Land Down Under, and we were thrilled when she said yes! Here’s her story!

Meet an Architect: Tami Lau 🇺🇸

January 4, 2020June 11, 2019 by Gemma

Hello! We’re thrilled to introduce you to Tami Lau, Salesforce MVP and Senior Salesforce Engineer at Presence Product Group! As well as being such a great advocate for women in technology (she also coaches for our friends at Rad Women Code), Tami is co-lead for the Oakland Trailblazer community group and has been working really hard on her #JourneyToCTA.

CTA Review Board Mock Exam – Green Roof Systems with Matt Morris

January 4, 2020May 5, 2019 by Gemma

Salesforce MVP and CTA candidate Matt Morris solves the Green Roof Systems scenario. With special thanks to all who jumped on to judge! Read more for supporting documents and the video recording!

CTA Review Board Mock Exam – Laptops to Schools with Matt Morris

January 4, 2020May 3, 2019 by Gemma

Salesforce MVP and CTA candidate Matthew Morris solves the Laptops to Schools scenario. With special thanks to Melissa Shepard, Gavin Palmer and Tameem Bahri for judging. Read more for supporting documents and the video recording!

CTA Review Board Mock Exam – Flowers Racing with Matt Morris

January 4, 2020April 30, 2019 by Gemma

Salesforce MVP and CTA candidate Matthew Morris solves the Flowers Racing scenario. With special thanks to Melissa Shepard, Tyler Mowbrey and Gavin Palmer for judging. Read more for supporting documents and the video recording!

CTA Preparation: Data Modelling Discussion

January 4, 2020April 28, 2019 by Gemma

We’re grateful to Niki Vankerk who gave some of her time to lead a data modelling discussion with three fantastic candidates. Thank you to everyone who came along to observe and ask questions; we hope this helps you gain more insight into what’s needed for the review board.

Review Board: Live Q&A with Emely Patra

January 4, 2020April 11, 2019 by Gemma

If you’re thinking about the Certified Technical Architect review board, or even if you aren’t, we’ve got something special for you! This month, CTA and study group volunteer Emely Patra has kindly offered to run a live Q&A session which is focused on preparing for the review board exam.

Meet an Architect: Blanca Leon-Carter

January 4, 2020March 15, 2019 by Gemma

Blanca V. Leon-Carter started her career early in the non-profit sector and quickly moved to specialize in non-profit technology. She has over 18+ years of experience and recently came to a crossroads.