Adam Olshansky
San Francisco, California, United States
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I'm a Salesforce Architect at Google who's extremely passionate about the Salesforce…
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Don't miss the FINAL Tahoe Dreamin' - Salesforce Community Conference next year May 15-16, 2025! Erica Kuhl is the OG Salesforce Community Leader and…
Don't miss the FINAL Tahoe Dreamin' - Salesforce Community Conference next year May 15-16, 2025! Erica Kuhl is the OG Salesforce Community Leader and…
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Activities and Societies: Trailblazers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIefFBi-lHw Meet the Trailblazers: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazers/adam-olshansky
Trailhead Profile: https://www.salesforce.com/trailblazer/adammvp
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Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Honors Student Council, Hall Council
Magna Cum Laude, Honors Student, Computer Science Minor, Computer Engineering Minor, Entrepreneurship Associates Certificate
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Activities and Societies: Mock Trial, National Honors Society, Spanish Honors Society
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Drucker School MBA Essentials for Salesforce
Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
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Volunteer Experience
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Instructor
RAD Women
- Present 8 years 2 months
Science and Technology
As the first ever male coach for RAD Women, I, along with several others, dedicate time to help women learn to code on the Salesforce platform by co-leading a 10 week course. This course teaches intro Apex skills and also includes a final project. It helps contribute to the vibrant Women in Tech movement within the Salesforce community and the technology community at large.
I have co-coached 4 Intro co-horts (Part 1) and 6 Intermediate co-horts (Part 2) and have directly helped teach…As the first ever male coach for RAD Women, I, along with several others, dedicate time to help women learn to code on the Salesforce platform by co-leading a 10 week course. This course teaches intro Apex skills and also includes a final project. It helps contribute to the vibrant Women in Tech movement within the Salesforce community and the technology community at large.
I have co-coached 4 Intro co-horts (Part 1) and 6 Intermediate co-horts (Part 2) and have directly helped teach over 80 learners!
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Mentor
Frank Elementary School
- 2 years 10 months
Children
Honeywell mentoring program to spend an hour a week with underprivileged elementary school children giving them a mentor to look up to, learn from, and get help with anything they're struggling with in school. Mentors can follow the same student all throughout elementary school.
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Mentor
SolarCity: Women in Power
- 6 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
I work with the SolarCity Women in Power group that focuses on helping women in the organization achieve success and become leaders. I meet with a mentee every two weeks and work with her on building her career and answering any questions she has along the way.
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Salesforce Mentor
Salesforce Military
- 1 year 2 months
Education
I work with the Salesforce sponsored community group, Vetforce, which focuses on providing Salesforce education to veterans to help them achieve career success through business and technology. I work with a mentee and help him with Salesforce questions and solution designs to help make his org successful and give him the skills he needs to teach others.
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Event Co-Organizer
Tahoe Dreamin' - Salesforce Community Conference
- 6 months
Science and Technology
I helped organize the 2017 Tahoe Dreamin' event. This Salesforce community event had over 200 attendees and featured Salesforce employees, partners, customers, and other community members. http://www.tahoedreamin.com/event-leaders/
Courses
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Cloud Computing
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Foundations of Software Engineering
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Managing Software Professionals
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New Venture Design and Development
ENTR 487
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Object Oriented Programming and Design
CSC 335
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Process and Project Management
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Systems Programming and Unix
CSC 352
Projects
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Dreamforce '18: Demystifying Code for Admins: The Last Step to Apex
As an #AwesomeAdmin, you might have been a bit hesitant about the coding side of the Platform. But chances are, you already know a ton about writing code and might not realize it. Join us to learn more about Apex Basics in Admin terms and find out how utilizing functionality such as Objects, Fields, Formulas, Workflow Rules, Flows, and Processes are just a small step away from writing Apex.
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Dreamforce '18: Maximize Your Apex Performance with Platform Cache
Come to learn about the capabilities of the Salesforce Platform Cache to vastly improve the performance of your code, especially if you use computationally expensive processes or queries. We'll walk through real examples and show how much of a performance improvement can be gained with minimal configuration and barely any code.
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Dreamforce '16: Integrate at Lightning Speed with Salesforce Connect
Rather than duplicating data and setting up integrations with external systems, display, update, and connect your external data directly in Salesforce without having to migrate it. Learn how to set up Salesforce Connect (formerly Lightning Connect) and integrate your External Objects with Standard and Custom objects with full CRUD permissions.
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Dreamforce '16: Writing Highly Genericized Code Using Dynamic Apex and the Tooling API
My first presentation on the Dreamforce Developers Track! As developers, we are all familiar with the concept of DRY, but what's the most effective way to achieve this? Join us to explore design patterns for writing code that removes metadata dependencies and conforms to agile development. Structuring your code this way reduces the amount of repetitive code and test methods you'll write, while making it more maintainable and reusable. We'll highlight techniques using Dynamic Apex and the…
My first presentation on the Dreamforce Developers Track! As developers, we are all familiar with the concept of DRY, but what's the most effective way to achieve this? Join us to explore design patterns for writing code that removes metadata dependencies and conforms to agile development. Structuring your code this way reduces the amount of repetitive code and test methods you'll write, while making it more maintainable and reusable. We'll highlight techniques using Dynamic Apex and the Tooling API that can be used across multiple code bases so you can create code that consumes fewer governor limits. We'll also cover techniques for addressing optional Salesforce features that help in developing managed packages.
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Apttus Accelerate 2016: 8 Salesforce Hacks All Admins Should Know
Presented 2, 3-minute Salesforce admin hacks to an audience and competed against 3 others. Won 70% of the 52 audience votes for their favorites and was crowned Admin Champion!
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Dreamforce '15: Integrate at Lightning Speed with Lightning Connect!
Rather than duplicating data and setting up integrations with external systems, display and connect your external data directly in Salesforce without having to migrate it. Learn how to set up Lightning Connect and integrate your External Objects with Standard and Custom objects. You'll realize Lightning Connect's full potential as we go into use cases and limitations of Lightning Connect, as well as additional options for further integration.
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Dreamforce '15: Use Trailhead to Become Salesforce Certified!
Learn how Salesforce's latest and greatest FREE resource, Trailhead, can lead to you Salesforce mastery and resume building certifications. Hear about the different options no matter what your role, Newbie, Administrator, point-and-click Developer, or Apex coder. Get tips to freely launch or improve your Salesforce career from those who have already done it! Learn how you can become a Salesforce evangelist for your team and earn badges along the way.
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Cloud Integration Utilizing AWS, Chef, and Hadoop
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Ruby on Rails Project Management Site
As part of the course project for Foundations of Software Engineering, we were charged with creating a project management portal from the ground up using such technologies as Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap. In order to complete this activity, the agile process of extreme programming was utilized. Our team designed the user stories, look and feel of the site, and iterations surrounding each release. Additionally, we met weekly with our customer to verify prioritization and…
As part of the course project for Foundations of Software Engineering, we were charged with creating a project management portal from the ground up using such technologies as Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap. In order to complete this activity, the agile process of extreme programming was utilized. Our team designed the user stories, look and feel of the site, and iterations surrounding each release. Additionally, we met weekly with our customer to verify prioritization and development activities. The project was a huge success in that our team was able to successfully produce and demonstrate a fully functional website built with Ruby on Rails that met all of our customers' needs.
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Dreamforce '19: Demystifying Code for Admins: The Last Step to Apex
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As a Salesforce #AwesomeAdmin you may be a bit hesitant about the coding side of the Platform. Chances are, you already know a ton about writing code and haven't even realized it! Join this session to learn more about Apex Basics in Admin terms and find out how utilizing functionality such as Objects, Fields, Formulas, Workflow Rules, Flows, and Processes are just a small step away from writing Apex!
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Dreamforce '19: Lightning Components 101: An Apex Developer's Guide
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As an Apex Developer, you may shudder when you hear terms like "JavaScript" or "front end development". Like it or not, Lightning Components are the future. If you're like me, getting into JavaScript and Components has been on your to-do list for a while now, but never seems to rise to the top. Wait no longer! Come learn how to build Lightning Components (both Aura and LWC) from someone who knows what you're going through and leave with tangible skills you can leverage immediately!
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S4me Difference Podcast
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Podcast where our differences are the same & our similarities are different including opinions on the Cloud and Salesforce. We discuss our thoughts on both the technology and diversity aspects of the industry, the Salesforce community, and the relevant topics of the day.
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SAP ECC Enhancement Pack 7 Upgrade
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Served as the Program Manager and Project Manager for upgrading the primary SAP ERP instance for Honeywell Aerospace, responsible for over $14B+ in revenue and consisting of over 25,000 users. I led a team of 90+ people globally across 8 different SAP functional areas and coordinated testing of over 5,000 scripts in preparation. I gave weekly updates to IT leadership on the project status and worked with individuals at all levels of the organization. The project was successful with no high…
Served as the Program Manager and Project Manager for upgrading the primary SAP ERP instance for Honeywell Aerospace, responsible for over $14B+ in revenue and consisting of over 25,000 users. I led a team of 90+ people globally across 8 different SAP functional areas and coordinated testing of over 5,000 scripts in preparation. I gave weekly updates to IT leadership on the project status and worked with individuals at all levels of the organization. The project was successful with no high priority issues raised following Go-Live.
Honors & Awards
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Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame
Salesforce
Recognizes Salesforce MVPs who have been recognized for 5+ years for demonstrating leadership, generosity, advocacy, and expertise within the Salesforce community. https://www.salesforce.com/blog/welcome-hall-of-fame-mvps/
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6X Salesforce MVP - Summer 2016, Summer 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Salesforce
This program recognizes exceptional individuals within the Salesforce community for their leadership, expertise, generosity, and advocacy to our community. These individuals represent the spirit of the community and what it is all about!
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Honeywell Bravo Silver Recognition
Honeywell
I received this award after being nominated by my business customer for "exceptional support to the ATR (Air and Transport Regional) business team as we implemented, configured and deployed the Targeted Account Selling application in Salesforce.com".
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