If you are attending Dreamforce next week, you may want to check out the following sessions where presentations will be made by San Diego customers.  What an impressive showing of Customer Heros from San Diego!

Growing company seeks a Salesforce Administrator to help enhance existing deployment of SFDC. Position will be instrumental in training their SFDC admin on Salesforce best practices and help customize the application around existing business processes. Opportunity to contribute to a Salesforce team dedicated to expanding the use of Salesforce throughout the entire organization.

Responsibilities:

• Administer Salesforce.com for 50+ users.
• Map business processes into Salesforce.
• Train/mentor employees on Salesforce.com

Experience/Requirements desired:

• Min. 1 year Salesforce administration experience.
• 2+ years business analysis experience.
• Experience defining business solutions leveraging Salesforce (i.e. workflow, lead assignment).

Company:

• Established- in business 10+ years
• Industry leader

This position is based in San Diego and will be a full-time/onsite contract for 6-9 months. It is not a remote opportunity.

Scheduling interviews for qualified local candidates during the next 1-2 weeks. If interested, please contact jhagar@hireon-demand.com or visit www.HireOn-Demand.com.

Founded by a former Salesforce.com Account Executive, Hire On-Demand® specializes in helping companies hire experienced Salesforce.com Administrators and Force.com Developers.

Company:  Linvio, Inc.

Job Title:  Salesforce Developer/Integration Specialist

Description:

Linvio, Inc. is seeking candidates for the position of Salesforce Developer, who will be responsible for customizing, developing and supporting solutions on Salesforce.com's Force.com platform.

Specific areas of concentration include:

* Working closely with clients and our other consultants to determine project requirements

* Building client-specific solutions on the Force.com platform using Apex, PHP and Visual Force

* Developing integration processes using Salesforce.com's Web Services API and third-party integration tools (Apex Data Loader, Pervasive, etc).

* Effective, expedient completion of client projects

Required Skills/Experience:

* B.S. in Computer Science/MIS with a demonstrated record of academic excellence

* 1-2 years experience in Salesforce.com development including creating custom objects, workflows, Force.com and VisualForce development and the Apex programming language

* Expert knowledge of object-oriented methodologies and approaches

* Expert knowledge of relational databases and data modeling

* Proficiency in HTML/XHTML, XML, Javascript, AJAX, SQL, Java, PHP, SOAP-based web services, Apex, and SOQL

* Experience with ETL tools.

* Familiarity with integrated development environments such as Eclipse.

* Knowledge of enterprise systems, CRM, SFA, and ERP

* Client-focused attitude

* Excellent analysis skills and the ability to develop processes and methodologies

* Self-starter who can multi-task

* Team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills

* Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies.

Desired Skills/Experience:

* Force.com developer certification

Candidates must be local to the San Diego, CA area and will be prescreened by phone and then given the opportunity for a one-on-one interview. Candidates passing the interview stage may be expected to demonstrate development skills by building a basic Salesforce application.

Linvio is a small but rapidly growing Salesforce application development and systems integration company in the San Diego area.

Our offices are located in Solana Beach, CA, just walking distance from the Coaster/Amtrak train station, the beach, and a number of really good restaurants and fun places to down a cool one after work. The work environment is casual and fun, but were serious about quality and making a difference in the world. Hopefully, you are too.

This is a full-time temp-to-hire position.

** Again - local applicants only, no recruiters. Thanks **

Appexchange Downloads impacting Tab Limits

Are you approaching -- or at your tab limit within Salesforce?  If so, some options:

If you're not at your tab limit, you may want to check out this presentation from our April meeting that highlights no cost (or low cost) packages that are on Appexchange that many customers find to be very valuable.

http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/wp-content/images/san-diego-user-group-free-appexchange-apps-04-03-2009.pdf

 

 

 

 Data quality can be defined many ways.  The challenge all Salesforce users, small, medium or large instances, have is identifying dirty data from on-going sources, as well as incomplete and duplicate data throughout your entire instance.  Bill Jacaruso, Sr. Director / Pervasive Data Solutions will discuss the challenges and approaches to addressing dirty data and the cost of poor data quality both up and down the business process streams.  He’ll provide insight into strategies behind improving data quality in your organization and will demonstrate how this can be done utilizing two “free” application tools that our members can start using immediately.  One of these tools has not yet been release and we’ve negotiated an exclusive beta test offering to all of our San Diego Salesforce User Group members!!  Must attend to participate...sorry!


Date:  June 17, 2009 (Wednesday)

Time:   7:30am - 9:30am

Location: Qualcomm - Building S Cafe, 5535 Morehouse Dr., San Diego, CA 92121  Map

Sponsor: Qualcomm and Pervasive Data Solutions, Austin, TX

(ABOUT: Pervasive Data Solutions offers packaged connections that link data between the most popular business and consumer applications. Unlike integration tools, our products come “as-is” out of the box and are designed to be extremely easy to use.  For more than two decades, Pervasive products have delivered value to tens of thousands of customers in more than 150 countries with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership.)

Meeting Agenda:

7:30am - 7:50am- Arrivals and Mingling / Breakfast (provided by our sponsor, Pervasive Data Solutions)

8:00am - 8:45am - Dirty Salesforce Data: What is it costing you and how to identify and do something about it - Bill Jacaruso

8:45am - 9:30pm - Birds of a Feather Breakout Sessions

• Sales & Marketing  - Building new business processes to drive business value, Integration methodologies - Bill Jacaruso
• Service & Support - Latest updates to CSS, getting more value out of Salesforce - Lonnie Wills CloudTrigger LLC

9:30am - 9:45pm - Wrap up

Rhonda Ross | Mark Lappin
San Diego User Group Co-Leaders

LOCATION                  San Diego, California

ORGANIZATION            With more than 14,500 members, Vistage International is the world’s foremost chief executive leadership organization, providing unparalleled access to new ideas and fresh thinking through monthly peer workshops, one-on-one business coaching, speaker presentations from hundreds of top industry experts, social networking and an extensive online content library of articles, best practices, podcasts and webinars.

                                    This top executive network started from very humble beginnings over five decades ago. One October morning in 1957, a Wisconsin businessman named Robert Nourse met with four fellow chief executives in the office of the Milwaukee Valve Company to test a simple, yet revolutionary idea—share knowledge and experiences to help each other generate better results for their businesses.

Soon this group of businessmen was probing, asking questions and making suggestions. They challenged each other, working together to solve issues and grow. At that moment, TEC (The Executive Committee) was born.  

Today, Vistage International (TEC’s successor) and its global affiliates operate in 16 countries. Members meet in small groups every month under the same guiding principles—to help one another make better decisions, achieve better results, and enhance their lives. They’re also connecting in ways Nourse could never have imagined, collaborating online, tapping into a vast content library, and learning from hundreds of top industry speakers.

Vistage-member companies generate nearly $300 billion in annual revenue and employ approximately 1.8 million employees around the world. Studies have shown that Vistage-member companies outperform their competitors and, on average, grow their revenues at three times the percentage growth rate after joining Vistage.

And, that’s exactly what Robert Nourse had in mind. 

We invite you to visit our website at www.Vistage.com and learn more about the way in which we help our CEOs become better leaders, make better decisions, and achieve better results. 

Come join our team.  We’re very excited to meet you! 

Just send your resume and salary history to jobs@vistage.com. 

***Please write SFDC Administrator in the subject line.

OBJECTIVE      The SalesForce Administrator for the Membership Development Team will be responsible for all activities related to the continued implementation and fine-tuning of Salesforce.com reports, dashboards and best practices to further analyze sales data and make better informed business decisions.  Will serve as the primary point of contact for direct sales and channel partners who require maintenance, configuration, reporting and training. 

RESPONSIBILITIES      Reporting to the Director of National Sales, the SalesForce Administrator will be responsible for the following: 

• Work with management to design and implement SF.com reports and dashboards to measure sales activities and results.
• Monthly documents and communicates sales processes and creates workflow protocol.
• Trains new end users on the application and continues to train existing users on new features and updates.
• Remains abreast of CRM and SF.com “best practices.”
• Will review and analyze existing SF.com reports and make recommendations for a higher performing structure to maximize sales.
• Will manage, update, and revise SF.com email templates and be point of contact for specific email blast notification to potential member prospects.

EXPERIENCE                       

·2+ years experience with the configuration and ongoing administration of Salesforce.com.

·Previous experience in analysis of business sales process, sales workflow and modeling.

·Computer and data analysis proficiency (Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

·Strong communication skills with high energy and enthusiasm.

·Ability to multi-task and remain detail-oriented.

·Ability to travel 1x per quarter.

·Enthusiasm for a fast-paced and collaborative environment is a must.     

PROFILE                      Takes the initiative; driver; outgoing; confident phone persona; articulate; problem solver; credible; organized; strategic and analytical; detail-oriented; effective communicator; creative and lively intellect; appropriate sense of urgency; ability to learn new skills particularly technology

EDUCATION                B.A. in Management Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent experience.

For our next meeting of the San Diego Salesforce.com User Group, we are moving to a different day of the week, a different time, and a different location

Friday, April 3rd, at the Omni Hotel, downtown - starting at noon.

The theme for the April 3rd meeting will be "Appexchange Applications, Tools, and Components that you can download for Free!"  We will have a speaker or two present free packages that they have made available on the appexchange.  We are also looking to hear from our members regarding what you may have downloaded (for free) that has benefited your Salesforce.com implemented.  If you have been successful using a program, component, or tool that you have downloaded and are willing to share your experience with others, please send me an email at rhonda.ross@audatex.com letting me know of your interest.

Once I hear back from some people, I will send out a more detailed agenda. The ending time for the meeting will depend on how many volunteers we get.  We have the room available to us until 3:00.

Due to the success of our "birds of a feather" breakouts during our last two meetings, we will be doing that again.  We are looking for volunteers to lead discussions on the following topics:

• Administration - e.g., adoption, data management, change management
• Service and Support - e.g. case management, SLAs, email-to-case
• Marketing - e.g. web-to-lead, email marketing, lead scoring, event management
• Development - e.g. moving from administrator to developer, useful tools

If you are willing to facilitate a discussion on one of these topics, please email me at rhonda.ross@audatex.com.

To RSVP for the meeting, send an email to rhonda.ross@audatex.com. 

It is important that you RSVP if you will be attending, as there will be a complementary lunch provided so we need an accurate headcount!

Why all these changes?  We wanted to make it convenient for those of you who may want to attend the CRM Essentials Seminar which Salesforce.com will be having at the Omni in the morning.  For further information on this event, please visit the event's website.  If the agenda looks interesting, feel free to register on the salesforce.com site.  However, since this seminar is geared toward people who are brand new to Salesforce CRM or still evaluating their options, you may find the content more “back to basics” than you’re looking for.

Either way, I hope you will be able to make it to the user group meeting and I look forward to seeing you there!

To sign up for User Group, if not already a member:  http://usergroups.salesforce.com/sandiego/

Membership and meeting attendance is free!

Rhonda Ross | Mark Lappin
San Diego User Group Co-Leaders

Hi All - our next meeting is just about here...next Wed Feb 4 @7:30 - 10AM.  We have another great response to-date but the more users that we have in our user group the more interaction and shared knowledge we’ll have!  

In creating this meeting agenda I’ve asked one of the leading SFDC consulting companies, Bluewolf to share their extensive Salesforce.com knowledge on how our members can proactively embrace and drive efficiency utilizing the SFDC application throughout their organization in a down economy (or any economy!).   One thing you must say about a tough economy — it makes us all think a bit more strategically about how not just to survive, but how to improve our sales, services and operations in order to both weather the storm and position ourselves personally and our company for a long-term competitive advantage. 

Bluewolf’s Lonnie Wills and Lou Fox will lead the meeting and sessions…

Lonnie Wills is the Managing Director of the West for the CIO Consulting practice for Bluewolf.  He consults with executives on how to harness the power of SaaS and enabling SaaS strategies to the desktop.  Mr. Wills is a seasoned IT veteran with over 20 years of experience in IT consulting and management. 

Lou Fox is the Chief Technical Officer of Bluewolf.  For the past 15 years Lou Fox has been assisting Fortune 1000 companies in growing their businesses by leveraging web based solutions.  During the web 1.0 phase Mr. Fox worked with companies such as Guess, Disney, Toys R Us and Nike to build their eCommerce initiatives.  At Bluewolf, Mr. Fox has leveraged the collaborative and agile nature of web 2.0 to bring award-winning consulting and on-demand product solutions to Bluewolf clients such as ADP, Dow Jones, Hartford Insurance, Dupont, New York Times, Hartford Insurance.

For all meeting attendees, Bluewolf will be donating some great door prizes…

Wii Fit Game for Wii Console

Don't have time to go to the gym?  Exercise at home!  Bluewolf is giving one lucky San Diego user group member a brand new Wii Fit!  Must attend the meeting to win.

2 Amazon Gift Cards

Didn't get exactly what you wanted this Christmas?  Treat yourself to something from Amazon!  Bluewolf is giving away two $50 Amazon gift cards at the upcoming San Diego User Group meeting.  Attend to win.

Special Offers from Bluewolf -- 25% discount on Salesforce Training

Get Salesforce certified and save!  Exclusively for San Diego User Group members, save 25% on Salesforce training at the Bluewolf Authorized Training Center in San Diego and Los Angeles.  Become a certified Salesforce pro and take Salesforce to the next level for your company.  Please speak to a Bluewolf expert at the meeting for more information.  Must register by February 28^th and attend by April 3.  Cannot be combined with any special offers.

If you have already RSVP no need to send me another...thanks

Location

When:  Wed Feb 4 - 7:30-10:00am

Grab something to eat / network 7:30-8:00.  Meeting will start @ 8:00am

Where:  Qualcomm - Building S Cafe -- Same location as the last two meetings

                5535 Morehouse Drive

                San Diego, Ca 92121

Guardhouse can assist in location of building S.  Free parking available.

Topic/Agenda

Leverage Salesforce.com to bring New Value to Your Job and Business

sponsored by Bluewolf

• A sneak peak at Spring ’09 Release.  Learn how the new Saleforce.com updates can help you drive new value to your job and business
• 10 Things You May Not Know About Saleforce.com - "How to Maximize the Functionality of Your Salesforce.com Instance"

• Breakout Sessions
  • Service for Saleforce.com – How to improve Salesforce.com and allow your company to focus on servicing clients
  • Force.com Sites Overview & Functionalities - Move above and beyond Salesforce.com as a CRM tool
• User Group general business

About the sponsor for this meeting:

Bluewolf is the leading Software-as-a-Service, Open Source and Cloud Computing consulting company focusing on deployment, development and adoption of enterprise software applications.  With eight years of SaaS experience, Bluewolf is defining a new style of consulting based on its Agile Consulting model that guarantees success and delivers on the promises of Cloud Computing.  Bluewolf clients include Dow Jones, ADP, General Electric and Fox Interactive Media.

RSVPs should be sent to:  mark.lappin@bakbone.com

To sign up for User Group, if not already a member:  http://usergroups.salesforce.com/sandiego/

Membership and meeting attendance is free!

Rhonda Ross | Mark Lappin
San Diego User Group Co-Leaders