Salesforce and Open Source Developer
Patrick is a Salesforce developer by day and also a Salesforce developer by night. He contributes his free time to helping in the Salesforce community as well as giving back by developing Opensource tools for Salesforce users.
Red Hat
2009 — Present
Leads a team of Salesforce developers working on a Service Cloud implementation that started in 2009. Primary responsibilities include architecting solutions for business problems, implementing the solutions and developing tooling to help automate various processes.
Red Hat
2008 — 2009
In charge of developing new training for Support Delivery and providing training and certification exams for new hires. This included an intensive 6 week in-person training course that facilitated new hires in passing the RHCE exam.
Wake Tech
2009
Instructed a semester long Introduction to C class taught for Red Hat associates. This was a weekly course that included 2 hour in person instruction, exams and weekly programming assignments.
Red Hat
2006 — 2008
Provided front-line and tier two support for Red Hat products to external customers. Primarily focused on developer support, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Proxy, Red Hat Network and installation issues.
2013 — present
MVP status is awarded to members of the Salesforce Community based on their contributions to the community. This was awarded based on involvement in the Triangle Developer User Group, contributions on the developer boards, blog posts and IRC contributions.
2024 — present
Certified Platform Developer I developers understand how to develop and deploy custom business logic and custom interfaces using the programmatic capabilities of the Lightning Platform. They know when to use declarative versus programmatic methods, and can extend the Lightning Platform using Apex and Visualforce.
2018 — present
This certification shows a base level knowledge of how to configure Salesforce to meet common business use cases using standard platform functionality. This certification replaces the Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer.
2024 — present
This certification will validate foundational skills in ethical and responsible handling of data as they apply to AI in CRM.
2015 — 2018
This certification shows a base level knowledge of how to configure Salesforce to meet common business use cases using standard platform functionality.
2002
The highest award a Scout can earn, the Eagle is only obtained by four percent of its members. Members that are awarded the badge of Eagle have to show leadership and service to their community.
2004
The Silver Award was the highest award in the Venturing program of the Boy Scouts of America and is obtained by less than one percent of it's members. Members that are awarded the Silver Award fulfill requirements relating to emergency preparedness, leadership skills, and ethics-in-action.
Solenopsis is a tool born out of necessity. With no good command-line tool to deploy Salesforce code with it was written to meet a need. Solenopsis is a combination of some ANT scripts to do deployment and Python scripts to do easily manage flags and other neat things like templates
A command-line interface for interacting with the Event Monitoring capabilities of Salesforce.
A Chrome and Firefox extension that shows your sandbox version next to your sandbox host.
This hands-on training will help you learn how to use the built-in Salesforce entitlement process to generate milestones on your support cases to help you meet your SLAs.
A collection of applications written to help with usage of Salesforce.
This app will allow you to quickly spin up a website on heroku with a link to your Live Agent chat.
