034: Training Veterans on Salesforce with Joe Castro

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joe Castro is Chief Technology Officer at Appirio and Co-founder of the Merivis Foundation. He is a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect who continues to pursue programming as a hobby and professionally whenever possible. Today, Joe and I discuss his passion for educating others, and his work with Merivis, an organization dedicated to helping military veterans get back in the workplace through Salesforce skills. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The story of how Hector Perez Jr. and Joe came together to co-found Mervis Organization, fulfilling the desire to provide veterans an opportunity to transition into great jobs at Salesforce. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some advantages that military experience brings to somebody trying to learn the Salesforce ecosystem.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joe describes the Mervis method and why he thinks it's been so successful.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We talk about specific solutions Joe, Hector, and the team are using to help with training and education.  </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">After Hector and Joe realized they couldn't run the Mervis program on email, they decided to run it on Salesforce. Joe shares that story.  </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Trailhead changed the strategy of training Veterans on Salesforce. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the strategies Joe uses for training people in architecture.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://twitter.com/joehcastro"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Joe on Twitter</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joehcastrojr/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Joe on Lin