Meet David

My name is David Carnes and I started my journey on the Salesforce platform back in 2005.  Prior to that I managed many types of corporate systems and websites. I even tried my hand at Web app development and Excel VBA programming.  While working for 3 software companies, I became fixated on the intersection between business operations and technology. After years of dealing with various platforms, painful upgrades, hacker attempts, backups, and hardware failures, upon first seeing Salesforce I asked, “Where have you been all my life?”

Over the years I’ve enjoyed attending more than 10 Dreamforce conferences. A few years back I started volunteering at each World Tour event I attend. You can also find me on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Why Dashboard Dōjō?

Over the past few years I’ve had the fun to go deep on Salesforce Reports and Dashboards, tinkering in dev orgs, tweeting things I find, and speaking at events around the world. In my 20s, I spent 3 years in Japan, first as a student in Tokyo, then as a teacher on the JET Program in Himeji. I visited martial arts dojos and loved seeing people at various skill levels committed to learning together. The idea of Dashboard Dōjō came to me as a place for people who want to improve their Salesforce reporting skills to meet and learn together on a regular basis.

My path included 4+ years as a part-time third-party instructor teaching Salesforce’s ADM-201 (starting in 2005!) and ADM-301 courses. The big thrills of teaching were occasionally training Salesforce employees and parachuting into huge companies that were adopting the platform. Since then I wrote my own materials and have been teaching the OpFocus 5 day Salesforce Platform Configuration and Administration Essentials Course for 10+ years and the OpFocus 2 day Salesforce Hands-on Reporting Workshop for 5+ years.

David’s Salesforce Certifications