💡 Candid Conversation with Shashi | EP -12 | Adam Spriggs💡

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 EPISODE 12

    

Adam Spriggs works as Principal Architect for the Global Salesforce Team at Slalom. He is a Salesforce MVP, and co-author of The AMPscript Guide. He had more than 26+ years of experience in the IT Industry.
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"If you don't know who Adam is,
you don't know AMPscript - Shashi" Unquote


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" What others do with talent,
I do with Obstinate fixation - Adam" unquote

Adam walks us through his memory lane, navigating from his childhood, college, and his early career days. He started his career as a Senior Programmer and built software applications, websites, and e-commerce platforms. He got introduced to ExactTarget/Salesforce Marketing Cloud when he joined DEG, a Merkle Company. In DEG he met Jim Nagorka whom he considers his mentor. He considers 2014 to be the pivotal year, and, he has written an article for a Self-help group, here is the link “https://lnkd.in/dtM88H8v
 .”
In 2014, he met Eliot Harper, Kelly 🪄 Andrews, and Tim. Kelly Andrews and Tim were from ExactTarget helping people in Salesforce Stack Exchange - https://lnkd.in/dizZBF39
 with answers.
In DEG, he met Greg Bustamante who led the Engineering Team and Adam respect him a lot.

Links :
Adam's Blog - https://lnkd.in/de9aFHC2

Adam's SFSE - https://lnkd.in/drtVXbAf


Adam met Eliot via StackExchange, where Eliot used to learn by asking questions and Adam learned by answering questions. So they both turned into competitors in StackExchange answering and later shared good bonds. If you are interested in reading the competition go to the 2014-2016 question-answer here - “https://lnkd.in/djhZPiMA
 ”
He opens up about memorizing and overthinking, what Sasee Prasad calls “Programming Syndrome”. He went on to explain context switching and work/life balance to counter Programming Syndrome. He explains the challenge of how they started with writing “The AMPscript Guide” and publishing the book and website.
Amazon - https://lnkd.in/dCzGckG9

Website - https://lnkd.in/gEYxd-iU


In a candid conversation with Shashi, Adam talks about Eliot Harper as a “mnemonist “. Shashi requests Adams' help to bring Eliot Harper for a candid conversation. He also shares his excruciating experience in writing Syntax highlighters for AMPscript, regex, and programming jokes. Adam opens up with his illuminating exploration of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud and his “Game Changer” moments.

Adam’s Lookup blog - https://lnkd.in/d_7xEYK3


Read the video descriptions to know more about Adam Spriggs

Part 1 : ▶️ https://lnkd.in/dtz-dMfa

Part 2 : ▶️ https://lnkd.in/dRZK5gqX

Part 3 : ▶️ https://lnkd.in/dbDDA-cN

Part 4 : ▶️ https://lnkd.in/dtHK5_fR

Part 5 : ▶️ https://lnkd.in/dtHK5_fR


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