Experience

A 25-year timeline: Salesforce, Arkus, community, and Getting Things Done®.

  • 2000On November 3, I signed up for a young web app called Salesforce while running IT for a small startup.
  • Wall Street yearsFounded and ran a Central Salesforce Office covering five production orgs at a Wall Street firm.
  • 2004Started practicing Getting Things Done®. My first consistent weekly review was on January 15, 2005.
  • 2009First post under my byline on the Arkus blog (August 2009). More than 400 items have followed.
  • 2010Co-founded Arkus and served as COO for twelve years (2010–2022). Launched CloudFocus Weekly (episode #1, July 2010).
  • 2012Named a Salesforce MVP (June 2012).
  • 2019Guest on David Allen's Getting Things Done podcast: Episode 48, “Installing GTD in an Organization.”
  • 2020CloudFocus Weekly wrapped with episode #317 (December 2020).
  • 2022Became CEO of Arkus (December 2022).
  • 2023Inducted into the Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame (ceremony September 11, 2023). Spoke at Dreamforce on lessons from 20 years in the ecosystem.
  • 2024Passed 1,000 GTD weekly reviews (March 2024). Talks at TDX24, World Tour NYC, Texas, Montréal, Mile High, and Northeast Dreamin’.
  • 2025Arkus turned 15, with 800+ clients and 2,800 projects. Wrote “25 Years in the Salesforce Ecosystem” (November 2025).
  • 2026Talks at Nonprofit Dreamin', MidAtlantic Dreamin', and Dreamforce 2 U Denver.

For the full résumé and certifications, see LinkedIn and my Trailblazer profile.