MEET OUR TEAM
We’re an eclectic group of Salesforce architects, consultants, developers, designers, and strategists. We are coffee drinkers, anglers, artists, hikers, pop culture enthusiasts, and animal lovers. And we are committed to doing and delivering our best work.
SALESFORCE ARCHITECT
Joe Vance
SALESFORCE ARCHITECT
Matthew Steiner
SOLUTION ARCHITECT
Chris Wojciak
MARKETING CLOUD PRACTICE LEAD
Andy Carlson
DATA CONSULTANT
Gunnar Bickel
Joe Vance
Salesforce Architect
About Joe
For more than 30 years now, Joe has seen and done it all, the last 16+ years spent in the Salesforce ecosystem as both a client and consultant. A soft-spoken sage, Joe possesses 19 Salesforce certifications running the gamut, from Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect to Field Service Consultant and CPQ Specialist. His diverse background includes IT Consulting, Service Center, Enterprise Sales, Sales Operations, Account Management, Recruiting and Executive Management.
Skills & Notables
• Business Process Analysis & Reengineering
• Client-centric Value Proposition & Differentiation
• Salesforce Design
• Successfully clawed his way down the corporate ladder
Matthew Steiner
Salesforce Architect
About Matthew
When it comes to IT and Salesforce, Matthew has it all. This Minnesotan has over 20 years of experience, been a Salesforce community member since 2009, has 12 Salesforce certifications, and is a Salesforce Triple Star Ranger. Matthew brings a polite, passionate, organized, methodical, and detail-oriented approach to projects big and small while driving results through innovation, efficiency, and process improvement.
Skills & Notables
• Process Optimization
• Project Management
• DevOps
• Faithfully believes this season (2024-25) is gonna be the Vikings’
Chris Wojciak
Solution Architect
About Chris
A would-be professional angler, Chris has successfully navigated the waters of the Salesforce ecosystem for more than a decade. Chris excels at casting a line bridging the gap between the business and technical worlds, providing insight and understanding to all phases of project planning and execution. With clear communication, honest collaboration, and solutions that simply work, any-fin is possible.
Skills & Notables
• Salesforce Administrator & Platform App Builder Certifications
• Strategic Planning
• Project Leadership & Execution
• Fished in 5 Countries, 7 States, and Completed 2 Trout Grand Slams
• Believes he’s found the secret to reversing the aging process
Andy Carlson
Marketing Cloud Practice Lead
About Andy
Often mistaken for an NPR program host or popular audiobook narrator, Andy’s expertise goes well beyond the Lead/Customer lifecycle extending to conceptual and actionable marketing automation theory. With a resume that dates back to the end of Grunge, he boasts 12 years consulting in the Salesforce eco-system, as well as marketing leadership positions focused on practice growth for both SI and ISV. Andy understands how Salesforce Cloud solutions allow marketers to focus on the efforts that generate interest and help sales close deals through informed, data-driven campaigns, and actionable analytics.
Skills & Notables
• 11 x Salesforce Certifications, including Data Architect, Data Cloud Consultant, Marketing Cloud Administrator, Consultant, and Email Specialist, Pardot Consultant and Specialist, Sales Cloud Consultant, Tableau CRM and Einstein Discovery Consultant
• 350+ successful Pardot and Marketing Cloud implementation projects
• Shockingly good swimmer that prefers to ski
Gunnar Bickel
Data Consultant
About Gunnar
For some seeing the World in the binary scroll of ‘The Matrix’ is off-putting, but for a data geek like Gunnar, he is right at home amidst all the numbers. In fact, Gunnar specializes in leveraging and unlocking a client’s data to find the answer to their business inquiries. An enthusiastic data dissectologist, he revels in the process of collaborating with clients and companies to help them solve industry-specific puzzles piece by piece.
Skills & Notables
• Master of Science in Business Analytics
• Preferred mode of transportation: Unicycle