Joyce Avila

Data & AI Strategist | Certified Public Accountant (CPA) | Author - O’Reilly Salesforce AI | 24x Salesforce - Slack - Tableau Certified | Author - O’Reilly Snowflake Definitive Guide | Snowflake Data Superhero 2019 -

Role
Advisory Council Member at Harvard Business Review
Location
Arlington, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Joyce Avila

A business and technology leader with a unique well-rounded blend of formal education, entrepreneurship, career employment, and volunteer activities that allowed me to develop significant leadership skills, gain valuable marketing and operational management experience and hone my software development talents.Key Strengths: Excels at synthesizing knowledge, producing thought-leadership analysis, developing strategic roadmaps, and creating highly technical written and video content.Highlighted Technical Skills: Hands-on development within many Salesforce clouds and several Snowflake workloads. Modern cloud architecture design and data modeling techniques. Expert in survey questionnaire design. Agile scrum project management in Jira and Asana.Industry Experience: Banking & Insurance, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Nonprofit, Manufacturing, Retail, CMT, Public Sector and EducationVolunteer Experience: Snowflake Dallas User Group Chapter Leader, Slack Dallas User Group Chapter Leader, Salesforce Trailblazer Mentor, Merivis Coach, Dallas Makerspace Public Relations Committee Member, e-NABLE VolunteerAuthor of the O\'Reilly Salesforce AI book:https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/salesforce-ai/97••••••••95/Author of the O\'Reilly Hands-On Salesforce Data Cloud book:https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-salesforce-data/97••••••••53/Author of the O\'Reilly Snowflake Definitive Guide book:https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/snowflake-the-definitive/97••••••••11/I also produce Salesforce and Snowflake YouTube videos for the benefit of the community:

Experience

  1. Advisory Council Member

    Harvard Business Review

    Aug 2024 — Present

    Harvard Business Review (HBR) Advisory Council is a research community of professionals who provide insights to help shape the content of HBR and add a perspective on the world of management and leadership.

Education

  • Trailhead by Salesforce

    Salesforce

    2017

  • Salesforce Military

    Salesforce

    2019

  • Texas A&M University-Kingsville

    Bachelor's Degree, Accounting and Business/Management

    1990

  • California State University, Fresno

    Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Accounting

    1993 — 1994

  • The University of Texas at Arlington

    Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

    2013 — 2020

  • The University of Texas at Arlington

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - coursework completed, Accounting Information Systems

    1996 — 2001

  • ☁ Snowflake University

    Snowflake (Cloud Data Platform)

    2019

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