April Dunnam on MVP Show

Jun 5, 2019

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Personal background – living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the local food scene
April's focus on the Microsoft Business Applications arena – PowerApps and Flow
Has Flow replaced the former workflow tools that were in SharePoint?
Professional background – working on InfoPath
Thoughts on PowerApps and Flow replacing old InfoPath form
How PowerApps compares to InfoPath around the native functionality to print a document, and thoughts on Microsoft addressing this issue
The main thing that April thinks is necessary for the print functionality within PowerApps
Experience attending the MVP Summit for the first time
Building apps in Azure SQL and SharePoint
Thoughts on Common Data Service playing into the future of what she does
Being one of the MVPs that is also a business owner – about ThriveFast
Her #1 tip for picking up customers for a consulting business
The meaning behind her titles SharePoint Siren, Automation Princess, and Karaoke Queen
Being a music fan and interests outside of singing
Journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP, being mentored by Melissa Hubbard and other MVPs
Where she sees PowerApps and Flow are going in the near future
Thoughts on AI and where she thinks it is going and whether it’s going to impact our lives more
Thoughts on how AI will affect her job or personal role 5 years from now – building the right code, understand business models, create new ways of looking at them and developing technology
Training resources for somebody to get up to speed CDS and the model-driven side of things
Advice to people become effective at public speaking and talking about IT-based topics
Tips for public speaking – preparation, creating content, presentation/demo

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