María del Mar Llambí Morillas on The MVP Show

today's guest is from madrid spain not origin but let's unpack that uh mar lamb i will i'll get it correct it for me is is on the show with me today she works as a technical architect for kpmg she's in her second year as a mvp she loves technology digital transformation has a great passion for things such as public speaking ah politics and dancing awesome is a lover of artery rhetoric and participant in debates competition during her university day so i can

hi Mark. I

i

must say, I know how difficult it is to pronounci my name. So um, it's like a typical catal and surname, But yeah, nice to be here. How are you?

um like good good so tell us what your name is properly

Yes, So my full name, my fullest Spanish name. I know that

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you already had some Spanish collagues in the show, So my full name

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is Maria Vlmar Lamb, Maus, So I have

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middle name and two surnames.

that is so called it's so musical so music i i i i love it

Yeah, I mean, I spend a lot of time with my name every time I have to say it, but it's really nice.

yes absolutely so it's so good to have you on the show and obviously if you're in madrid you didn't originate from adria if you have a cattle and name so tell us a bit about food family and fun that

Mhm.

kind of like everything you do that's not related to work

Yes, so I come from a a small city near Barcelona. I must say, it could be Barcelona. Really nice, Cotly city. So I spendent all my summers near the

i um the person that nine

beach. So it was really nice.

I come

well i got of uh a really helpful understanding of my st at

from a really catal and family, so my surname is Katalan and I must

and

say that the Spanish was not

connect with

my my mother tongue, So I means that I had to learn it at school

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and I start studying at

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City in Barcelona. So Um, there is where I got my software engineering degree. Then I got a master degree and I became

well

crazy, So I went. crazy, So I went. I. I moved to Germany for for work, so I've been there three years, and then when I realized I wanted to come

back is when I decided to go to Madrid

and I love

i don

eating. I love Spanish food. I must say, I'm a really big fan of wine of tapas and going out

and that my

with my friends, And you're right. I

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also love dancing, so I could spend all day long thensing, but I have to work.

yeah how do you find the heat of madrid it's sot there you know as and i've been this when it's been incredibly hot how do you live with that heat

Yeah, that's

yeah that's

that's true. In winter, the the

so

weather iss a really cold weather. so you

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have really low temperatures and I was really used to barcealloona to have a middle weather where. Um. Yeah, in winter is not so cold

i was re because

in summer it's not so hot, but in mydrate. Oh, they

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really live in extremes. Um. in summer it's so hot. People don't go outside. It's really hot.

and

You can reach the forty five forty eight degrees every day. Um,

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it's It's amazing, but I mean you just stay at home, Um, with your conditioned air and

you

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and your fan, and you just look for

for the

the the autumn days and and the winter. but y'sa

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are really hot and warm weather. And before living in Madrid, Um, I didn't know it. it

was so hard.

yeah yeah so true so true so tell me about you know you've talked about university and getting into technology how did you find your pathway that led into business applications power platform dynamics set type

Wow, yeah, um, there is not an easy story behind.

story in

I mean the St's. quite long. Everything start when I was

i recall the story is quite long just start when i was eleven years old

eleven years old and I start Um doing some web pages with H, D, M, ▁l C, S. S. You know, in my family they are really tech passionate, so I was always in touch with the technology and I started being a full stock developer. Um, I never.

and start being a food stack develop um i never

I. I never realized I could be a consultant. Such a

i i never realized that was to

such a this kind of of job. I start as the full

start so

stock developer, and then I start

working by a company as a C. Sharp developer. They, they've been doing

i my watch as the st shark between

extensions for Project Sevena and for

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Sharepot Server, It was two thousand seven, two, two thousand, thirteen versions, and I really love it. I. I loved how

young house mi was i love how microsoft was main focus on the face solution and how

Microsoft. I. I had no clue how Microsoft was really focused on the business solutions and how they they were bringing real bally on

they they were bringing real

on it. And it was it was that The story.

value of ho and was that the story that book we might start looking

After that it was really smoothly. I start working with power apps. Uh, when

now

everything Um cracked out, Um, I start working with poor Automate. And then I realized Ho Camemar,

um r out um i start well today and i realize what they are fixed by

You need to get into Dynamics, So that's the. That's going to be your future for sure. And then

I remember like four years ago I start with the C. R. M by

and then i like i i myself i use the words and sha the p so i start to think myself

myself, because I, I was still working as a sharepot developer, so I start doing things by myself, installing Sra, M, Um, watching videos And then I got my first project as a c, r, M consultant, and I will enjoy it, And then is when I realized I want this to become my my main path. And now look at me, I'm a

and then i realized i was mm

technical architect, Um. I

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work with really big projects

projects with it

implementing dynamics and and

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extending

sending the me

the data sources with Asia,

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and I really love it. I really

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love it.

that is so that is so cool what what type of industries do you boom projects for is it like in the financial sector or you all you know what's your experience being on from an industry perspective

So before K, P, M. G. I worked a lot, Um, with fans, some military companies, Um, Because I

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was living in Germany and they, there are a lot of them in Germany, and also with retail and finance. So this was the three main companies and when I move to

and

Madrid, I start focusing myself in energy, So here in Spain, we have repsol. We have really big,

have

Uh energy companies, And that's my main

and

focus right now,

for one now so i give some financial

So I did some financial small projects, but I really love

the money of management

energy because they, they have a passion way. How to see the digital transformation

because they know that they have to be, Um.

They, they have to be

they

leads on that kind

e

of of transformation in terms of Um, big databases, Um, I analytics. so I focus myself

on on this industry.

wow that this is amazing this is amazing so what do you do um from a community engagement perspective right because as mvps we do stuff that makes the wider community better we help people um as much as we can we know offer our skills to their community what does that mean for you what's your special you know what's your niche niche that you have created that you are that you do for the community

Mm. Um,

If you ask me, Um,

you ask me

what's your main

what's the mean

Um community topic? I'm going to say,

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I love to participate in conferences and to spread about power platform. Um, I think I focus

participating in conferences and um i think

myself a lot in governance. Because of my job, I have to work with

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really enterprise projects, but in terms of pure

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community,

Um, I love to,

I love to put

i don't

something different on it. So for example, um, we have um, a Youtube program, a monthly

program.

around

It's called Power, ▁quith. We do like a online ▁quith, where where people of everywhere

in Spain

and Spain, they connect with us and we have some prices,

february the same

and and people participate,

people

answering some questions,

question and

and we are doing community. We are spreading about Power platform. We are teaching about Power platform, but in a total different way, and I think that there are many ways how you can

how

educate so

the be

you can educate Uh, doing

of

video blogs

block and

and doing typical Um conferences Tech conferences. But I know that in Power Platform there are a lot of business people that they have no clue about technology,

yeah

So I want. I really like to do it.

like to drink like

Like a game like, uh, like, if something fun, it's

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behind everything. behind everything. So if you

you what out

watch out any of my conferences,

pre you see them all my name almost everything i want myself is um i have

you will see that all my demos. everything I do on my block. Um, it has a different touch. I try to do it, Um. I, I try to make it funnier as it is, so I think it helps to understand how everything works.

yeah this is this is awesome and and do you do everything in spanish

No, normally, um, everything ratated with a blog post and video and

no no that everything could be hmm hmm

blocks. I try to wait in Spanish, because

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I think that we still don't have a lot of content about Power

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platform, but I do participate in a lot of conferences worldwide in

why

English, so I will in the Scottish summit this

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June, I will be there and I was today

last day

in the nation the conference about Microsoft teams, So I'd really like to get in touch with the international community as well,

to touch the question well like

so I think it helps also to Um to have some

from

some personal

first of all branding and a personal organization meet

branding and some personal position in the community, but my main focus will always be. The Spanish community and

mmm hmm

the female community. that's my second, my second,

my second pillar. here, I really love

yeah

to to encourage females to to do their first conferences. I really like to support

and she likes to them

them,

so to give them more visibility like this woman in tech that have been always in the

shadow, so trying to put them in the light.

this is good this is good now i have a it's all around this area that i just had somebody reach out to me in the community and they're aspiring to becoming an mvp at some point they are located they are located in europe i forget the country specifically budapest and i think is where they're located and so so one of the things that that came up is that they said there's nobody in in our community doing anything in their language and

Hm.

you know should i should only be you know running events in english should i run i only be blogging in english and that type of thing and of course i've got a lot of other spanish mvp friends that i've met over the years and stuff and what i've loved about the spanish community is very early on they did everything in spanish right they know we're not doing english we're doing the spanish and i think that there's there's a need for more coaches and languages for the the stuff that we do

totally, so

so mad i i couldn't be um su

I' be. I mean, totally aligned with you, and of course, um, it should be always

always want

content in English. So that's the

at the the

the majors, um, spoken language. I think that also in technology, Um, everything is in

English. so it's natural to have content in English. However,

how

if you want people to get closer, if you want really to help people to educate. If you want them to Um yet to make easier the learning path, It will always be better if you do it in their native language. So,

yeah

of course English is a really nice language,

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and of course there are many people who can speak English, but at the end how you think how you transform how you improve yourself is always in your mother tongue. So

yeah

I think that it's also something rich in the community if you bring content in your mother tongue, because you're doing something different, and I'm sure

sure

that it will be someone

someone

in your country that will

s

be really grateful that you did it in your mother tongue. And at the end

yeah

it's content, and as more content as we have, as many people we can

um

reach and as many people we can help so totally

yeah excellent any advice that you would give to to people just touching the power platform for the first time they've come across you know i never find many people that decided i'm going

Mhm.

to have a career in dynamics three hundred sixty five or a career in the power platform right something happened they bumped up against it in their job or whatever and all of a sudden it's on their radar what are kind of those initial steps that you recommend they do to start stretching their power platform muscles or putting their dancing shoes on with the power platform and and really getting involved

So

so

that't really good question. Because as they say, there are many and many people getting into a power platform every

that you

day, So my three big advices will be first of all. Um, try to look for really nice content so there are a lot of M, P, Ps, and other people

um why really nice one a lot of

who are doing really nice Youtube videos and content that you can use to get into

this the one and he should never

the platform. And if you never get in touch and you don't have a tech background,

background

Um, don't worry, so take your time.

time

Um, it will take at the end. it will take time to you

take again and one

to understand how everything is built at the behind, but

but

this process

this process will

its word power platform is about. You start with something tangible that you can have in two three days, and in

and

one year you can have a really big enterprise solution working and built completely using Power Power platform, And my third advice will be Just have fun

and forty five that one

doing whatever you're doing right now. Honestly, So I think that that's the key point in the Power platform. It's like a toy. You

one

can use it whenever you want and how you want, So try to discover it. Um, don't don't get,

it it

um, don't get, um, angry. Something doesn't doesn't work as it should be, and it's always like this in technology, But just put your passion, put your time and everything will come. But my first recommendation is always the same look for really nice youtu, Um block's content because there are plenty of them. there are

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plenty of instructors And and I think that's that's the key thing. that's the keypo here.

awesome okay

Yeah,

let's wrap up i i want you to a couple of things where can people find you on twitter whats

sure,

your twitter twitter handle

yes, my Twitter is a Mar as my name, so m a r undercore as my surname. so y double ▁l A and B. I

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yeah, so rich

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me. I'm a person who really loves to to get in touch with people, So I receive amounts of emails every week. I really

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love to solve troubles and questions, so just reach me if you need anything.

ma thank you so much for coming on the show

Thank you, Mark for having me. It was the pleasure. really.