Dynamics Profile: For Greg Olsen, Life as a CRM MVP Is Just Ducky

Looking to read about the latest Microsoft Dynamics CRM news, tips, tricks, and insights? You might want to try a little duck hunting.

If you do, you'll find the Yellow Duck Guy blog of Greg Olsen, a two-time Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP based in Auckland, New Zealand.

A solutions architect at Microsoft partner Sable37, and the leader of the New Zealand CRM xRM User Group, Olsen started working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM in 2005 with version 1.2.

Just about a year later, Olsen decided he wanted to develop a site where he could "share my experiences, findings, resolutions to errors and a general reference site to support me when I'm working on customer projects." So pushing aside concerns about the time commitment necessary to keep such a site updated, he set about creating a blog.

But what to name it?

"I wanted to create an icon that wasn't named after me, i.e., Greg," he says. "I have yellow ducks on my desk and I do a lot of duck hunting, so I thought the name Yellow Duck Guy fit well."

Olsen started his Dynamics CRM career with Intergen Ltd. in Auckland, where he worked as a CRM technical lead in charge of the technical solution for the customer until 2012.

"I started doing a lot of projects across all different industries with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, and that was when I started doing development," he says. "And I continued moving through all the versions ...