Adam is an extremely thoughtful, competent, helpful, smart and supportive co-worker. Working on a project with Adam obliterates any worries about things going wrong or not getting done – he is that good!

Adam is a very talented person and whichever company hires him, will be the better for it. His time here will have lasting importance and I will often reference him as one of the change ambassadors that helped to move us in a different direction.

Adam is one of the most talented and conscientious people I’ve ever worked with. I worked elbow-to-elbow with him for about one year, providing support and training for new users of the Canvas LMS at UC Berkeley.

By the nature of the job, as well as adjoining desks, I was able to see what Adam was about, close-up. When I arrived in the department, it was Adam’s work attitude that showed me that I had arrived in the right place. In an environment with varying (and sometime conflicting) priorities Adam’s work ethic was always about, “What’s the next thing for me to dive into? What’s the next task that I can be productive on?” Adam had a high-energy attitude which was infectious, on the job. In some ways, I would say that I reacted to him as a leader. Adam has a great way of communicating an esprit-de-corps around high performance standards.

Whenever something came up that needed to be done, I always saw Adam approach it with good cheer, and the professional insights that only come from long experience with computers and users. Adam is a terrific communicator. Whenever I watched him teach a class about how to use Canvas, I always learned something — either about the software, or how to teach it, or both. When working with service tickets, Adam held his work to high standards, and was always willing to teach a co-worker about how they could reach that standard, as well.

There are few trainers who can match Adam in his technical expertise. Yet when he’s talking to someone whose expertise with computers is weak, Adam has an easygoing attitude that quickly lets them know that he’s on their side, and things are going to go easier than they expected.

Any organization that brings Adam Falkenberg on board will have a valuable asset, both for the tech side that only his colleagues see, and the “meet the public” side that users see.