ROLE: Transition Executive building new systems and translating existing processes after the sale to private equity group TA Assoc for their Advantive portfolio project. My project is now completed.

COMPANY MISSION: Advantive: Purpose-built software for specialty manufacturing

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Helping the Advantive team bring together their new acquisitions, transforming diverse systems into a cohesive hosted operating platform for the portfolio -- to deliver efficiency and excellence as one software organization.
• Reporting to the CPO working to build a Product organization to manage the portfolio's diverse products harmoniously. Working with the emerging IT, Cloud and SalesForce groups to prepare existing systems for integration into the foundational systems coming online.

OBJECTIVES:

• Operate advertising, IT Infrastructure, Domain/DNS, website, and social programs for the existing brand teams to maintain public continuity until merged. 
• Identify migration risks and mitigate them.  
• Identify and codify market alignment and differentiation objectives for the acquisitions.  
• Unify the technology, methods, processes, and platforms into new efficient scalable operations.  
• Drive new technology infrastructure rollouts for new teams.
• Provide expertise on existing technologies to migration teams to ease planning and mapping.
• Provide guidance through the SCRUM steering committee
• ALL WHILE maintaining the expected experience for existing customers and offerings; by Keeping The Business Running.

OUTCOMES:

• Consistently delivered roadmaps, documentation, and systems for integration before the transition date.  Facilitated and assisted transition teams in every conceivable way to get the job done.
• All advertising systems, hosted customers, infrastructure, and public websites exceeded SLAs (99.99%) with no customer-reported outages before the migration start.

BRANDS: (acquired at this stage)

Advantzware, DataNet WinSPC, DDI System Inform Advantage, Distribution One, InfinityQS Proficient Enact, Kiwiplan, PQ Systems SQCPack GAGEpack, VIA Information Tools.

SYSTEMS: (employed so far)

15Five, Apache, Amazon AWS, Azure DevOps, Google GCP, Maria, Oracle NetSuite, OpenAir, Pardot, SalesForce, Ubuntu, WordPress,  Workato, Microsoft / Windows (IIS, Office 365, Server, SharePoint, RDS, Active Directory, SQL)