Enthusiasm

So the big event has come. Many people were here, more than I expected and much more people that I didn’t know already including a gentleman from Global Insight, Ira Herenstein. The event opened up with some really big visionary statements by Mark Wysong that set the tone for the week. Over the next few days I will keep my thoughts relatively generic because I’m sure we want to keep much of what was discussed under corporate wraps (I’ll just stick to my thoughts and personal “gotchas” for mental keepsake). Meeting people is fun and even more so getting to talk with some people that I’ve only met once back at the ESP user conference. On in particular gave me some compliments on how well I’ve turned ecoAsset around and gotten the thing from disorganized to highly organized and on track. I learned more about REACH and it’s requirements as it comes to the CLM side of the business. I had only had brief understand of it before, but now I see why it’s such a big deal learning more about it.

About half way through the day I met Michael Lehane who not only met but exceeded my expectations in enthusiasm and results orientation. I gave him a drink from the fire hose because he needed to be prepared for the discussion tomorrow. Hours flew by in what felt like minutes and before I knew it, I was being pulled into a meeting with Andrew and my other colleagues. We talked more about resource allocation and Andrew made comments about how Brian might be pulled to be the head of Environment wide UI development and not just focused on Eco and then he joked “Heck and Victor could be pulled into Project Management” or something to that effect. I was a bit shocked by his comment since I was only now starting to feel comfortable in my current role. We had dinner and talked more about many things related to architecture and vision. Tomorrow is going to be interesting and really will set the pace of the rest of the week for my product line anyhow.