A Day to remember

Today was a very exciting day for me personally at work today. I know most of you are probably saying, "Work, exciting.... I don't think so". Anyways, so today I had a huge oppotunity to present a major presentation to executive management at BB. There was several different levels of management involvement in this meeting from support, Product Development, product management all the way up the chain to the big daddy executive levels.

So, what was this presentation about? I was asked by my management team to present on the ADI (Advanced Data Integration) projects I've worked on in the past 2 years. They wanted me to pin point out all of the struggles we've had as a team in a project by project review. Our struggles are with the software application that BB Product development and the direction our sales team is positioning this product to solve all our clients integration needs.

The objective was to provide information to our executives that will demonstrate the need for us to greatly improve our integration products. I had to spend 1 - 2 hours going over these projects and demonstrate all of our product issues to the management team. In doing so I made it completely obvious that our current integration product was not meeting our needs in the services organization and is not meeting our client needs.

So you say... Who cares, right? Well, in doing this I was able to get some much needed exposure on what my capabilities are as a developer and how I could solve this problem. I've already been called into other meetings because of this and went to dinner tonight to discuss this more.

I think that I may have created a huge project for myself in product development that will allow me to hire some more developers to complete a new product line for BB. I've been asked to create some more slides to describe how I'd go about doing this in a non-techincal manner so that we can get this pushed through the approval chain.

Now the easy part, I just gotta put my tech skills to work and make this happen!