1, The impossible, we did it as a team.
Ten months ago, I don’t know that I would have said this was possible. The first major project we took on as a team was project Horizon – we all gathered in a room full of very seasoned and professional individuals from HR, who outlined the project, what had to be delivered and by when. We had no data team; we had no tools to create APIs, and we had no cloud infrastructure or anyone on the team capable of designing or implementing the solution....

6 months ago, my cell phone started to light up; it was late at night, and it takes three consecutive calls to come through for the phone to ring, and man, it was on fire. Calls, texts and a series of emails progressively getting stronger in the nature of alerting - an issue critical, system failure pending. I began to read the last communication first to see that my Salesforce CRM system was only now 2% away from completely crashing. I quickly got my team on the phone to understand what was...

I started to have my suspicions about how secure this network was and how compliant was the enterprise, strange things were happening in day-to-day processes and provisioning requests. Without SSO how did all the system accounts have the same user password to log in with? It was an interesting question that I asked myself. I was now into my second week at Solar, and being invited to a SOX meeting with some very serious partners KPMG and PWC, to talk SOX. Having prepared for SOX auditors...