Below The Fold

It was probably the most challenging week of my professional career.

Last week was a week of 12-hour days; bookended by long trips on the Light Rail. Although a round-trip ticket is half the price of a day’s parking downtown, I don’t think I’m a fan of the lost time; I can make it from home to work in less than 30 minutes by car, even during rush hour. It’s an hour and 10 minutes if I do the park-and-ride from 9 Mile.

Commuting aside, I walked in on Monday, one week prior to the launch of the new site. Being the only one on board with a Knowledge Management background, I was handed a manual and a login to the KM system and told to get to work. No one had had any time to learn the system themselves, so I spent the rest of the week building a Knowledgebase and designing an internal ticket routing system pretty much by the seat of my pants. My questions about setting up processes and permissions were met with, “It’s your call, man.”

It’s about as far removed from the ploddingly slow, file-20-requistions-and-forms-and-wait-3-months-for-approval approach of my last world as you can possibly get.

I’m surrounded by amazingly smart and talented people; and at least one of my childhood heroes. There’s a maverick approach to everything that’s done here, and VPs are doing things like helping me find a more comfortable chair. The all-staff meeting last week had 18 people in it. The COO, CFO and CEO all bring so much to the table—the amount of experience in the room was staggering. They’re all committed to the same vision, and I had a pretty big taste of the Kool-Aid myself last week.

This next week is rubber-hit-road, and hopefully will be met with cheers from the world. If nothing else, I certainly learned to treasure sleep…

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On a separate note, check out this new site: the Denver Band Wife. She’s snarky and funny and obviously knows what she’s talking about. 

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Oh,and if you get the chance, pop on down to Golf Galaxy in Park Meadows some time. I picked up a killer, slightly used, off-set Cobra 5-wood there for $50—and another $3 for a new grip (plus $3 to have them put it on). Ask for Mark. He fixed Amy’s driving swing in two seconds (never mind the fact that he told her to do the same thing I’ve been telling her to do for months; he just, “said it the right way!”