The unglamorous systems years

I joined as a student and was handed whatever needed doing. Almost none of it was strategic and all of it was real.

• Led the IT design and build-out of two new offices, coordinating suppliers and cross-functional teams.
• Designed and implemented an internal information system for the employee experience team.
• Implemented a warehouse management system that improved logistics and inventory tracking.
• Implemented and managed Mishmarot, a company work scheduling system.
• Ran IT department scheduling, resources and equipment, and managed equipment sales to employees.
• Built a complete in-house retail system for plant sales, run four times a year: a barcode for every plant, four cash registers working simultaneously, and receipts itemizing every transaction.
• Connected the sale system to payroll, so purchases flowed through for payment automatically. Designed, developed and deployed end to end, coordinated across departments.

• Three years of shipping systems that people used the next morning, with no room for anything theoretical.
• The foundation for everything after it: you cannot help people adopt a system if you have never had to keep one running.