So I had my first day today at AvePoint. Was really impressed as over the weekend the whole company had moved from 8th floor to new 9th floor location. Everything was working great so kudos to the IT and HR team organising this!
Got to meet lots of new people today, I apologise in advance if I've forgotten your names by tomorrow ;-)
Typical first day morning, with a thorough induction into the Compan workings, filling out forms and having a good chin wag with my new manager, Mario Carvajal. Mario is the Vice President of Financial Services and Engineering Services. You may have seen him at SharePoint Saturdays etc. in the past. I'll be working extremely closely with him on opportunities and really looking forward to learning from him.
I will be initially focusing on my Enterprise Architect role which will entail a presales and a advisory role for Enterprise Customers in New York and New Jersey primarily.
US Business Culture
A learning curve I really hadn't thought too much about is the business culture of the US compared to Australia. Things operate a little differently here and will have to adjust my sales approach to this.
Training
My afternoon was spent switching my brain to sponge mode learning about the AvePoint DocAve Platform from John Peluso in the Training department. I was really impressed with all the collatoral for the training "brain dump" of the platform and all the suites. It's great to see such a mature outlook on training, compared to what I have experienced in the Service Integrator world.
Platform power!
I had the overall run down on the Platform and also on the Data Protection and Migration Suites. I really wasn't aware at the Enterprise depth and bredth of these Suites and how there just is nothing on the market that compares with them. I'm really looking forward to getting my teeth into evangelising this product with all my heart & soul, extending my love already for the underlying SharePoint platform! Watch this space!