Civic Elevator
I was the founding CEO of Civic Elevator, which was created in April 2020. I remain a minority shareholder in the company. Here’s a look at my work there.
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Kickoff: Next Phase Enhancement of Legacy Product
Today we kicked off a project to help develop the next phase of a legacy elevator monitoring product with a deep installed base to move it from 1990s software to a modern web-based infrastructure and interface. The scope includes decoupling software functionality into separate integrated products, migrate to AWS, add more network tools for trace…
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Trade Show: Elevator Conference of New York / ECNY Annual Supplier Conference
Today the team and I displayed UpVate at the annual ECNY Showcase at Villa Barone on Throgs Neck Expressway.
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Civic Elevator All Hands #2, Long Island City
Today I led our second annual All Hands meeting here at Civic Elevator. I presented our plans for the integration of products from UpVate, Civic Site Service, and the home-grown tools we’ve developed at Civic from Day One. The one-day meeting was bracketed by onsite client meetings.
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Intranet Knowledge Sharing Platform
Here’s some work we did at Civic Elevator on a system for pulling together the knowledge of geographically disbursed team members working across a dozen of newly acquired companies. This is one of the most common initial instincts in any consolidation effort– we’re certain that pulling together the intelligence of skilled people and getting them…
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Workshop: Headline Ideation at Client Executive Retreat
Today I conducted a workshop for 60 people at the offsite retreat of a large Civic Elevator customer. The purpose was to gather a wide set of objectives at the local business level in order to map efforts to the larger corporate strategy, which Civic has helped develop through extensive technology consulting.
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Lead Generation Tool on Civic Elevator
This month we launched a minimum viable product for a lead generation tool based on public data and commercially available business records. Here’s our overview: Here’s an example of installed base— a search on Civic of more than 40,000 elevators in Pennsylvania: The result is a custom list of targets with detailed phone, email, and…
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2021 In Review at Civic Elevator
As we close the year, here’s a look at some of what we achieved in 2021: Looking forward to 2022!
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Acquisiton of UpVate
Today I helped Civic Elevator close the purchase of UpVate, maker of the leading elevator compliance software in New York City and Massachusetts. Civic will be absorbing UpVate’s team members into our existing operation.
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Remote Team Building for Data Management
An essential part of our work at Civic Elevator is entering large amounts of data from customer records into a central database. This helps the customer reduce costs and stay focused on revenue-generating activities while helping us build expertise.
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Civic Elevator Brand & Marketing Strategy
Today at Civic we completed work on our go to market strategy, with a complete take on how we incorporate our recent acquisitions into the corporate identity. Here’s some of the components: