{"id":101,"date":"2017-12-29T17:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinsenterprises.com\/LEVINSENTERPRISES\/?p=101"},"modified":"2017-12-29T18:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T18:14:47","slug":"emerson-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinsenterprises.com\/LEVINSENTERPRISES\/2017\/12\/29\/emerson-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerson Electric &#038; Werner Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-57 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.levinsenterprises.com\/LEVINSENTERPRISES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1024px-Emerson_Electric_Company.svg_-e1514570289384-300x132.png?resize=300%2C132\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ken was contacted by the divestiture team lead at Emerson Electric to help the overloaded staff during the $1.4B divestiture of one of their divisions.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.levinsenterprises.com\/LEVINSENTERPRISES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/WernerLogo.png?resize=300%2C120\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.levinsenterprises.com\/LEVINSENTERPRISES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/WernerLogo.png?resize=300%2C120&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.levinsenterprises.com\/LEVINSENTERPRISES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/WernerLogo.png?w=574&amp;ssl=1 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ken was retained as an executive consultant by the CIO at Werner Ladder to provide oversight and guidance on multiple projects.\u00a0Werner was in the process of multiple international acquisitions on their way to becoming the largest ladder manufacture in the world.\u00a0 Among the projects that Ken was responsible or integral were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design of a follow-the-sun with skill\/language based call centers in the US, Philippines &amp; United Kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>Developing a global call center architecture and identifying, qualifying and recommending cloud-based uCaaS providers (Unified Communications as a Service)<\/li>\n<li>Integration of new acquisitions into their ERP system<\/li>\n<li>Integration of Werner&#8217;s engineering systems across multiple continents and time-zones<\/li>\n<li>Establishing multiple geo-sensitive websites to assure performance in Asia Pacific, EMEA and North American locations utilizing AWS services<\/li>\n<li>Providing technology guidance and oversight on the build of a new manufacturing plant in Vietnam<\/li>\n<li>Renegotiation international services contracts for telecom and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken was contacted by the divestiture team lead at Emerson Electric to help the overloaded staff during the $1.4B divestiture of one of their divisions. 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