Congratulations to Weekly Reader on the success of their recent upgrade.  It was a big project, as they were migrating four versions ahead in Advantage and also moving several ancillary systems to new servers, all of which had to be coordinated and synchronized.

Marcia Smith, Vice President of IT and Fulfillment at WRC, was delighted with the success of their upgrade.  On Monday, after going live over the weekend, she sent an email to everyone involved saying:

“Thank you all for working together to get us where we are this morning – a truly great job!!  A special call out to Susanne Goebel and Steve Petersen for their great leadership and perseverance throughout this project.  And it was all done smoothly and with great communication and handoffs between the teams during the past few months, but particularly this past weekend. “

She also applauded “The ‘never say done’ devotion of the ACS Advantage team to get the upgrade area ready and then enhance the scripts to run within a 48-hour window.”

On the ACS side, Project Manager Doug Moore had nothing but praise for the team’s work.  Martha Krieg did an excellent job as the application engineer, while Larry Kleber was tireless in running scripts.  Ray Zick, Howie Brooks and Toby Hartman stepped in to assist at crucial moments in order to make the target go-live dates.  Project Director Paul DesRosiers and Senior Account Manager Ken Darnell were also involved along the way in the seven-month project, which came in on time and within budget.

Kudos to everyone involved!