Roland Etcheverry

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  Speakers:Roland Etcheverry, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer, Champion Technologies

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  trends are next," said Roland Etcheverry, Ph.D., CIO of ChampionTechnologies and a featured presenter at this fall's conference."Personal

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  Roland Etcheverry, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer, Champion Technologies
  
  Mid-size businesses face unique challenges from data growth, yet systems are limited to radically improve productivity.Faced with an aging SAP system, Champion took a giant lead into the world of virtualization and next-generation data protection to improve productivity and reduce costs.As a result, it delivered a world class system on an open systems architecture that provides operations with 24x7x365 production systems.Dr. Etcheverry will discuss the challenges faced with an aging SAP system and the choices made to better manage storage.He'll explain how virtualization brought productivity to his staff, and discuss his use of disk-to-disk technology to eliminate backup windows and downtime.Finally, he will discuss the evolving DR strategy to meet DP needs at remote locations.

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  When Roland Etcheverry signed on as chiefinformation officer of Champion Technologies in 2004, the company was riding the oil and gas boom.
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  Etcheverry discovered soon after coming on board that Champion's SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, which was housed on an IBM AS/400 computer, was in desperate need of an upgrade.Reliability and performance were deteriorating as more users were added to the system.
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  "Our goal is to be No. 1 in this business," Etcheverry says, "but our systems weren't up to the challenge."
  
  Over the past two years, Etcheverry and his team at Champion set about to fix those problems.Their solution, which included implementing a virtual storage system, yielded a number of unexpected benefits, including a much more streamlined and reliable disaster-recovery system.
  
  The first challenge the technology department tackled was its network issues.As Etcheverry says, "We tried to focus our people on the things that would have the most impact on our day-to-day business."
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  Etcheverry, working with consulting partner RealTech, a German-based SAP specialist, first considered installing a newer, more powerful AS/400, at a cost of about $485,000.But Etcheverry wasn't keen to remain on the AS/400.For starters, he found it difficult to hire quality AS/400 programmers.Recruiting searches had proved expensive and didn't produce the quality of candidates he expected.His preference instead was to convert over to a Wintel (Windows/Intel) platform, which would offer him a wider range of hardware and software choices, as well as a much bigger talent pool.
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  Etcheverry already had some experience implementing a virtual SAN (storage area network) at his previous employer, Cameron International, another Houston oil and gas specialty firm, and had gained an appreciation for the cost and ease of expansion benefits it provided.
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  "Our old ,disaster recovery, system was outdated, and we had strong doubts whether we could continue to run our environment seamlessly if there were a disaster," Etcheverry says.

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  Roland Etcheverry
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  Roland Etcheverry, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer, Champion Technologies

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  Roland Etcheverry
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  Roland Etcheverry, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer, Champion TechnologiesRoland is the Chief Information Office (CIO) at Champion Technologies, a chemicals manufacturer for the oil and gas industry.Roland is in charge of all IT operations globally for the business and recently led his team in the rebuilding of the company's entire IT infrastructure to streamline system operations.Before joining Champion in 1994, Etcheverry served as Vice President, IT at Cooper Compression where he reorganized the provision of IT services in order to significantly reduce staffing and costs.Before that he spent seven years at Ingersoll-Rand as part of both the Air Solutions Group and the Centrifugal Compressor Division and eight years at EAC Systems as Director of the Automated Systems Department.

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  Roland Etcheverry, VP, Information Technology
  
  Roland Etcheverry came to Cooper Energy Services in October 2001 as Vice President, Information Technology and Systems.Prior to this, Roland was Manager, Information Technology for the Centrifugal Compressor Division of Ingersoll-Rand.
  
  Other experience includes ownership and operation of an information technology consultation business focused on the public sector and Manager, Systems for the Energy Answers Corporation.Roland holds a BS degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Master degree and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.He has held teaching positions at both the State University of New York and the University of Michigan.

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  The company was relocating its corporate headquarters and Roland Etcheverry, vice president of IT for Cooper Compression, was challenged with purchasing a new phone system to replace the existing 10-year old Private Branch Exchange (PBX)-based system, in addition to implementing a call center and IP faxing solution.
  
  "The whole project focused on finding the right call center because we were not effectively managing our after-market sales and customers were reporting that they'd be on hold for a long time or had been dropped off the system," says Etcheverry."We were losing money because of our sales management."
  
  Etcheverry and his team looked at different communications solutions for the five major sites and the 25 smaller sites that would be included in the new system roll out.
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  "We typically prefer to work with bigger companies, and the competing bid on this project was 10 times the size of eNETsolutions," says Etcheverry.
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  "Our business is unique in that we have some legacy product lines and a limited number of people who can offer broad support," says Etcheverry."The new system offers automatic call distribution which better utilizes our staff."In addition, the automatic call distribution helps ensure that no customer service calls are missed.
  
  "In our business, a customer is calling because their equipment is down and they need to place an order," says Etcheverry.

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  Roland Etcheverry Ph. D., Vice President of Information Technology for both CES and CTC, stated: "We selected TDCI to assist with our SAP implementation because their SAP EXPRESS methodology and toolset will significantly speed the data migration process.

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  "Our old analog system was not large enough, so we had to either go forward with updating the old phone system or do something different," says Roland Etcheverry, vice president of information technology at Cooper Compression.
  
  Why only 10 days?Turns out the corporate-approval process for Cooper Compression's major IT projects had recently changed, so by the time Etcheverry got the green light for the capital expenditure, there was only a little more than a week to go before the big move.In preparation, Etcheverry had been in talks with two local solution providers--eNET for a Cisco IP Communications Solution, which it had worked with in the past, and another company he wouldn't name for an Avaya analog/digital hybrid solution.
  
  The Friday he received approval, Etcheverry called both solution providers to see if they could give him a definite answer on completing the project in time for the move.
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  Plus, "it was clear their pricing wasn't in the ballpark of what the Cisco solution would be for us," says Etcheverry, adding that he kept getting the feeling the provider was trying to sell a hybrid model, even though Etcheverry was set on a straight VoIP solution.
  
  "We needed all of our phone, printing and faxing on one network.We had a coherent plan to centralize around an active directory, and we wanted a solution that played to the future, not to the past," Etcheverry says."But they kept making the case that it's a high-risk move to VoIP."
  
  But Etcheverry says he wasn't convinced."I've been researching VoIP for about four years, and I know we're not in the first awakening moments of VoIP.Cisco is the largest and fastest player in VoIP," he explains.
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  Laflin assured Etcheverry that the crucial pieces of the solution had already been ordered and that Cisco was working with them to divert inventory to their project to get it done ASAP.

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