It's all good so far

Starting this one while compressed in an airline seat in route to Pittsburg. While I have been in the job a little more than two months, I am still not to the point of routine. There is a lot of travel to be done. I need to see each of the facilities so that I can understand the issues, practices, and level of care given/needed at each.

I have been given the policy and the charge to assist the facilities in implementing it successfully. I am designing the infrastructure with both tools and procedures. Letting folks know what we need to do, and giving them a means of doing it. Getting feedback from them so we can prioritize issues and training.

Building tools that are accessible and scalable, tools that can grow as the company grows. I also need to be sure the tools make compliance easier for the facilities and I need the tools to provide the data I need to measure progress.

The first challenge is getting the data in. I need to know what we have and how we are currently handling it. I do already know that we have four accounting systems and I am getting cooperation from accounting that will help get vendors, volumes, and costs. It will also get me access to third party records.

I also need facility data, the who does what and how. I am looking of commonalities. The more uniform the issues, the easier it is to build documentation. Where one size may not fit all, we will still find that it will fit most. Build the core then address the outliers.

I am learning that it is not going to be a quick process. Others have different priorities, so we have to work forward or move to the next component while the delegated data gathering is dependent on others. So in the interim, I put out the occasional fire and do the needed travel.

The support and cooperation that I have received has been great. Compensation has not been shabby either.

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