On November 27th December 4th, my new role in the organization was announced although I’d been unofficially been performing tasks within the new role since November 1st. My new position is a promotion and my title is E-Business Manager, Application & Development. This serves as another step in the direction of heading down a career path towards a CIO position (what’s a CIO?).

In this new position, I “give up” some of my previous responsibilities as Web Marketing Manager and take on additional responsibility for managing and guiding application development within the organization. While it is hard to pass on some of the responsibilities and fun aspects of web marketing to other people, I have a real passion for what the new position has me doing. The job description is as follows:

E-Business Manager
Define and direct overall strategy for development and maintenance of business process applications spanning the netire value chain. Partner with business units to determine the correct uses of technology to:

• Drive new business and capture market share
• Improve efficiency and the bottom line

Path-forward
I will still have significant responsibility of overseeing development of Levolor.com, which was important to me taking this role, as the site and its offerings are still in its infancy. I will be getting exposure to more aspects of the business outside of marketing and B2C (business-to-consumer) e-commerce, which is very exciting.

On the “about page” of this blog, I describe myself as an analytical, process-oriented thinker, focused on leveraging technology to solve business problems in B2C/B2B environments and am passionate about providing outstanding online experiences. In this new position I will be able to apply this strength and enthusiasm towards enterprise applications — an area where usability, information architecture, and end-user experience are often taken for granted and/or under-valued.