{"id":210,"date":"2009-11-10T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starthan.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/10\/integration-vacation\/"},"modified":"2009-11-10T04:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T08:54:00","slug":"integration-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/2009\/11\/10\/integration-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, November 4th 2009 Merck & Schering-Plough merged.  While I was supposed to have that full week off, I came in for Day 1 integration support.  I was expected to work from 11:30 AM \u2013 8 PM, however I wanted to attend the Day 1 global webcast as well as be able to find a parking space, which can be a challenge at 11:30 AM at Whitehouse Station.  I decided to come in a little before 7 AM.  The global webcast went quite smoothly with the exception of the audio from Brazil.  Each Merck site had an EC (Executive Committee) member.  Whitehouse Station had Bruce Kuhlik<\/a> who is Merck\u2019s chief legal counsel.  I started my Integration shift at 1:30 and thanks to good timing, got to be in a group picture with Chris Scalet<\/a>, Merck\u2019s Chief Information Officer.  I managed to call a customer back at 2:00 and quickly take care of her Flash issue.  I was told that integration support was going to be dull.  I don\u2019t know who this Murphy guy was, but I seem to be an unwilling, yet strict adherent to his law.  There was a major issue was with the new \u201cMerck Today\u201d social network site that we are using for integration related news as well as to allow legacy Merck & Schering-Plough employees to introduce themselves to each other (people couldn\u2019t sign on).  At 2:00 the site was brought back up for testing by IT (Information Technology) and despite continued issues, an email went out to the legacy Merck population at 3 stating it was available.  Cases started to come in.  I had to quickly scramble to not only get a group created in our help desk system but get accounts created as well.  While I was doing this, Mr. Scalet also needed a count of the number of cases we received since the 2:00 \u201csoft launch.\u201d  Getting reports from our help desk system is never an easy process, but let\u2019s just say there was an hour or two that were quite hectic for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, November 4th 2009 Merck & Schering-Plough merged.  While I was supposed to have that full week off, I came in for Day 1 integration support.  I was expected to work from 11:30 AM \u2013 8 PM, however I wanted to attend the Day 1 global webcast as well as be able to find … Continue reading “Integration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starthan.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}