“Your team stepped up to meet our aggressive schedule and did a great job with our new space. Thank you so much!”
Kevin Droege
Case Study: LinkedIn Structured Cabling
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In October of 2007, one of our largest material distributors came to E-3 Systems with a problem. The problem was a customer of Graybar; LinkedIn needed to move in to a new space by then end of November 2007. The space was recently vacated, and all of the old voice and data cabling was still in place and need to be removed as LinkedIn plans had the server room in a different location than the previous tenant. This meant demolishing all of the cable, and re-cabling 200 stations in just 5 weeks. In addition, a new server room was to be constructed. “Can you do it, even with Thanksgiving approaching” asked Kevin Droege, Director of Corporate IT for LinkedIn? Joe Schmidt, Vice President & General Manager met with the E-3 Systems management team and determined that yes, with proper planning and strong on-site management and coordination it could be completed on-time. Demolition started the very next day, and was completed 3 days ahead of schedule clearing the way for tenant improvement to the space to gain some valuable time. With Graybar delivering the material during the demolition phase, the E-3 Systems team of 10 technicians working 6-10 hour days began the process of building the server room, and pulling all of the cable to outfit the office space. The dedicated team even worked the day after Thanksgiving (a normal scheduled Holiday) to meet the deadline. LinkedIn hosted weekly construction meetings during the project, and created an environment where all of the contractors scheduled their individual work with each other so that disruption and down time was kept to a minimum. The furniture arrived just as the entire count of wall outlets were completed allowing the E-3 team to install and terminate the cable just before the move-in date. “Well, we did it” remarked Kevin, “your guys did an outstanding job, and we look forward to working with you in the future” So do we Kevin, so do we! |
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