Hello my name is Jordan Collard           
and I'm the new Practice Manager for UPK
at IT Convergence. Joining ITC with
an extensive background with
uh... consulting experience in Oracle's
User Productivity Kit, commonly known as
UPK
Aside from consulting, I'm heavily
involved in the community for UPK
uh... as of now I lead to special
interest groups also known as SIG
one for quest international and one for
OAUG (Oracle Applications User
Group)
My job role here will be uh... the UPK
Practice Manager. I will be in charge of
that specific line of business
uh... within this role I will be
involved in helping internal staff
featuring on the UPK product
I will be involved with some of the
marketing campaigns, lead generation
webinars, webcasts, videos etc.
i will also be involved in some of the
pre-sales consulting as well
whether it be working with our account
managers and client facing meetings
as well as on assisting in contract
proposals
and the execution of those deals. I'm
very excited about getting the word out
about how UPK is really being
used in the community and
some of the
I would say
you know different use cases and really
maximizing the tool I think. The tool for
the past I would say thirty five years
has had kind of statement of just
being a training tool in the industry
I'm very excited to come to ITC
one because we have a full scope of
services within the project life cycle
which will give us the ability to start
using the tool early on that project
One of the other big things I'm excited about here at ITC is we are just now
launching a five-part webinars series
specifically focused on UPK
It is going to basically cover from the
basics all the way through some of the
advanced topics
and this will be a five-part series
covering what is UPK
utilizing UPK throughout the
project life cycle
utilizing UPK for testing
how to use UPK to maximize
user adoption
and one of the last one we are doing for
the fifth one
is going to be after OpenWorld 2013
We're going to be doing a webcast on
everything that we learned at OpenWorld
If there is any new releases, new 
features functionality as well as
some of the success stories we've heard at the conference
Please stay tuned for our next video
where we will be describing each of the
five webinar topics in a little more
detail. Thank you
