My First (well overdue) Post from Echo!!

2012 has started and so has my 5th month at Echo Entertainment, and I must admit, I’m having a ball!!!

For those that don’t know, Echo Entertainment was the result of a demerger of the casino business in TabCorp. We own & operate 4 casinos in Australia; The Star in Sydney, Jupiters on the Gold Coast, Treasury in Brisbane & Jupiters in Townsville. Although our core business is casinos and everything gaming related, we as IT, pretty much run everything; casino systems, hotel systems, restaurant, point of sale and even car parks. This is what makes it fun, you have so much variety.

The other thing that I totally love about this place is how we behave. For a public company with over 9,000 employees, we behave like a startup. I was recently part of a project team that delivered a production  mobile application to the gaming floor staff from inception to production in 5 weeks! That is an insane pace, and it was a pleasure of a project to work on. We are process light, which also means that we are bureaucratic light, and that makes for an enjoyable work environment.

I plan to post a lot more about what I am working on. My goals for the next 3 months is to set strategic plans and roadmaps around Mobile, CRM & Gaming systems. Watch this space!!!!