Author: Will

The Lord blessed us with 3 tender mercies today:

1. Paula and I went to the specialist ultrasound this afternoon. The special visit was necessary because the baby’s kidneys were dilated. After the tech and doctor did the scans, they indicated that the baby was fine and the kidneys were within normal size. What a blessing! They did find that the placenta was attached a little off, but it wasn’t a big concern.
2. We stopped by the lock smith on the way home from the doctor. They didn’t have the piece I needed in stock, but they did find one on a unit they were returning to the manufacturer. They sold it to me.
3. I spent all day racking my brain over a bug in the code for an Amex dashboard. I had to pause to take the YM & YW to UVU for a special missionary activity. I returned home and almost immediately found the big and fixed it. I believe the Lord blessed me for serving.

My team engaged with Adobe Analytics Marketing to create an engaging experience for Summit attendees. It was decided to track arcade basketball hoops (6x), aggregate the statistics for individuals and the collective group, and send emails.

I worked with marketing and a design agency to solidify the concepts for dashboards, emails, and a website. Coming up with the concept was relatively easy compared to implementing it.

With only a week left before Summit, our team was still facing some serious, show-stopper technical challenges:

1. Badge scanners weren’t working.
2. No Adobe Campaign instance or someone to implement email designs.
3. Orange PI mini computers that wouldn’t rotate the screen for our displays.

We were also running out of time to implement the things we already knew how to do:

• Complete Adobe Campaign triggers.
• Implement game achievements.
• Simulate multiple players playing.
• Create a personalized website for any players.
• Complete the games screen.
• Complete the aggregate dashboard screen.
• No Campaign design and dashboard.
• No Audience Manager design and dashboard.

With all this still in flight 1 week before Summit, I began to question if we could really get it all figured out and completed. I then started to pray more earnestly. In my heart I knew that Heavenly Father cared about me and my team and our success. I knew that what we were pursuing was good and right. And, therefore, merited a blessing from Heavenly Father. I prayed morning and night. I fasted the Sunday before Summit. Miraculously, the blessings came. On Monday, we figured out the screen rotation on the PI. On Tuesday, we figured out the badge scanners. On Wednesday, our Campaign instance finally got setup and a couple of individuals from Paris surfaced to configure it and implement our emails. Heavenly Father enlightened our minds, led us to answers to figure out what we needed to, and brought people to us that could help do things we couldn’t. We had a very long week and everyone pushed very hard. We finished coding the major pieces of the experience Saturday night at 11:55pm. It felt so good.

At Summit the experience was called Metrics Madness. It was very engaging and extremely successful. The Analytics Marketing team expressed that they had never been a part of something so compelling.