I managed the IT portion of opening La-Z-Boy Southeast’s new Savannah store from the ground up — ordering, configuring, and deploying every piece of hardware and software, and coordinating the contractors who wired the building — so the store could sell from the moment the doors opened.
A Store From Zero
A new market means a building with no infrastructure at all: no network, no terminals, no cabling in the walls. Everything had to be specified, ordered, staged, and installed against a fixed opening date — with vendors and contractors who had never worked together before.
What I Delivered
Hardware procurement
Specified, ordered, and staged every terminal, printer, and access point through coordinated vendors.
Low-voltage cabling
Managed contractors through the cable runs and drops that turn a building into a workplace.
Network & security
Built the store network with security and reliability designed in from day one.
Vendor management
Kept hardware, software, and installation partners on one timeline — the opening date.
The Store
The Savannah La-Z-Boy Home Furnishings & Décor storefront at dusk — opening ready.
Skills & Tools
The stack behind this build — tap any to see related work.
The Impact
The Savannah store opened on schedule on a network built for it — reliable, secure, and ready for retail from the first sale. The build became the template for the openings that followed.
The Opening-Day Standard
A new store gets exactly one first impression. Delivering working infrastructure on opening day — not the week after — is the standard this project set, and the playbook I refined with every opening since.
