I ran the IT side of the La-Z-Boy Northlake store relocation — ordering and installing new equipment and coordinating service providers through the pandemic to bring the new location online on schedule.
A Deadline Through a Pandemic
A store relocation lives or dies by opening day, and this one had to happen mid-pandemic — when every vendor timeline was slipping and service connections were anything but guaranteed. New equipment, new wiring, and a hard open date left no room for the delays the moment kept throwing.
What I Delivered
New equipment
Ordered and installed the PCs, point-of-sale, printers, and displays the new store would run on.
Vendor coordination
Managed service providers through pandemic delays — negotiating and sequencing to hit connection deadlines.
Network & low-voltage
Coordinated network and low-voltage cabling so the location was wired and ready on day one.
On-time opening
Delivered operational readiness on schedule — the store opened without major disruption.
Skills & Tools
The stack behind this build — tap any to see related work.
The Impact
A fully equipped Northlake store online on schedule — new hardware, clean wiring, and vendor connections all landed on time, pandemic notwithstanding.
Opening Day, No Excuses
Customers don’t see the vendor delays or the supply-chain chaos — they see whether the doors open. Coordinating the technology and the service providers around an immovable date is what made Northlake’s opening a non-event.
Image credits: “The new Tesco store under construction – geograph.org.uk – 4893827” by John Lucasu00a0 (CC BY-SA 2.0) · “Credit card terminal in Laos” by Basile Morin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · “Electrician installing socket” by Santeri Viinamäki (CC BY-SA 4.0) · “Panduit Pan-Net Cable Management System front” by BrokenSphere (CC BY-SA 3.0) · “FargosFurnitureStoreKaukaunaWI” by Royalbroil (CC BY-SA 3.0) · “IKEA store, IKEA kitchen, Interior design, Rostov-on-Don, Russia” by Vyacheslav Argenberg (CC BY 4.0)
