Hello All 

Well it has been a busy week over here in Germany !! 

Firstly i am pleased to announce the snow has gone and we can see green again!

This week we have had Daniel Alcantara staying and training with us and we have enjoyed introducing him to few new things, He was amazed by the Snow when he landed last week as he had never seen it before.We have also discovered he likes milk in his Tea and Marmite, although he finds it slightly bizzare that we have it for breakfast!! 

I would like to use my BLOG this week to properly introduce him so i asked him to write a short introduction about himself ...

I graduated in Business in 2001.

I then started working as a Graphic Designer and went on to manage an English school. I was then invited to be an ERP consultant in 2003, working for 3 years for Senior Systems, where I worked in in Finance, Sales, Bought, Stock, Accountancy and Production. I worked in various sectors, mining, steel mill and foundries. I opened my own company in 2006 and since then have worked with Project Management and technical consulting related to deployment revitalization of ERP software.

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Chris Collins in 2008 when managing a big project for 4 software packages and one a link between Synchro32 (Today Synchro ERP) and Sapiens the a major financial software accounting system in Brazil. I graduated in Law in 2010 and in Project Management in 2011.  After a long time working in various cities I received an e-mail from Chris Collins inviting me to join the Synchro ERP Team. 

I also asked Daniel to tell us about his training ...

My Initial training sessions consisted of a week in Nacogdoches – Houston, USA, at the company offices with the head of US operations, Shane Allen, and his faithful squire Wyatt Earp (his biggest fan a miniature Min Pin) learning about the sales process, quotations and technical support. 

I then flew onto our German office to spend the second week with Lee Mahon and Victoria Smith and of course their beautiful, beautiful daughter Leah. Where I had the opportunity to see first hand the support department working with the CRM system Synchro designed for their own internal use.

I really improved my Synchro ERP knowledge and learnt important aspects of the work, culture, communication techniques and of course the language itself, a challenge for this year.  

I am Brazilian and a native Portuguese speaker.

Last but not least, I must talk about the treatment received by all. I felt completely at home, sharing meals, watching TV, playing with Wyatt Earp and having great guitar lessons from the cute guitar maestro Leah. 

So, Shane, Lee and Victoria, thank you very much, I started in Synchro with an understanding of this great team of people now I can see… I’m in a family.

Daniel Alcântara

Leah absolutely loves Daniel and has really enjoyed having him around.

We reached 60 'LIKES' on Facebook this week which was wonderful and as promised we gave away two free USB sticks  displayed in fantastic presentation tins - The lucky winners were Brenda Cunningham and Andressa Nogueria your prizes will be sent next week.

Thank you all for your continued support and for Sharing the page. The next giveaway will be when we reach 100 'LIKES' and its going to be BIG!!

Have a great week.

Victoria