Not huge but IT exec stolen from Disney to Sea World

[wdwmagic]

Didnt disney get rid of most of their it staff and farm it out to IBM?

Yep they outsourced most of their day-to-day IT.

 

[devoy1701]

Legally, she cannot disclose any trade secrets of Disney's. Even if she does, Sea World cannot (and if they're an intelligently run company, won't) use them.

If Disney put all of its eggs in one basket, so to speak, by having her potentially be the only one who could continue her work on the project, that's Disney's fault and poor preparation.

Why shouldn't she act in her own self interest when determining her occupation?

agreed. especially in this economy!

I think there was a good deal of unstated sarcasm in Scar's original post.....

I keep saying that alot of the members of this board seem to lack a basic understanding of sarcasm!

 

[Phonedave]

Wow, that's low!

If she spills on whatever "secret" project is going on then it may waste dozens and sozens of hours, weeks, and maybe even months spent prototyping.

:/

She has most assuredly signed a NDA and a anti-competitive clause in her Disney contract.

All she is bringing to Sea World is whatever skill sets she as a person has. She is not bringing any corporate secretes.

-dave

 

[kcnole]

There's nothing low about it. Sea World needed a new person to fill the role, she applied and was hired. She cannot leak any of the information she knows about the new program and Sea World knows that. They didn't hire her to steal the information from Disney. If she did leak it, and they utilized it, they'd be sued to high heaven. Sea World isn't that stupid.

In regards to her work quality. I don't know who is in charge of the Disney website but I constantly use it as an example in awful web design when I teach web design concepts. Its absolutely one of the worst websites I've ever used. I go there often looking for information, and I never know where it is even if I found it recently.

Sea World's website isn't much better either. Universal actually has the best theme park website of the three of them. I'm constantly surprised at how poor theme park websites seem to be.

 

[Andrew54]

IT is typically not programming or anything that she would be able to reproduce for Sea World. She would be more involved in how they planned to integrate the technology throughout the park. According to the article she signed an agreement anyway. No worries to Disney in my opinion.

 

[toolsnspools]

It may be more important to think of it this way... She was heavily involved in one of Disney's biggest projects in years, and something about it bothered her enough to go looking for another job. I can't see how this could be a good thing with the project still being very much in the blue sky phase.

Then again, maybe they just offered her a wad of cash, knowing that it could derail the project. :shrug:

 

[BenS]

There is no chance she'll leak sensitive info. Not only would she have financial liability (they doubtlessly made her sign something), but it would be a career ender. She'd never get hired for another exec job, because no one could trust her with confidential information.

 

[Phonedave]

IT is typically not programming or anything that she would be able to reproduce for Sea World. She would be more involved in how they planned to integrate the technology throughout the park. According to the article she signed an agreement anyway. No worries to Disney in my opinion.

Our IT does programming. But as far as horrible websites are concerned, our IT takes a first stab at the GUI, then it goes through UAT, and based on feedback changes are make. Website design is sort of a collaboration. But then I am not creating external customer facing applications. All of the stuff I support is for internal clients. It's not pretty - it's functional.

-dave

 

[tirian]

There's nothing low about it. Sea World needed a new person to fill the role, she applied and was hired. She cannot leak any of the information she knows about the new program and Sea World knows that. They didn't hire her to steal the information from Disney. If she did leak it, and they utilized it, they'd be sued to high heaven. Sea World isn't that stupid.

In regards to her work quality. I don't know who is in charge of the Disney website but I constantly use it as an example in awful web design when I teach web design concepts. Its absolutely one of the worst websites I've ever used. I go there often looking for information, and I never know where it is even if I found it recently.

Sea World's website isn't much better either. Universal actually has the best theme park website of the three of them. I'm constantly surprised at how poor theme park websites seem to be.

AGREED. :sohappy:

A friend of mine actually called me for Disney's URL because she thought she was on a poorly made fan site! She was in the right place.

EDIT: She had nothing to do with the WDW site.

 

[kcnole]

I doubt she left Disney for Sea World because there was something about the project she didn't like. No matter how you slice it, moving into a CIO position is a huge step up. I don't care if she went from Disney to Sea World, it's still a big promotion to finally be the person in charge, implementing your ideas.

 

[scpergj]

I doubt she left Disney for Sea World because there was something about the project she didn't like. No matter how you slice it, moving into a CIO position is a huge step up. I don't care if she went from Disney to Sea World, it's still a big promotion to finally be the person in charge, implementing your ideas.

True. I am in IT management (at the division level - NOT at Disney), and while my people and I run the server farm, and work in the shop where we do our programming (both internal and external), I don't know details about anything other than the things I am directly envolved in. I may be asked for server space, processor time, SQL server space and be given specifications but not necessarily what the program itself may be. My bet is she was pretty well firewalled off from anything directly guest related - work on infrastructure necessary for support, maybe throughput specifications, what sort of software needs to be supported, those sorts of things...but probably not the biggest part of the initiative.

 

[hrcollectibles]

How was She stolen when she went at her own free will

 

[Figment1986]

How was She stolen when she went at her own free will

well usually people use the word stolen involving key people. in this case SeaWorld had a better incentive whether more money, the change to run IT for 10 parks around America or just her own parking space :lookaroun (I would go for the parking spot :lol and thus in some ways, SeaWorld stole this CM from them to run their own stuff... leaving Disney with a vacancy till they promote or hire someone new.