Creative Cultivation: A Profile of Devin Wolery

Honolulu

Creative Cultivation: A Profile of Devin Wolery

IT has been a hallmark of the Smart City Hawaii team to foster growth and sense of community. One individual who has captained this effort in 2019 has been our Technician, Devin Wolery. Much like his predecessor (Daniel Sakimura, now Operations Manager for the Smart City team in Colorado), Devin has an intrinsic ability to look towards the horizon by always considering the future.

Devin always had an affinity for technology growing up. At the age of 24, he moved to Honolulu, Hawaii and took ownership of PC Gamerz. For the past 11 years, Devin took a company that was on the verge of financial ruin and has grown it into the premier gaming community within Hawaii. Aside from growing his business and building a community in his store, Devin has also held many community outreach functions such as partnering with Hawaii Blood Bank and the Make-A-Wish foundation.

For the past year and a half, along with building his business, Devin has lent his entrepreneurial and technology expertise to Smart City. His acumen for project management and growing relationships has benefitted us greatly. After coming aboard, Devin endeavored to complete a daunting project that was begun by his predecessor: expanding our data accessibility in the Exhibit Halls.

Once this project was complete, he took the helm towards the implementation of our first UPS system. While liaising with the Smart City NOC and local electrical contractors, Devin executed much of the installation himself. The timeline for our UPS would not have been possible without his efforts.

Recently, while attending a meeting with the Hawaii Convention Center (HCC) events staff, Devin overheard that the team was finding the transition into their new floorplan drafting software cumbersome. Devin had a working knowledge of the software and volunteered his time right away and offered training sessions to get the team proficient with the new platform. He realized that this effort would not only benefit the events staff but every other department that relied on the timely circulation of these floorplans for events. Devin has facilitated three training sessions, not only for the events staff but the food and beverage staff as well. Already, we’ve seen a dramatic improvement in the staff’s proficiency with this software and have received glowing gratitude from the General Manager of HCC, Teri Orton.

Suffice it to say; we are truly grateful for all of Devin’s contributions to our successes out here on our small island. He lives our ten business principles from “Integrity without Compromise” to “We Care and Give Back” every day. We certainly hope to keep him around for as long as we are privileged to have him.