Cutover, Release & Deployment Management

Prescriptive technology
solutions.

Crimson Tech Rx is a boutique consultancy that plans, governs, and executes enterprise system transitions — SAP, Dynamics 365, Salesforce — so go-live day is the least dramatic day of the project.

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FOUNDED & LED BY SHAWN LEVENDUSKY, PMP®, ITIL®
500+
end-to-end cutovers
10
major SAP releases at 3M alone
$7M+
program budget managed
25+ yrs
Fortune 500 leadership
The Approach

Six disciplines, one accountable lead.

Every engagement draws from the same core toolkit — the same one used to move Fortune 500 environments through SAP, Dynamics 365, and Salesforce transitions without a missed go-live.

01 / Diagnosis

ERP Cutover Management

End-to-end sequencing from pre-prod through production, with contingency built in before it's needed.

02 / Cadence

Release Management

Governance and scheduling across major, minor, and emergency releases — internal and vendor-hosted.

03 / Execution

Deployment Management

Coordinated delivery across infrastructure, BASIS, and functional teams, on and offshore.

04 / Oversight

Project Management

PMP-certified planning and tracking across thousands of tasks and hundreds of resources.

05 / Adoption

Change Management

Stakeholder alignment that keeps business objectives, technical scope, and timelines in lockstep.

06 / Control

Configuration Management

Environment and compliance discipline, including SSAE 16 / SOC 1–aligned change process.

Track Record

Cutover leadership, engagement by engagement.

A working history of the environments led — from initial S/4HANA data transformation to a decade of major SAP releases.

3M
Long-term Cutover Lead — SAP technical cutover, major releases through environment refreshes
  • Managed ten major releases via Microsoft Project, tracking thousands of cutover tasks
  • Served as liaison across infrastructure, functional, and leadership stakeholders
Cargill
Cutover Lead — SAP technical cutover, legacy to new
  • Owned every aspect of a multiyear cutover, completed on schedule in March 2024
  • Continued into post go-live support following completion
Target
Senior Technical Cutover Lead / PM — quarterly SAP domestic release management
  • Tracked thousands of deployment tasks and dependencies across internal and external teams
  • Managed $7M+ in budget for a distribution-center robotic automation project
Ecolab
Cutover Lead, Enterprise Business Solutions — multinational medical manufacturing division
  • Aligned client and partner stakeholders on milestones, governance, and reporting
  • Coordinated resources to protect quality, timeliness, and deliverables
Ceridian
Release Manager — InView Self Service, Microsoft & VMware platform
  • Built the release management planning and deployment process from the ground up
  • Merged internal process with the vendor's hosted change-management process
Ingenix
Salesforce Release Manager — SCRUM sprint methodology
  • Managed functional releases for a $5M program
  • Coordinated deployments across multiple pre-production environments
Schwan's
Project Manager, Data — SAP S/4HANA Data Migration & Landscape Transformation
  • Led the client's initial DMLT release cycle, owning every aspect of the data transformation
  • Kept the cycle on schedule while exceeding assigned conversion performance goals
Winnebago Industries
Cutover Lead — Dynamics 365, first of a two-release strategy
  • Built the baseline cutover plan and coverage workbook for release one
  • Led environment scheduling across pre-production, development, and testing
Other engagements: State of Minnesota - Judicial Branch - Minnesota Court Information System (MNCIS), Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Bluestem, Real Estate Lending Services (Rels), Ameriprise, GMAC-ResCap, National Car Rental, and Prudential — progressive leadership roles spanning system integration, process optimization, and change management.
Credentials

Certified where it counts.

Certification

PMP®

Certification

ITIL® v3

WHY BOUTIQUE

Founder-led, senior only

No bench of junior consultants training on your go-live. Every engagement is by senior consultants.

WHY IT WORKS

One accountable owner

Cutover, release, and deployment threads stay with a single lead instead of splitting across teams.

WHY IT LASTS

Kaizen, built in

Every cycle closes with a look for the next minimal, positive change — not just a retrospective slide.

About

Crimson Tech Rx, Inc. was built around a simple observation: most cutovers fail from a hundred small coordination gaps, not one big technical problem.

We have spent over two decades as the consulting company that Fortune 500 IT organizations call to hold that coordination together — across SAP, Dynamics 365, and Salesforce, using frameworks like Agile, ITIL, PMP, and Continuous Improvement, and tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and Mural.

That experience is available.

Get in touch

Planning a system transition?

Tell us what's moving — SAP, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, or something else — and what your go-live date looks like. We'll tell you honestly whether a boutique engagement fits.

Based in Minnesota
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