JP Roberts III, Senior Consultant

JP is a Senior Consultant – Data Migration Specialist for ERP Advisors Group. With his extensive experience, JP consults clients on their ERP implementation data migration. He also performs the technical work for cleaning, transforming, and loading data for validation. Additionally, he provides hyper-care support at go-live to ensure the best possible transition into his client’s new ERP system.

He previously worked alongside EAG as a client and served as the technical lead in the implementation and the extraction lead in data migration. Together, EAG and his former company became the first team to migrate data into CMiC cloud, and his passion for helping companies transform their systems was born. He joined EAG eager to accomplish his goal of helping people and organizations rethink, change, and grow into the best versions of themselves. He understands the value and sensitivity of a company’s ERP data and how the proper mapping, extraction, cleansing, validating, and importing of that data is key to a successful implementation.

Q & A

Get to know our data guru!

What is your favorite thing about your career and why?

I am here to help people and organizations rethink, change, and grow. That’s my "why". It fits perfectly in the consulting industry through significant, and often difficult, ERP changes for clients. I like the niche position of having started in accounting, moving to the back end of accounting systems, and then moving to the migration of those systems. I enjoy the breadth of industries and combinations of legacy to target systems encompassed by our clients. My favorite thing, however, is reserved for the “Ah-ha!” moments along the migration when clients get excited about seeing what this change will do for them.

What has been your most rewarding project so far and what have you learned from it?

We had a project where we were the first to attempt an on-premises to cloud migration of the particular legacy to target systems involved. Parts of the legacy system had corrupted data from bad integrations. The target system did not have a comprehensive reference for data migration. However, in learning how to rebuild the data and assist in building out a migration guide, we discovered ways to improve migration project procedures that have continued to be useful to this day.

Tell us a little bit about some things you are passionate about!

I love hiking in the mountains. Our best vacations have been spent traveling through the National Parks. The beauty and grandeur are well worth the effort. Glacier National Park is still number one and the crown jewel of our continent. I also like cryptography, ciphers, and puzzles. I’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of some great teams competing to solve challenges for DEFCON and TV Show ARGs (Alternate Reality Games). It’s easy to see the correlation between these passions and ERP: both are uphill battles and puzzles.

Where did you attend university?

In my home town at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Do you have any children?

Yes, I have two kids. Everett, age 7, and Kian, who is arriving October 2023.

What is your favorite sports team?

The Dallas Cowboys