The Quicken Loans Arena is Cleveland’s center for entertainment. It hosts concerts, events, Lake Erie Monsters hockey in the Calder Cup Final, and last but certainly not least, the Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA Finals. I, however, can’t wait until these events are all over for the month of June. Why? Well, when it comes to planning the Republican National Convention, time is of the essence.

As the Director of Operations for the Republican National Convention, my job is to make sure the Quicken Loans Arena (the Q) is transformed from the home of the Cavaliers, to the stage where we will nominate the Republican candidate for president. This task requires quite a lot of “maintenance” to the Q. Traditionally, it takes around six weeks to complete. In an ideal world, we’d like to have eight weeks. For the first time in modern Convention history, we could be working with less than four.