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The most interesting project I've worked on this year was implanting the call center solution to cut down the cost in this COVID-19 crisis. My task was to find a cloud-based call center solution. Our management team didn't provide the exact budget for that. I had to be frugal since we needed to cut down the cost. I've done a demo with different companies, and I was curious about all the processes and technology. The biggest thing I learned from it is we can maintain our quality with enough effort even in a frugal situation.

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Earlier this year, I have worked on building a one-pager on Diversity & Inclusion topic designed for hiring managers in my current company. My task was to gather concise but meaningful information about unconscious bias on recruitment processes and job descriptions in a one-pager. This one-pager has been presented to senior management at my current company (and approved) and is now being used by hiring managers across the organization as a matter of improving Diversity & Inclusion through recruitment.

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I can't really discuss my more recent projects from work due to confidentiality reasons. But at home, over the Covid-19 down times, we built a chicken coop in our back yard.

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This year a group of colleagues approached me and asked me to lead a team for a hackathon run by the Singapore regulator. The reason they came to me was that they recognized me as a thought leader in the hackathon topic of "fairness". It was a diverse team of data scientists ranging from recent graduates to highly experienced team leaders. What I quickly realized was that just because I had a great idea in my head, it didn't mean that others would buy into complex abstract concepts. I had to "invent and simplify", and quickly prototype some of my ideas to show them what I was thinking. They needed to see something tangible that was a stepping stone from what they already understood. Once they started seeing my prototypes their engagement levels stepped up, and they were providing helpful feedback and generating ideas.

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I have worked on a ton of interesting projects. One recent project was a learning curve for me where I still get to learn and be curious. I started a customer-based marketing program combining sales, technical sales, business developers, marketing, industry marketing, and business planners together to create a strategic plan driving multimillion-dollar sales deals based on tipping points and customer needs.

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I worked on a project where I deployed clusters to customer sites throughout the world. The deployments occurred across continents, cultures, and time zones under a tight time schedule in which we were deploying a cluster a week. Due to the tight timeline, we needed to keep coordinated and document any exceptions occurring during the process. I created an Excel spreadsheet that cross-tabulated the individual configuration items against each cluster installation so that the customer had an easy way to track and revisit outstanding issues encountered as the project rolled out. Although we became more efficient with each cluster deployment, there was always one issue or another to be dealt with. Despite the complications, because we remained organized and transparent, we had the full confidence of the client and we finished the deployments on schedule. The client technical contact nicknamed us the deployment dream team. I learned that communication is vital to the successful completion of a project because no matter how prepared you might think you are, things will go wrong and you need to be ready to capture those data points and then learn from them appropriately. This is what we did, and the deployments were a big success.