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A company that enables people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential
entry date: 3 December 2006

As a two(2) month sabatical from the Learning & Development Profession, I tried & tested the waters if I can ever go back to an Engineering or Project Management role for one of the Wireless@SG Operators. And I did, and I enjoyed it too, I even spent weekends working since I really love the challenge. But still something was a amiss, I realized what it was, when I ended up motivating/coaching two of my colleagues and training the sales team.

The decision to join Microsoft, was not an easy one, albeit the cheers from my friends & relatives. It took a lot of soul searching for me as well. But when I saw the company's mission for being " To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential", there was a quickening. Then when I was interviewed by Brett Frazer, I knew that this organization is being led by someone who walks the talk.

The decision to hire me as Training Program Manager was made in October 2006 and I joined Microsoft Asia Pacific Operations last November 20, 2006. This is 2 days before my birthday, and so I thought this is one of the greatest birthday gifts I ever received. I have met my new direct manager Danielle Massey, who is based in Shanghai, in a Quarterly Business Review Meeting in Singapore.

From the vantage point of a bird perched on the shoulders of giants, I am now ready to fly again and learn and share with a new group of people, in a different pie in the sky. (with a view of the Singapore Esplanade too!) :)

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At Work and Play in Asia's Most Exciting Cities
entry edited last 16 September 2006
Lanie is currently developing people -Network & Operations Engineers, Customer Service Representatives and Account (Sales) Managers to become the best that they can be while meeting the business goals of the company. Her training strategy is to align learning and development needs of individuals to the leadership strategy of the organization. Management and staff can then enjoy the full benefit of internal training programs while having fun at work and at play in Asia's most exciting cities. Her extensive experience in the IT and Telecommunications Industry gave her the ability to easily translate technical concepts into business and operational functions and activities. She soars like an eagle, getting a "big-picture" view and communicate that view to the other roles in the IT Organization. She have strong ability to understand any organization's goals towards reusability and be able to identify and develop reusable components.

The Verizon Business Global Learning & Development Team had provided her a challenging environment and room for growth and bigger opportunities to work on long-term as well as short-term projects. Thru this, she was able to hone her people,presentation,facilitation and selling skills within a span of three years. Play the video clip below or read the Annual Performance Reviews conducted by her direct manager fom Y2003 or email her at [email protected] to learn more about what she does.
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Today, she has a total of 9 Years experience in the IT and Telecommunications Industry. She has garnered her NNCAS and CCNA , ITIL Foundations for Service Management Certified and is currenty working on her CCNP certification.



A glimpse of the not so distant past
Lanie is one of those self-made IT career fast-trackers (six years isn't exactly fast track...mind you)who basically came from an under priveleged family. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering in Mapua Institute of Technology , while working as a part-time student to augment her meagre allowance. A few months after her graduation, she passed the Government's Licensure Examinations for Electronics and Communications Engineers, which paved the way for her career in NESIC Philippines, Incorporated . Driven by her ambition to grow with the telecommunications industry as it goes toward data networking while taking advantage of the Project Management skills she learned from her previous job, she pioneered the creation of the Project Management team for Trends and Technologies, Incorporated , which is a Nortel Networks' Gold Partner. Not content on her laurels, she subsequently strengthened her technical skills by involving herself in large LAN/WAN projects as well as PABX projects.

She then became a Network Controller in AT&T Solutions Singapore, a global Cisco Partner and leading supplier of data and Internet services for businesses and offers outsourcing, consulting and networking-integration to large businesses, specifically in the Asia Pacific including Australia .

She was part of a team dedicated to network monitoring, providing remote support, configuration and problem solving of LAN's (Ethernet,Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring) and WAN's (X.25/X.28,SDLC& Direct access, Frame Relay, ATM & ISDN, VoFR, VoIP,TCP/IP, SNMP,RIP,OSPF,EIGRP and BGP4) of large corporate networks on the following Asia Pacific countries:

Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand