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Current Activities
Lanie Francisco , is currently dabling on Wireless LAN and web development projects for the Philippine Bayanihan Society, Singapore Association of Mapua Alumni (SAMA) and the Singles for Christ Singapore as a contribution to her community. Although this is not her area of expertise, she is planning to make this hobby profitable in the future by offering her services to companies who would require a web site for their marketing and informational needs. She is acting as a Project Manager for the Bayanihan Society Wireless LAN and is also developing a business plan for the Cyber Cafe of the same organization.

Career Goal
Her career goal is to become a Technical Consultant. Due to her extensive experience in the IT Industry she already have deep technical skills as well as basic understanding of the business functions to be implemented. She already have a "big-picture" view and communicate that view to the other roles in the IT Organization. She already have knowledge of all the components of the client/server architecture; networking; communications; middleware; hardware; and operating software/systems. She have strong ability to understand any organization's goals towards reusability and be able to identify and develop reusable components.

To reach this goals she would not mind working up from the career ladder as a Network or Systems Engineer for a company who would foster a challenging environment and room for growth and bigger opportunities or to work on long-term as well as short-term projects that would give additional significance to her portfolio.

Biography (by Arnold)
Lanie is one of those self-made IT career fast-trackers who basically came from an under privelledge 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