My Career Story: From Slave Employee to Cloud Entrepreneur > a journey to freedom

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Metro Learning Centre
2014 Career Talk
<My Career story>
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Topic
From
Slave Employee
to
Cloud Entrepreneur
>A journey to freedom
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1] Early school
years
[Primary/second
ary]
> parents:-
Chinese school
teachers
>english
mission
school
>yellow
banana
> Classmate:
Ajib Kor
Hyperlink>>Najib-PM -pic-SJI-1967.jpg
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Early school
years
[Primary/second
ary]
> parents:-
Chinese school
teachers
>english
mission
school
>yellow
banana
> Classmate:
Ajib Kor
>1Msia PM
famous quotes
 You
hmIhu
>what C
want
Lesson learnt >are humans born EQUAL ?
> are humans good or evil
by nature?
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2] University
years
>1 week in UM >went to NUS
>arch [4th
choice]
>Caught by
spore needs
Lesson learnt  No career
guidance
 Education
don’t match
skill
>spore focused
need [housing]
 Story of cat
catches mice
 choose a
univ/country
where you
can learn the
best
Overstay 1 year
>lazy/Punting
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3] 1st
5 Employee
years
>from Asst Architect
to China Man
autocratic developer
>slave employee
>midnight meeting
>project architect
>[Wisma Sime darby]
>learnt good
documentation
>piling disaster
Headhunted>Petronas
>1st
in-house PMT
For Petronas HQ Bldg
> Project aborted
Lesson learnt >don’t apply to
advertised jobs
> Search for
target cos.
Petronas
agenda on
“shadow
employee”
>1st
5 slave
years: suffer
hard knocks
Any
consolation
price???
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Lesson learnt >don’t apply to
advertised jobs
> Search for
target cos.
Petronas
agenda on
“shadow
employee”
>Bonus
found ???
Storyline>
Suffer to gain
something
good
>A test of
God’s
purpose?
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4] Next
10 Employee
Years
>Senior Architect[proj
Architect]
>Promet in-house
Architect firm
 Langkawi [Dr M’s
dream]
 >The rise & fall of
Promet
 Recession
 Went to HDB-
spore
 Lesson learnt  Hunt for ceo
 Proj mgr rules over
architect
 > mgmt shake-up
>HDB spin off>Surbana as
global company
Repeat story of cat catches
mice
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5]Next
5 Employee years
 Return Msia to
Sunrise
 1st
3 mths
>jaga pintu
 iso/QA Mgr
 Learnt process
mapping
Sunrise> the good,
bad and ugly
 Sunrise politics
 The office is a war
zone
 The story of 6
kingdoms
 Managing
 The emperor
 The generals
 Soldiers
 Authorities
 Client
 Home minister
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Lesson learnt
>When facing the enemies who will fight for you?

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Lesson Learnt  TKM Mgmt Style  Staff engagement
 Monthly pep talk
 Call-up lunch
 Mgmt by small note
book
 Be 1st
in something
 1st ISO Co.
 1st
alum form constrn
 1st
sky gym/lounge/beach
 1st
strata bungalows
 2 steps ahead
of
competitors
 Revitalize
Fiabci Msia
 From site
office
Lesson learnt  Make a difference
 TKM>do good to win respect
 Gain followers
 Jesus Mgmt Style?
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5]Next
5 Employee years
Con’t
 Left sunrise
 GM for proxy co.
of 2nd
most
powerful politician
 Went to west
africa
 Ghana/ivory
cost/Senegal
 Era of Dr M
 Era of a thousand
MOUs
 Msia Boleh at its
peak
 RM 1 b undersea
cable
Lesson
Learnt
 the power of the
pen
 Mgmt by proxy
 God-father politics
1997-98
>Asian
currency
crisis
 Business
collapses
 Employees cut
pay/Retrenchm
ent
 Out of job
 Entrepreneur
by default
Lesson Learnt;
Be prepared for the worst
> maximize your credit card
limit
What do you do when faced
with a “do or die” crisis?
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6] Entrepreneurs
Years
 Self start with
laptop
 K+E not good
enough
 Client don’t trust
start-up
 Survival by;
 >giving seminars
 Lecturing PM
programs to
master students
 Fiabci Networking
As connector
 Face Personal
financial crisis>
 reborn in Christ
[10 April 2004]
 TAK connect to
Dubai
The Vietnam
Years
Encounter with
Vietnam CEO
Via mentor
Lesson Learnt:  Network X3
 Have your CV
always on
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7] Biz
Transformation
>Self re-
invention
 K+E Not enough
 Consultancy not good
enough
 >no brand, no
recognition
 New Biz
model
 K-developer
> K in the
clouds
Hyperlink>RED Cloud bizModel-b2cd Map.r.3-050613.ppt
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8] The new
Millennial
Generation>The
rise of social
media
Virtual
networking via
>BF
>Linkedin
>Twitter
Speaking and deliver
Seminars
via the cloud
Latest Seminar to Africans participants
Great testimony from African CEO
See next slide
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Eric, you stole the show! You broke
down scientific approaches into simple
terms for all non scientific people to
understand.
Thank you so much, surely I will get back
to you when I settle in
office.
Thanks
[From David Alimubanji-CEO, Uganda Micro Credit Foundation, Uganda]
Lesson Learnt  Ready to go
when
opportunity
arises
Return to africa?
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 About the Speaker
The speaker started his career as an employee architect,
project manager, quality / management systems manager and
general manager-property before embarking on
entrepreneurship as a seminar trainer, project management
consultant, strategic advisory consultant and Cloud
Entrepreneur. He uses the Cloud Platform as a business
tool to enhance his work deliverables. He is on a journey to
become a transformed RED Mobile Entrepreneur seeking to
pull all his knowledge to the clouds and push to mobile
devices/ gadgets.
He spends 50 percent of his physical time in Kuala Lumpur
and overseas work. The balance 50 percent of his time is
spent in the clouds.

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Q n A