Linda Octa

Presentation for my master prelimilary proposal in front of the rest of master students and our supervisor. I was so nervous. I had rehearsal few days before, but still nervous. Maybe mainly because I need to give presentation on those subject that I am not really familiar with and some more in front of my two supervisors. I walked in to the room, and I was appointed as the first presenter as one of my supervisor needed to leave early. Nervous… nervous…

Well, It was not really that bad although I had problem in completing my sentences and forgetting to mention all the key-words. But well, again, I need more practice as I am not a public-speaker type.

Another major things… I know I cant pass the internship interview and yes, the answer is right I didn’t get the internship. Do better next time Linda. Read more stuff and get more knowledge.

I just completed my Internship interview… Guess what, I did badly. I am so nervous and couldn’t think straight when the interviewer ask me to solve the algorithm. It’s been quite sometimes I never gone through any interview… and this time, I am disappointed with myself…The algorithm being asked is actually quite simple, but my brain is totally stop functioning. I prepared myself for the past one week and trained myself to get ready for this interview, but…

With only 5 min, I need to do reverse algorithm with string of characters. It’s easy and yes it’s easy. But I took over 10 minutes to solve the problem.

Below is the code that I wrote:

Well, what I need to do not only polishing my algorithm skill but how to work in constraint time and be calm….

The news for this internship will be next week, but I believe I cant make it. So Linda, learn from experience….

My 2 years working experience as programmer in Singapore were purely developing window application. After graduated from Singapore Polytechnic, I worked at Essential IT. My main tasks was developing and maintaining end-user business application using Clarion Enterprise by Soft Velocity. Clarion is rarely used in Singapore and maybe in Asia as software development tools. I like to use this software because it’s almost the same as Visual basic since both of them has design view and coding view (with additional support of built-in threading features). It also provides built-in TopSpeed database (although you can use external database like SQL or Oracle) that supports import from various sources (csv, dbase, excel, SQL, Oracle, etc.) and reporting tools that directly link to the database makes your life easy as developer.

Working in this company, I learned how to configure point of sales bar code scanner (at that time, I didn’t know different country has different standard for bar code), configuring point of sales keyboard as well as printing bar code label.

In the middle of my employment, I was lucky enough to be sent to Thailand for Amadeus training. The main purpose of this training was to develop user interface using Visual Basic that connect to Amadeus server. I had a fun time during this training and learned a lot of travel-booking term.

After left this company, I worked in government sector as programmer as well. Working together with Senior System Analyst, with time constraint of three months, I developed delivery system for one of the biggest company in Singapore. Interesting part of this assignment was I need import and filtering millions of business and residential customers’ data from three different main resources with different data format. Filtering program was developed in Visual Basic to avoid data redundancy and ensure data integrity. Additional books allocation module was added in filtering program. Front end system, developed in .net, was used by bulk delivery, currier and logistics department. Based on the number of books allocated, each department will print out job allocation for their delivery personnels. This job allocation reports were generated using Crystal Report. At the end of the day, every statuses of the delivery will be updated to database by each departments. Back end system, also developed in Visual Basic will automatically run daily at 6 am in the morning to generate books reports, delivery reports and sent through FTP to our client. Back end system uses procedural programming created in SQL to generate those reports.

Honestly, I am pretty bad in writing. I can sit down in front of computer for few hours and just manage to type one paragraph with few sentences. Comparing to good bloggers, I am just a novice. I write this blog because I want record down my experience in IT field either from my study and work.

Feel free to give comment.

Cheers,

Linda