I was born in 1965 in Vietnam, Saigon (Ho Chi
Minh City now). I had been having fun till 1994
when my family and friends were running out of
patience with a lazy guy like me hanging around
that they sent me to work and school at the same
time to take care of my own life. At work for
an US post graduate programme, the then General
Director and Director of Studies were kind enough
to put me on the same level with some English
professors in the Interpreter and Translator team.
At school, most of my university friends got to
know me out of curiosity, since they heard my
name called by the teachers day after day in classes
without me showing up (put it fairly, I sure did
when the exams came). Tired of calling my name,
the university bought me out with a B.A. in English
3 years later.
I then joined an English-Dutch multi-national
consumer goods company as an assistant brand manager.
Soon fed up with my lousy performance, the company
kicked me upstairs with the title country sales
training manager. I was hanging there, not really
doing anything except a couple of company multimedia
presentations that were somehow chosen for official
use. When the company needed an intranet later,
out of boredom with nothing else to do, I then
decided to commit a career suicide and took the
job as the Project manager, designer, and developer,
etc., knowing the slightest idea of how to do
them. The company Chairman and the Personnel Director
gave me very good credit & compliments for
the site regional success 4 months later, probably
to tie me down to a job that no one else wanted
to do. In 2000, a British company was resource-hungry
enough to offer me the web site development manager
position. And I spent over a year there setting
up all operations and putting everything into
a chaotic process which the CEO and all other
managers were happy to accept and publicize on
their web site (don’t ask me why :-) |