BUS-520-ORGB-Reflection-PowerFul-Strengthen-Others

BUS-520-ORGB-Reflection_Powerful-Strengthen-Others:
1. Felt personally powerful and capable:
I am a former Software/Testing Engineer for a Software Consultant Firm during
1986 ~ 2005. In 1988 was temperately assigned from MD to CA to support Project
Implementation Phase’s activities on customer’s site; after one year’s term, company
would like me to extend for a long-term stay and would accommodate with extensive
upgraded benefits including a grant & free-hours to obtaining a Master Software
Engineer degree (MSE).

During the MSE training, a course of ‘System Testing Engineering’ appeared to me
like a new concept and some how enhanced my point of view on the System Testing.
A Test Engineer is responsible and capable to create Test Plan, Strategy and Procedure
to integrate and testing all pieces of Software as a whole for delivery. I started to
realize how important the role of the Test engineers and their contribution to ensure an
accuracy and quality software product is resulted for the Porject.

I had a desire to share this learning and brought this desire to the Managers. Further I
volunteered to want to working in the Test Lab to get hands-on Testing experience;
most people was surprised by my ideas even the Manager in Testing Department
wasn’t sure shall or shouldn’t take me from Software Department. At that time most
people’s perspective value regarding Software Engineer vs. Testing Engineer is quite
different; people wasn’t clear or maybe confused the role of a key-on Tester vs. a
technical aspect skillful Testing Engineer.

Fortunate, both Managers agreed for me to work with cross departments task; I took
the advantage for a Task of enhancing and stabilizing the use of IBM 5080 Graphic
Display System (5080) which allowed me have chance by utilizing the Test Lab
environment to investigating and implementing 5080 specific Hardware configuration,
Software definition and Display illustrating; later Company was able to receive an
award to details a procedural step User Hand-Book as a self-sufficient tool book to
aid the users on the Contract. 5080 User Hand-Book was complete at 1990.

In 1991, due to the success of 5080 Task, Company also able to bet one of the
Computer-Program -Component-Item for 201 (CPCI-201, total about 12+/- CPCIs
in the Contract). That was a big victor to the Company, and year after Company reward
with a CPCI-209 from the Contract that has about 15 +/- subcontractor means 15+/-
companies working together with IBM’s one 20 more years and still is an on-going
Contract.

Without Company Managers’ confidence, support, empower and coach, I won’t be
able to working cross-organization in between the Software-Testing dept. that was the
1st big event known in the Contract for 5080 task and further rewards w/CPCI-201/209.