Project Manager

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  She has been working in the Asset Management area for a renewable energy asset management firm, specifically solar power plants with XXXX and prior to that, she also did both asset management and project management for hotel construction, renovation, and new builds when she was with XXXX. Previously, she did mainly project management for real estate renovation, offices, apartments, and buildings during her time with XXXX in Tokyo. She started off as an Associate Specialist for the same company where she was involved in the implementation of GIS tools in other department. Most of her project management experience is within the construction and real estate industry. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be in project management and her holistic approach on things. She is strong with handling any project, scheduling, budget and quality control, and is able to get the hang of it to ensure things are going well and smooth. Aside from that, she is good in coordination between teams and contractors, stakeholders via project owners, investors, and financing banks. She’s also good with construction design and architecture, also studying for her PMP license, has knowledge with Agile project management and is keen to explore the IT industry more.

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  He has about 20 years of experience now mostly working for global and local Japanese companies, he mainly functions as IT Consultant, Engineer, and also Project Manager. After graduating in university, he joined XXXX as an IT Manager and at the same time, doing consultancy for XXXX where he focused more on infrastructure. After that, he started his career as a Project Manager with XXXX and XXXX where he was doing support and project planning again for the infrastructure side of things, later on he moved to XXXX as an IT Project Manager where he did vendor management and task management for new construction and migration of server, network, telephone, and all. After that, he had short stints with several companies as an IT Operations Support and IT consultant, also was an IT PM for XXXX where he did project planning support of video conference system upgrade and IP phone replacements; he was doing IT Infrastructure project management. Currently, he’s with XXXX as an IT Consultant where he is responsibility for the operations, resolve technical and network issues, also was involved with project management, maintenance, and support for the projects; he is the one getting the requirements from PSI to design the network, also works on the business side of things such as creating documentations on how the network should be deployed. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be his proven communication skills since he has worked previously with different culture and people so he is able to adjust how he communicates to them. On the technical side, he graduated and started off his career as an engineer so he’s very familiar with configuration, network equipment, and can design and implement things on the infrastructure side. 3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements? Has more than 10 years of experience in project management, mostly handling IT infrastructure projects such as migrations of server, network, and related stuff. He also has managed an AV-related project and has work on a video conference system upgrade previously; for the electronic security systems, he only has touched installation of CCTVs and door security systems on the network side. He is also a local Japanese so he can speak bilingual English and Japanese.

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  He has approximately 7 years of experience mainly related to project management. Currently, he’s with XXXX as a Senior Project Manager where he mainly manages the projects, system teams, and integration projects starting from initialization to the completion phase and release. He’s also involved there in monitoring KPIs and success metrics to evaluate product performances. Before that, he was an IT Engineer for XXXX where his responsibilities are very similar to a project manager but mainly working with a team. He was managing overseas clients at that time related to gas and oil industries from US, Europe, and India. Prior to that, he was with XXXX as a Consultant and started his career with XXXX as an IT Engineer mostly doing service delivery projects. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be project management since he has been doing this mainly for the whole of his career. He also has a PMP certificate so he’s confident with his project management skills. In terms of methodologies, he has used waterfall model in his previous company but recently more into Agile model. His expertise when it comes to projects lies within cybersecurity and system integration projects.