In addition, my passion and vision about the software industry will add value to my classmate by leveraging technology in businesses. Furthermore, with more than X6 years working experience at both companyB and companyC, I would like to share my insights about IT consulting field with my classmates. Finally, I hope that my international experience can bridge the cultural gap between Asia and Canada in the classroom.
At the same time, I will proactively learn from other talented Rotman students. Individually, I am one drop. Rotman community together, we are an ocean.
3. Imagine that ten years from now a colleague is describing you to a new employee. What will s/he say about you that you are not known for now? How will you achieve these new skills?
“She can build models of the ‘big picture’ by putting together the jigsaw pieces of a complex business problem. By implementing the best model that resolves tensions, she turns challenges into opportunities. She contributes significantly to transforming the Ontario health care system into a quality-centered and technology-powered system by successfully combining skills in finance, strategic management and operation management with those in information technologies.” My colleague will introduce me with the above comments.
On one hand, I will pursue a MBA at Rotman to achieve these new skills in integrative thinking, finance, strategy management and operation management. The more I read about Rotman, the more I am excited by Rotman’s revolutionary hallmark of integrative thinking. In addition, Rotman’s pioneering curriculum in health sector management will prepare me to advance my career in the health sector.
On the other hand, as a part-time student, I will apply the new skills I learn in class to my current job immediately. In my current job as a positionD at D, I often feel overwhelmed by ambiguous business problems with incomplete and uncertain information. By using real business problems as study cases, I will hone my new skills in my real work.
Believing in learning by doing and thinking before doing, I will keep practicing those skills in my career, and acquiring new skills whenever necessary. I am today where my wills have brought me, and I will be tomorrow where my wills take me.
4. Describe a professional experience when you did not live up to your full potential. What would you do differently if you had to do it over again?
Good judgment comes from experience, which, unfortunately, comes from bad judgment. The SystemC was a mammoth project that built a complex integrated system connecting different systems of Bell Canada Enterprise, involving many internal and external teams in the top three IT consulting companies in Toronto. As a positionC, I led a team of X1 from companyC to develop and deliver the integration part of the system. It is a pity that I did not live up to my full potential during the migration.
The mistake was that I did not respond properly when the Data Base Administrator (DBA) team took risks to modify the migration plan to shorten the process under pressure from the clients. The change made some migrated data invalid, which in turn caused a domino effect in the systems. “Whatever can go wrong will.” When the system received invalid data, the potential problems became real problems. If I could do it again, I would collaborate with the DBA team more efficiently to fully understand and correctly calculate the risks. Then I would provide a brief SWOT analysis to the clients and let them kno
