Professional Experience/Vacation

If one asking me my professional experience, I think I should start one or two years of my last study in ITB in 1996-1997. At that time, my teacher is telling me to design and prototype and small switching device as topic on my dissertation. So I read available book and manual of the tool, then I design, prototype and test, and finally write the documentation, present it for 3 teacher. Unfortunately, the teacher question, in my opinion, is out of the topic. I did dissapointed but fortunately I write a very good documentation, so finally I got A for the dissertation.

After graduation, which is not a long time after the dissertation presentation, I call the HRD of NEC Nusantara Communications to ask whether they willing to accept me to work there. The HRD forward my question to the user which is Mr. Utang Bahrudin (Alm/RIP) the manager of Technical Assistance and Service Center. Finally I accepted and start to work on November 4, 1996 as TASC Engineer.

As TASC Engineer, I did a lot of thing but mostly is to read/learn about NEAX switching system, to provide assistance to customer (which is Telkom PSTN staff) and do trouble shooting on NEAX PSTN. Beside, we did testing and software configuration. During this work, I spent a lot of time visiting Telkom site : One Remote Switching Unit in Cigudeg which is always striken by lightning, Election Day standby in Bogor, Trouble shooting in Palangkaraya, Installation in Jambi, Palembang and Lampung.

On Sept 1999, I accepted to work for Motorola Projects worldwide, and as a start time, it was 2 week training at motorola training facility at mendelein, Il, USA. After that, I work for 2 and 1/2 month on BTS maintenance. Totally I work for 21 month in the USA doing BTS commissioning and Integration, CBSC software upgrade and CBSC installation. I visiting a lot of city and rural area during this job : Chicago, Richmond, Cleveland, Phoenix, Seatle, Sacramento, San Diego and it's sub-urban and rural area. It should mention that I visited rural area in Chicago, Richmond, Cleveland becase I did Bts commissioning/integration on that area. I also had the opportunity to visit Niagara Water Falls near Buffalo, NY, Grand Canyon, Disney Los Angeles, 6 flag north of Chicago, Sea World in San Diego, Las Vegas, Nevada, White House and Capitol Building at Washington, DC, and many more.

Finished work in USA, I work in Thailand to do BTS site audit, BTS commissioning, BTS integration, BTS trouble shooting. I spend most of the time in travelling and at site. It's a lot of site visiting like working on some one house rooftop, inside shelter in the wood or paddy field. In these time we had opportunity to visit Chiang Mai, Cambodia border, Pattaya, Rayong, Sun Flower, and a lot of thai food of course.

Next is to back to Indonesia to work on Telkom Flexi Initial project in Medan. I work on project management : site installation audit, commissioning, integration, atp and maintenance.

After that, I work for Tata Teleservices in India for four months : three months in ahmedabad is work on cbsc deployment, power up, commissioning and integration. after that is one month work in Pune near Mumbai on Operation Maintenance Support for their CDMA network.

After work in India, I back to Indonesia to do Project Management and Opearation Management of Telkom Flexi Project in Palembang. My works is on rollout project management. Started on 2005, I work mainly on Operation Management of Telkom Flexi CDMA2000-1X for Motorola. My work objective is to provide operation support for Telkom and keep it's performance at best. This including performance monitoring and performance analysis, optimization and drive test, rehoming, carrier upgrade, software upgrade, workshop and training, trouble shooting, and consultancy to customer.

On this last work, I do a lot of job, but the main focus is to minimize down time, minimize drop call and to minimize call setup failure, maximize coverage, optimize the quality and capacity. I use a lot of skill, knowledge and tools : Falcon, SQL, unix and perl scripts, networking and server skill, and many more.

Picture

During Idul Fitri Holiday We went to Sukabumi for visiting my parents. On the second day we went to Selabintana park to have a picnic-lunch together with my mother, my brother with his wife and kid, our helper, my mother helper, and of course my wife and two lovely kids.
Here is the picture :

Build Fish Pond

My home is having concrete installed with hollow with size around 2x1 meters, but filled with stones, so I got an idea to remove the whole stone, leave it empty, clean it up, fill with water and then put some small fish on it. The result we have a pond with fish, but it doesn't look good, and even it look dirty. So I went to the grocery and buy some tiny stones and spread it. Little bit better.

Next, I bought more fish and buy pond pump so it will pum water to form a mushroom like fountain. It look nice and add water sound, and the fish look happy with that. Than I bought one sack medium green-color natural stone from road-side garden equipment seller and spread it on the pond, so it look better and heavy rain had cleaned up the water so it's look nice now.

By read on articles and see some video from pondmarket on you tube, I know that I should put a separate filter pond and pump pond or skimmer pond. Well, I should think about it but by the heavy rain I don't think I should have them immediately, instead, I planned to put more colored-stone on the pond base. Will think the rest later