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Applying What You Have Learned
Kenneth KungMay 2014
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Outline Must Set Personal Goals My Career
Network Design Experiences Skills Needed Take Away
A Story Obligations to Self Recommendations
DailyTaskList
IntermediateGoals
Long RangeGoals
Values
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Career Growth
Sr Principal Engr Fellow
Principal Engr Fellow SETN Facilitr. & Chair
DDX Element Lead
Engineering Fellow Technology Director
WAAS RT&Sec Lead
Sr. Principal Engineer Corporate Project Mgr
Sr. Scientist NIST Project Tech Dir
Scientist Department Manager Classified Project Mgr
Section Head IRAD Project Lead
Systems Engineer Group Head Air Force Program TD
MTS (Programmer, Network
Designer, Systems Engineer)
Technical Line Management Program Management
NCS Architecture Dir
Technology Area Dir
Systems Champion
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For each position your held, you should ask
What was my responsibilities? What were major accomplishments? What did I learn?
Share stories on design experiences on
Bank network-layer protocol
Secure Protocols
Safety critical network
Survivable network for ship
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Skills Needed for Advancement
Manage $ + SchedulesDevelop and Train Others
Possess Technical Knowledge:Principles, Procedures,
Techniques
Ideally you need to:
Communicate Well
Prioritize Tasks
Manage Time:yours & others’
Know How to Delegate:(when/what)
Inspire/Motivate
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Network and Manage People
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Takeaways
Strive for Excellence in Everything You Do Network with Internal and External Professionals Manage Time Effectively Seek Out a Mentor Improve Constantly Seek Opportunities to Demonstrate Leadership
Take risksDon’t hide your accomplishments
Contribute Actively to a TeamDon’t be a silent partner
Learn to Present and Write Well Volunteer in Doing Work Exploit Positives of Each Situation/Job/Task
Do not focus on the negative sides
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A very successful industrialist Mr Wang Yung-Ching (1917-2008)
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He Gave This Story
One match stick is worth less than a penny. A house could worth hundreds thousands or more dollars. But one match can destroy a house. The potential destructiveness can result from such an inexpensive item. If realized, the match stick can be very powerful, and hard to prevent.
To stack one million domino pieces, it takes over a month. To make them fall, it takes just minutes. To cumulate the business accomplishments, it takes decades. Yet, a single mistake can destroy it all.
To grow the respect from others, it takes a long time. To destroy this trust, it only takes one mistake.
What is this single match stick? There are four items:Cannot control own temperMaking decision without careful considerationStubbornSelfishness
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Success of a company depend on where we are aiming
The setting of minimum requirements as our goals is a formula for failure
If we are to succeed, as individuals or a company, we need to set our sights higher than the "minimum requirements"
In order to achieve excellence, we need to take a more expansive view of their responsibilities
Discussion:How do we set our yearly goals?How do we review our career goals?How do we work with our management on the
organizational goals?
Partial source credit: Mark Kempe, Fellow, Sun Microsystems
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Obligation To Yourself
Maintain your technical edgeMust remain technical competent in order to be effectiveContinue to learn on the jobSelf interest to stay on top of what is being developed in
universities and around the industryFind a problem to work on - recognize what is the toughest
issue for a project, then tackle it Take responsibility of your own growth
Not many others have the competence to guide you Have fun (and stay healthy) – you did pick this profession
Partial source credit: Mark Kempe, Fellow, Sun Microsystems
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My Recommendations Maintain your health – so can do your best with the
energy and enthusiasm You cannot do it all alone – motivate and inspire others Continue to learn – advise from my mother’s nurse mom Manage the time well – we all got 1440 minutes per day,
not more and not lessPrioritize according to your short term, intermediate
and long term goals Someone famous in early US history said:
America is a country that looks forward, not backward. We build on our past successes, learn from our mistakes, and move forward fast and furious