Life in the Eyes of John

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Friday, October 22, 2004

Following Through

If you knew how nervous I was yesterday, I'm pretty sure that you'll tell me, "Kaya mo 'yan!" or "'Di mo naman kailangang kabahan." It's my first time to present to a group of people with high positions. The audience included our company president and vice president, as well as the general manager and technical head of Supercharge, Ramcar's Australia battery company.

Perhaps I was expecting too much. I thought that the demo I would present would last for an hour or so. It turned out that the entire meeting was all about solving a mobile point-of-sale problem. Supercharge didn't like the long processing time to exchange information between the SAP server and the Pocket PC. A good 45 minutes into the meeting, I heard a great deal of the problem, and Mr. Peligrino, General Manager of Supercharge, was getting frustrated. He wanted solutions, and wanted good, fast, and reliable ones.

After a goal was set by the technical team of Supercharge, it was my time to present a possible solution. Apparently, I wasn't alone presenting a solution. They also had other potential solutions groups to tap.

So on went the presentation. At first, I was speaking in straight English, but eventually presented bilingually because of the realization that the mood was informal (lesson: informal meeting equals informal presentation). The bosses also told me not to talk about the technical side (Mr. Peligrino even mentioned, with a chuckle, that he didn't want to know about it!).

Overall, they liked the prototype, since it addressed the issue of minimalizing human intervention (the current system had to go through MS Excel, which the managers thought is a problem regarding data integrity). Best of all, it only took 20 minutes... or was it 30?

After a KFC merienda (I thought I needed one), I met up with Kaisa's technical team. They were interested with the details of the new system - specs, performance benchmarks, minimum requirements. They also mentioned that they were still interested with looking into the other solutions providers, including SAP Mobile.

So what do I have to do now? Follow through. Yep... now I have to really learn - even master - the Java components of the Sky mobile solution. I also have to report to Sky regarding the outcome of the meeting/demo.

One good thing, though, was a joke mentioned after the presentation by one of our vice presidents. He said something that still sticks to my head up to now:

"John, ano? Regular ka na ba?"

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