In
1989, I got my bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Chulalongkorn
university. I started my career as a maintenance engineer in
a big cement plant. I, of course, learned a lot at the beginning.
However, after six months, life turned to be so boring working with the
same system every days. That how I discovered myself that the software
design is the right thing to me. I quit that company and joined ABB
company which mainly do system design for industrial plants.
I got less salary but I was much happier at what I did.
With
that company, I had been assigned to work around the world as a software
engineer. Last count is 15 countries so far. My main duty was
to design the control system for heavy industry such as cement plant, steel
plant, iron-ore mining and paper mill. Traveling was great.
Every time I came home, I always got lots of stories to tell friends of
mine. I had a chance to experience various cultures and meet many
people from different countries having different backgrounds, attitudes
and speaking strange languages I could not imagine how they understood
each other. I used to work in a place where temperature differed
30 degC between day and night. That was just right in the middle
of desert (Kerman, Iran). My most favorite place is still Switzerland.
Maybe, because I stayed there more than a year. People were great
and the place was just beautiful. China was also a very interesting
country. You might have heard the biggest dam in the world which
is being constructed in China. The cement that they used to build
the dam came from the plant (Ge Zhou Ba) I started up. The longest
place I stayed was in Singapore. That was almost 4 years. You
know Singapore has the most expensive car in the world; about 5 to 10 times
of what you pay in the states. Besides, you can drive it for only
10 years. Funny, isn't it?
Design
the control system for the real plant was really fun. It felt like
you had some kind of power making huge machines doing what you wanted.
Really cool!
But
then again, I reached the dead end and wanted to go even deeper than that.
I wanted to design a computer tool or software that people will use it
to design the control system. To be able to do that, I must have
a very good knowledge about computer. That was how I ended up here
at Cornell. I heard it is a great school especially in computer science
field and I am not disappointed at all. I really learned lots of
new things. I am now helping Dr. Werner Vogels (Horus/Ensembler group)
doing the research with WinNT operating system.
I do
not know what I am going to do next after my graduation. I may go
to work in the industry or continue doing research. Anything will
be just fine for me. Well, at least for the time being. |
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