This document summarizes one man's career journey from employee to entrepreneur over several decades. It begins with his early school years in Malaysia and continues through his time as an architecture student, early career working on projects, becoming more senior in his roles, venturing into entrepreneurship during an economic crisis, transforming his business model to leverage cloud technology, and using social media to conduct seminars virtually from anywhere in the world. The career path outlined serves as an example for a mentoring program on navigating different stages of one's career.

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA
Mentoring
Programme:
<My Career story>
Fiabci MentorTalk-my career story-slides-eg,r.1-280613

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Ice Breaker
FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story

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Subject Topic
From Slave Employee
to
Cloud Entrepreneur:
<A roadmap for the young,
not so young
and forever young
FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story

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How it began
FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
Met Eddie  Idea  mentoring
via story
telling
 brainstorm
Structure story
as visual map
See hyperlink>Fiabci young member talk-EG 1 pg format-eddie,r.1-290613.xlsx

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How it began
FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
How it began  Met eddie  Idea/
 brainstorm
 mentoring
via story
telling
Structure story
as visual map
 execute  Need
champion
 Congrats
Eddie and
team

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
1] Early school
years
[Primary/second
ary]
> parents:-
Chinese school
teachers
>english
mission
school
>yellow
banana
> Classmate:
Ajib Kor
Hyperlink>>Najib-PM -pic-SJI-1967.jpg

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
Early school
years
[Primary/second
ary]
> parents:-
Chinese school
teachers
>english
mission
school
>yellow
banana
> Classmate:
Ajib Kor
>1Msia PM
famous quote
> You
hmihu
>what it
means in
Biz
Lesson learnt
> win-win
>what about
stakeholders?

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
2] University
years
>1 week in UM >went to NUS
>arch [4th
choice]
>Caught by
spore needs
Lesson learnt  No career
guidance
 Education
don’t match
skill
>spore focused
need [ housing]
> Story of cat
catches mice
Overstay 1 year
>lazy/Punting

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
3] 1st
5 Employee
years
>from Asst Architect
to China Man
autocratic developer
>slave employee
>midnight meeting
>project architect
>[Wisma Sime darby]
>learnt good
documentation
>piling disaster
Headhunted>Petronas
>1st
in-house PMT
For Petronas HQ Bldg
> Project aborted
Lesson learnt >don’t apply to
advertised jobs
> Search for
target cos.
Petronas
agenda on
“shadow
employee”
>Bonus
found ???

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
Lesson learnt >don’t apply to
advertised jobs
> Search for
target cos.
Petronas
agenda on
“shadow
employee”
>Bonus
found ???
Storyline>
Suffer to gain
something
good

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
4] Next
10 Employee
Years
>Senior Architect[proj
Architect]
>Promet in-house
Architect firm
 Langkawi [Dr M’s
dream]
 >The rise & fall of
Promet
 Recession
 Went to HDB-
spore
 Lesson learnt  Hunt for ceo
 Proj mgr rules over
architect
 > mgmt shake-up
>HDB spin off>Surbana as
global company
Repeat story of cat catches
mice

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
5]Next
5 Employee years
 Return Msia to
Sunrise
 1st
3 mths
>jaga pintu
 iso/QA Mgr
 Learnt process
mapping
Sunrise> the good,
bad and ugly
 Sunrise politics
 The story of 6
kingdoms
 Managing
 The emperor
 The generals
 Soldiers
 Authorities
 Client
 Home minister

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
Lesson Learnt  TKM Mgmt Style  Staff engagement
 Monthly pep talk
 Call-up lunch
 Mgmt by small note
book
 Be 1st
in something
 1st iso Co.
 1st
alum form constrn
 1st
sky gym/lounge/beach
 1st
strata bungalows
 2 steps ahead
of
competitors
 Revitalize
Fiabci Msia
 From site
office
Lesson learnt  Make a difference
 TKM>do good to win respect
 Gain followers

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
5]Next
5 Employee years
Con’t
 Left sunrise
 GM for proxy co.
of 2nd
most
powerful politician
 Went to west
africa
 Ghana/ivory
cost/Senegal
 Era of Dr M
 Era of a thousand
MOUs
 Msia Boleh at its
peak
 RM 1 b undersea
cable
Lesson
Learnt
 the power of the
pen
 Mgmt by proxy
1997-98
>Asian
currency
crisis
 Business
collapses
 Employees cut
pay/Retrenchm
ent
 Out of job
 Entrepreneur
by default
Lesson Learnt;
Be prepared for the worst
> maximize your credit card
limit

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
6] Entrepreneurs
Years
 Self start with
laptop
 K+E not good
enough
 Client don’t trust
start-up
 Survival by;
 >giving seminars
 Lecturing PM
programs to
master students
 Fiabci Networking
As connector
 Encounter with
young up-start
in manila
 Personal financial
crisis>reborn
 TAK connect to
Dubai
The Vietnam
Years
Encounter with
Vietnam CEO
Via mentor
Lesson Learnt:  Network X3
 Have your CV
always on

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
7] Biz
Transformation
>Self re-
invention
 K+E Not enough
 Consultancy not good
enough
 >no brand, no
recognition
 New Biz
model
 K-developer
> K in the
clouds
Hyperlink>RED Cloud bizModel-b2cd Map.r.3-050613.ppt

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
8] The rise of
social media
Virtual
networking via
>BF
>Linkedin
>Twitter
Speaking and deliver
Seminars
via the cloud
Latest Seminar to Africans participants
Great testimony from African CEO
See next slide

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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
Eric, you stole the show! You broke
down scientific approaches into simple
terms for all non scientific people to
understand.
Thank you so much, surely I will get back
to you when I settle in
office.
Thanks
[From David Alimubanji-CEO, Uganda Micro Credit Foundation, Uganda]
Lesson Learnt  Ready to go
when
opportunity
arises
Return to africa?

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©Conpex Solutions Sdn Bhd, 2011-2012
 connect with me at LinkedIn/ Facebook /
Twitter
The speaker started his career as an employee architect, project manager,
quality / management systems manager and general manager- property
before embarking on entrepreneurship as a seminar trainer, project
management consultant, strategic advisory consultant and Cloud
Entrepreneur. He uses the Cloud Platform as a business tool to enhance
his work deliverables. He is on a journey to become a transformed RED
Mobile Entrepreneur seeking to pull all his knowledge to the clouds and
push to mobile devices/ gadgets.
He spends 50 percent of his physical time in Kuala Lumpur and overseas
work. The balance 50 percent of his time is spent in the clouds.
He can be found at Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. Search for him by
goggling “Eric CL Gan” or my web page
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FIABCI-MALAYSIA Mentoring Programme: My Career story
Epilogue Can you Match your career path
to RED-Manual Model as a career model
Hyperlink>>RED Manual-CONTENTS preview-training-090313.ppt

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