Nguyen Thi Pham Hoan shares her experience working as a bridge-SE (systems engineer) between Vietnam and Japan. As a bridge-SE, she fills the gaps in language, culture, and working habits between the two countries. To be an effective bridge-SE requires not just IT knowledge and language skills, but the ability to minimize the influence of cultural and working style differences on projects. Good bridge-SEs analyze and arrange matters suitably before transferring information, acting professionally and communicating beautifully. Anyone with a passion for language learning, IT, culture, and communication can become a successful bridge-SE.

1. SHARING BRIDGE-SE WORKING EXPERIENCE OF MYSELF

2. INTRODUCTION
Name: NGUYEN THI PHAM HOAN
Company name: Lifetime technologies VietNam-Japan
Experience at BridgeSE position of both customer’s side and client’s side.

3. BridgeSE and 5W
What does bridgeSE mean
How to become an IT bridgeSE
Why you want become a bridgeSE
When you can be called good bridgeSE
Who can become a bridgeSE

4. What does bridgeSE mean?
Means the person who fill the gap between Japan and VietNam in working at special engineering field
GAP???
1.Gap of difference in languages
2.Gap of difference in culture
3.Gap of difference in working habit

5. How to become an IT bridgeSE?
Condition:
Have IT knowledge and can speak japanese
IS THAT ENOUGH ???
As the definition of “what does bridgeSE mean” , it’s enough for condition1 only.

6. How to become an IT bridgeSE?
--> NOT ONLY
have IT knowledge and can speak japanese
BUT ALSO
Making the differences in culture and working habit not influence so much in working result.

7. How to become an IT bridgeSE?
For example:
1.In requirement specification document, there are features which are not defined but if they are ignored, your project will be judged as failure
2.VietNamese team finished a project and thought that it was done well but Japanese Custom still complained about quality of it …..

8. Why you want become a bridgeSE
High salary ?
Attractive work, can meet and communicate with many people (JPese and VNese also) ?
Have chance to go to japan frequently? YES, ALL OF THEM and ME TOO
BUT have you ever thought about the HARD, DIFFICULT and HEAVY ASPECTS OF THIS WORK ?

9. When you can be called good bridgeSE
Bridge but not a simple bridge
Means that, not simply convert from JPese To VNese only because you are not a communicator. ANALYSE and ARRANGE the matter suitably before transfer please!
Be a beautiful bridge please!
Not means that you must be a handsome boy or beautiful girl. But please beautiful in action, in using words in communication.

10. Who can become a bridgeSE
The person who have PASSION CAN
PASSION IN
-Learning Japanese
-IT and making good quality of IT products
-Learning and experiencing Japanese culture
-Communication with many people