I’ve had a lot of conversations lately about productivity. The conversations have started in a few different ways (e.g., “How can we get the biggest return on marketing?”, “I’m having trouble deciding what to work on.”, “I have too much on…
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My Strategies for Maximizing Impact
Tagged with: impact, productivity, strategies, University of Waterloo, UW
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
My Story, Part 2: Challenge Accepted
The journey was long and tough, but that made me stronger. Not once in my professional career have I faced anything that has even remotely stressed me out the way that UW did. [This is the third of a series…
Tagged with: academics, Canadian Space Agency, challenges, Computer Engineering, Duong Tran, ECE 100, fear of failure, Lee Brooks, mechatronics, my story, presentations, University of Waterloo, UW
Posted in Careers, Everything
Posted in Careers, Everything
Entrepreneurial insights from the founders of Auvik Networks
In this month’s edition of @waterloo (the University of Waterloo alumni e-newsletter), I was excited to see a link to An Interview with Auvik Networks. Auvik’s three co-founders (Marc Morin, Alex Hoff, and David Yach) are all UW alumni, and…
Tagged with: Alex Hoff, alumni, Auvik, David Yach, entrepreneurship, Marc Morin, Richard Miller, Sandvine, start-ups, UW
Posted in Careers, Everything
Posted in Careers, Everything
An Evening with the President
On Tuesday night, I went to The President’s Reception at UW, an event that is held as a thank you to the university’s donors. Normally, this isn’t my type of event – I don’t like networking or dressing up on…
Tagged with: alumni, David Johnston, Feridun Hamdullahpur, Lee Brooks, Nino Zahirovic, OLEDs, philanthropy, President's Reception, UW
Posted in Everything
Posted in Everything
My Story, Part 1: The Accidental Engineer
It turns out that if you make your university choices for reasons other than passionate interest and enrol in what can accurately be described as a hellishly difficult program while completely lacking any study skills or positive work habits whatsoever,…
Tagged with: adversity, Dana Porter Library, education, engineering, ENSS, failure, Lee Brooks, MacLean's, my story, presentations, public speaking, The Big Apple, University of Waterloo, UW
Posted in Everything
Posted in Everything
Why I donate to the University of Waterloo
Yesterday I spent an hour meeting with the Development Officer for the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo (my Alma mater). Since graduating in 2006 I’ve been a President’s Circle-level donor to the university, and this meeting came about because the…
Tagged with: Computer Engineering, ECE 100, education, philanthropy, resilience, UW
Posted in Everything
Posted in Everything
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