Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Pride in Our Work is Our Greatest Asset

Let me just say that I have the utmost admiration and gratitude for the people of Orange & Bronze who I've observed to be working so hard to meet the needs of our clients.

First on my "thank you" list is the ABS-CBN Integrated Payroll System team, led by JP Alcala. The rest of the team are Martin Mamonluk (Project Manager), Owie Saliendra (Software Engineer and Trainor), Glenn Gequillo (Software Engineer and Trainor), and Eunice Cueto (Eunice is a PL/SQL developer from CPI, on loan for this project). They've been staying at a hotel near ABS-CBN (a few feet from the Big Brother house) just so they can put in a heck of a lot of hours for the project, including very late nights and weekends.

Next is Ealden Escanan, Software Engineer and Trainor, who sleeps at the office all week on a regular basis just so he can be at the client early and well-rested. (We've got rudimentary sofa beds and a shower at the office.)

And then there's the tandem of Chelle Gray and Clair Ching, Business Development Manager and Project Manager, respectively, who constantly slave away at several things it seems (requirements documents, our website, etc), and who I discovered spent the night at the office just to finish requirements documents and a proposal for a prospect.

There's also JM IbaƱez, who's tenacious in wiping out the assignments given to him despite his busy school schedule.

Then there's Rose Nagutom, our administrative assistant, who makes sure all our finances and forms are in order, makes sure that the checks from the clients get collected, and doesn't let me get away with forgetting my administrative duties!

And finally, my partner Butch Landingin, our CTO who after spending the whole day at a client, visits the different projects (including going all the way to ABS-CBN) to see how he can support them.

I'm sure there are others I've missed out, because I haven't had a chance to observe them. I see the Aker team under Dean, composed of Zak Elep, Miguel Arguelles and JM Ibanez, are always busy at their computers hacking-up C++ code. Unfortunately I don't know enough about C++ and messaging systems to comment on their work, but I'm sure they're coding like crazy. I see Zak spend a lot of long days at the office, and he's here on weekends as well. There's also Charo Nuguid, who's working on revisions to the material for The Java Boot Camp. I'm sure those will turn out quite well, too.

Thank you all for working so hard to make O&B the team of screaming banshees that it is!

1 comment:

  1. Awwwww ^_^
    And thanks for more beds and making us coffee too. Awesome, awesome ^_^

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