|
Ever since I was a young boy, I have been fascinated with mechanical and electronic gadgets. Each day after school, I would rush home to experiment with the various components I scavenged around the neighborhood, trying to construct a viable invention. Though my father was glad to see me so engaged in an interest I loved, he emphasized the importance of a focused education and advised me to commit myself to my studies if I wanted to succeed in the future. I took his words to heart, studying hard through eleven years of primary and high school and earning superior grades and accolades. In 1988, after scoring highly on the university entrance examination, I entered ABC University's Electronic and Precise Mechanical Engineering Department, hoping to gain a solid foundation that would help me expand upon my love of technology. Because I had worked so hard throughout my life to be admitted to such a prestigious university, I concentrated on my studies with intense vigor, earning high marks my initial semester of university education.
After graduating from ABC Unversity, I took a position with the Computer Centre of the ABC Postal Bureau in which I maintained and upgraded postal mechanical and electrical appliances, and developed computer applications and software. My first project was to upgrade the parcel processing and sorting machine, which was controlled by a single board computer and was programmed initially using assembly language. In 1993, I single-handedly used a programmable controller to replace the single board computer after mastering the dated assembly language and converting it to the precise programming language used by the programmable controller. Aware of my fervent interest in computer technologies and impressed by the success of my projects, NAME, the department leader, promoted me to the software development department, where I developed complex software applications used by the postal bureau.
Though I was learning much through various short-term projects, in 1994, I took on a much more involved undertaking, overseeing the development of a postal "Express Mail Service" tracking and inquiry system. Unfortunately, because of the old-fashioned hardware and software in the bureau, the system employed a Netware system from Novell, a Foxpro database, and interface and voice inquiry functions developed using standard C. After several weeks of intense effort and little sleep, I succeeded in creating a new system that passed the stringent technological appraisal of the Ministry of Industry Information. During this project, I realized that I still possessed a limited knowledge of computer science and that I needed further education to advance in my career. Unable to quit my job to study full time, I enrolled in a computer science course offered by the Chinese Computer Distant Learning College, graduating with an honors college diploma and certificate of programming efficiency after two years of part-time study. Armed with my new knowledge, in 1995, I created a banking management information system for the ABC Postal Bank, integrating the Japanese NTT-DATA and OpenTP1, and using the Hitachi 3500 series mini computers, Hitachi-UNIX system, and Oracle databases. My system was employed in all 188 branches of the bureau, which used DDN, X.25, and FR special lines to connect with the central mainframe computer and postal banks nationwide. |
本类导航：