In a moment about me...

Hold middle professional engineer in mechanical from Polytechnic of University of Indonesia (Now: State Polytechnic of Jakarta), I am going to finish my mechanical engineering degree in Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology in Surabaya.

Although quite difficult, changes from practical mindset to more analytical and theoretical basic, but its not a big deal, precisely make my analytical approach rich and extensive, beside based on the theory, also practical approach (Poly-technician mindset hahaa…) as a result presently are consider, of course at least for me, this is an advantage in some analytical case.

Government Officer is my starting career, as mechanical engineer staff in Business Development Unit at Bureau for Chemical and Packaging Center (under Research and Development Unit of Industrial Department of Indonesia). During my year, I spent great efforts to practice and analysis in workshop to meet the requirements from external and internal stakeholder.

Internal means, any researcher and scientist who are make research and experiments in packaging development and also chemical processing improvement, so mechanical engineer has to support their activities in order to achieve the research goals, here I join some Team and Project in this area of research, some project are design for package test equipment, portable vacuum pump, waste treatment process equipment, installation for CPO (Crude Palm Oil) refinery and derivation processor, distillation processor installation, etc.

From external, as a bureau center there are many request from small and medium enterprise to develop their competencies in technology to meet product market requirements and qualifications, some project I’ve been involve are coconut fiber processing machine in Banten Province exactly in Malingping nearby Indonesian ocean, which products are coconut fiber and coconut sponge for export, also some project to improve prosperity program for transmigrants villages at Manna District in Bengkulu Province, I am involve for almost 2 (Two Months) make some recondition in Palm Oil Processing Factory Which process fresh coconut palm to CPO, from transmigrant plantations (here not just my practical and analytical, also my physical are being tested..hahaaha, because the location is far from the city, in the middle of forest and coconut plantation area, face the Indian Ocean…fortunately its before tsunami hit Indian Ocean)

Almost a half year in Bureau for Chemical and Packaging Center, so many experiences and knowledge I’ve got there marks important step in built my competencies and capabilities higher, in the middle of 2004 I made milestone, choose for leaving the bureau as government officer and try new challenges in state owned enterprise with business core in provide airports and air traffic services, that operates some airports in Indonesia and also the biggest Soekarno – Hatta International Airport within its operation area.

After 3,5 years join it, its little bit different characteristic when we work in service business, although work in engineering unit, in service business we have a lot contact with our customers, so here, the keywords is excellence services to all stakeholders, but all business is service business, isn’t it?

As you know that engineering unit is one of important component in airport in order to certain and maintain all the facilities always work properly and operate in high reliability, start from planning, scheduling, until assurance the operation quality, with SOP (Standard Operations and Procedures) evaluation, or even build new SOP, performance calculations, and arrange standard routine reports, to supply the actual information, and prediction for making preventive maintenance, etc. This is the challenges for engineering units in service business, in different manners there are many new experiences I could reserve as improvement in my knowledge, skills and attitudes.

How to manage airport operations, from shadowing until initiate operations? Especially in facilities, I’ve some experiences when Padang airports replace from Tabing Airports to a new Padang Airports in Ketaping (Minangkabau International Airport), its such a different atmosphere when our programs and system that we prepare are being used for the first time, nervous is normal but success in the last make us glad and improve our self confident, good communications is one of keyword in this situation and of course thanks to solid teamwork.

As I mentioned, in my new workplace now I strive for more competences in thinking and act in systemic manner even for technical decisions, we should know the effect of decisions in corporate way, through our unit budget, investment programs, exploitation programs, regulation, since my situation is in Head Office, Human resources are involve as our responsibility especially engineer in all branches.

In airport, we must have licenses and ratings to operate and work as an engineer that issued by Directorate General Air and Communications as regulator for civil aviation in Indonesia, these licenses and ratings are renewal periodically and annual medical check up is a must as obligate requisites for airport engineer.

Lastly, in order to sharpen and broaden the competences (knowledge, skills and attitude), I suggest to continue my study in industrial engineering, hopefully with many best lectures in this program would make me well prepared and ready for next great milestones…I wish…..Amiin