雷女士系列（一）

     
话说，某人一天清晨去西单图书大厦看原版书，在这层看完了以后，打算下楼看国内出版的书，在电梯口绕啊绕啊绕了好半天都没有找到向下的电梯。好不容易抓到一个保安，就急急得问他，“怎么下楼呀?”

     
这小哥生得白白净净，眉清目秀的 ，大约19岁。一听我的问题，立马脸色一变，一脸严肃的看着我，一字一顿地说
:“进来了这里你就出不去了”，我当时就被雷倒了，“啊！！进来就出不去是什么意思啊！！我要去三楼买书，我要下楼！·#￥%……—*（......”

     
小保安愣了一下，定了定神，小心翼翼地观察我的脸，说“这里不能下楼，只能上楼。这里是地下室......”

      脸红，掩面，吐血暴走.....

携手走过，水样四年

    
4年前的今天，迷迷糊糊滴从床上挣扎滴睁开眼睛，看了一下表，想再睡一小会，突然反应过来，惊叫一声，迅速爬了起来，飞奔下楼，打车到宝山地区。前面有N多帅哥美女忙着填写表格，还好还好，先排队领号，再速度搞定表格，前面还有若干人呢，休息片刻先。等冲到前面盖章签字，工作人员为两个目光呆滞的人签字拍照发证收钱的时候，时间刚刚好是11点30分，周六的受理就结束了。要结婚？等下周吧！哈哈

 

    
等等，如此冲锋陷阵是在结婚么？是的。两个还未睡醒的人，突然在中午肚子饿得咕咕叫提醒下，在冲锋结束时候，才意识到已经变成已婚人士了。出了民政局的第一反应是什么？甜蜜+隐隐不安。以后在吵架、分手、上吊之前，要想明白这种种后果了。首先，吵架题材扩大太多，原来只是2个人之间的事情，变成了亲戚之间的事情；其次，突然天上掉下来一对父母，一堆兄弟和亲戚。这可真真要适应好一段时间；好嘛，婚后的磨合期开始了。每个星期的吵架变成了例行公事，就像2只蛐蛐，在场内斗的正凶呢，场外的父母们在旁边或者拿跟小草棍挑拨离间火上浇油，或是看到被咬伤了，心疼了干着急。

 

     当每次吵架都以修正大会作为结尾的时候，战败方写检查，胜利方的泪痕掩饰不了胜利的喜悦或是冷酷的面庞下嘴角有了微妙的上扬，这磨合期也就快过去了。于是，从某个时间开始，没得吵了。想吵架？拜托，有点新意吧!几乎每个题材都已经被轮番吵过，这大盘还有个不疲软？两个人的生活也开始波澜不惊了......

  

     
大约从什么时候开始，父母开始变得没有这位Partner“重要"了.....，当然，甭误会，我说的是在你的感情依赖方面。想象一下，某个漆黑的夜晚，你在前面拼命逃窜，后面有坏人追杀，而这位partner在哪里呢？他居然在后面慢慢地走，导致的结果是，坏人也跟这他慢慢的走，任你在前面折腾。好笑吧？你知道为啥么？他要也一追过来，后面这位熊猫大侠还不一把把他揪过来？于是，你就可以心安理得的在前面四处乱窜，而坏人在后面也无可奈何。这一刻，感受的是超重的安全感。这种种过结，你也不过会在烟消云散之后，漫不经心地和老爹老娘谈笑一下，而在惊心动魄的关头，只有你partner才能分享。

 

    
好吧，我承认，亲情更浓了，爱情也未见减少。也许因为天蝎巨蟹都是考古学家，越老越值钱越喜欢。也许我们在刀光剑影后有了惺惺相惜的感情。爱过，打过，才有无悔过。

 

     携手慢慢变老，享受幸福。 

Lane翻译，zz

一般没有用alley的吧。中国翻译法 

英文里比较小的街道一般用 ln. ct. 就是 lane, court的意思 

比这个大一些的叫做dr. st. drive, street 

在大一些是road, ave. 

弄堂翻译成ln. 比较合适 

一般是这么翻译： 

17 335th ln. off Gonghexin rd. 
apt 505 
shanghai, xxxxxx 
china.

505室一般写在第二行（如果有的话）下一行一般是 城市，州/省，邮编，最下一行国家。

多少弄一般不写作 lane xxx， 而是xxxth(nd,st,rd) ln.(lane)

举个例子
1008 29th St, 
Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky 41101
U.S.A 

转：How Do I Write a Business Analyst Resume?

A Business Analyst is responsible for analyzing the business needs of their customers (small to large businesses) and coming up with solutions to business problems. Despite the job being highly skilled, time and time again, the question; how do I write a Business Analyst resume? Comes up. It is time to answer this question once and for all, by giving helpful hints and tips on addressing the question “How do I write a Business Analyst resume?”

 

Firstly, you must outline the skills and knowledge required of the job, show that you possess these skills and knowledge and link it to experience and/or education. So lets look at each of these in turn.（Y：目标导向）

 

You must have knowledge of the subject of the business; there is no point in asking “how do I write a business analyst resume?” if you don’t even had the skills or experience to list on your resume. Whilst complexity varies, this is relatively important to include on your business analyst resume. 

 

Secondly, you must have the skills of Business Processes, this is instrumental in business process re-engineering. There are a number of tools used for this, make sure you include your knowledge and experience in your resume. Furthermore, you need IT capabilities, Feasibility, and Relevance knowledge. These need to be addressed in turn on your resume or included in your experience. Hopefully by this stage you should be getting a better idea of how do I write a business analyst resume. 

 

Finally, make sure you list any certifications, and if your experience is in a different field, make sure you link the prerequisites of analytical skills, and technical/business background. 

转：一个牛人的CV

虽然是银行类，但是很有借鉴意义

http://www.alanscully.com/ 

Alan SCULLY

contact: my first name . my last name @gmail.com

 

Nationality       British

Date of Birth   1972.10.22

Location          Currently in Tokyo, Japan. Willing to relocate.

Brief

I am currently living in Tokyo, Japan working as in Business Analyst and IT Risk roles (dual-heading) for a major investment bank. Previous to living in Japan, I lived in Seoul, Korea, in Hong Kong, and in London, England.

I have long term experience working in IT in Investment Banking. From starting out as a developer, I've co-ordinated projects, become a Business Analyst, and recently moved into IT Risk. Although most of my career has been in Equity Derivatives and Cash, I have worked with Private Banking, Compliance, IT Risk, Business Continuity Management, Support, Operations, and Asset Management and liased with exchange bodies and external vendors. I have worked with London, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Australia, New York, and offsite development centers (eg Singapore, Pune).

Exposure across the investment bank has given me vision and insight that others may lack - an understanding of regulatory concerns in highly regulated areas such as Korea and Japan; ability to identify common solutions which will work across departments and locations; attention to disaster recovery, reliability, and support issue management.

Outside investment banking, as Chief Technology Officer of an internet company, I managed a team of developers, infrastructure specialists, and designers, as well as co-ordinating and reporting at board level.

I reached Vice President level at Citigroup at the age of 27.

I would be most suited to a senior role which involves co-ordination across departments and locations, where attention to regulatory and reliability issues is of upmost importance. This could be in an area in which I have worked before - such as IT Risk, BCM, Business Analysis - or in another senior IT management or project co-ordination role in an area I have not worked before. I am looking forward to bringing my experience and drive to a new company and addressing new challenges.

Languages

English - Native speaker.  Korean - Intermediate (see Education).

Education

Sogang University, South Korea - Korean Language - 2003 to 2005

University Of Glasgow, UK - BSc (Hons) Computing Science - First Class - 1990 to 1994

Employment History

Major Investment Bank (Japan) - Vice President (VP) – September 2006 to Present

Business analysis and management of high profile key Equities projects such as the in-house electronic trading system, integrating trading and booking systems with Private Banking, business continuity planning (ensuring trading can continue in the event of a disaster), trade reporting, and legal ticketing. Co-ordinating between departments and across locations, managing the book of work for several development groups. Recently dual-heading with an IT Risk role, involving investigating systems for compliance against exchange regulations, and recommending changes to improve production stability and reduce IT risks from project design time.

UBGlobal (Korea) - Senior Manager - Dec 2005 to March 2006

Report directly to company owners and advise on company restructuring. Business analysis and project management, including planning of international marketing strategy and managing developers working on internet site upgrades.

Education: Sogang University (Korea) - Korean Language  - 2003 to 2005

Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney (Hong Kong) - Independent Consultant - June 2001 to Jan 2003

Business analysis, project management, development, and support in Equity Derivatives: Korea KOSDAQ and KSE exchange connectivity, external broker connectivity, trading system enhancements (eg, basket trading, risk viewing). Liaison between HK and Korea, legal, compliance, traders, exchanges, and vendors. Frequent visits to Korea. Daily direct interaction with traders, including business analysis with the desk heads and trader support.

Saffron Hill Venture Capital (UK) - Chief Technology Officer - May 2000 to June 2001

First in the role of Technical Development Manager, evaluating companies for potential investment, business analysis and management of internet projects within portfolio companies. Promoted to Chief Technology Officer of a Saffron Hill portfolio company, managing a team of developers, infrastructure specialists, and designers. Tasked to analyse and turn around the failing launch of the company's portal and shopping internet sites. Under my management the extensively delayed projects were successfully completed, and the portal website won an award as the UK's best Asian internet site.

Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney (UK) - Vice President (VP) - June 1998 to April 2000

Project management, development, and support in Equity Derivatives: LIFFE, XETRA, and LSE exchange connectivity, trading system enhancements (eg, strategy trading, automatic market making, arbitrage opportunity searching), risk management (live and reporting). Liaison between Citigroup and exchanges. Representing Citigroup and performing exchange acceptance tests. Daily direct interaction with the traders. Achieved Vice President position due to consistent and accurate delivery of high profile trading projects.

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Limited (UK) - Developer - July 1997 to June 1998

Project management, development, and support in Global Equity Cash Trading, in charge of the Order Management application in London. Impact analysis of global changes to London. Local modifications. Designed enhancements for real time international internal order routing. Created web based support system. Co-ordinated with New York and Tokyo Japan. Represented London in global meetings. Managed relationship with users and support staff.

Salomon Brothers International Limited (UK) - Developer - July 1994 to July 1997

Project management, development, and support in Market Data and Equity Derivatives teams: SOFFEX exchange connectivity, design of an external broker intranet trading system, and Tibco market data projects.

J P Morgan (UK) - Intern - July 1993 to September 1993

Intern position before final year of university. Development in Global SWAPs.

Education: University Of Glasgow (UK) - BSc (Hons) Computing Science, First Class - 1990 to 1994

Interests

My interests include healthy living, appreciation of music, comedy, cooking (Mexican, Italian, and Korean), photography, hiking, and language.

 

 

ZZ:Business Analysis Career Path

The Business Analysis Career Path has been an ongoing discussion within IT circles for quite a while. If you browse through the blogs in the ‘Business Analysis’ category here, you should find more information on Business Analysis and how it fits into the overall IT organization and project structures. Assuming that all the readers have some background understanding, I am discussing some of the career path related matters here.

To start a career in BA, a person needs to have either business background in the specific industry domain or a broad IT knowledge. Given that this basic foundation exists, someone can step in to the BA world! This starting step would be something like Systems Analyst or Associate/Junior Systems Analyst. After the systems analysis skills are fully achieved, the person can move to be a Business Analyst. Progressively, this could start from something like Associate/Junior BA and then move to be a BA and when at a highly skilled autonomous level, a Senior/Lead BA.

Around this area, it becomes quite a discussion where a person can/should go. In a way, it’s a business decision based on what can be taken out of such individuals based on the skills they posses and also a personal decision what each individual want to do in their careers and also what they want to achieve in their respective lives. I personally see two branches from here onwards and upwards and also notice that most organizations have adopted these two progression paths.

One is to grow within the same line but take on more challenging opportunities. Becoming a Business Consultant would be the next best position to move in this path. The second branch is to move to Project/General Management. The knowledge gained on scoping projects, managing projects, change management and extensive business knowledge will be highly helpful for a successful career if someone decides to take on this path. If someone decides not to move onto management, Business Consultancy would offer a great amount of opportunities and exciting challenges as it’s a career path of its own and as most people would say, the sky is the only limit! It’s a highly autonomous position where you get to lead people, manage client expectations, propose solutions and involve in negotiations etc. As a consultant, avoiding management wouldn’t be possible, but still you would be a leader who understands what’s being done which makes it easier to stay on top of things and lead others to success.

Last but not least, this is a very interesting, challenging area within the IT industry which offers so many opportunities even though we find fewer people interested in it comparatively. If I have been able to create some interest and awareness, I can be happy......

zz: A Data Analyst's Typical Day

What is a typical day for a data analyst? Is it one that begins with a commute to work and ends with a commute home? Is it one that finds the data analyst satisfied with his/her day or frustrated and/or angry? Does this analyst sleep peacefully or dream of blue screens? Does the morning find the data analyst excited at the prospect of new challenges or hoping that the day goes quickly?My days include all of the above possibilities. Some are more interesting and enjoyable than others. But the reason I keep at it? As a data analyst, I often find myself loosing track of time and place as I:

1. Learn to use new software to answer old business questions
2. Discover the source data that causes the problems downstream
3. Uncover simpler ways of doing things
4. Forage through rows of data, realizing patterns
5. Build new reports that answer unusual end-user questions
6. Modify reports to correct longstanding problems
7. Listen intently to a manager, translating what she says into data fields
8. Design queries for different legacy databases using multiple BI packages
9. Figure out how tho make these queries yield comparable data
10. Present reports to customers that elicit good questions and no doubts

I have managed people and projects, and sold products and relationships. All of these activities have proved challenging, but none has captured my attention in the way data analysis does. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a brilliant observer of human experience, calls this experience 'flow.' Flow is a psychophysiological state that occurs when people perform challenging tasks, feeling intense concentration and a sense of commitment.

That's me, a data analyst, staring at a computer screen, feeling that this user's question is the most important thing. A thrill charges through me when I discover how the *!$%#@! (innacurate) data is getting into the database. I enjoy a brief sense of confidence when I identify a business trend that is built on (relatively) clean data.

BTW, I call myself a data -- or a business -- analyst. I realize that data analyst, database analyst, systems analyst, business analyst, reporting specialist, etc. are used interchangeably in today's job market. Until you read the job description, there's no way to know the skills needed. I've decided that this an issue that doesn't interest me. As far as I can tell, job descriptions cause more problems than they solve. They are commonly static, hierarchical, and vague in a business climate/world that isn't.

If you want, tell us all what you think about any of the above. I'd like to have a more accurate understanding of how strange I really am -- relative to the rest of you.