1415T1g1 Silicon Valley/Participant Information/Muhammad Mustaqim

About Muhammad Mustaqim Bin Fadillah

Academic Year: 4
Degree: Information Systems Management
2nd Major: Advanced Business Technology

What I Love: Gym and Fast Food (the irony...) and - MICROSOFT My Pet Peeves: MRT Mak Ciks and Aunties

Other things I did
Please show some love for my open source programming game I have posted on sourceforge.net called Mouse Run. Thanks :D

Why TSM Silicon Valley?

• What motivates you to join TSM?

• Why pick Silicon Valley?

Internship Opportunities

• What types of internship opportunities interest you? All
• Any ideal firms (based in Silicon Valley) that you wishes to join?

Starting a business

• What types of business interest you? All
• What plan do you have in starting a business? (list existing business)

Past Experiences

• Describe your past experience (entrepreneurship, or works in start ups, etc)

I have worked at a Tuition Centre which was relatively new back in 2008 as part of my Industrial Attachment Programme in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. The tuition center used to be small but it was already employing technology to drive the business. Apart from adding features into I was the forth intern employed and I was tasked to developed an entire new system to manage student self-enrolment into classes online (very much like BOSS, and yup, the first tuition center I know doing this). I also developed a prospective student system whereby we track phone calls by non-customers for their demands and perform analysis to generate leads for business opportunities by opening classes based on their demands. I've work with them beyond my internship until my 3rd semester in SMU (with a two year break due to NS).

I've gained a lot of IT skills such as developing ASP.net with AJAX (big deal back then), communicate with MODEMS for Caller ID using AT Command etc. And what I am proud about my experience is how a small tuition center, whose business is not centered around IT, is driven by IT.