I am a Ph.D. student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Pennsylvania State University. Before pursuing his Ph.D. in IST, doubly financially supported by the Royal Thai Government and Bangkok University, I had been working as a management in banking standard control division, a software engineer in software process group, and a university faculty. Working as a software engineer at Reuters, I joined Software Process Improvement division (SPI) and Software Process Technology division (SPT), functioning in implementation and deploying the CMMi Level 5 over the company. As of now, Reuters (Thailand) has become the first CMMi Level 5 company in Thailand, and the ninth in the World. At Reuters Thailand’s, I have been the only one junior staff rewarded the LIVING FAST best performance twice in the same year. While joining Reuters in Software Process groups, I was also holding a full-time faculty position in the Department of Software Engineering, the School of Science and Technology, Bangkok University where the focus of his teaching was on software engineering process development. Serendipitously, I was invited to join Siam Commercial Bank, which is the first bank in Thailand, in management position in the department of Information Technology System and Control.
(Working as a faculty at Bangkok University, 1)
(Working as a faculty at Bangkok University, 2)
(Working as a management at Siam Commercial Bank)
Living in Thailand, one of the less developed countries in the world, I have continuously been being inspired by many problems (and opportunities) in my own countries. In the last 30 years, there have been dramatic changes in Thailand’s journey on economic development path. The majority of the changes are presumably derived from appearances of FDI-led multinational companies (MNCs). There fore, my research foci are on impacts of software offshore outsourcing in developing countries, the influence and impact of FDI-led technological spillovers toward host countries in less developed countries (LDCs), conceiving effective ICT policies in developing countries while my hobbies are Physics, Philosophy, and HCI. I intensively take on cultural and economic factors as tools in my research. There are many significant factors which negatively withhold LDCs from thriving in their social and economic development. Only looking at economic factors is similar to looking at the tip of an ice berg. With this regard, investigating in the cultural value situated is a very comprehensive means to discover the uncharted problems in LDCs.
(In IST521 class at Penn State)
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