Introduction

Hi! This is my first blog here on MSDN, so I thought it should be an intro. My name is Ricky Tan, and I was born and grew up in the tropical island of Penang in Malaysia. I’m ethnic Chinese and was educated in English, but I also speak some Chinese and Malay. I came to the United States to further my education, and completed my Bachelor’s degree at Iowa State University. I then went to work in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the one-year OPT and then continued on with the Master of Science, Computer Science at Maharishi University of Management in Iowa. After completing the on-campus requirements of the degree, I opted to take the remaining courses as Distance Education while working full-time. 

 

It was at that moment in time, March 2006, that I was contacted by a recruiter from Volt, who asked if I was interested in a position at Microsoft, and I said yes. So I went through the interview process and started as a contractor SDET with the Crossbow Runtime project, in the UI Framework Client team. Three months later, I was given the chance to go through another interview process to change to FTE, which I gladly did. 

 

Today is exactly one month after I was hired as FTE, and I’m more happy and excited than I've ever been. I've been working on the Vista test pass for the .Net Framework, and I'll be working on the new Acropolis (Smart Client) project.

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 19, 2006
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• Anonymous
  July 20, 2006
  Dear Jonathan,
  
  Thank you very much.  I'm very encouraged by your comment.
  
  Best regards,
  Ricky

• Anonymous
  August 17, 2006
  Dear Ricky,
  
  I hope you are doing well, moving forward in your FTE job, and I am also encouraged by your comments.  
  
  Now, American TESOL is the standard training course for Americans wanting to teach and travel abroad, and we have enrollments daily into our program.  It is very exciting times for our growing company, and to see our graduates succeed as English teachers abroad.  We also provide job placement, so sometimes it is loads of work.  
  
  Please keep us updated as to what is happening with your FTE position and any other news from MSN, Microsoft corporation.
  
  Kindest Regards,
  Jonathan
  
  
  

• Anonymous
  August 20, 2006
  Dear Ricky Tan,
  
  You are really "Lucky" Tan :)
  This is Ductruong - Compro Student Feb2006, I hope that you remember me. The day you left campus for Microsoft you came to my room and gave me your resume link and also shared some helpful information about your job search and interview. I am really appreciated and would like to say thank you to you.
  
  Now the time that you have passed is now coming to us. We are now busy preparing for job search:) So your experience is really helpful for us, I am trying to send email just wanting to ask you some questions about job search/job and especially about job at Microsoft. I think you have changed your email address (not rtan[at]mum.edu), right?
  
  So, when you read this message. Could you please send your new email to me at Truong2D@Gmail.com . I would like to ask you some questions.
  
  Thank you very much!
  Best Regards,
  Ductruong Do

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