How I work
A few habits I keep using at work—not a grand framework. Each one links to a project.
Agree on the words first
Do sales and engineering mean the same thing? Adding features before that just makes the split worse.
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Draw who does what
Who starts, who approves, who does the work, who reconciles. If that is not drawable, do not split screens yet.
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- Smart Power Plant Operations & Production Admin Fold operations, maintenance, and planning documents into an admin system—without rebuilding shop-floor control.
- Vehicle R&D Change Management Platform Built an R&D change platform from scratch: parts, materials, configuration, and process changes, with configurable nodes instead of offline coordination.
Make it configurable, not a one-off campaign
A campaign ends. If rules, pools, and onboarding can be changed in admin, you do not rebuild every time.
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Do not take over the shop floor
Admin is documents and coordination. The floor already has a control system—integrate, do not rewrite it.
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You should be able to see if it worked
Say who does what in which situation. If you have no number, write the behavior. Do not invent a metric.
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- Integrated Vehicle Configurator (OTD) Make sales configuration and the buildable per-vehicle BOM follow the same rules, so high-customization orders can move downstream.
- 88VIP Membership Product Turn membership benefits from one-off campaigns into distribution that ops can configure, and partners can join by a standard.
- AI Algorithm Development Platform A managed deep-learning platform: training jobs, model serving, GPU scheduling. For algorithm teams—not to own business-model quality.
- Smart Power Plant Operations & Production Admin Fold operations, maintenance, and planning documents into an admin system—without rebuilding shop-floor control.
Draw the AI boundary first
Then the job was hosting the training environment. Now it is judging where not to paste an “AI feature.”
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- AI Algorithm Development Platform A managed deep-learning platform: training jobs, model serving, GPU scheduling. For algorithm teams—not to own business-model quality.
- AI Vision & Content-Safety Shipping Used vision in content safety and commerce listing, as a loop AI, humans, and ops could actually run.