Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUL 2020年7月 亞博匯 79 技術談 Ben Blaschke: Can you tell us a bit about your background and howyou came to joinCommtechAsia? Wayne Saunders: I started in the construction industry in 1997 as an installation electrician and quickly fell into BMS systems which gave me a really good insight into electrical and mechanical plants. In 2016 I decided to make the move and come over to Asia. I started with Commtech Asia in Hong Kong. Then I was given an opportunity to go to Sydney to work on a hyper-scaled data center. I worked on one data center in Sydney and one in Melbourne. At the end of 2016 I also came across to Vietnam to do some ISTs (Integrated Systems Testing) for the HSBC banking group where I met my current wife, so Vietnam was always going to play an important part in my life. Commtech Asia landed the Hoiana HASD job and decided to open up an office in Vietnam on the back of that. Now we are looking to expand further into Vietnam and educate the market on the importance of commissioning management. BB: Can you tell us about your specific role with Commtech Asia? WS: On a day to day basis I manage our Vietnamese team here in Vietnam. Every day across all our projects we receive a list of commissioning activities that are going to be taking place, so I assign each team member their role for the day or for the week, however long the duration may be. That keeps me pretty busy because I need to keep up with the drafting of all of the commissioning reports and test scripts. BB: What were the main differences you found upon moving to Asia? WS: Culturally it was a real shock, that’s for sure, although it is a very interesting place. From a work perspective they do things differently. In Hong Kong it is quite fast-tracked and similar to what we’d experience in Europe. In Southeast Asia, specialist practices such as commissioning management which we take for granted in Europe and the US, are still a relatively new 本思齊:可否多告訴我們你的背景以及為甚麼會加入Commtech Asia呢？ Wayne Saunders (WS): 我於1997年開始加入建築業，並且成為 裝置電工，之後很快就被建築物自動化設備管理系統(BMS)所吸 引，它們都讓我在電子及機械機房方面獲得了不少知識。 2016年，我決定要作出改變，並且搬到亞洲。我開始時加入了 在香港的Commtech Asia幾個月，之後就得到了一個前往悉尼的 機會，並且能夠分別在悉尼及墨爾本的一間機房裏工作。 2016年底，我亦去到越南，為匯豐銀行進行一些整合系統測 試(Integrated Systems Testing, ISTs)，並在那裏認識到我的妻子。 因此，越南在我的生命中佔有一個很重要的位置。 Commtech Asia得到了會安南岸的HSAD工作，並在那時決定 在越南開設一間辦公室，現在就決定繼續在越南發展，並且教育當 地市場調試的重要。 本: 可否告訴我們你在Commtech Asia的特別角色？ WS: 在每天運作中，我管理我們在越南負責會安南岸工程的越南 人團隊，確保他們在進行調試工作時得到需要的支援。 我們每天都會收到一份需要進行調試的工作清單，因此我會 指派每一位成員擔任某個角色長達一天、一個星期，或者更久。這 已經讓我很忙碌，因為我需要及時準備編寫所有調試報告。 本: 你在搬到亞洲後，發現這裡最大的不同是甚麼？ WS: 雖然這是一個非常有趣的地方，但說實在，文化上的衝擊真的