The Second Trip
The most expensive thing on a deployment isn't the equipment — it's the second trip. A field story about near-misses, and why a coordinator's best work is invisible.
Read story : The Second TripWhat I’m learning about delivering projects, building a career, and navigating the moments in between.
Five years of telecom field work taught me project management before I knew its name — multi-site rollouts, design audits, tier-1 client delivery. Here's how field experience translates into the project coordinator role, and what I added to complete the picture.
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The most expensive thing on a deployment isn't the equipment — it's the second trip. A field story about near-misses, and why a coordinator's best work is invisible.
Read story : The Second TripWhen everything is labeled urgent, nothing is. A field-tested three-question filter for telling real urgency from noise — and the courage to say what can wait.
Read story : Unnecessary UrgencyMonths into a work deployment in Winnipeg: what being away from home teaches you about routine, discipline, and self-management.
Read story : What Months Away From Home Teach YouThe hardest part of any project was never the technology. It was always the people. So I'm reading Robert Greene.
Read story : The Hardest Part of Every Project Was Never the Technology130 million voters deleted, 700 protesters detained, and one rubber stamp that deserves a productivity award.
Read story : How to Win an Election: Delete 130 Million VotersFive lessons from months of work travel — on packing, buffers, routines, and knowing your next three moves.
Read story : What Living Out of a Suitcase Taught Me About PlanningEight practical tips for tailoring a resume to Canadian employers — format, ATS, keywords, and the details that matter.
Read story : Writing a Resume That Works for Canadian EmployersFive lessons from coordinating telecom infrastructure projects — on schedules, handoffs, documentation, relationships, and verification.
Read story : What Field Projects Taught Me About Project ManagementFive years of telecom field work taught me project management before I knew its name — multi-site rollouts, design audits, tier-1 client delivery. Here's how field experience translates into the project coordinator role, and what I added to complete the picture.
Read story : From Cell Towers to Project Plans: My Telecom-to-IT PivotCoordinating complex milestones across multi-site deliverables requires a structured and adaptive approach to risk registers.
Read story : Managing Multi-Site Complex RisksDuring the development of sinsandroses.com and chithiyan.com, we structured rapid sprint frameworks to align developers with UI design iterations designed in Figma.
Read story : Agile Sprints for Ecommerce StoresCoordinating Rogers Communication tower installations requires high precision in reviewing civil and electrical blueprints in AutoCAD.
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