moses choi

I’ve recently moved to a new team at work. For the last 6 months or so, I was on the Product Development team for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile services and software. What this means in a nutshell is delivering to market carrier-branded software and services on our smartphone devices. What a great learning experience it was to be on that team! I had the great opportunity to work with really interesting and most importantly fun people. I was able to really bite into projects and own them and had my first taste of what it would be like to own a product and manage it. I was sad to leave, but I had to continue to try different things so I moved to the Product Marketing & Pricing team for our prepaid portfolio.

My time on the new team can best be described as hectic. There is a lot of work to do for this year and not enough capacity on the team as all our projects have been piling on really quickly. What I really enjoy about my new role is that it’s based around an entire portfolio, rather than a particular function or a subset of a product. What this means for me is that I have visibility on the product end-to-end, working on initial product development, execution and launch, all while implementing marketing and pricing strategies.

I will be on this team for about 6 months before I move on to another challenge. By that time, I will be reaching my 2 year mark at this company. Time really does fly…

- It’s been a really long time since I’ve written in my blog. I guess I’ll start off where I left off last time I was here: the Toronto Raptors. I just watched their home opener against the Philadelphia 76ers and wow, what a great game. It wasn’t a great game by the traditional definition of great games, but it was an indicator of the positive things to come. (note: I started the last sentence a couple nights ago, today was the game versus the Nets and I didn’t catch it this time)

- Anyway, with the start of a new season, comes a new fantasy season and hopefully another season of blogging. 2007 is supposed to be the 10th year anniversary of blogs and blogging. It has come a long way from being an activity that nerds do in their spare time; now, almost everyone blogs in one way or another and it has become a legitimized means of communication, influencing the public and keeping in touch. Perhaps I can find some discipline to continue writing and contributing whenever I can.

- Let me talk about Google Reader. For those of you who love reading online articles, blogs or are looking for a robust, well-designed, fast and reliable RSS reader, look no further than Google Reader. I’ve been using it since it was under development in the Google Labs and it has become my default home page. It allows me to swiftly scan the headlines of the newspapers/blogs/websites I like to read.

- Now that it’s in the public domain, I can now talk about this online. The TELUS BlackBerry Pearl is now available! I’ve been using the new Pearl since early September and I think I have decided that I’m a big fan of SureType. I assumed that I wouldn’t like it, but given sufficient time, the Pearl learns what I want to type and predicts my words. Today, I can confidently say that I can type just as fast on my Pearl as I can on a qwerty BlackBerry. I am happy with the Pearl and even better, I am happy with my RIM shares!