JCU Prizes JCU student and donor stories Alan Liang
Alan Liang
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Hunter Medal in Computer Systems Engineering
I graduated with a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering (Hons) / Bachelor of Information Technology in 2019 from James Cook University Townsville, Bebegu Yumba campus, Douglas.
I am currently working at Ericsson in Melbourne as a Graduate Integration Engineer where I work on the testing and integration team. However, my situation is a little tricky as I was also caught up in the COVID-19 pandemic and was unable to make it to Melbourne to start work. Luckily Ericsson have been very kind and understanding and were able to ship a work laptop to me in Townsville and have me start working from home. I must say, starting a graduate program a month late and not from the office is a little unusual and in it itself a tricky challenge to climb over.
Prior to working with Ericsson I had been working at Campbell Scientific Australia as a Graduate Application Engineer where I was designing and building weather stations. My dream pathway is in software and I feel like I am on the right track!
I can only express my sincere gratitude to you for this award. I truly did not even have any idea that such an award existed and that I would be considered for this it, so it came to me as a complete surprise. I remember being in the middle of a meeting at work, when I saw an email about the award, and at first I thought it was a phishing email. My work had just sent out a fake phishing email to see who would accidently click on the link by accident and I was being very cautious. But then I spoke to some colleagues of mine, and when I started to realize this was legitimate, I was incredibly happy.
Thank for very much for this award!
Alan Liang
“I was delighted to see that Alan is clearly a young man going places. A worthy winner.”
Alison Hunter, Donor (pictured with Steph Duce)