Heemeng Foo

Sr Engineering Manager (Test) at The Climate Corporation

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Seniority

18 Years

Hierarchy

Manager of Managers

Management Experience

Scaling Team

Personal growth

Reorganization

Toxic employee

Career Path

New Manager

Hi all, my name is Heemeng Foo. I’ve been in the mobile industry for the last 17 years and currently Sr Engineering Manager (Test) at The Climate Corporation working to revolutionize digital farming. I spent almost 12 years at Yahoo and about 10 years as a people manager. I’m passionate about technology and growing teams and people. My first leadership experience was in high school as 2 i/c of a marching band where as a new leader I made a lot of mistakes. I love telling stories drawing from experiences in applied R&D, serving in the army back in Singapore and growing up in Asia and now living here in the US - always being involved in teams either being in one, leading and building them. Hope to hear more stories and share what I know helping new engineering leaders sidestep the pitfalls of leadership and to thrive.

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Stories

Taking care of your direct reports’ career growth.

6 December

An engineer on Heemeng’s team had been at the same level for a very long time. Heemeng decided to be proactive and rolled out a plan for his career growth.

Career Path

Managing Expectations

Managing Up

Scaling Team

Heemeng Foo

Sr Engineering Manager (Test) at The Climate Corporation

Keeping a team focused in a time of major changes in leadership

6 December

Facing significant leadership changes, Heemeng finds a way to fight low morale.

Coaching / Training / Mentorship

Micromanagement

Managing Up

Health / Stress / Burn-Out

Heemeng Foo

Sr Engineering Manager (Test) at The Climate Corporation

How to deal with a strong performer facing some personal issues

6 December

Heemeng explains how he dealt with the drop in performance of one of his engineers, who was facing some personal issues.

Health / Stress / Burn-Out

Heemeng Foo

Sr Engineering Manager (Test) at The Climate Corporation

What to focus on when taking over a team that has had five managers in two years.

6 December

Heemeng shares what he focused on when he took over a team of engineers that hadn’t had a stable manager for two years.

Personal growth

Reorganization

One-on-one

Coaching / Training / Mentorship

New Manager

Career Path

Legitimacy

Internal Communication

Heemeng Foo

Sr Engineering Manager (Test) at The Climate Corporation

Finding the strengths and weaknesses of direct reports

22 March

Heemeng shares his tips on how to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of your direct reports when you take over a new team.

Heemeng Foo

Sr Engineering Manager (Test) at The Climate Corporation

Teaching leadership through influence

6 December

How do you present opportunities for team members who demonstrate leadership potential for them to exhibit and learn leadership through influence?

Leadership

Legitimacy

Handling Promotion

Coaching / Training / Mentorship

Career Path

Heemeng Foo

Sr Engineering Manager (Test) at The Climate Corporation

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager (Test)

The Climate Corporation

Jan 2018 - current

Climate Corporation is the market leader in the new field of Digital Agriculture. Our technology marries state of the art technologies such as IoT and Data Science with the latest in presentation technologies such as iOS, Android and Web to present useful planning information to farmers. I lead a team of 3 engineering managers in charge of quality for our presentation (mobile and web) and e-commerce portal. Key responsibilities include building and raising the bar for test engineers, building up next level test leadership, defining test strategy, evaluating and introducing new tools and test technologies eg. mobile/browser test farms and synthetic monitoring, driving test automation and CI/CD as well as defining how we orchestrate testing across presentation test teams and domain (eg. planting/harvest/fertility planning and yield analysis) test teams. In this role I also play the role of change agent and thought leader using my experience in a more mature technology company ie. Yahoo and experience having deployed products on a global scale.

Product Advisor

NimbleDroid

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

Product advisor and outreach.

Consultant , Customer Support, Developer, Account Manager

Flying Broom Pte Ltd (Tech startup)

Jan 2000 - Jan 2005

• Pioneer member of start-up. Participated in the growth of company from angel funding phase to conceptualizing and deploying own solution to paying customer. • Involved in conceptualization and writing of formal project proposals to customers. • Editor of software manuals for company. • Involved in various aspects of solution delivery process from requirements gathering to deployment of system to providing 24x7 operations support for end-users. • Conceptualized, built and deployed GUI for distributed real-time system incorporating workflow management of real-time, mobile content delivery system. • Conceptualized and built business intelligence system handling millions of records each day.

Research Assistant

National University of Singapore

Jan 1996 - Jan 2000

1\. Project managed 2 government funded research projects: a. port vessel assignment project b. bus/subway commuter routing project see http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/281757.html 2\. Assisted professor in running research lab - Resource Allocation and Scheduling Lab (NUS)

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