Jewel Amante for AECES President

8/9/2019 Jewel Amante for AECES President

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CANDIDACY FORM

CANDIDATE for the POSITION of:

President

PERSONAL DATA

Name: Jewel Manelle L. Amante Nickname: Jewel

Yr. And Course: 4 BS Electronics and Communicati ns Engineering

Date of Birth: 06 October 1994 Age: 20

Address: Rm 301, University Residence Halls-South, Ateneo de Manila

University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City

Contact Nos. Email Address:

0936 967 6557 [email protected]

EXTRA and CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIESName of Organization Position Duration Responsibilities

P&G CEO Leadership

AcademyParticipant November 2014 -

Ateneo StudentLeaders’ Assembly

Delegate October 2014 -

Project LAANSocial Media Team

MemberJuly 2014- Present

Manager of Project LAAN’s Official

Facebook page

AJMA MemberJune 2014-

October 2014-

ARSA Member June 2011-present -

YFC-A Member June 2011-present -

COA Lead Participant November 2013 -

AECES Credentials: (What had been my participation in AECES for the past year/s? e.g.

Officer, Project Head, Core Group Member, Volunteer/Participant in

Projects -please specify)

Vice President for Special Projects – 2014-2015o

Generated the first fundraiser party for AECES (Operation Amplify)o Created the first Code of Internal Procedures for the Special Projects

Department

Team Head- Corporate Relations Elite Team, 2012- 2013



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Successful Sponsors Contacted for AECES: Universal Robina Corporation(Interface 2012), WhenInManila.com (Media Sponsor for Interface 2013),Red Roaster Bistro (VIP Card 2013)

Publications & Design Team Member, Promotions and Publications, 2013

Program/ Logistics Head- Survival kit, 2013

Project Head- OJT Talk, 2014

Volunteer- 2nd AECES Got Talent, 2013 Attended AECES Sportsfest

Finance Head- Thesis Orientation, 2013

Project Head- First General Assembly, 2013

Finance Head- ECCE OrSem, 2013 Finance Head – 1st AECES Got Talent, 2013

Marketing Head- Project Delta, 2012

Volunteer (Station Manager)- Project Delta, 2012

Programs Head – Thesis Orientation, 2012

Attended Second General Assembly, 2012 Volunteer (Registration Committee)- Tambay Week, 2012

Attended Tambay Week, 2012

Attended First General Assembly, 2012

Volunteer (Runner) – ECCE OrSem, 2012

Attended Culminating Night, 2012 Attended AECES Christmas Party, 2011

Attended Second General Assembly, 2011

Attended Tambay Week, 2011

Volunteer (Shirt Sale) – AECES Food Fest, 2011 Attended First General Assembly, 2011



Plans and Platform: (State your plans and platform for AECES, particularly leaning towardsthe role of the position you are running for.)

RELEVANCE AND PURPOSE

“Thou shall not do better sameness”

As President, the main thrust that I want to do is to give AECES its relevance and purpose not only for the members, the Ateneo community but also the greater community ahead.As a person passionate for change, I want to be able to lay out a foundation for structuralchanges this year internally as well as to lead AECES into greater heights externally. I wantto get AECES on the right track and to achieve this I want to revolve around CHANGE. As a

leader aspiring to bring about positive change, my plans revolve around the refocusing ofideals and a radical shift in perspective of the members.

Guided by this thrust, I want to strengthen the identity of AECES by concretizing its corecompetencies and for this to be communicated better to the members. I want to steerAECES into greater heights with the core competencies as its driving force. I aim for aclearer vision concretized through our projects and the holistic formation of its members. Iam greatly disturbed by how AECES has so much potential unutilized. This year, I want to beable to address these potentials as an engineering organization honing engineeringstudents with a capacity for leadership and social involvement which is beyond ouracademic life.

I firmly believe that once AECES has something to fight for, a purpose, and relevance,everything would fall together. There will be an increase in member participation andinvolvement and financial stability because AECES` finally does something that actuallymatters. I divided my plans for change into two parts; internal and external.

INTERNAL

Internally, I want to lay out a strong foundation for the major structural changes in thesystems I want to implement next year and for the coming years after my term.

Transparency

There have always been limitations into what the members see and know about what’shappening inside the Central Board. This year, I am aiming for greater transparency. I wantto generate opportunities for member-to-Central Board conversation and memberinvolvement in the upcoming structural changes. This can be done through generatingmore Focused Group Discussions and actual conversation of the members of the Executiveand/or Central board with the members through Individual Consultations. Actual member

involvement in Constitutional changes (Con-Con) and Planning and Evaluations Seminars(PlanSem and PlEvSem) would also help in trying to get more members involved in theinternal procedures of the Central Board. I want AECES to open its doors to members whowants to get involved with the internals and to Vision and Mission of AECES better.



Minimum Action, Maximum Impact

AECES has a lot of projects aiming to cater to its VMO. This year, I want big projects whichcater to more aspects of the VMO instead of many small-scale projects. I want more focusinto large-scale projects to provide maximum impact to the members, Ateneo community,and society. This can be done through creating a more thorough system of criteria of

projects, constant rethinking of all the projects during the Planning Seminars, and a better

communication of the VMO of AECES to the Central Board and members. Big projects areto be the result of collaboration between the major departments and the ExecutiveDepartment. I want a shift in perspective of ideals as well as refocusing on the coreaspects of the identity of AECES through the strengthening of the core competencies by

creating projects which involve celebration of technology and innovation, member

development, and nation-building.

Leadership

I plan on orienting the organization into becoming more member-based and therefore, thegrowth of the members in terms of leadership should be given the most importance in allaspects. I want to change the fact that AECES focuses mainly on the technicalities inmaking great projects and focus instead on honing the leaders of projects and a greatproject should only be the result of developed leaders.

Structural Changes

For this part, what I could give are merely suggestions because these major structuralchanges I want to impart entails a discourse and detailed thinking and processingbetween me, the Central Board, and the members. These changes I plan on implementingnext year along with a Con-Con at the start of my term. AECES has four majordepartments: Research and Development (RnD), External Affairs (EA), Human Resources(HR), and Special Projects (SP). I plan on concretizing the three core competencies ofAECES through its representation by the major departments. To explain further, I plan onstrengthening these core competencies because they should be at the heart of AECES. Abigger part of the budget should be given to projects from these departments. This year, Iplan on putting Social Service through Engineering (SSE), one of its core competencies, intothe heart of AECES (a more concretized plan for SSE is at the next part of my plans -

external).

I plan on rebranding the identity of SP into specializing into a more relevant aspect of theorganization, SSE. Therefore, the biggest projects in the Special Projects department shouldcater to more relevant issues in the society in which the members can be part of throughengineering. In line with this, the AECES Network Team (ANT) Head should be under theVice President as one of his/her Assistant Vice Presidents. The current SP projects are to behandled by HR and SP’s efforts should be directed towards social service.

Member Systems: I personally find the departmentalization system problematic. There is

inefficiency in handling 60-70 people under one department led by 2-3 people. Thedepartmentalization system doesn’t work anymore because it leads to a greater divide orcliquishness between the major departments in AECES. It makes more sense if HR wouldhandle all the members instead. I suggest having 6-8 committees (houses) represented by



heads handling a specific number of members. These committees are to be divideddepending on skills the members want to learn most about (i.e. Creatives, Marketing,Finance, Project Management, Talent, etc). For this reason that I think the BatchRepresentatives should be under the Executive Vice President (EVP). The EVP handles theinternal communication in the organization and the formation of future leaders of AECESwhich is why I think the EVP should handle the batch representatives. The EVP should alsowork hand-in-hand with HR in creating more projects addressing the leadership formationof the members. More projects like leadership talks and seminars would be ideal. These

structural changes I’m suggesting is a general idea and I won’t go into full details (numberof committees, types of committees) for things I can’t decide on my own because this

entails a full-on discernment process and FGD’s between the Central board, COA, and themembers.

More systematized social media representation: For the big changes I want to implement

the coming year, this is especially important since the marketing of the name of AECES tothe members, to the Ateneo and the society should be better. This system is to be handled

by the Promotions and Publications Department (PnP). This is important because I want tobe able to communicate the VMO of AECES more efficiently not only to the members butto the Ateneo community and to the society as well.

EXTERNAL

I plan on leading AECES into greater heights through externalization. With a huge potential

for growth of innovation and nation-building, AECES deserves to have a voice to be heardin the Ateneo community as well as the greater community beyond Ateneo. I want totransform AECES to an organization of purpose. To do this, more socially-relevant projectsare to be produced for us to orient our potentials as engineering students for the greatergood.

Ateneo Community

I want AECES to be more visible in the Ateneo community in terms of celebration oftechnology and innovation. I want to propose one big project catering to the wholeAteneo which caters the presentation of the newest technology available. I want greatervisibility of AECES in terms of being the “premier engineering organization of the Ateneo”.

Nation-Building

Educational Sector: The AECES Network Team (ANT) is a special group in AECES which

creates and repairs PC’s from spare parts and deploys these to our partner school.However, there is a staggering lack of relationship between our members and our partnerschool. I want to develop a real relationship between majority of the member and our

partner communities. For instance, TACTILES(https://www.facebook.com/tactiles?ref=bookmarks ) is interested in forming projects incollaboration with AECES. The general idea of this start-up venture is that they have aneducational module for K+12 and they produce blocks which represent electronic

hardware for safe and easier learning of students. They are interested in collaborating withAECES and our partner schools. They can provide us with the module and blocks and theAECES community can join together to be part of area visits to these schools and teach

https://www.facebook.com/tactiles?ref=bookmarks






children the basics of electronics. In this set up, a real relationship between us and ourpartner schools is formed.

Development Sector: Opportunities for involvement in the development sector is significant

as well. Many start-up social ventures are in need of manpower to greatly improve thescope of their innovations. This is why I think they are more open to collaborations. I have a

wide range of contacts with regard to social entrepreneurship in which engineering couldbe of big help to. For example, SALT Inc is a start-up company funded by IdeaSpacedeveloping salt-powered lighting to areas without electricity in the Philippines. I find itbothering to realize how much underdeveloped other parts of the country are for them tonot even have the slightest bit of electricity which is one of the basic necessities in the

modern life today. Look at how much potential we can be of help to this company. We

could provide manpower and we could deliver these lights to areas in the country withoutlights.

ADDITIONAL PROJECT IDEAS

Interface 2015: Engineering by Design: For EA, which handles the flagship project of the

organization called Interface, I plan on getting more involvement from the members.Ideally, I suggest an Investigatory Project contest for High school students, in partnershipwith IdeaSpace, a start up venture funding innovative ideas. This is to ignite creativity andinnovation in high schools. An all-day talk or a competition for college students would beideal as well. Also, a better relationship with the Institute of Electronics Engineers of the

Philippines (IECEP) and Philippine Computing Organizations Alliance (PCOA) for the majorprojects in EA should be formed.

AECES x Tactiles Inc.: For this project, I am aiming for more member involvement in

spreading the advocacy of AECES regarding computer literacy. I want to be able toprovide opportunities through area visits and teach basic electronics to grade school andhigh school students to develop a relationship with our partner institutions. I want to be ableto ignite the passion in members for them to utilize our engineering skills for more membersto get involved in social service through engineering.

AECES Week: This is a weeklong project with the collaboration of the whole Central Board

with each other and with participating companies to showcase innovation and the latest

emerging technologies to the Ateneo through an exhibit, handle university-widecompetitions on basic robotics and programming. A particular department will showcaseits own departmental skill per day as well (Creatives, Marketing, Project Management, etc).

AECES Lead Series: This will be a series of leadership conferences and group dynamics tothe members to hone the future leaders and engineers of AECES. The goal is to invitespeakers to recognize different aspects of growth and to hold a talk series involving groupdynamics as well. Another goal is to be able to develop a system of mentoring of theExecutive Board and the members.





What is my vision for AECES? (Guide Question: How do you envision AECES in five or ten

years? How would your vision become a reality?)

Engineer for Others

Being an idealist, I am ambitious. I imagine AECES in the future as a family of engineersworking together building projects catering to the greater good. I imagine AECES as the

organization who hones “Engineer for others” in a more co ncretized viewpoint. I see AECESas an organization having a strong network of connection of its members with a commongoal, which is oriented towards the Ateneo principle, being men and women for others. Isee future projects oriented towards cura personalis, with future engineers working togetherand utilizing their skills to be able to help other people. I see it as an organization workinghand in hand more active in response to the social problems of the country.

Engineering the Future

I imagine a future of a more member-based organization. AECES is an organization honing

leaders in the field of engineering as well as providing more avenues for growth in themembers doing the application of their engineering skills in a more relevant manner. I seeAECES developing engineers to be more capable in their own respective fields and talents.

The Goal: My goal this year is to make transformative, radical change happen. I want tobe able to enable innovation among the members and the society. This needs to be done

in concrete steps for this year. I want to be able to lay out a strong foundation for the corecompetencies this year to be able to concretize my vision better. I can’t expect everythingto happen and to fall together in my term. But what I can give is the willingness to risk forthe big changes I want.

**** Please don’t forget to attach a certified photocopy of your grade report last semester

with cumulative QPI. Thank you very much! AECES needs you to be our Future LEADER! ****

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Jewel Amante for AECES President