Please help us welcome Sahal Ansari to our Chicago team!
It is always nerve-racking coming into a new company and trying to break the ice. Ensuring that new employees feel comfortable is crucial to building a positive transition within a company. We thought it would be fun to ask Sahal a few questions to get to know him a little better.
Let’s get started!
Q: What is your official work title?
A: My official work title is System Support Specialist.
Q: Can you tell us more about your professional experience/ history?
A: I’ve worked at lot of different jobs in the past including
as a conversational English teacher in Shenzhen, China, as a Product
Demonstrator at various grocery stores, and as a Social Services Assistant at a
nursing home.
I spent spring semester 2012 in Beijing, China and helped a
few of my friends poke holes in the Great Firewall. After I returned to the
states, I built a website to help people get around censorship. I’ve been
working on it since
Q: What do you like to do outside of work?
A: I love to travel, listen to music, bike, and watch tv.
Q: What are your greatest travel experience?
A: I took a road trip with my roommate a few years ago to the
east coast. We met some cool people at a
New York hostel and traveled with them to other cities.
I was in Thailand during last year’s protests
against the Prime Minster. We were trying to get on a domestic flight out of
Bangkok on the first day of the protests. After a fun night, having only slept
a few hours, we left our hostel for the airport with five hours to spare. We waved down a few taxies until one finally
agreed to get us to the airport.
Although the highway entrances were blocked by protesters we still got
to the airport quickly. Unfortunately, the driver charged us triple and we sat
bored at the airport for four hours while Bangkok’s citizens exercised their
democratic freedoms.
The most difficult thing I’ve done physically is climb
Tiger Leaping Gorge in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
Through all the twenty-eight bends, I didn’t see one tiger…
Now on to the more personal questions.
Q: Favorite movie?
A: I really like bad Kung Fu movies with bad subtitles.
Q: Guilty pleasure music artist?
A: Rae Sremmurd
Q: What is something that inspires you?
A: I am inspired by everyone out there that tries hard to achieve their dreams.
Q: What would you say your professional goal would be now that you are employed at Percipia?
A: I want to learn a lot about supporting Percipia’s software.
Well there you have it! We are so happy to have Sahal join the team and contribute to the success of Percipia.
You can send Sahal some fan mail by tweeting
@Percipia1
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