Meet our Data Solutions Team: A Q&A with Winnie Chan-Louie

She’s a Software Engineering Manager at StreetLight (a subsidiary of Jacobs) and is aligned to Jacobs’ Divergent Solutions operating unit. Meet Winnie Chan-Louie, who leads a team of software engineers located in San Francisco and Vancouver who develop and maintain the StreetLight transportation planning software platform.

她和丈夫住在旧金山湾区, Winnie received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, 获得卡内基梅隆大学软件工程硕士学位.

Hi, Winnie. 你能告诉我们你所做的工作是如何帮助雅各布斯实现战略的吗?

我是街灯公司WebApp团队的高级软件经理. Our StreetLight InSight ® product helps clients use big data to help with data-driven decision making and increased accessibility for transportation analytics.

As a software manager, what is your role like?

My role is overseeing features development and new data integration on the StreetLight InSight platform, 并与其他街灯团队协调，如产品管理, data science, QA and operations, to ensure the product release is on schedule. I also assist the product support team to provide mitigation when any technical issues are identified on production.

是什么让你成为发散解决方案团队的一员?

我热衷于推动从规范到实现的功能开发, 最后将其部署到生产环境中供客户使用. These features enhance the StreetLight InSight platform to help optimize transportation analysis, and create a more connected, sustainable transportation system.

你能告诉我们一个你参与过的让你特别自豪的项目吗? 

As an early developer of the StreetLight team, I'm proud to see how our platform has grown, from version 1.0 to now 10.9 and ongoing. 早期，用户只能下载结果数据 .CSV文件，到现在:一个提供完整交互式可视化的平台. 

Can you share a time when you delivered something for a client that exceeded their expectations?

I help a lot of internal stakeholders to gather data for various analytics on the platform usage. 其中一项任务就是帮助我们街灯公司的CEO Laura Schewel to gather all the zones created in the InSight platform for the past 12 months and their locations. The result data set was ready within a day. Laura used the data to produce an impressive animation and presented it at the last in person all hands meeting. 

你认为数据解决方案能给客户带来的前2-3个好处是什么?

大数据可以让客户做出数据驱动的决策. StreetLight’s data solutions provide attributes that are typically labor intensive to collect, such as vehicle count, travel time and speed. 它还增加了远程位置的流量指标的可访问性.

你收到过的最好的职业建议是什么?

“横向和向上的沟通与团队内部的沟通同样重要.” Open communication to all stakeholders ensures alignment for a successful product release.