2022 Highlights

What happened in 2022? 

• New work -- I'm back in IOM last February.
• Celebrated birthday Vannie and Cody's birthday in Tagaytay + Yoki's farm.
• Cody enjoyed Dinosaur's Island in Clark last March.
• Drupal custom module development mentoring session.
• Started blogging April 2022, with 22 published articles as of writing.
• We celebrated my dad's birthday in Baguio.
• I was privileged to preach at my father-in-law's church -- Bridgeway Church.
• Celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary.  Staycation in Dusit last June.
• Celebrated Bennett's birthday in Tagaytay last July.
• Started meeting in person Dgroup last July (roughly).
• Cody's milestones -- potty trained already.  Very talkative and using "I mean" to correct himself.
• I gave a presentation in Drupal camp about mental health last November.
• Vannie got braces.
• Dad was hospitalized for a week.
• Kuya Cocoy and family in Manila.
• Happy 39th for me!
• Fun D12 upline and downline Christmas parties!
• Manalo family reunion in person.

Work highlights:

• In under less than 2 weeks on the new job, identifying and fixing a production issue caused by "Webforms Contact Us"
• Fixing PDF generation and improved perception from Zeynep, and public live delivery on April together with Joanna.
• Started daily standup last April.
• Assisted Judy in download issue in Mignet.
• Identified private Akamai download issue caching.
• A staff member resigned but was convinced to stay with Nacho's big help.
• Migration of 200+ sites from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 with minimal issue with the help of content team last August.
• During Drupal 9 migration, my trust on the team was tested and improved.  The lack thereof was also exposed. It also exposed the team's weakness on Git.
• During Drupal 9 migration, I had a taste of the need to defend our unit from another team, respectfully.  I also saw how my boss defended me.
• Asked for feedback for all my staff members on how they are doing (https://bryanmanalo.com/asking-feedback-performance-it-professional).
• Created a contrib module (https://www.drupal.org/project/reauthenticate).
• Started brownbag/dev development sessions every Friday.
• Completed 4 hour coaching session with Laurenne Di Salvo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurennedisalvo/?originalSubdomain=au).  Thank you IOM!
• Through the coaching session, it helped me to see that I don't have to be a pro-management or pro-employee.  I just need to be clear on my expectations.  
• Fixed MMP data issue together with Ray and Pol last October.
• A staff member resigned last October.
• Delivered Solr search work alternative request from Nacho.
• I had a one on one with my boss, Nacho, and provided him feedback on the work surrounding the work.  It was a great experience and also helped see each other eye to eye.
• Able to deliver together with Carl and Darryl donate campaign site.
• Completed one on one with all staff members.  Got to know each one of them more.
• Mignet site was attacked, and learned more about security and private access behavior.
• Identified setup issue on temp files causing weird issues.
• Experience slight conflict on deadlines with another team during a call.

What did I learn in 2022?

Gideon's story and his 300 men.  This has been a recurring theme in 2022 for me.  This is a source of comfort for me because I know that it is not by my skill, power or anything within me, it is about God's hand and favor alone.

2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’ 

Judges 7:2