Phuong Nguyen

I'm 23 in 2013.

At the time I write this, I am working at Google Asia Pacific, where I service and consult small and medium advertisers from Vietnam. I have also optimized advertising accounts in Pakistan and helped the team to build Google communities across Vietnam.

Everyone hopes to get a career, not a job. For me, I need not only one, but two careers. One is a practical career where I can touch people and make a difference. Another one is a reflective lifestyle where I can write about feelings and characters I come across in life and make it into little pieces of poignancy or wisdom. At some point, I want to connect social entrepreneurs, women, students, educators to the innovative spirit and fast-changing pace of business, write a novel and research in a deep area of interest (maybe personality psychology).

During college, I also worked at Pay2Home, a money transfer company in Singapore where I learned about Google Adwords, Google Analytics and Search Engine Optimization, where I got it into my head that I love small business marketing. I also loved my experience in the organizing team of Ychallenge Business Case competition, which allowed me to grow in a community of like-minded people.

I graduated from Singapore Management University. Before that, I studied in High School for the Gifted in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam (please do not mind the name, it is literrally translated from "Pho Thong Nang Khieu").

I have always been and will always be a nerd. The perfect day for me would be a long summer day curling up on my bed filled with novels and non-fictions and just books in general. That is home to me. Everything else has been acquired taste.

I appreciate good characters and beautiful emotions in life. And, as long as I can create possibilities in my life, I will be happy and driven. :)