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Vol. 4, Issue 12, December 2014

This Month

GTC Holiday Party

Talent Show

E-mail Tips

GTC Holiday Card

New Employees

Happy Birthdays

December 2014

GTC Holiday Party 2014

GTC Technology’s Houston and Dallas offices celebrated the holidays in a big way at the

company’s annual Holiday Party and Talent Show in Houston. The Talent Show featured

employees who have joined GTC since the previous Holiday Party. In addition, recipients were

recognized for the Employee of the Year, Manager of the Year and the Shining Star awards for

each department. Amanda Wise planned and emceed the evening at Del Frisco’s Steakhouse.

Left: Employee of the Year -

Ilya Aranovich, Licensing

Manager, is congratulated by

Pinti Wang, GTC President

and CEO.

Right: Manager of the Year –

Brad Fleming, General

Manager-PET Group in Euless,

receives his award from Pinti.

The Shining Star awards are chosen by each

department head. P.V. Kuppuswamy (far

left), Sr. Vice President, and Pinti Wang (far

right) congratulate Michael Hsia,

Accountant (Operations/Accounting);

Sachin Joshi, Technology Process Manager

(Technology); Brad Fleming (still Manager

of the Year); Pradeep Pawar, Project

Manager (Engineering); and Ilya Aranovich,

Licensing Manager (Licensing).

Other Shining Star winners were SooWoong Kim, Global

Engineering Design Manager (PET Group) and Kim Anderson,

Research Engineer (R&D). Luis Gorozpe Jolly, Production

Manager (PET Group), won the Most Valued Employee as

voted by all employees from Houston, Euless and Bozeman.

December 2014

Talent Show 2014

Ann Kausch, ably assisted by

Pinti, read one of her 4-year-

old son’s favorite books.

Brad Fleming told

a little bit about

himself.

Saurav De remembered

his first visit to GTC.

Roomi Kalita

made a sketch of

Joe Gentry.

Judson Zhao

harmonized on

“Somewhere Over

the Rainbow”.

Jane Van Eerden

shared a few

thoughts on

Leadership.

Samir Peer read the poem,

“Marry Not an Engineer”.

Rachel Ransom

sang a great

rendition of

“Strawberry Wine”.

Tian Xu beautifully played

“Croatian Rhapsody”.

Shawn Lin

remembered

an experiment.

Zhe Liu

performed a

traditional

Chinese dance.

Ayo Ogundeji spoke of

coming to the US and

meeting his wife.

Lynn Siripong

demonstrated

grace under

pressure.

Larisa Cimpeanu presented

beautiful scenes from Romania.

December 2014

‘Tis the Season

GTC Style

December 2014

Improper E-mailing Can Waste Time

The Wall Street Journal recently had an article that has some very good tips for using

e-mail more effectively. New data-mining tools have analyzed employees’ e-mail

headers and online calendars to help employers pinpoint habits that can waste

employees’ time.

When composing an e-mail, ask yourself:

1. Do you often use e-mail to work out disagreements?

2. Do you often invite colleagues to meetings just to make them feel included?

3. Do you see receiving and sending a lot of e-mail as a sign of importance?

4. Do you usually hit “reply all” when responding to group e-mails?

5. Do you always respond to e-mails even if only to acknowledge receipt?

6. Do you send open-ended e-mails just to update colleagues about projects, in case

they want to weigh in?

7. Do you see being invited to a lot of meetings as a sign of a person’s importance?

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1 Inviting too many people at too many levels of management2 CC-ing too many people3 Vague subject lines can confuse recipients4 Meetings longer than 90 minutes reduce quality of decision making5 Unclear agenda frustrates attendees and wastes time6 Opens the door for too much feedback7 Fails to make clear what recipients are supposed to do

Other common problem areas

December 2014

Toys for Tots Drive

GTC Houston’s participation in the annual

Toys for Tots drive once again was a great

success - 73 toys were donated by Houston

employees. Mandy Gunter, Administrative

Assistant – Technology, spearheaded the

volunteer effort.

Amanda Wise and Mandy Gunter start gathering the

donations for delivery to the ‘Toys for Tots’ distribution

center.

Mandy, along with Jeny Flores, Maria

Stovall and Maria’s niece, Angela,

volunteered at the distribution center

to help sort the toys.

Lots of toys that will bring a

lot of joys to a lot of children

December 2014

GTC Holiday Card 2014

Getting in the Spirit of the Season

Charlie Chou, Licensing Manager, found

his stack of magazines decorated for the

holidays, courtesy of Kay Stevens,

Administrative Assistant-Licensing.

December 2014

Jae-Bong Kim Sales Director

Seoul

The Houston Licensing Group says farewell to Zhe Liu, Licensing Process Engineer, as she is transferring from the Houston office to GTC Beijing.

Ho-Jin Kim Replacement

Sales Manager Seoul

Welcome to GTC

December 2014

12/1 Youg-Kun Lee Seoul

12/5 Xuebin Wang Beijing

12/6 Casey Bowles Euless

12/8 Conchita Rivera Mexico

12/10 Pil-Hong Oh Seoul

Tian Xu Houston

Xiaomei Yang Beijing

Wayne Yarnell Bozeman

12/12 Sung-Ki Choi Non-san

12/13 Paul Murdoch Houston

12/14 Ken Kantor Houston

12/16 Marat Aminev Houston

12/18 Young-Gi Lee Non-san

12/20 Prabhat Jha Delhi Jun-Wook (James) Lee Seoul Victoria Wilhelm Bozeman Lei Zhao Beijing

12/21 Charlie Chou Houston

12/22 Yibang Ren Beijing

12/24 Kyu-Sik Oh Non-san

12/30 P. V. Kuppuswamy Houston

December 2014

1/1 Mi-Sook Lee (Kate) Seoul

Yuanyuan Zhang Beijing

1/3 Sachin Joshi Houston

Miroslav Vala Brno

1/7 Mulacharige Non-San

Otunupalandana

1/11 Fion Chen Houston

1/13 Meijuan Zeng Houston

Bong-Ho Park Seoul

1/14 Renwei Wang (Rain) Beijing

1/16 Zhong-Huan Quan Non-san

1/17 Simona-Ioana Capmare Bucharest

1/18 Do-Hyeon Kim Non-san

1/21 Pinti Wang Houston

1/25 Rahul Khandelwal Houston

1/26 Ho-Jin Kim Seoul

1/27 Dae-Gun Kim Houston

1/29 Ashutosh Negi Seoul