By Jaimee Jane S. Faustino

NLEX doesn’t fail to recognize employees who are awesomely dedicated to performing more than what is expected from them, and those with significant contributions to the company. This event has been made memorable because after two years of having online celebrations, our awardees were given an opportunity to be physically recognized – this time at Luxent Hotel. Other employees witnessed the event via our official Facebook group, Northloop.

We have a total of five NLEXemplary Employees and seven NLEXemplary Team awardees!

TEAM CATEGORY

Ms. Leigh Baradero, Mr. Limuel Patenio, and Mr. Dave Mark Gille Toll Verifiers of Toll Verification were recognized by their nominator Ms. Leigh Randall Cruz for having an exceptional performance from January to June 2022 in which they have exemplified the core value of EXCELLENCE by confidently delivering consistent output that exceeds the target assigned without sacrificing the reliability and accuracy of the results. They successfully verified 21% of plates, a total of 400,182, and an approximate amount of P25,063,741.​

From Traffic Operations, the team of Ms. Catherine del Mundo (Traffic Sector Manager), Ms. Claessie Balaoing (Process Improvement and Compliance Supervisor), and Mr. Elvin Bryan Sanchez (Office Associate) was awarded for exemplifying EXCELLENCE by showing utmost dedication in initiating the Notice of Violation (NOV) letters resulting in the recovery of uncharged passages.

The team of Michael Brines (Innovation and Enhancement Manager), Charles Limpin (Central Core Systems Maintenance Specialist), and Jessie Paraan (Central Core Systems Maintenance Assistant Manager)  was acknowledged for exemplifying the Corporate Value of INNOVATION by customizing TCS and ALPR reports which helped improved ALPR image matching with TCS transactions from 80% to 93%. This helped in reducing revenue leakage and achieving BSC ALPR image capturing.

From Technology, the team of Jessie Paraan, Charles Limpin, Quintrix Anne Malapitan, Almarc Nunag, Dino Yanga, Michael Berboso, Apoles Sanchez, and Ariel Tumalad were recognized by their nominator Mr. Avelino Salazar for exemplifying the Corporate Value of INNOVATION in the Charge Farthest Incidents Reduction Project which contributed to almost 600% depletion rate of CF transactions with valid entry information. Also, they were acknowledged for their initiatives and innovation to resolve and reduce Double Charging issues on our RFID lanes. They were able to Lower the power of the RFID reader from 23dbm to 15dbm in January 2022 to  15dbm to 10dbm and enabled an Anti-pass back configuration for all RFID lanes.

The team of Ms. Belle Bugador, Ms. Rachelle Sadsad, Mr. Christian Joseph Antonio, Ms. Rose Ann Pangilinan, and Atty. Elaine Rose Espiritu were awarded exemplifying the Corporate Value of EXCELLENCE by having three out of four toll rate petitions implemented ahead of the target schedule.

Lastly, for our NLEXemplary Team, the group of Mr. Charles Limpin, Ms. Quintrix Malapitan, Mr. Almarc Nunag, Mr. Dino Yanga, Mr. Ariel Tumalad, Mr. Robert June Cruz, Mr. Mark Crisostomo, Mr. Michael Escano, Mr. John de Jesus, Mr. Wilson Listana, Mr. Joshua Villacrusis, Mr. Ralph Patag and Mr. Kenneth Caluag from Technology Division were identified for exemplifying the Corporate Value of INNOVATION by repurposing old RFID servers to upgrade the lower server specification in Balintawak Barrier which improved the processing performance in terms of transactions, whitelist, and reports.

PEOPLE CATEGORY

For the Individual category, Mr. Paul Anthony Ruanto was acknowledged for exemplifying the Corporate Value of INNOVATION in the NLEX API-ISP Redundancy Project, which contributed to the elimination of NLEX API downtime and smooth update of account balances in the whitelist and Easytrip SOA.

Mr. Jessie Paraan, also an awardee for NLEXemplary Employee was awarded for exemplifying the Corporate Value of INNOVATION by customizing TCS and ALPR reports, which helped improved ALPR image matching with TCS transactions from 80% to 93%. This helped in reducing revenue leakage and achieving BSC ALPR image capturing.

Lastly, NLEXemplary Employee Awardees, Mr. Mark Paul Ganelo (TPOA), Ms. Maybelyn Mananguit (TPOA), and Mr. Mark Arvie Valdez (TPOA) were recognized for having an exceptional performance from January to June 2022.  They have exemplified the core value of EXCELLENCE in delivering service to our customers.

Our President and General Manager, Mr. J. Luigi L. Bautista personally thanked and congratulated all employees for their individual and collective contributions to the company.

Working hard for something that you love is a great privilege for everyone, but being recognized and rewarded for this keeps us motivated and inspired to do more. Cheers to our awardees for being excellent examples of the company’s core values and for all the hard work that you do for our company. 

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