Suria Sonia Ahip Abdullah

She is one of the staff in Pustaka Negeri Sarawak. She has been working with Pustaka Negeri Sarawak since 2001. She has been recruited as the Administrative Officer at Pustaka Negeri Sarawak until now. She has served at the News Strait Times, Kuala Lumpur in year 2000 in their Business Times Team. Her early working experience before was also with a private company at Kuching that involves with maintenance and construction sector. She was in the management group for a period of 1 year.

Education

Her early tertiary education was at SRB and SMB St. Mary, Kuching. She continued her STPM at St. Joseph Secondary School and later graduated from University of Otago, New Zealand, Bachelor in Business Studies (Commerce) year 1999.

• SRP – 1990
• SPM – 1992
• STPM – 1994
• Bachelor in Business Studies (Commerce) – 1999, Otago University of New Zealand

Work Experience in Pustaka

During her early years of service, she was responsible in Public Relation Unit of Pustaka Negeri Sarawak. Her task was to look after the publicity and marketing in Pustaka Negeri Sarawak. After five (5) years in PR Unit, she has been reshuffled to Human Resource Development & Quality Unit in 2005. Her task was to take care of the training for all Pustaka Negeri Sarawak staff and local councils. In the same year, she was appointed as the Quality Management Representative (QMR) for PUSTAKA and being assisted by Bronny Lawrence Nawe, the DQMR at that point of time.

On 1st August 2018 - Nov 2021, she was transferred to Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, Miri campus as the Division Head of Corporate Management, Miri. She is now back to HQ Kuching as the Division Head of Human Resource Management.

• 2000 – Temporary Secondary teacher at SMB St. Mary
• 2001 – New Straits Times Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Public Relation & Marketing
• 2001 – Current – Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, Administrative Officer

Professional experience	2000 – Temporary Secondary teacher at SMB St. Mary 2001 – New Straits Times Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Public Relation & Marketing Officer 2001 – Current – Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, Administrative Officer
Professional memberships /Involvement	Pustaka Quality Management Representative – MS ISO 9001:2000 2 years as Public Relation Officer for Pustaka Negeri Sarawak Fasilitator for Quality Moves in Pustaka Occasionally supporting The Blind Association Activity Member of Koperasi Anib Member of Pustaka’s Sport & Recreational Club A member of Pustaka Negeri Sarawak QCC Group An alumni member of Otago University, New Zealand. A member of Pustaka Negeri Sarawak QCC Group An alumni member of Otago University, New Zealand.
Paper Presented	Introduction to MS ISO 9001:2000
Languages	Bahasa Malaysia (Spoken & Written) English (Spoken & Written) Bahasa Sarawak (Spoken)
Interests and activities	Reading, Writing, Listening to Music, Dancing & Travelling (Sight Seeing)