• Currently taking care of about 40 software engineers, consultants and their managers, delivering and supporting web & mobile applications for various customers.
• Manage department P&L, resource hiring, staff welfare and growth.
• Lead consultants in various pre-sales efforts (consulting, cost estimation, technical solution, proposal preparation).
• Project director, and occasionally solution architect to the team during project delivery.

• Pre-sales consultant working closely with the sales team, external partners & product vendors to prepare and submit proposals for RFQs. Designed the technical solution and effort estimation, project schedule & resources planning for the proposal.
• Assessed different software products for suitability in proposed projects.
• Solution architect on projects, advising development team on technical design.
• Helped formed the first team of mobile developers in the company to take on mobile application projects.
• Introduced new tools and processes for software delivery

• On top of my responsibilities as a project manager, I was also involved in business analysis and technical solutioning.

Projects:

• Grant application and management system for Ministry of Education (2009-2010). Architected, won and managed a Java-based system to disburse and manage various student grants throughout the lifecycle of the grants. I also helped to develop a digital signing solution in C# interfacing with a hardware tablet, and was involved directly in the data migration from the incumbent system.
• Customer portal and backend services management platform for a leading telco (2007-2009). Worked closely with customer’s product team and our off-shore development team in China to design and deliver new services and features e.g. fraud assessment, payment integration (AXS, NETS), number management, vouchers. Managed and resolved production issues.

• Project manager for the implementation of the Citizen & MyeCitizen portals, and the first central SMS messaging service & central online survey system for government websites.
• Developed the very first version of the government service-wide Website Interface Standards (precursor of the Digital Service Standards), and advocated the adoption of accessibility standards among government websites.
• Conducted internal audits on projects managed by the department, in preparations for ISO9001:2000 compliance audits.

• Conducted market scans, engaged and assisted companies to develop and deploy innovative wireless/mobile products and services.
• Attracted overseas companies to Singapore to participate in government initiatives
• Liased with policy and regulation departments on issues such as inter-operability and service availability affecting end-user companies.
• Helped launched the Wireless Java Call for Collaboration & Wireless Java Working Group.
• Other focus areas include various areas of 3G/GPRS technologies, location-based technologies, Parlay, etc.

• Involved in porting Sendmail Switch product written in C, to Red Hat Linux & IBM Monterey64 for the Intel IA-64 platform.

• Teaching assistant for 2 runs of the CS61C Machine Structures undergraduate course, taught by Professor David Patterson and Michael Clancy respectively. Duties included conducting tutorial classes for students, grading assignments and exams, assisting with preparation of exam questions.

• Grade: 3.85
• Advisor: Professor Terry Winograd

• Grade: 3.943
• Graduated with Highest Honors
• Awarded Edward Frank Kraft Scholarship Prize for top-performing freshmen