Alvin Tan Email & Phone Number

Tech Able (20 Lengkok Bahru Singapore 159053)

• Provide technology foresight and consultancy on assistive technology and accessibility
• Improve persons with disabilities' and their caregivers' access to knowledge on assistive technology and accessibility
• Drive adoption of assistive technology and accessibility amongst end users, multipliers such as therapists and allied educators, and inclusive employers etc.
• Establish alliances with local partners e.g. IHLs, research institutes, corporate innovation offices, SMEs, startups, social innovation organisations to drive innovation in assistive technology and accessibility
• Mentor innovators in the development of assistive technology and accessibility solutions
• Make assistive technology accessible and affordable for all, and make accessibility a key design consideration in Singapore.

• Conducting market research on emerging infocomm technologies
• Filter through extensive data sources and identify trends with potential impact on the infocomm industry
• Analyse findings and present insights to the senior management team within IDA and other agencies
• Establish contacts with both local and global industry players to gain insights on products and servicesSupported formulation of national level report on ICT R&D (December 2012 – January 2014)
• Tracked related development in local/global technology scene
• Researched on start-up ecosystems and innovation systems, and identified learning points for Singapore

• Strategising approach for transformation of organisations within the people sector
• Engaging organisations to understand landscape and infocomm needs of the social services, grassroots and labour unions segments
• Deriving solutions to meet needs of organisations
• Securing partnerships with sector champions to drive the transformationImplementing strategy for transformational use of infocomm technologies
• Engaging strategic partners to drive projects
• Organising infocomm industry exchanges for information sharing and networking Formulating roadmap for Social Media theme under the Infocomm Technology Roadmap

• Technology scanning
• Surveying the infocomm landscape to stay up to date on emerging infocomm technologies
• Identifying trends in infocomm technologies through analysis of data points
• Technology sharing of identified trends with external agenciesAnalysis and evaluation
• Formulation of evaluation reports Preliminary – quick assessment of emerging infocomm technologies Intermediate – in-depth analysis of technologies with recommendations for potential implementation
• Editing and publishing of weekly e-bulletin on near term technology trends

• Storage Security Project (July 2006 – August 2007)
• Part of the team in the R&D of a new key management system for tiered network storage.- Assisted in the project management and implementation of key management system- Involved in the conceptualization and design of.
• Part of the team in the R&D of a new network storage based intrusion detection and prevention system using honeynet technologies- Assisted in the project management and implementation of the project- Involved in.
• Collaboration with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Forward Integration Lab (HGST FIL)
• Part of a team to develop a discrete event simulation for a RAID system in C++ using OMNEST
• Responsible for developing the disk interface and integrating the disk module

1St Class Honours In B.Eng (Computer Engineering), Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: NTU Symphonic BandChairman and Student Conductor, NTUSB

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