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Bangkok, Th

Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand

• Outlines the project schedule, vision, strategic positioning, program details, and pricing structure based on financial feasibility.• Researching on real estate market trends, economic indicators, and urban development patterns to identify potential opportunities and threats.• Evaluating density study factors such land size, shape, location, zoning, and infrastructure to inform project development.• Conducting feasibility studies to assess market demand, investment costs, and revenue projections for project acquisition viability.• Coordinates design meetings, oversees the drawing deliverables, and manages cost control to ensure alignment with project specifications and budget.• Provides strategic advice and recommendations as a brokerage representative to clients based on market research, financial analysis, on-site viewing to determine property values and provide accurate pricing advice while aligning with clients' investment objectives.• Build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders including property owners, developers, investors, and industry professionals to stay informed of real estate market developments and opportunities.

Bangkok City, Thailand

• Managed the pre-opening of an overseas columbarium project from preparing and submission of government approved documentation, projecting preliminary sales returns and cost estimates to crafting of pitch decks and design proposals for potential investors and clients. Created and maintained project documentation, including timelines, budgets, and status reports.• Coordinated the success of onboarding a master franchisor in Thailand from a very reputable international F&B company. Liaised with internal and external stakeholders to gather project requirements and communicate updates, arranged meetings for potential franchising clients to meet up with franchise agency, vet through business proposals and advise on identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions. Assist on processing documentation such as NDA and contract agreements. • Collaborated with key stakeholders of a major local Muaythai promotion to define project requirements, scope, and timelines to expand the business overseas internationally. From working with senior directors on the promotion’s commercial brand book and video content to identify and showcase the promotion’s unique selling proposition, multiple discussions on finalizing their market entry strategy, creating pitch decks to garner interest from overseas stakeholders, fostering strong communication channels between Thailand and the targeted overseas market regarding event locations, suppliers, logistics, real estate and potential investors.• Held the position as General Manager of a boutique hostel under Harrison’s real estate assets.

Singapore

•Assisting local businesses to improve business productivity with relevant diagnostics tools such as value proposition and business model canvas, market and competitors’ analysis coupled with recommendations to propose continuous improvements towards addressing changing business needs.•Work with clients in the management of project-based grants through human-centric fact-finding methods to elicit requirements gathering, re-designing work flow processes towards automation, proposal review, vendor analysis and cost management to develop an appropriate business case.•Problem solving with client to define problems crisply, structure problem priorities, research and investigate pain points that clients are facing in their business.•Understanding how clients measure their business performance and make recommendations using various metrics involving growth, engagement and productivity to define their value proposition.•The ability to learn quickly and understand about clients’ business operations from various industries that are engaged on a daily basis. •Customer empathy through clients’ customer purchase journey, engage in idea discovery with clients through exploring the unique selling proposition of their business and creating one if USP is nonexistent. •Influence without authority as business advisory involves the challenge of influencing clients’ decisions to buy into business improvement ideas although not having the authority to do so. •Formulating business strategies with clients to see how growth can be driven in their business to make it more competitive and monetizing from those strategies.•Helmed the portfolio as a workshop facilitator on topics such as social media marketing, digital strategies and internationalization.

My career in the military provided me the foundation experience to work with and manage people from different levels, working together with them to form a cohesive and effective team. The takeaways from my journey that are applicable:•Embracing and evangelizing the mission profiles to immediate recce teams to ensure commitment of driving impactful outcomes and contribution to mission success.•Taking calculated risks, having the courage to experiment and improvise to learn from it.•Exercising servant leadership through collaborative teamwork with diverse stakeholder groups to deliver and manage battle planning presentations and sequences.Highlights of my military journey are:- Company recce commander trained for helicopter operations in both jungle and urban environments.- Infantry platoon sergeant managing 25 or more soldiers.- Managed a battalion intelligence branch which achieved Redcon 2A in ATEC - Foreign liaison branch attachment to interact with foreign dignitaries and generals attending the 2010 Singapore Airshow- Took part in the planning and execution phase for the 2011 National Day Parade- Promoted to HQ Company Sergeant Major and Brigade Intelligence Warrant Officer in ORNS

Singapore

As a business development manager in the Global Corporate Banking Group, i got the opportunity to be involved in assisting small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) owners on re-looking at their current business model to best improve and accelerate their business value proposition. Through conducting credit/financial analysis, coupled with product, credit risk and other functional specialists collaborations; I am able to deliver timely and effective client solutions to see how SME owners can fully maximize the wide variety of products and services provided by the bank. This role also gave me a firm understanding of debt financing concepts and allow me to tap into soft skills learnt in the army which really helped me in terms of interacting with different levels of business owners from different backgrounds and industries. Valued-added Skills gained:- Understand the business life cycle of the SME owners and advise them on how OCBC can support their growth.- Making in-depth recommendations and insights on clients' positions in terms of risk and credit worthiness. - KYC & Customer On-boarding to ensure compliance of mandatory banking policies and processing including performing customer due diligence, risk evaluation and account reviews. - Working with various stakeholders and business functions within the bank to ensure holistic customer experience.- Credit & Financial Analysis, Credit Writing and Documentation- Sales Pipeline Management

The role of an operations assistant in a financial institution has given me the exposure to a wide variety of financial and personal documents in a bank. My scope of work requires me to analyze requests coming from departments for various purposes ranging from account opening confirmations to fraud investigations.

Bachelor Of Business And Management, Business Management & Finance

Certified Scrum Master, Agile Management

- Scrum Fundamentals - Timebox Planning - Sprint Planning, Review, Backlog - User Stories - Scaling Scrum Frameworks - Time Projection &.

Diploma In Management Studies, Business Administration, Management And Operations