Andrew Tan Khai Ching 陈凯勤 (Senior Agile Program Manager, Pmp®) Email & Phone Number

Singapore

• Overall accountable person leading roadmap strategic planning and delivery of program initiatives of digital sales system in a Canadian life insurance company.
• Accountable for overall program decision-making, and program-project controls including overseeing budget and resources management and successful delivery realising outcomes and goals.
• Lead overall strategies alignment with organisation’s goals, guidance provision, point of communications, critical escalations and resolutions.
• Earlier setting the right expectations and direction throughout in realising benefits and outcomes successfully.
• Sixty over resources under my portfolio.
• Partnering and leading multiple stakeholders from both local and regional in delivering overall results. Partners are such as heads of department, heads of businesses, directors, business and operation representatives.

• Strategy alignments to achieve the goals, mission, and objectives of the organization and department.
• Established governance processes and success criteria.
• Defined, delivered, transitioned, and sustained business benefits.
• Monitor and communicate the progress of programs and their components to sponsors and relevant stakeholders.
• Established and guided through program and project change management processes.
• Manage and monitor program performances. Manage risks and issues that arise at the program and project levels.

• Demonstrated outstanding knowledge of Digital and Fintech Ecosystems.
• Driven multiple Fintech and Digital Transformation projects for various regions, focusing on Mobile apps, Web apps, Micro Services, Integrations, Goal Base Robo advisory for Wealth Management, and User Experiences)
• Coached project management and agile processes.
• Build trust and team performances.
• Prepared, vetted, and secured SOW.
• Analyzed and conducted alignments between program and projects.

• Spearhead Group API Services project of Great Eastern Life, Singapore onsite as part of the organization’s Digital Transformation Program, aligned with the corporate processes.
• Involved in management of procurement/contract during project’s initiation phase. Participate in tenders, tender briefing, and issuing RFPs.
• Participate in tender evaluations, awarding tenders, and contract reviews with legal representatives of parties and management.
• Interact with stakeholders and follow up on vendors’ deliverables, projects, and subsidiary plans aimed at rendering superior quality projects.
• Evaluate team performance and render productivity enhancement feedback. Organize training sessions for team members based on identified training needs.
• Prepare and present various status reports for the senior management and other stakeholders to enable effective decision-making.

Malaysia, UK

• Involved in end-to-end management of multiple projects in accordance with the PMI standards, Agile Methodologies, CMMI, organization’s QMS, and other best practices.
• Focused on implementing Project Management activities encompassing initiating, planning, execution, monitoring & control, and closure.
• Interacted with the management, QA team, KL development team, Science team, and Clinical & Development teams from the UK based on project and operational requirements.
• Conducted knowledge transfer/sharing (of applications and technical and management knowledge) to development and QA team members.
• Assessed & updated risks, impediments, assumptions, issues, conflicts, and changes to stakeholders for implementing effective remedial measures.
• Worked on projects for digitization and integration solution of “Crime Scene Investigation” as well as “Digital Autopsy Platform (management systems, middlewares, repositories, and 3D visualization systems)”.

• Highlights:
• Played a key role in enhancing project reporting.
• Bagged High Five Awards and Bravo Awards upon project closures. Accomplished zero defects in a few sprints with the team.Key Profile:
• Utilized project management skills using the PMI standards, Agile methodologies, the organization's QMS, and other best practices aimed at qualitative delivery of project phases.
• Worked on multiple projects utilizing Java RESTful Web Services processing programming, and automated system & regression testing.
• Followed up with process groups in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring & control, and closure.

• Spearheaded team efforts in the implementation of the Intelligent Learning Management System, State Dashboard, and Federal Dashboard (modules). Conducted R & D on Flex framework and Flex-Java Integration.
• Involved in evaluating and resolving issues related to frameworks and components; re-using architecture components

Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, USA

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) consulting activities using Core and Enterprise Java Edition.