STARLIGHT ®The powerful and elegant solution to your energy managementWith rising energy costs and growing concerns over corporate carbon footprint, businesses today face intense pressure to cut energy costs and minimize wastage of resources.Factors such as lax practices, inefficient equipment, and poor power factor can cause up to 55% energy wastage, while a careless demand policy and weak electrical design can result in extra costs of up to 200%. However, the process of energy… Show more STARLIGHT ®The powerful and elegant solution to your energy managementWith rising energy costs and growing concerns over corporate carbon footprint, businesses today face intense pressure to cut energy costs and minimize wastage of resources.Factors such as lax practices, inefficient equipment, and poor power factor can cause up to 55% energy wastage, while a careless demand policy and weak electrical design can result in extra costs of up to 200%. However, the process of energy management and data collection is often labor intensive and prone to errors, leaving businesses struggling to collate figures and diagnose problem areas accurately.Our Starlight® energy management system is the most powerful, elegant, flexible and reliable energy management system for your operations. Show less

Choong Yong partnered with his long-time boss-turn-mentor-and-good-friend Shoop (Hoo Shao Pin) to start Adansonia, to provide customised solution to customers. In addition to development work detailed below, Choong Yong also provides support of AWS management for a client who utilises EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, Elasticsearch Service, Route53 from Amazon Web Services.Projects involved include:A. Outsourced CTO Services / Tech Team for Synagie.com- An online platform for… Show more Choong Yong partnered with his long-time boss-turn-mentor-and-good-friend Shoop (Hoo Shao Pin) to start Adansonia, to provide customised solution to customers. In addition to development work detailed below, Choong Yong also provides support of AWS management for a client who utilises EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, Elasticsearch Service, Route53 from Amazon Web Services.Projects involved include:A. Outsourced CTO Services / Tech Team for Synagie.com- An online platform for Brands to consolidate orders from various Marketplaces like Lazada, Qoo10, Shopee, Shopify, Zalora to a single Order Management System, with integration to Warehouse Management Systems for Order Fulfilment.- Got up to speed on a complex system spanning numerous server components within a short timeframe. Supported the main system of the business, ensuring orders and operations flow properly. Technologies needed to support include NodeJS, Python, PHP, Docker, MongoDB, Graylog.- Built new integration with WMS partner for high-volume transactions- Helped troubleshoot and handled crisis during high-volume campaign periods- Deployed new servers using automated tools like ansible.B. Moby 2.0 Merchant Application- An online platform for Merchants in Myanmar to process order, track inventory, print invoice and generate revenue/stock reports.- Built on-top of the Ruby on Rails eCommerce framework known as Spree, with customisation to fit the client's business process in Myanmar.- Designed a scalable deployment plan to improve on reliability and ensure future expansion over Moby 1.0.- Deployed new servers using automated tools like ansible.C. ELXR Fitness Mobile App- Developed a mobile application from scratch using the Flutter framework from Google, shipped to both Android PlayStore and iOS AppStore within a month of picking up Flutter, Dart and mobile application development. Show less

A short stint at a local start-up that focused on a project for a private school in China.The project was to develop a canteen ordering system with both a touch-screen ordering booth (much like those in McDonald's) and a touch pad device. Raspberry Pi was chosen as the controller for both types of devices and Choong Yong had to pick up skills on Raspberry Pi to enable the features, including:- Compilation of Raspberry Pi distribution to add libraries needed for MIFARE NFC card… Show more A short stint at a local start-up that focused on a project for a private school in China.The project was to develop a canteen ordering system with both a touch-screen ordering booth (much like those in McDonald's) and a touch pad device. Raspberry Pi was chosen as the controller for both types of devices and Choong Yong had to pick up skills on Raspberry Pi to enable the features, including:- Compilation of Raspberry Pi distribution to add libraries needed for MIFARE NFC card reading- Ruby control code to integrate above features- Automated installation of new Raspberry Pi distribution and Ruby code to multiple Raspberry Pi devices.- Code to read/write MIFARE Cards- Code to print order receipts on Epson Receipt Printers.- Display of numeric digits on LED Show less

Following the acquisition of YFind Technologies by Ruckus Wireless in July 2013, Choong Yong continued to work on the Positioning Engine.Choong Yong was part of a team designated as inventors for a patent "Method and apparatus for recording information from a plurality of mobile devices in an area" (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9877295B2/en).He was a key member of the Scrum team that developed the YPS engine into the Ruckus SPoT Smart Position Technology product… Show more Following the acquisition of YFind Technologies by Ruckus Wireless in July 2013, Choong Yong continued to work on the Positioning Engine.Choong Yong was part of a team designated as inventors for a patent "Method and apparatus for recording information from a plurality of mobile devices in an area" (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9877295B2/en).He was a key member of the Scrum team that developed the YPS engine into the Ruckus SPoT Smart Position Technology product (https://support.ruckuswireless.com/product_families/17-ruckus-spot). As the development team in Singapore was build from the original YPS developers from YFind, Choong Yong had a heavy role crafting the development process and automated testing workflow for the SPoT Team. Show less

Worked with the Product Development Team to conceptualise, architecture, build and implement the YPS Indoor Positioning System. Developed proof-of-concept applications on the Android platform to enable the company to demonstrate the technology to early customers and investors.Responsible for the Positioning Engine implementation and message-queue codes for transferring date in the YPS architecture.

Analyse client requirements, design and implement software solution using Ruby-based open source technologies.Projects involved during this period include the People Association's Trainers' Portal and proof-of-concept projects for YFind.

Choong Yong founded ARCWorks after leaving Aretae. In ARCWorks, projects implemented are based on Java Open Source technologies. Notable clients include 1800-POSTMAN, SPH Search (Red Nano) and Singapore Youth Flying Club (SYFC)Key areas of interest include Development Automation (using tools like Ant and Maven2), Eclipse IDE, Web Application Frameworks (Struts2, Spring Framework), Hibernate, Subversion and AJAX (ExtJS library).In ARCWorks, he is also the reseller of… Show more Choong Yong founded ARCWorks after leaving Aretae. In ARCWorks, projects implemented are based on Java Open Source technologies. Notable clients include 1800-POSTMAN, SPH Search (Red Nano) and Singapore Youth Flying Club (SYFC)Key areas of interest include Development Automation (using tools like Ant and Maven2), Eclipse IDE, Web Application Frameworks (Struts2, Spring Framework), Hibernate, Subversion and AJAX (ExtJS library).In ARCWorks, he is also the reseller of Atlassian's range of java-based products, including Confluence (Enterprise Wiki), JIRA (Issue Tracking system) and Crowd (Identity Management). Show less

Choong Yong joined Aretae as a Senior Application Developer in June 1999. His first major project was to architect the MotherhoodStore.com site. Concurrently, he was the Product Manager of Aretae Networks to ensure the smooth set-up of the hosting infrastructure. Choong Yong also project-managed projects in Aretae, including the SingTel Business website, The GlobalGrocer site and the GeoAsia site.In March 2000 Choong Yong was promoted to Director of Operations. His responsibilities… Show more Choong Yong joined Aretae as a Senior Application Developer in June 1999. His first major project was to architect the MotherhoodStore.com site. Concurrently, he was the Product Manager of Aretae Networks to ensure the smooth set-up of the hosting infrastructure. Choong Yong also project-managed projects in Aretae, including the SingTel Business website, The GlobalGrocer site and the GeoAsia site.In March 2000 Choong Yong was promoted to Director of Operations. His responsibilities include overseeing the day-to-day smooth running of projects, and to manage the project manager team in Aretae. In August 2000 Choong Yong switched back to a technical-centric focus to lead Aretae's Server Engineers' team as Solutions Architect. He led two practices of server engineers, namely the Microsoft Engineers and the Java Engineers in Aretae's technology arm in this role.In Jan 2002 Choong Yong expanded his scope to head the e-infrastructures Business Unit, taking responsibility for the profitability, operations and sales for the Business Unit.From Jan 2003 to Jul 2004 Choong Yong took the position of Director, Technology. His responsibilities include the overall technical direction of Aretae and the product development of a Content Management Application.The list of projects he was involved in during his time in Aretae include:- Aretae Networks Hosting Infrastructure- SingTel Corporate Business website- SingTelShop eCommerce site- Motherhood Store eCommerce project- Tradewinds Tours & Travels B2C site- eLibraryHub.com (NLB)- HBOAsia and CinemaxAsia sites- A*STAR Corporate website- NUS Alumni website- Project YellowFish - content management application product Show less

Choong Yong joined Andersen Consulting (currently known as Accenture) in 1999 after graduation from university working as an entry-level analyst in the Technology Business Unit.He was assigned to the Financial Services vertical and deployed on to two projects in different major foreign banks.June 1997 – June 1998Project: Major Foreign Bank in SingaporeRole: Analyst ProgrammerThis is a project to implement a new trading system for the local branch of the… Show more Choong Yong joined Andersen Consulting (currently known as Accenture) in 1999 after graduation from university working as an entry-level analyst in the Technology Business Unit.He was assigned to the Financial Services vertical and deployed on to two projects in different major foreign banks.June 1997 – June 1998Project: Major Foreign Bank in SingaporeRole: Analyst ProgrammerThis is a project to implement a new trading system for the local branch of the multi-national bank. Responsibilities include: - Writing and testing the BusinessObjects reports for the trading system, for multi-dimensional reporting- Writing test scripts and testing the interface between the trading system and the bank’s general ledger system.June 1998 – June 1999Project: Major Foreign BankRole: Analyst ProgrammerThis is a project to implement a trade finance system for the bank. Choong Yong was responsible for the programming and testing of the accounting entries module for this version of the trade finance system. Show less