Principal Enterprise Architect for Singapore’s Air Force. RAiD (RSAF Agile Innovation and Digital) department staff member. Air force regular, military expert rank 6.

• Leading digitalisation at Asia's preferred chemical and equipment distributor.DETAILS• Retirement and delivery of most, if not all, key internal systems. Including Lark for internal collaboration and Odoo for ERP/CRM (in deployment).• Led digital marketing (DM) and rebranding exercise in the first 10 months of role, leveraging on past experience as a founder of an SEM company. Coordinated DM and rebranding exercise with other initiatives. Successfully deployed… Show more • Leading digitalisation at Asia's preferred chemical and equipment distributor.DETAILS• Retirement and delivery of most, if not all, key internal systems. Including Lark for internal collaboration and Odoo for ERP/CRM (in deployment).• Led digital marketing (DM) and rebranding exercise in the first 10 months of role, leveraging on past experience as a founder of an SEM company. Coordinated DM and rebranding exercise with other initiatives. Successfully deployed cost-effective Google Ads campaigns where previous attempts over the years have failed.• Started data lake on AWS - S3, Glue, Athena - for archival of SAP B1 data to prepare for ERP change. Provided the foundation to adopt QuickSight and other BI/AI tools in the future on a centralised data lake as the need arise.• Acted in a product manager capacity, to gather requirements from users in accounting, finance, logistics and commercial, not just to evaluate buy vs build decisions, but also to design and implement products as needed.• Successfully implemented and rolled-out MVP to solve key pricing challenge via Lark Base, an Airtable clone, leveraging on team's capabilities to integrate it with SAP B1 for data. Paved the way for a production-quality in the future on the new ERP.• Deep mapping and analysis of key processes for improvements.• Led IT team of 14, of which headcount was reduced to 8 due to natural attrition and productivity boost • Streamlined systems, tech stacks, programming languages. • Outsourced non-core systems and activities, e.g., managing infrastructure. • Introduced support help desk system, routing process, and SOP. • Standardised job titles and introduced new two-track career progression pathways to cater for an engineering route and a managerial route. • Rescoped jobs, introduced retraining, and performed wage adjustments to facilitate system and process changes.• Delivered new OKR system, and even drafted the first SOP on OKR management. Show less

• Built Everybase, a portal for importers/exporters with 200K+ users.• Import/export medical supplies - Singapore, China, Vietnam, United States, and Canada.• Supplied medical supplies to Singapore medical centres.DETAILS• Started Everybase as a venture to help manufacturers serve technical product information. Pivoted due to Covid-19, into an importer/exporter.• Supplied medical supplies to Singapore medical centres.• Imported/exported medical suppliers… Show more • Built Everybase, a portal for importers/exporters with 200K+ users.• Import/export medical supplies - Singapore, China, Vietnam, United States, and Canada.• Supplied medical supplies to Singapore medical centres.DETAILS• Started Everybase as a venture to help manufacturers serve technical product information. Pivoted due to Covid-19, into an importer/exporter.• Supplied medical supplies to Singapore medical centres.• Imported/exported medical suppliers between - Singapore, China, Vietnam, United States, and Canada - with good command of international import/export know-how.• Leveraged on tech skills to growth-hack and manage contact base of 200K - e.g., Python, Django, Scrapy, Heroku, PostgreSQL, AWS S3, AWS Textract (also evaluated Azure/Google OCR), Twilio, SendGrid, standard web frontend languages such as JS/CSS, etc. Show less

• Tech lead for Digital Brenntag (DigiB) Asia-Pacific, working towards a best-in-class customer experience for the world's largest chemical distributor.DETAILS• Led the setup and management of Asia-Pacific's infrastructure on Azure, with an average spend of USD 400K a year.• Evaluated buy-vs-build decisions for key process improvement use cases.• Technical advisor to product decisions, including customer/supplier-facing integrations.

• Provided software consultancy to financial institutions and startups, and built webapps, integrations, mobile apps.DETAILS• Provided software consultancy to financial institutions and startups. Sometimes, this means hiring and bringing in my team to the organisation for technical execution. We've built webapps, integrations and mobile apps.• Tech skills - iOS (Objective-C, Swift), Python, Django, Postgres, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Firebase, AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, AWS… Show more • Provided software consultancy to financial institutions and startups, and built webapps, integrations, mobile apps.DETAILS• Provided software consultancy to financial institutions and startups. Sometimes, this means hiring and bringing in my team to the organisation for technical execution. We've built webapps, integrations and mobile apps.• Tech skills - iOS (Objective-C, Swift), Python, Django, Postgres, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Firebase, AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, UI/UX design, product management, project management, standard web frontend languages such as JS/CSS, etc. Show less

• Built Sonicwarper, an app that turns your iPad into a gamepad-style controller for Traktor DJ.• Received S$50000 grant from Singapore Government under the iJAM programme.DETAILS• Tech skills - iOS (Objective-C, Swift), MIDI protocol and communication, UI/UX design.

• Summarised research papers, built machine learning models, cleaned data.DETAILS• Tech skills - Python, machine learning, C/C++, database internals literature review with a focus on column-store databases.• Worked on machine learning models to count vehicles in traffic camera feed, classify streaming DNS data (1TB / hour).

• Bonded to company under the Singapore Government agency, SPRING (now ESG), Management Development Scholarship.• Co-founded with my boss, Offstock.com, an auction platform for overstock chemical raw materials.DETAILS• Designed product and worked with vendor to implement the solution (in Ruby on Rails).• Performed customer development work, driving to manufacturers in Singapore and JB to gather and serve their needs.

• Founded Google Ads consultancy firm, launched > 250 campaigns.• Built Follow-up Automator, a webapp that helps affiliate marketers upsell.• Built Sociofolio, an online fashion scrapbook. Polyvore for Asia. Received S$15000 from Singapore government under the Young Entrepreneur Scheme (YES).DETAILS• Tech skills - PHP, Ruby on Rails, standard web frontend languages such as JS/CSS.• I am a certified Google AdWords consultant 2008-2009.• I built Follow-up… Show more • Founded Google Ads consultancy firm, launched > 250 campaigns.• Built Follow-up Automator, a webapp that helps affiliate marketers upsell.• Built Sociofolio, an online fashion scrapbook. Polyvore for Asia. Received S$15000 from Singapore government under the Young Entrepreneur Scheme (YES).DETAILS• Tech skills - PHP, Ruby on Rails, standard web frontend languages such as JS/CSS.• I am a certified Google AdWords consultant 2008-2009.• I built Follow-up Automator myself in PHP. The software is designed for self-hosting. The product failed, and I should have made it a SaaS.• I designed SocioFolio and outsourced development to a vendor in Ruby on Rails. Show less

• Sold and serviced Total Organic Carbon Analyzers to/for ultra-pure water plants.

• Developed educational software and webapps, created videos/graphics for Air Force and divisional events (e.g., anniversaries).