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Singapore

Singapore

Responsible to drive SMEs' digital transformation by digitalisation programmes development and partnership engagement, which ultimately leads to SMEs' business growth and productivity improvement.• Designed and delivered CTO-as-a-Service programme as the officer-in-charge, a key initiative announced in Budget 2021 to accelerate SMEs digital transformation. IMDA was awarded OpenGov 2022 for this programme. Awarded the tender with the tight timeline and stringent governance processes. Collaborated with appointed Consulting firms to set up the programme within 2 months and conducted over 20 roadshows to hundreds partners from sector lead agencies, trade associations and the industry. • Led and facilitated the development of Industry Digital Plan for legal sector, curating step-by-step guide on digitalization roadmap and skill development for law firms in partnerships with MinLaw.

Australia

Platform Planning & Project ManagementEdge Computing • Showcased the edge capabilities and video analytics & retail AR applications with partners. Successfully created awareness of edge capabilities among all Optus business units.• Collaborated with 6 Singtel Group operators and 5 industry key vendors in TM Forum Catalyst program. The demo on edge computing won the Best new Catalyst Award in 2019 TM Forum event.• Led the Telco Edge package as part of 5G tender, tackled the challenges of new technology maturity, biz case readiness and stakeholder management.Singtel-Optus Group Roaming Tender• Led the group roaming tender, successfully awarded within 6 months with 62% cost reduction through aggressive negotiation.Blockchain• Conducted two PoCs on blockchain technology with partners. Showcased the potential of Digital Identity and Carrier Settlement to business stakeholders.eSIM• Formulated enhanced eSIM architecture to extend eSIM enablement from Consumer to M2M/IoT.• Facilitated Optus Business to bid for enterprise M2M eSIM projects.Business Manager for VP Digital Networks• As key editor supported VP to publish Digitalization Whitepaper which led to blueprint and roadmap alignment among Networks, IT and Business.• Facilitated showcases to external partners in vertical industries to promote potential partnership in 5G and Digital Transformation.• Assisted senior leadership team in group operation, annual planning and strategy alignment & execution.

Singapore

Platform Planning & Project Management• Led cross-functional program team to plan and deliver more than 10 major new data services every year, supporting hundreds of millions local & roaming data annual revenue. Unlimited data service and eSIM service were honoured with CEO Award in 2017 and 2018 respectively, in recognition of first-in-market product launch.• Conducted technical review with vendor to revamp existing roaming partner update logic of policy platform, successfully reducing operation effort by 50% while minimising potential configuration errors.• Achieved 33% CAPEX saving from software upgrade project via aggressive commercial negotiation and work in-source.• Achieved annual 120 man-days saving by developing internal implementation capability and reducing dependence on vendors. • Led Converged Value-added Service Project delivery and successfully cut over messaging service as first platform live on Telco Cloud in Dec'17, marking an important milestone in Group Networks transformation.Group Networks transformation PMO office• Selected to Group Networks transformation PMO office, facilitating senior executives across Singtel and Optus to devise the Group Networks digital transformation strategy and to drive the execution across Group divisions.

Singapore

Planning and Project Management for mobile roaming services• Led the E2E roaming management platform project from budgeting, tendering, implementation to final cutover, driving 20% targeted roaming revenue uplift and the enhanced roaming experience. This project was recognised with Networks Excellence Award. Business Manager for Head of Next Generation VAS Engineering• Facilitated NextGen VAS group strategic planning in steering towards organizational synergies with centralization across SG and AU teams.• Manage NextGen VAS group finance, including both CAPEX and OPEX, to ensure the budget is on track and in a healthy state.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Offered the exchange opportunity by the University of Edinburgh.