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Perth, Wa, Au

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Spearheaded Development of High-Impact EV Strategy & RoadmapIndependently researched, developed, and implemented a comprehensive EV strategy and roadmap for the company.Leveraged strong learning agility to quickly grasp complex EV integration concepts and translate them into a practical and actionable plan.Demonstrated excellent collaboration skills, working effectively across departments to gather insights and ensure alignment with company goals.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Empowering Innovation: Strategic Partner to Senior LeadershipDrive innovation capability across the organization by partnering with senior leaders to define and achieve strategic goals.Cultivate a culture of innovation by fostering an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and risk-taking.Navigate the innovation journey by facilitating workshops and discussions to collaboratively define, plan, and execute initiatives.Expand the innovation ecosystem by forging… Show more Empowering Innovation: Strategic Partner to Senior LeadershipDrive innovation capability across the organization by partnering with senior leaders to define and achieve strategic goals.Cultivate a culture of innovation by fostering an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and risk-taking.Navigate the innovation journey by facilitating workshops and discussions to collaboratively define, plan, and execute initiatives.Expand the innovation ecosystem by forging strategic partnerships and identifying cutting-edge research that drive value. Show less

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Hive is elevated to one of four main "squads" within the Change and Innovation function with a larger team of six and an expanded remit. The operating model is restructured into 5 strategic priorities, each with a dedicated single Product Owner. The PO accounts for the strategy and continuously evolve it as the priority interacts with its customer. Hive is expanding its offering to include Agile project delivery, innovation technology platform, work collaboration technology, and innovation… Show more Hive is elevated to one of four main "squads" within the Change and Innovation function with a larger team of six and an expanded remit. The operating model is restructured into 5 strategic priorities, each with a dedicated single Product Owner. The PO accounts for the strategy and continuously evolve it as the priority interacts with its customer. Hive is expanding its offering to include Agile project delivery, innovation technology platform, work collaboration technology, and innovation ecosystem. Show less

Perth, Australia

Manage a team of 3 and together we operate "the Hive". In the 12 months we re-establish the culture and process as its new team. Sharpen the strategic positioning as "retail delivery of innovation services", and identifying the strategic components of Services, People and Space to enable "scalability as a franchise". We implemented an Agile Kanban style operating model to improve collaboration, resource management and responsiveness.During Covid, we expanded the concept of "Space" to… Show more Manage a team of 3 and together we operate "the Hive". In the 12 months we re-establish the culture and process as its new team. Sharpen the strategic positioning as "retail delivery of innovation services", and identifying the strategic components of Services, People and Space to enable "scalability as a franchise". We implemented an Agile Kanban style operating model to improve collaboration, resource management and responsiveness.During Covid, we expanded the concept of "Space" to include digital. The enterprise was very new to Microsoft Teams. We pioneered a work collaboration framework enabling continuous asynchronous and distributed innovation development. We link MS Teams features like team chat, files, planner (as Kanban) and Office 365 to quickly enable work during lockdown.Background: The Hive is an innovation space where colleagues from within and outside the enterprise come together to collectively understand opportunities or problems, and co-create ways to capitalise or resolve them. We employ methods of design sprint, design thinking, customer empathy and generally a wide mishmash of innovation methods to tackle a challenge. We draw principles and inspirations from the Agile movement and use a variety of elements from Kanban and SCRUM to focus on delivering value to customers. Show less

Singapore

Founding investor and board member. Advising the CEO on starting up and business development.Linkz Asia provides a mobile-first solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs) to connect with one another. The solution enables a whole new level of collaboration and integration for SMBs with their customers and suppliers. SMBs using Linkz leap-frog their competitors by better understanding and rapidly responding to their customers' needs, and reduce cash trapped in inventory through tighter… Show more Founding investor and board member. Advising the CEO on starting up and business development.Linkz Asia provides a mobile-first solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs) to connect with one another. The solution enables a whole new level of collaboration and integration for SMBs with their customers and suppliers. SMBs using Linkz leap-frog their competitors by better understanding and rapidly responding to their customers' needs, and reduce cash trapped in inventory through tighter integration with suppliers. As a mobile-first solution, Linkz brings digital benefits long enjoyed by large enterprises to SMBs in emerging markets - multiplying the productivity of low skilled employees with mobile devices they already owned and mastered. Show less

Central Singapore

My scope doubled to managing both the workshop planning team and the workshop delivery team. We manage the trainings of more than 20,000 teachers and 1,000 workshops. We look after demand planning, scheduling of workshops, venue selection, customer service, logistics and execution. Reporting to the Director of Operations based in IB's Washing DC office. I focus on building teamwork, collaboration, ownership, personal leadership and growth. I develop an in-house basic business intelligence… Show more My scope doubled to managing both the workshop planning team and the workshop delivery team. We manage the trainings of more than 20,000 teachers and 1,000 workshops. We look after demand planning, scheduling of workshops, venue selection, customer service, logistics and execution. Reporting to the Director of Operations based in IB's Washing DC office. I focus on building teamwork, collaboration, ownership, personal leadership and growth. I develop an in-house basic business intelligence capability with PowerBII. I also work on improving system and processes of cost management, risk management and product planning. Show less

Singapore

I managed a team of 4 in the delivery of educator up-skilling workshops across Asia-Pacific. My team looked after the resourcing, planning and execution of events. I improve how the team operates, introducing more autonomy and accountability, and reducing administration overhead, leading to an increase in both employee and customer engagement and satisfaction.

Singapore

Executive development and networking through B2B conferences and workshops. Delivering cutting edge impact on Innovations, Banking, Oil & Gas, Talent and Leadership since 2009. I built the business from ground up with presence in Singapore and Malaysia. I developed the company's inside sales, business development, electronic marketing, customer service, events management and accounting processes and systems. I implemented the following technological solutions, SugarCRM CRM system, email… Show more Executive development and networking through B2B conferences and workshops. Delivering cutting edge impact on Innovations, Banking, Oil & Gas, Talent and Leadership since 2009. I built the business from ground up with presence in Singapore and Malaysia. I developed the company's inside sales, business development, electronic marketing, customer service, events management and accounting processes and systems. I implemented the following technological solutions, SugarCRM CRM system, email campaign systems with Mailchimp and Interspire, was product owner for the development of a bespoke event registration and management system, Quickbooks accounting system. I also look after annual financial reporting, audit and tax. Show less

Singapore

My second entrepreneurial venture. B2B workshops in Bank Risk: Stress Testing, Credit Risk Management and Structured Products; and Human Resources: Talent Management, Employee Engagement. We brought financial risk management expertise into Asia at the onset of global financial crisis and trained most of the top financial institutions in this region.

Singapore

My first entrepreneurial venture. We built Salvo from 3 founders to a size of 30 employees when I exited. I looked after the building of delegate and sponsorship inside sales teams, and also the development of IT systems: CRM, email, electronic marketing and website.

Sydney, Australia

I was selected to build a new product team: vendor and sponsorship sales for senior-level B2B conference with pre-arranged 1-on-1 meetings. During my training, I became the top performer across the Sydney regional head office and was promoted to lead the Singapore team in 5 months.

Singapore

I was a consistent high performer.

Singapore

I started as Sales Executive and met the promotion target in a month, setting a new record for the office.

Al-Riyadh Governorate, Saudi Arabia

Core team to implement a multi-million overseas GovTech project; carried out environmental studies, business process re-engineering, and customer and vendor management.

Singapore

Strategies development and implementing company-wide change initiatives. Facilitated annual company-wide strategic planning exercises; responsible for liaising with business units and worked closely with management committee to review results and develop strategies and action plans. Special projects include: Reinvigorate Audit Function, Customer Service Improvement, and Software License Pricing Model.

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: One of Asia's top EMBA program

Certificate, Public Policy Dynamics

Introduces key public policy concepts and its connection to social and economic development Identifies the actors and drivers of public.

Certified Agile Scrum Product Owner, Certification

Javascript Full-Stack Bootcamp, Startup Technologies

Activities and Societies: 40 days bootcamp. Client Side Foundation; Server Side Foundation; Persistence & Analytics Fundamental; Security.

Engineer'S Degree, Civil Engineering, 2Nd Upper Honours

Activities and Societies: President of NUS Student Engineering Club Executive Committee 1997-1998, Engineering Colors Award 1999 - Gold.

Student Exchange, Civil Engineering

High School, Science, Gce "A" Level

Activities and Societies: Academically, second overall in cohort. Top in Economics. Physics Olympiad. Student Council. Public Service.