Highlights:Managing Director - Singapore Chanson Water Pte Ltd Vice President - United Overseas Bank Management Consultant (Project Manager and QA Manager) - IBM Project Director - Firium Solutions Global Technical Manager - Citibank Singapore Senior Consultant - Cap Gemini Ernst and Young

Skills:Management Consulting, Strategic Planning, Business Analysis, Program Management, Testing, Quality Assurance

Certification:ITIL LAN Administration LAN Design Certified COBOL programmer by Tekmetrics CICS programming Leading teams Project Management I Assertive Communication Skills Managing Organizational Politics Global Risk and Compliance Process Information Security Analytics

Managing Director 07/2015 - current
Singapore Chanson Water Pte Ltd, singapore, singapore Singapore
Industry: Import and Export
Singapore Chanson Water Pte Ltd is the country distributor of water ionizers and filters in Singapore.
oversee day to day operation of the company check and approve cashflows - receivable and payables ensure sales team hit the projected sales target oversee the sales promotions and social media updates engage customers and corporate clients--
Vice President - Testing and QA 07/2011 - 07/2015
United Overseas Bank, singapore, singapore Singapore
Industry: Finance and Banking
United Overseas Bank is one of the top local banks in Singapore
• Responsible for the development of Testing Strategy, Test Plans and Test documents for execution of tests • Ensure that project adheres to organization Test Framework and coach test team (including business users) in test processes, protocols and test tools • Responsible for verifying overall project software quality • Provide leadership for the project test organization and establish a quality culture • Identify, mitigate and escalate testing risks (act as the escalation point for all testing issues) • Conduct test planning and test efforts estimates with project stakeholders • Manage overall test schedule and test execution plan • Manage the acquisition of external testing services and approve related SOW • Gain an adequate level of understanding of project business process, goals and requirements • Manage all testing resources (including users for UAT) • Manage test team logistics (desks, equipments etc.) • Monitor the organisation and scheduling of test environments (including the interfacing environments) • Ensure that good data are defined and setup in the test environments prior to the start of all test phases • Ensure that the entry/exit criteria of each test phases are met • Overall management of Defect Management process • Prepare Test Progress Reports and Test Summary Reports for the entire project, except Unit Test • Ensure timely approval of test artefacts • Coordinate interfacing systems and teams for integration test activities • Coordinate with Development Team Lead / Release Manager to schedule releases • Manage overall planning, preparation and execution of all test phases , except Unit Test • Co-ordinate business and operations groups for SIT & UAT execution--
Managing Consultant - Test Manager, Delivery Manager 09/2009 - 07/2011
IBM, singapore, singapore Singapore
Industry: Software Vendor
IBM is one of the top global software company in the world
• Responsible for the development of testing strategy, approach and execution of tests • Ensure that project adheres to organization Test Framework and coach test team (including business users) in test processes and test tools • Responsible for verifying overall project software quality • Provide leadership for the project test organization and establish a quality culture • Identify, mitigate and escalate testing risks • Conduct test planning and test efforts estimates with project stakeholders • Produce Test Strategy and/or Test Plan • Create and maintain overall test schedule and test execution plan • Ensure that the entry/exit criteria of each test phases are met • Overall management of Defect Management process • Prepare Test Progress Reports and Test Summary Reports for the entire project, except Unit Test • Ensure timely approval of test artefacts • Coordinate interfacing systems and teams for integration test activities • Coordinate with Development Team Lead / Release Manager to schedule releases • Manage overall planning, preparation and execution of all test phases, except Unit Test • Co-ordinate business and operations groups for UAT & ORT design and execution • Managed offshore development in IBM Shenzhen and IBM India for task assignments, resource allocation and system coordination. • Attend to regular conference calls, internal and external meetings with Senior Management and stakeholders regarding project status updates, issues and constraints that affect project timeline and delivery • Review Design Specifications and coordinate clarification sessions and conference calls on query log raised by the onshore/offshore development team • Prepare work plans, activity status and progress report for Management review • Review and create review logs for program specification documents, unit test plan documents by the development team • Prepare Traceability Matrix document to track all business requirements are covered from the Design up to Program Specification document • Prepare estimation worksheets for projects and enhancements and send to counterpart PMO and business unit for review and approval • Participate in formulating application development objectives and goals that are consistent with long-term business strategy. • Work closely with other Delivery Managers and Support Team which interface with the core system for project development, together with online and batch testings.--

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