Joanne Fernandez
Group Managing Director at Alexis International (formerly known as Monkiez Asia)- Claim this Profile
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I came to know Joanne 7 years ago and we have both been working together as I was her client back then, acquiring her expertise in assisting us to source for potential candidates. Joanne is a gifted consultant with a rare combination of patience, spunk, and research skills. Joanne's fantastic instincts made her an amazing partner to work with as she knows right away what we are looking for without having to tell her much and I'm happy I've got the chance to work with her again after all these years.
Joanne and her team of consultants have been providing staffing services for Finance Shared Services Centre on a timely and consistent basis. She is a also a very detailed and thorough person and has very good follow-up skills. I have no qualms recommending her services to other companies as she's very professional in her work, she provides us with quality candidates.
I came to know Joanne 7 years ago and we have both been working together as I was her client back then, acquiring her expertise in assisting us to source for potential candidates. Joanne is a gifted consultant with a rare combination of patience, spunk, and research skills. Joanne's fantastic instincts made her an amazing partner to work with as she knows right away what we are looking for without having to tell her much and I'm happy I've got the chance to work with her again after all these years.
Joanne and her team of consultants have been providing staffing services for Finance Shared Services Centre on a timely and consistent basis. She is a also a very detailed and thorough person and has very good follow-up skills. I have no qualms recommending her services to other companies as she's very professional in her work, she provides us with quality candidates.
I came to know Joanne 7 years ago and we have both been working together as I was her client back then, acquiring her expertise in assisting us to source for potential candidates. Joanne is a gifted consultant with a rare combination of patience, spunk, and research skills. Joanne's fantastic instincts made her an amazing partner to work with as she knows right away what we are looking for without having to tell her much and I'm happy I've got the chance to work with her again after all these years.
Joanne and her team of consultants have been providing staffing services for Finance Shared Services Centre on a timely and consistent basis. She is a also a very detailed and thorough person and has very good follow-up skills. I have no qualms recommending her services to other companies as she's very professional in her work, she provides us with quality candidates.
I came to know Joanne 7 years ago and we have both been working together as I was her client back then, acquiring her expertise in assisting us to source for potential candidates. Joanne is a gifted consultant with a rare combination of patience, spunk, and research skills. Joanne's fantastic instincts made her an amazing partner to work with as she knows right away what we are looking for without having to tell her much and I'm happy I've got the chance to work with her again after all these years.
Joanne and her team of consultants have been providing staffing services for Finance Shared Services Centre on a timely and consistent basis. She is a also a very detailed and thorough person and has very good follow-up skills. I have no qualms recommending her services to other companies as she's very professional in her work, she provides us with quality candidates.
Experience
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Alexis International
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Malaysia
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Human Resources Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Group Managing Director
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2011 - Present
She has over seventeen years of work experience around the country in various industries such as HR, business consulting & IT with exposure to various industries including Financial Services, Public/ Government, Pharmaceutical, Education, Manufacturing, and Marketing and Distribution.From her vast experience in a broad range as above, the entrepreneurship in her kicked in, and thus leading to the formation of Monkiez Asia. A boutique Executive Search Consultancy firm with leaders like her bringing along the wealth of knowledge (knowledge is power), to provide human capital consultancy, head count solutions to the industries of today. @ Monkiez Asia, we pride ourselves in the stewardship of our leaders as they’ve acquired knowledge and experience to provide a relationship bounded by mutual interests and of similar interest.
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Business Developent Manager, SEA
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Jun 2010 - Sep 2011
This is the highlight in her career…she was called up to take on tasks of emerging markets for a synonymous government corporation to the nation with the sole key responsibilities of making the country’s ICT industry Boom. Her role had many functions in long line of duties; among them are not limited to; providing local ICT companies/players to develop strategic programmes and incentives to attract and retain both prospective and current players of the industry which derives close collaboration with various Malaysian government ministries such as MOF, MOSTI, MOF, MITI, MOHE, MOHR and other the respective stakeholders. The functionality of her scope also refers to dealing and matching talent capital requirements for emerging markets of Australasia & SEA. Human capital consulting through private business of RPO (recruitment process outsourcing) in nature was also worked on. FDI’s (Foreign Direct Investments) was brought in and human capital fulfilment was satisfied through various channels of private and public sector. This has lead in the creation of jobs in the requiring skillsets of ICT in nature in various specializations and has created opportunities of healthy competition amongst the investors to head hunt for the talents out there. Her set out target was to bridge the ICT sector and marketing the position of the country in the ICT industry and the profitability of the businesses in the country making the nation a rich human capital goldmine for the ICT sector and also a revered business district for the placeholders of business expansion globally.
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SCAN Associates Bhd
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Malaysia
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Business Manager (Key Accounts)
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Sep 2006 - Oct 2010
A new chapter then begun as the she took a twist from her comfort zone and ventured into solution selling as a Business Manager with a public listed company dealing with IT Security Solutions where armed with her previous endeavours in her exposure from multiple industries, she used her akin knowledge and started all from scratch to produce her worth. The role proved a challenging uphill task as it required a long term follow ups and also meeting Chief Executives of the big players from Multiple industries. Her grasps of product knowledge and persona of a passionate, enthusiastic and dedicated gave her the Win’s that was pivotal towards achieving the company’s targets.
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Fujitsu
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Account Manager (Financial Services Industry)
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Jan 2010 - Jun 2010
This time around, she was given the opportunity to manage clients with a project management role for leading Japanese company in IT hardware. Though it was a short stint she built the brand for new products to profoundly give the company a succession goal in the coming years.
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Solution Specialist
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Oct 2009 - Jan 2010
A shocking career move entailed when she enrolled in a human capital advisory firm. Her role expanded throughout the Asia Pacific region, having completed client project engagements in the areas of change management (for both technology enabled business HR transformation, performance management, talent management, business strategy and industry surveys. Being in the human capital industry has opened many doors for her as well and thus leading back to career advancement
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TIME dotCom Berhad
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Malaysia
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Key Account Manager
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Jun 2005 - Sep 2006
Then she moved on to Account Management & Consulting experience in a GLC with mainstream telecommunication business. Her duties were to manage key accounts for IT managed services and telephony. During her tenure there she has garnered respect and new found alliances in the FSI industry thus leading to successful expansion and new revenue growth for the organizations.
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Executive Advertising - Sales
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Sep 2002 - May 2005
She started her work career in BTL A&P industry front line focusing on sales and marketing for a business directory in the southern region. Her role was to penetrate the southern region which was predominantly dominated by an exclusive player already. Weekend activities were also part of work where canvassing door to door to large scale factories to corporate firms with offices in business districts.
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Education
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Multimedia University
Bachelor of Multimedia Marketing, Marketing