Experience

GigaSpaces Technologies

• Israel
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Manager APAC

  • Sep 2011 - Present

  Technical Manager responsible for pre-sales and post-sales technical support for GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) and Cloudify products in Asia Pacific region, including: • Pre-sales technical activities – Involved in technical presentations, architecture workshops, proof-of-concepts scoping and activities, responses to request for proposal, technical trainings, etc. • Post-sales technical activities – Involved in technical support, managing customer engagements, technical problem resolutions, etc. • Vast technical experience in cloud computing technologies, in the areas of migrating and fully automatic deployment of on-premise applications to various cloud platforms, catering to auto failover and self-healing of applications to sustain system resiliency in the cloud, and providing elastic scalability to extend and shrink application on demand in the cloud to meet peak load requirements. • Good knowledge of many public, private and local cloud platforms, such as Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Openstack, Citrix Cloud stack, HP Matrix, etc., including hands-on experience in deploying applications to Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, HP Matrix, and implementing the cloud drivers for HP Matrix. • Technically strong in XTP (extreme transaction processing) solution for enterprise, mission critical systems demanding high performance, low latency, high scalability and high resiliency, meeting these demands with distributed caching/in-memory solutions and distributed/parallelized processing map-reduce patterns. • Technical knowledge in big data and real time analytics technologies to meet the 3Vs demands, i.e. velocity, volume and variety of the data, with hands-on experience in configuring and setting up Hadoop HDFS and map-reduce solutions and its other eco-system services like Hive, Pig, etc. Show less



National Computer Systems Pte Ltd

• Senior Project Manager

  • Mar 2008 - Aug 2011

  Senior Project Manager responsible for: • Delivery of large scale and high complexity projects successfully, on time, within budgeted costs and exceeding customers’ expectations for large regional bank and large regional telco company • Management of large project team, made up of NCS team members and key members from customers’ Management team, Information Systems team, Business team and Operations team • Management of project scope, timeline and changes in scope – According to NCS Project Management and Application Development Methodology • Identifying potential project risks and setting up preventive measures and contingency plans to mitigate these project risks • Project issues tracking, resolution and escalation • Project status tracking and submission of monthly project progress report to customers and NCS project office to update progress and keep all stakeholders on the same page Show less



Webinops Pte Ltd

• Senior Project Manager

  • Oct 2007 - Feb 2008

  Senior Project Manager responsible for: • Managing a core team in completing a proof-of-concept system to demonstrate business concepts and system capabilities to the investors of the start-up company – Working proof-of-concept system was delivered in 2.5 months • Doubling up as technical lead in the design and development of the proof-of-concept system to put together latest technologies like Gigaspace distributed space-based architecture and Java Struts / Spring framework in building the system • Domain knowledge in the areas of binary options, pari-mutuel matching algorithms and financial exchange • Technology: Internet, web, distributed space-based, object oriented, relational database, etc. • Software / Language: Linux, Windows, JBoss, Tomcat, Java, JSP, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, etc. Show less



Strategem Technologies Pte Ltd

• Project Manager

  • Sep 2005 - Sep 2007

  Project Manager responsible for: • Managing the development and delivery of a Poker solution – This solution enables the business organisation to introduce yet another product offering for its online gaming site that aims to provide wide spectrum of quality gaming services to its valued customers • Managing the implementation of integration between the Poker system and external systems, e.g. Central Accounting system, Casino system, Financial Betting system, etc., to provide seamless gaming environment to allow customers to experience different gaming services from one single and common account • Effective leadership to project team, comprising of business analysts, architects, designers, developers and testers, ensuring smooth and coordinated day-to-day execution of Poker and integration project • Management of software vendor for Poker project, ensuring the vendor provides all project deliverables according to stipulated timelines as per contractual agreements Show less



National Computer Systems Pte Ltd

• Project Manager / Project Leader

  • Jul 1996 - Aug 2005

  Project Manager (Jan 2000 – Aug 2005) responsible for: • Delivery of medium to large scale projects (and many other smaller ones) successfully, on time, within budgeted costs and meeting customers’ requirements large regional telco company and global insurance company • Gained extensive project management skills and experience, in the areas of scope management, risk management, cost and resource management, customer management, etc. • Gained insights into Project Management and Application Development methodology and Software Development Life Cycle process • Acquired wide range of domain / industry knowledge such as wealth management, telecommunications, port operations, etc • Developed team management skills in team building, coaching and maintaining high performance teams Project Leader (Jul 1996 – Dec 1999) in charge of: • Design, development, implementation and maintenance of customers’ IT systems • Developed strong analytical, problem solving and design skills and in-depth technical competencies in the different technologies, software and languages • Technology: Internet, web, client / server, object oriented, relational database, etc. • Software / Language: Windows, Solaris, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft IIS, WebLogic, Apache / Tomcat, SQL, C++, Delphi, PowerBuilder, C#, ASPX, Python, Java, JSP, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, reporting tool like Crystal Report, Oracle Report, etc. Show less



Port of Singapore Authority

• System Analyst / Senior System Analyst

  • May 1990 - Jun 1996

  System Analyst / Senior System Analyst in charge of: • Development and implementation of in-house IT systems • Providing maintenance support and enhancements for in-house IT systems • Technology: Client / server, relational database, etc. • Software / Language: Windows, Solaris, VMS, SQL, C, C++, Pro-C, Oracle Forms, etc. System Analyst / Senior System Analyst in charge of: • Development and implementation of in-house IT systems • Providing maintenance support and enhancements for in-house IT systems • Technology: Client / server, relational database, etc. • Software / Language: Windows, Solaris, VMS, SQL, C, C++, Pro-C, Oracle Forms, etc.