Expert Details
Cybersecurity and Digital Tech Expert
ID: 738113
Singapore
ACHIEVEMENTS:
● Facilitated partnerships across startups and small and medium enterprises in Singapore.
● Founder of a profitable Cybersecurity consulting business and a Waste-to-Energy system business.
● Raised SGD 2 mil for Radix, a mobile phone app startup.
● Strived in the sea of nameless faces to win 2 acting awards, 2 films, and several episodes that went viral (30m hits) and be the lead actor in an award-winning 90 min feature film produced and directed by a former A-List international movie star. This opens many doors and contacts in the business.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2000 | Degree: MSc | Subject: Information Technology | Institution: Keele University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2020 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Freelance Digital Technology Consultant | Department: |
Responsibilities:Advise and assist governments, tech companies and wealthy individuals to build and train teams in sustainable emerging technologies such as:● Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR): to operate seamlessly in the socio-political and legal framework ● NFTs: the underlying decentralised finance and blockchain cryptography concept, price positioning, ownership benefits and self-executing smart contracts |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2016 to 2016 | Employer: Barclays Wealth | Title: Risk Manager | Department: Private Bank |
Responsibilities:Managed the information risk during a merger-and-acquisition of Barclays Wealth by Bank of Singapore (BOS):● Managed the risks of technology requests, Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) and incidents in the day-to-day operations and working closely with Legal and Compliance. ● Oversaw the orderly and secure transfer of appropriate data assets from Barclays Wealth to BOS, in the Migration Programme. ● Investigated policy violations, imposing whitelists/blacklists and reviews Key Risk Indicators (KRIs). ● Ensured the completion of all AML and fraud investigations before the handover ● Used: Semantec Vontu DLP tool. Compliance: Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS); and Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2015 to 2016 | Employer: Standard Chartered | Title: Programme Security Architect | Department: Corporate eBank |
Responsibilities:Designed the security framework and fraud prevention architecture against Cyberattacks, AML and fraud,complying to MAS, HKMA, RBI and CBRC regulations. Achieved: ● Delivered architecture that caters to mobile banking and mitigates the corresponding security risks - by cognitive biometric controls and central logging. ● A central logging server that facilitates the reconstruction of transactions ● Fraud Knowledge engine ● Correlation of forensics with other off-line intelligence both within and beyond the bank (includes Cloud-based security services and also from unstructured data on social networks). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to 2014 | Employer: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | Title: Adjunct Lecturer | Department: |
Responsibilities:Developed and delivered the "Management of Information Security" module for the Business Administration in Aviation degree course, covering: incident investigation and intelligence gathering, fraud management and information security. Incorporated hands-on experiential learning exercises based on real-life information security scenarios, derived from twenty-five years of industry experience. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2011 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Screenwriter/Producer/Director/Actor | Department: |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2014 | Employer: SAPIT | Title: KYC, AML, Fraud and Security Consultant | Department: |
Responsibilities:(based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)Advised and designed secure systems and infrastructure for banks in Saudi Arabia and pharmaceutical companies in Singapore, Japan and China. AstraZeneca, APAC HQ, Singapore Al-Rajhi Bank, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi-Hollandi Bank, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Riyad Bank, Saudi Arabia |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2003 to 2005 | Employer: Self Employed | Title: Founder and Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:A Information Security Consulting business and a Waste- To-Energy System business.The following were responsibilities: ● P & L. ● Business Development and Strategic Aliances. ● Fund raising for startups. ● Project Definition and Management. ● Quality Control and Training. Raised SG$2 mil for Radix, a mobile phone app startup. Clients and projects included: ● Bank BII ● RHB Bhd ● Visa International ● Rotary Engineering ● Hewlett Packard Asia Pacific ● Artisan Encipta, a Bermuda based Venture Capital Fund ● Jebsen and Jessen South East Asia ● Shinko Roy Pte Ltd, Singapore ● Abu Dhabi Ministry of Interior |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1988 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Cybersecurity and Digital Technology Consultant | Department: Independent |
Responsibilities:Transformed companies into data driven businesses in the digital ecosystem, taking the guesswork out of decision making.Tasks: 1. Facilitate business collaborations and partnerships. 2. Business requirement analysis and process re-engineering for digitalisation. 3. Feasibility study of available technical solutions. 4. Implement Cybersecurity and fraud controls and structured transaction data logging facility for analytics. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| ● Certificate Machine Language, Stanford University, CA, USA (in progress) ● Certificate AI Robotics Engineering, UBTECH (in progress) |
Additional Experience
| Training / Seminars |
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| ● AI-Robotics Engineer Course (2022), UBTech Robotics. ● Design/build/program/configure robot for specified paths & trajectories, motion planning & IoT. Python Programming. ● Machine Learning (2022), Stanford University, CA, USA. ● AI Neural Network, Machine Language Algorithms & Logistic Regression. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| English | Fluent |
| Mandarin | Fluent |
| Cantonese | Basic |
| Malay | Fluent |
| Japanese | Fluent |
| German | Fluent |
| French | Fluent |