About Me
Get to know me
I have been in the business world for the past 20 years and most of that have been primarily in the automotive industry. Despite my core expertise is in the area of SAP, I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to assist companies especially in the discrete manufacturing and automotive industry of their IT requirements from strategy, operations, procurement, planning, execution.
Being from a financial background, I jumped into the IT world after my first finance position and quickly realized my passion in IT. I've held various consulting position before having the opportunity to hold the position of Head of IT for an automotive OEM before moving back into consulting in 2014. I have served various prestigious organization and in the Big 4 consulting companies.
Since then I've been involved to advise many different automotive companies across the globe
Functional expertise
Leadership Competency
Strong Leadership
Service Excellence
Engage and Nurture People
Results Driven
Value Innovation and Change
Excellent Relationships
Functional Exposures
Strategic & Operational Technology Planning
Technology & Business Linkage Planning
IT Delivery & Service Desk Operations
Capital Planning & Investment Control
Situation-Based Outsourcing Models
IT Infrastructure Design & Implementation
IT Skills Gap Analysis & Performance Optimization
SAP, Peoplesoft
ITIL
AGILE
Six Sigma
Business Competency
Strategic Thinking Knowledge Management
C level Presentation and communication
Conflict Resolution & Negotiation
Summary of achievements
- Top CIO 100 Asia in 2013 helming the ICT organization of over 200 staff with over USD 150 million of divisional budget.
- Held the position of IT Project Director and managed COMPASS project which is the first SAP end to end for automotive in the world. Handled a team of 160 team members including consultants, IT and business users. A complex program involving process of order to delivery, manufacturing, finance and procure to pay. Implemented almost all SAP modules namely SAP HR, MM,PP,SD,VMS,DBM,WMS,QM,APO,BW,FI/CO,PS,SRM. Led the working level evaluation committee for vendor selection, refining the RFP and contract negotiation.
- Held operational role as division head handling end to end operational role including being head of cost center responsible for divisional financials, head of divisional risk management, headed the divisional management team
- Held multiple programmes and project management role in high valued and complex projects
- Coordinated multiple workshops and trainings – train the trainer, end user training and one to one training across module.
- Set up the project, program management framework and ITIL process for overall IT and initiatives involving Group ICT.
- Successfully led the initiation of large transformation program ensuring proper project methodology alignment and roles consolidation of multiple primary and secondary vendors.