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Desche You Mean Yew

Desche You Mean Yew

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Summary

Professional with strong project delivery and proven track record in management. Demonstrated success in fast-paced financial environment, managing complex projects and diverse team. Recognized for collaborative approach and commitment to uplift user satisfaction throughout the journey

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Assistant Vice President (Infrastructure and Cybersecurity)

OCBC Bank
08.2020 - Current
  • Deliver product capabilities through managing resources, cost and schedule with adherence to governance and compliance across entities in EMEA and APAC
  • Drive strong team collaboration through effective time management, open communication and resolution of conflicts or issues
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver product timely.
  • Design and develop solution to architect and integrate the technology
  • Drive and deliver technology capabilities using agile and scrum framework, methodologies and tools to include milestones, timelines for various releases
  • Develop user communication plan to ensure users are regularly informed constantly on the progress and impact
  • Implement robust security measures and control to protect digital assets, sensitive information and confidential data against inside and external threats
  • Monitor and track actual expenses to meet the projected financial forecast and within allocated approved budget
  • Optimized the technology integration into existing ecosystem through team collaboration with various cross functional team
  • Operationalized the structure, process and documents for BAU team to monitor, detect and control security events and incidents

Manager (Managed Hosting Infrastructure)

Government Technology Agency
07.2017 - 08.2020
  • Manage datacentre migration as a program to migrate thousands of servers and hundreds of applications across 40 entities in Singapore
  • Manage change requests effectively to maintain quality on project timeline and budget.
  • Reduce risks through proactive risk identification, assessment and mitigation strategies.
  • Collaborate with vendors and cross functional teams through regular communications and project status update for successful execution
  • Enhance stakeholder satisfaction through regular communication to cultivate strong relationship and partnership on project status update
  • Design and develop migration strategies to drive the approaches which application owners can opt for
  • Implemented risk mitigation strategies, project governance structures and reporting mechanisms to manage the program effectively
  • Influence and collaborate across various cross-functional teams to effectively build commitment, alignment and streamline process to ensure program progress
  • Track actual financial performance against the budget, identify variances and taking corrective action when required
  • Develop and generate report for stakeholder progress and performance.

Manager (Digital Office)

PSA International
11.2013 - 07.2017
  • Established projected budget and expenses targets for CAPEX and OPEX to enable the technologies
  • Developed vendor competitive bidding criteria to evaluate and assess bidding submissions
  • Built, implement and run email, video conferencing and collaboration platforms to facilitate efficient and real time communication across EMEA and APAC
  • Support end users and VVIP to reduce resolution time and increase user satisfaction
  • Utilize project management software and tools to plan, track and monitor project, tasks and timeline

Technical Project Lead (IT Infrastructure)

Daimler South East Asia
03.2009 - 11.2013
  • Lead and orchestrate to build and implement new secured network infrastructure for new automotive factory in Beijing
  • Run the firewalls and intrusion prevention system operation across EMEA and Asia Pacific

Senior Technical Specialist (Value Added Services)

M1 Limited
06.2004 - 02.2009
  • Application Level 2 support to maintain and operate application services, deliver and rollout application enhancement
  • Maintain and administer Sun Solaris servers and Oracle database

Education

Diploma in Electronic and Telecommunication -

Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Bachelor of Computer Science -

University of Adelaide

Skills

Agile project management

Stakeholder communication

Change management

Datacenter migration

Vendor management

Operations management

Project management

Risk management

Financial analysis and planning

Certification

Certified ScrumMaster

Timeline

Assistant Vice President (Infrastructure and Cybersecurity)

OCBC Bank
08.2020 - Current
Certified ScrumMaster
03-2018

Manager (Managed Hosting Infrastructure)

Government Technology Agency
07.2017 - 08.2020

Manager (Digital Office)

PSA International
11.2013 - 07.2017
Project Management Professional
06-2009

Technical Project Lead (IT Infrastructure)

Daimler South East Asia
03.2009 - 11.2013

Senior Technical Specialist (Value Added Services)

M1 Limited
06.2004 - 02.2009

Diploma in Electronic and Telecommunication -

Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Bachelor of Computer Science -

University of Adelaide
Desche You Mean Yew~