Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Achievements & Awards
Additional Information
Languages
Leadership Positions Held
Co-Curricular Activities
Projects
Generic Skills
Timeline
Generic

Kate Ow Yong Le Yu

Summary

I am Ow Yong Le Yu Kate, a Singaporean student currently studying the Diploma of Animation and Games. With a passion in art, I am always ready to learn and always looking to improve myself.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Waiter

Japan Food Holdings, Tokyo Shokudo
10.2024 - Current
  • Managed high volume of customers during peak hours, maintaining prompt and efficient service.
  • Collaborated with team members to ensure seamless guest experiences and resolve any issues promptly.
  • Experience: Learnt that teamwork is vital and assist other colleagues when needed. Learnt to be more attentive to detail by ensuring tables and floor are clean. Learnt to be more efficient in making fewer trips at a time to serve drinks or clear tables to attend to customers more quickly. Learnt that it is fine to do my job slowly but need to give good service, have a good attitude and minimise mistakes.

Sales Assistant

Oriental Action International PTE. LTD
12.2023 - 12.2023
  • Interact with customers and answer any enquiries about the products sold.
  • Provide information about products that customers are interested in to encourage them to purchase the product.
  • Experience: Selling christmas lights that were heavy and fragile so I had to be very careful with the products and do checks on products to show customers they had a new and functional product. Learnt that it is more important to ensure products are safely given to customers even if it takes a while. Learnt to negotiate with customers to get them to buy certain products such as giving discounts if they bought more products.

Designer's Assistant

Oriental Action International PTE. LTD
07.2023 - 10.2023
  • Assist Client with Designing using Adobe Illustrator
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
  • Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
  • Paid attention to detail while completing assignments.
  • Experience: Learnt how to work closely with a client and try to bring out their desired design from the information they have given me. Learnt that my job is not necessarily to produce something I think is better but to give exactly what my client wants.

Cashier

Pezzo
11.2022 - 11.2022
  • Greeted customers entering store and responded promptly to customer needs.
  • Welcomed customers and helped determine their needs.
  • Restocked and organized merchandise in front lanes.
  • Experience: Learnt how to communicate well with colleagues and customers. I learned how to be more efficient and think beforehand about what to do during each step of an order.

Cashier

KFC Restaurant
11.2020 - 12.2020
  • Welcomed customers and helped determine their needs.
  • Restocked and organized merchandise in front lanes.
  • Counted money in cash drawers at beginning and end of shifts to maintain accuracy.
  • Experience: Learnt how to communicate well with colleagues and customers. I learned how to be more efficient and think beforehand about what to do during each step of an order.

Education

Diploma in Animation And Games [Current GPA: 3.42] -

Singapore Polytechnic
Singapore
01-2026

GCE ‘O’ Levels [L1R4: 12] -

Zhonghua Secondary School
Singapore
01-2022

PSLE [Aggregate: 236] -

Compassvale Primary School
Singapore
01-2018

Skills

    2D

    Photoshop - Proficient

    Illustrator - Intermediate

    Clip Studio Paint - Intermediate

    LightRoom - Intermediate

    Photography - Intermediate

    3D

    Autodesk Maya - Proficient

    Blender - Beginner

    Substance Painter - Intermediate

    Design

    Unity - Proficient (Designing and constructing a basic 2D platformer)

    Gamemaker - Intermediate (Designing and constructing a basic 2D platformer)

    Unreal Engine 5 - Intermediate (Creating and Constructing a game level)

    Video

    Premiere Pro - Intermediate

    Power Director - Intermediate

Achievements & Awards

2014 - Dance Primary Royal Academy Of Dance [Merit]

2016 - Edusave Good Progress Award

2019 - Edusave Scholarship

2020 - Edusave Certificate Of Academic Achievement

2021 - Music Theory ABRSM Grade 5 [Distinction]

2021 - Piano ABRSM Practical Grade 6 Piano Performance [Merit]
2021 - Obtained a Bronze Medal for National Youth Achievement Level

2021 - Edusave Certificate Of Academic Achievement

2021 - CCC-CDC Education Merit Award

2022 - Edusave Award For Achievement, Good Leadership and Service ( Eagles )

2024 - Piano ABRSM Practical Grade 8 Piano Performance [Pass]

Additional Information

2014 - 2015 Participation in the Sony Creative Science Award

2015 - 2017 Accomplishment in Applied Learning Programme (Robotics)

2019 - Participation in The Singapore Games Creation Competition by NYP School Of Interactive & Digital Media

2019 - Completion of Game Programming and Design with Gamemaker Programme

2019 - Completion of Mobile Application Development With AppInventor

2019 - Participation in Grade 7 Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge

2019 - 2020 Participation in Grade 7 & 8 Design Thinking with Robotics and Computational Thinking and International Competition

2020 - Completion of Computer Club CCA Training - InfoComm Club (Animation)

2023 - Participation in Batey Hackathon Challenge

2023 - Photographer Facilitator for Inbound Programme for Kumamoto College, National Institute of Technology

2023 - Helper Volunteer for Academic School Camp for Freshmen Orientation

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Upper intermediate (B2)
Japanese
Elementary (A2)

Leadership Positions Held

2021 - 2022 - Chairperson of Infocomm Club

Co-Curricular Activities

Robotics Club [2015-2016]

Science Club [2016-2018]

Infocomm Club [2019-2022]

SP MindSports - Tetris Division [2023-Present]

Projects

2019 - Shoot For Your Life! [ 3-Man Group Project ]

About: Shoot For Your Life! is a 2D Platformer Game Project made using GameMaker in 2019 in Infocomm Club. You play as Brad who takes a plane to Australia to visit his relatives but his plane crashes. Survive the Jungle and return to the plane crash site to find other survivors and get communication to send a distress signal.


Role: Artist - Mainly did the sprites including the character, platforms and illustrations for the story and the control page



April to August 2024 - A Quest From Grandma [ 5-Man Group Project ]

About: A Quest From Grandma is a 2D Platformer Gane Project made using Unity in 2024 in Mobile Game Development. You play as [ X - Player Given Name ] who has just lost his Grandmother and loses himself due to the sorrow of the loss of his Grandmother. The World is set in a World where there are unique creatures that wander the world. Grandmother has left a chest with a note stating that her last wishes were for him to open the chest by embarking on a journey to give aid to 3 special creatures. Embarking on the journey Player comes across the 3 creatures and learns valuable lessons about self worth, struggles and purpose after saving each creature.


Role: Lead Artist - Did all animations [Player Movement, NPCs, Enemies, CheckPoint] Backgrounds, Props [half], Found majority of sound effects for the game

Generic Skills

  • Meticulous and pay attention to details
  • Effective communication and teamwork skills
  • Willing to always learn and improve

Timeline

Waiter

Japan Food Holdings, Tokyo Shokudo
10.2024 - Current

Sales Assistant

Oriental Action International PTE. LTD
12.2023 - 12.2023

Designer's Assistant

Oriental Action International PTE. LTD
07.2023 - 10.2023

Cashier

Pezzo
11.2022 - 11.2022

Cashier

KFC Restaurant
11.2020 - 12.2020

Diploma in Animation And Games [Current GPA: 3.42] -

Singapore Polytechnic

GCE ‘O’ Levels [L1R4: 12] -

Zhonghua Secondary School

PSLE [Aggregate: 236] -

Compassvale Primary School
Kate Ow Yong Le Yu