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See Hwee Peng (Stanley)

See Hwee Peng (Stanley)

Bishan

Summary

Results-driven team manager with over 20 years of experience in the Media industry. Proven track record of successfully delivering projects and products. Expertise in project and product development execution, documentation, infrastructure, quality assurance, and operational controls. Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including Internal Auditors and Cyber-Security teams, to address gaps and risks and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Skilled in budget and resource management, conducting regular process reviews for high compliance, efficiency, and availability. Mentored leads and subordinates in project management and guides them through system development documentation processes.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head of Digital Publications in Engineering

SPH Media Trust
01.2023 - 11.2024

Company Overview: SPH Media Trust is a media organization in Singapore, known for its print, digital publications and media services

  • Website: http://www.sph.com.sg
  • Managed 5 teams of engineers (about 20 of them) to enhance and develop digital products (web & mobile) for the company. The products include Berita Harian, Tamil Murasu, The New Paper, STOMP, Her World, Home & Decorations, Harper Bazaars, Awedio, the Company Corporate Website and many more
  • Worked with specialists to conduct quality assurance testing, performance testing, system penetration testing, network vulnerability assessment before each new or major product roll-out
  • Ensured high availability and quality of products together with a QA team including addressing all incidents reported to achieve quick recovery and prevent future occurrence
  • Collaborated closely with the Governance and Risk Management teams to ensure all audit, legal statutory requirements are adhered to
  • Reviewed controls and processes regularly including checking on legitimate access and reviewing all documentations from requirement studies, schedules, change management processes, procedure controls, backup plans, risk analysis to table-top exercises for major events
  • Planned and controlled the budgets for resources and technical services needed including the recruitment of contract engineers to support on-going projects and enhancements

Assistant Vice President, Tech

SPH Media Trust
01.2019 - 06.2023
  • Assisted the Vice President of Internet Application department to manage and oversee all the Internet systems (in the midst of the Covid disruption)
  • Worked closely with the Network and CyberSecurity departments to ensure availability of systems by resolving and mitigating all possible technical risks as the department explored Cloud technologies
  • Scrutinised and reviewed all vendor, service level, legal, regulatory and business agreements

Senior Manager

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.2013 - 01.2019

Company Overview: Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (de-listed) is a leading media organization in Singapore, providing a wide range of media services

  • Organised teams of engineers to support and maintain the wide range of products and services on the web and mobile including the new Radio (Awedio) applications
  • Strategised new plans and outcomes to achieve the moon-shot targets set by the top management
  • Ventured into Cloud Computing and Services

Senior Project Manager

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.2007 - 11.2013


  • Expanded the Internet team to more than 30 members to build more revenue generated digital services including revamping the mobile applications for the main publications, developing Marketing peripheral websites and working with MOE to provide news articles for school learning
  • Worked with various Technology vendors and service providers to adopt new technologies
  • Managed resources and IT cost while investing in new technologies that were cost effective

Project Manager

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.1999 - 01.2007


  • Managed a team of 10 software developers to maintain existing online systems and explored new online products and features e.g. ST701 portal with STJobs, STProperties, STCars and STClassifieds and the Newslink Archival portal, a revenue generator portal
  • Worked with external vendors closely to develop new Internet products and services including video services
  • Setup internal processes on project development and implementation
  • Documented and reviewed numerous papers on requirements, tenders, processes, procedures, controls, risks, service level agreements, etc
  • Singapore Press Holdings Ltd is a leading media organization in Singapore, providing a wide range of media services

Senior System Analyst

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.1997 - 01.1999


  • Involved in the Billing system for CyberWay Pte Ltd, an Internet Service Provider startup company by SPH Ltd that was later bought over by StarHub
  • Built and enhanced online products for the company including The Straits Times, Business Times, Zaobao websites and other marketing digital products

System Analyst

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.1994 - 01.1997


  • Pioneered and ventured into Internet projects and systems by creating websites and coming up with web products for the public e.g. AsiaOne on top of the Business Times and the Straits Times on the digital platforms
  • Developed a contest and data collection engine single-handedly with Perl scripts

Information Technologist

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
03.1991 - 01.1994


  • Employed as the main developer to split the data from the sister company (Times Publishing Group) due to a split of management and business groups
  • Developed and enhanced the Financial Accounts Receivable, Newspaper Circulation Returns and Cashier systems both on the online-counter and batch mechanisms
  • Started minutes writing and documentation of processes, procedures and user guides

Programmer

Times Publishing Ltd
02.1989 - 01.1990

Company Overview: Times Publishing Ltd is a regional publisher of books and magazines

  • Started as a Mainframe programmer handling all the batch programming in Cobol Programming Language
  • Assisted in End-User Computing due to a shortage of IT staff

Education

BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE - Computing Information Technology

Queensland University of Technology
01.1990

Diploma in Computer Studies - BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies

Ngee Ann Polytechnic
01.1989

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Regulatory Compliance Standards
  • Document Management
  • Control Process Improvement
  • Risk Management
  • Tech Auditing
  • Technical Writing
  • Managerial and Soft Skills in Staff Augmentation, Supervision, Coaching, Motivation, Influential & Negotiation Skills

Accomplishments

SPHTech Day - 2019

  • Role: Programme Manager
  • Objective: To organise a public Tech event on behalf of the company for publicity and branding purposes.
  • Outcome: Sat in the main committee to organize the public event under the leadership of the Division Head; and ran the whole day conference programme with the hosting DJs and all invited guest speakers.

Division Team Bonding Day – 2018

  • Role: Hosting the Programme
  • Objective: To host the day’s programme provided by the committee.
  • Outcome: Invited to host the programme line-up.

SPH Family Day - 2018

  • Role: Deputy Chairman
  • Objective: To organise the yearly event for the whole company at the zoo.
  • Outcome: Organized the event with a committee and ran the Lucky Draws and stage programme with the DJ hosts and invited guests.

Risk Management Committee – 2015 to 2017

  • Role: Tech Representative on the main committee
  • Objective: To identify and review all possible risks on behalf of the Tech division by working internally within teams and reporting to the higher management.
  • Outcome: Worked with higher management and internal departments to review identified risks and manage them by mitigating or making action plans for departments to close the gaps.

Internet Contest Engine – 1997 to 2015

  • Role: Internet Developer and then Project Manager
  • Objective: To develop a web engine that allows the capturing of online answers to quizzes and registrant data (including an auditable winners selection process)
  • Outcome: Built single-handedly during the dotcom era that could work with various design templates that could also be used for survey submissions. Subsequently led a team to enhance the engine that was used for nearly 20 years before new apps were available on the Internet.

AsiaOne – 1995 to 2018

  • Role: One of website Pioneers (System Analyst to Project Manager)
  • Objective: To build a site that aggregates SPH News, Entertainment, Lifestyle stories plus more to attract more advertisers with increased click throughs.
  • Outcome: Together with peers, we launched the site in 1995 and subsequently AsiaOne was listed as a company in 2000 before it was de-listed in 2002. The portal was constantly revamped and garnered millions of page views every month. The site was so popular that it was acquired in 2018 by a private buyout.

Certification

  • IBM Project Management Skills, 90's
  • Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster Course CSM, 2016
  • Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), 2020
  • Enterprise Agile: Growing Scrum, 2020
  • SMU Practitioner Certificate in Personal Data Protection, 2020
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, 2021
  • Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner Course CSPO, 2021
  • WSQ Aligning Practical Enterprise Risk Management Implementation to ISO31000, 2023

Languages

English
Chinese (Mandarin)

Timeline

Head of Digital Publications in Engineering

SPH Media Trust
01.2023 - 11.2024

Assistant Vice President, Tech

SPH Media Trust
01.2019 - 06.2023

Senior Manager

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.2013 - 01.2019

Senior Project Manager

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.2007 - 11.2013

Project Manager

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.1999 - 01.2007

Senior System Analyst

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.1997 - 01.1999

System Analyst

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
01.1994 - 01.1997

Information Technologist

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
03.1991 - 01.1994

Programmer

Times Publishing Ltd
02.1989 - 01.1990

Diploma in Computer Studies - BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies

Ngee Ann Polytechnic
  • IBM Project Management Skills, 90's
  • Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster Course CSM, 2016
  • Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), 2020
  • Enterprise Agile: Growing Scrum, 2020
  • SMU Practitioner Certificate in Personal Data Protection, 2020
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, 2021
  • Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner Course CSPO, 2021
  • WSQ Aligning Practical Enterprise Risk Management Implementation to ISO31000, 2023

BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE - Computing Information Technology

Queensland University of Technology
See Hwee Peng (Stanley)