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Peter Yip Chen Wah

Peter Yip Chen Wah

Summary

An IT manager with 17 years of professional experience in IT service management, operation, leadership & technical program management. Peter's core strength is acting as a customer advocate, representing customer interest to ensure the highest level of service delivery across the globe. Throughout Peter's professional engagement, he has worked extensively with global teams & engage regularly with top executives on operational & business reviews. Peter was originally born in Malaysia and is now a Singapore citizen with strong proficiency in English, Mandarin, Cantonese & Malay. Peter's multi-cultural background has enabled him to work effectively in a diverse multi-cultural environment.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Program Manager

Grab Holdings Inc.
03.2020 - Current
  • As a TPM for Grab's Cyber Security, function as the bridge between Business and Engineering by working closely with people from all parts of Grab - ensuring the platform remains trusted & secured for millions of app users across South East Asia.
  • Manage a variety of complex, cross-functional cyber security programs and lead all aspects of assigned program delivery.
  • Create and maintain the Delivery Roadmap for the teams which I work closely with, along with the respective Tech and Product leaders.
  • Define the way of driving these programs and constantly find ways of improving the process.
  • Owners of the collaboration process and tools.

My day-to-day activities include:-

  • General Project management - Prepare project timelines, define milestones, track and report progress, and resolve impediments.
  • Lead Agile/Scrum teams as Scrum Master and Agile Coach.
  • Quarterly roadmap planning and prioritization.
  • Work with cross-functional teams of Cyber Defense, Security Engineering, Cyber Assurance, Security Architects & Enterprise Information Systems to ensure on-time project delivery.
  • Continuously find ways to help teams to improve the overall quality of delivery.

IT Service Management Manager

Visa Inc
09.2018 - 01.2020
  • Collaborating across global business and technology organizations, providing sound analysis, and change leadership.
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships to ensure quality assurance is performed in -alignment with global initiatives and requirements across the enterprise.
  • Work closely with the development team to develop new tools and procedures for incident, problem & crisis management, metric and measure creation, management, dashboards development, and communication process.
  • Identify persistent or recurring problems and recommends creative solutions.
  • Identify opportunities for further optimization, recommend opportunities for process improvement
  • Reviews and revises processes, policies, and escalation procedures on a regular basis to drive efficiencies and effectiveness.
  • Explore ITIL/ITSM concepts and integrate them into the current Agile delivery model.
  • Reviews core operational performance metrics for Digital and Mobile Products environment
  • Educate & ensure standards, tools, and best practices are implemented.
  • Drives ad-hoc projects within the Digital & Mobile Product space.

Service Operations Manager

Cisco Systems
08.2014 - 08.2018
  • Act as the single point of contact for all services and operational issues for top-tier customers, coordinate technical problems, and customer needs, and ensure every stakeholder is aligned.
  • Ensure that all critical issues are addressed within the agreed SLA and provide customers with updates on hot or escalated issues.
  • Provide executive updates for all critical issues to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Drive Post Mortem & Root Causes Analysis for critical issues as part of lessons learned and incorporate them into best practices.
  • Orchestrates ownership, optimization, and management of all services operations and activities for strategic and designated customers.
  • Lead aligned cross-functional resources (globally) to ensure comprehensive, coordinated, and unified support experiences.
  • Drives global & regional programs, from dashboard creation, metrics review, tools enablement, innovation, business continuity exercise, product demo, training program, and process improvement.
  • Global leadership representing APJC, ensuring Cisco's best practices are adopted at both global and regional levels.
  • Analyze data from reported incidents, both customers and partners (country & regional level), to provide critical business insights, trend analysis, and decision making, using Cisco propriety reporting tools.
  • Drive Quarterly Business Review with executives for both internal and external stakeholders, presenting data points for all quarterly incidents and escalated issues, gap analysis, and improvement plan.

Project Manager

NCS Pte Ltd
02.2008 - 07.2014
  • Project Delivery - Responsible for establishing and preparing project plans, managing integration of various components, managing project activities to ensure timely delivery, managing project resources (hardware, software, human resources & logistics), and reviewing project documentation to ensure that it meets customers’ requirements.
  • Customer & Vendor Management - Negotiate with vendors and across teams to ensure adequate resources are available during various phases of the project, manage contracts and subcontractors, and maintain open communication with external resources.
  • Team Management - Liaise with project team members to ensure that all tasks and deliverables are proceeding according to schedule, and provide the project team with accurate information about the project goals.

Network Engineer

Sarawak Information Systems (SAINS - KL Office)
12.2006 - 12.2007
  • Responsible for the planning, design, & implementation of network & security solutions for medium to large-sized enterprises, from private SMEs, state-owned corporations, to government agencies.

Technical Support Analyst

Datacom South East Asia
03.2006 - 11.2006
  • Level I & II Tech Support for Australia and New Zealand based customers, supporting the setup & troubleshooting of home & enterprise networks.

Education

Bachelor in Information Technology - Data Communications

Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
01.2006

Skills

  • Program Management
  • Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Crisis Management
  • Contract Abuses & Investigation
  • Process Improvement
  • Team Management
  • Cisco Products & Services
  • Service Operation & Delivery
  • Customer Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Network Engineering
  • Managerial Skills
  • Culture Sensitivity & Compassion
  • Project Management
  • Network & Monitoring Tools

Accomplishments

    Singapore Telecommunications Island-Wide Outage

  • 3rd December 2016, Singapore – Singapore Telecommunications experienced nearly 24-hours of island-wide outage which was reported in the press (URL link below), Cisco was called upon to work with various technology vendors to determine the root cause of outage. My role as the Crisis Manager was to represent Cisco as the key point of contact, participating in war room discussion with customer's executives as well as representatives from various technology vendors. Throughout the 24 hours' duration, I coordinated with Cisco cross functional teams including Cisco onsite engineers, Cisco core engineers & Cisco product developers to help isolate & mitigate the issue, to ensure the reputation & brand name of Singapore Telecommunications is protected
  • URL: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singtel-probes-cause-of-nearly-24-hour-outage

  • Singapore 2015 Grand Prix - Formula One Racing event

  • 19th September 2015, Singapore – On the eve of the final race, one of Singapore's major internet service provider reported to Cisco they were experiencing intermittent service interruption in their core network. Upon investigation it was determined to be failing hardware condition. My role as the Escalation Lead was to ensure an uplift of replacement was done less than an hour through Cisco internal escalation channel (instead of the usual 4 hours SLA) by justifying with the Entitlement Duty Managers that the risk is too great to bear, & that in the event the equipment were to fail, it will contribute to total outage, impacting Customer' & Cisco's brand & reputation, hence an immediate mitigation was carried out

  • Philippines Presidential & Vice-Presidential Election

  • 9th May 2016, Manila – The Philippines Presidential & Vice-Presidential election was held on Monday, May 9th 2016. I was based in Manila for a week throughout the event & acted as the local interim Escalation Lead for all Cisco Product & Services in the Philippines. My role including setting up rotation plan for local onsite engineers to be onsite, setting up war room to ensure there is 24 hours' rotation of remote tier-3 technical experts on standby, communicating with local customers on the assurance & incident response plan we have placed upon, & provide daily updates to both internal & external stakeholders on any abnormalities observed throughout the election progress, protecting both Cisco & Customers' brand

  • Telenor Myanmar Nationwide Launch

  • 26th September 2014, Yangon – Telenor is a Norwegian telecommunication company & had recently launched mobile communications to people across Myanmar through their local entity (Telenor Myanmar). The network launch was scheduled for September 2014 & since there was no Cisco local presence in the country, I was based in Yangon for a week from 26th September 2014 to act as the Cisco Incident & Escalation Manager. My role including setting up a team of technical resources from across the globe to be on 24 hours standby throughout the launch day, & helping the local partner to setup an incident response process in the event of future service outage, with the primary focus of protecting the brand name of Telenor in their infant launch in Myanmar

Certification

  • ITIL v4 Managing Professional Certificate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified : Azure Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Certified : Security, Compliance & Identity Fundamentals
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Leading With Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning (NUS)
  • Tableau: Unlocking Insights With Analytics (SMU)
  • ITILv3 Expert (IT Service Management)
  • ITIL Managing Across Life Cycle (Module 7)
  • ITIL Service Strategy (Module 6)
  • ITIL Service Design (Module 5)
  • ITIL Service Transition (Module 4)
  • ITIL Service Operation (Module 3)
  • ITIL Continuous Service Improvement (Module 2)
  • ITIL v3 Foundation (Module 1)
  • NCIF - Essential Leadership Skills for Project Managers (NUS)
  • CCNP
  • CCNA
  • PMP

Passion

Travelling, Food Tasting, Cultural, Landscape Photography, Creative Arts

Timeline

Technical Program Manager

Grab Holdings Inc.
03.2020 - Current

IT Service Management Manager

Visa Inc
09.2018 - 01.2020

Service Operations Manager

Cisco Systems
08.2014 - 08.2018

Project Manager

NCS Pte Ltd
02.2008 - 07.2014

Network Engineer

Sarawak Information Systems (SAINS - KL Office)
12.2006 - 12.2007

Technical Support Analyst

Datacom South East Asia
03.2006 - 11.2006

Bachelor in Information Technology - Data Communications

Queensland University of Technology
  • ITIL v4 Managing Professional Certificate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified : Azure Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Certified : Security, Compliance & Identity Fundamentals
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Leading With Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning (NUS)
  • Tableau: Unlocking Insights With Analytics (SMU)
  • ITILv3 Expert (IT Service Management)
  • ITIL Managing Across Life Cycle (Module 7)
  • ITIL Service Strategy (Module 6)
  • ITIL Service Design (Module 5)
  • ITIL Service Transition (Module 4)
  • ITIL Service Operation (Module 3)
  • ITIL Continuous Service Improvement (Module 2)
  • ITIL v3 Foundation (Module 1)
  • NCIF - Essential Leadership Skills for Project Managers (NUS)
  • CCNP
  • CCNA
  • PMP
Peter Yip Chen Wah