Sep 2011 – Jul 2012 · 10 mos · Singapore

• As a Regional Account Manager, responsible to manage the inbound global and major emerging international accounts sales and business development activities in the APAC region, across all portfolio elements of IT outsourcing (voice, data, end user services, data center, etc) , systems integration, embedded software development, consulting and cloud initiatives.
• Working closely with the Atos Global Market Leaders, the named Global Account Managers & Account Executives, I was responsible to develop the CXO relationship at the client in APAC and drive the pipeline growth to increase the share-of-wallet and work with the country sales team to drive it to successful closure.
• Being a regional role, I was required to ensure internal cross-border and cross-divisional cooperation to drive the pursuit, be it local deals or global large deals with APAC P&L components to success. The role reports into the Head of Sales and Markets APAC.
• Market: Primarily Manufacturing, Retail and Services. Additional - Technology
Geography: Asia Pacific
Customers: Large multinationals - primarily from Europe and North America

Jan 2011 – Aug 2011 · 7 mos · Singapore

• Head of sales and business development of IT solutions and services in Singapore. These sectors cover manufacturing, process industries, automotive, transportation, airports, logistics, energy, and healthcare and services industries. Responsible for the TCV, 'new logos', sales strategy, and industry portfolio for Siemens IT Solutions and Services. Report to the APAC CEO of Siemens IT Solutions and Services.
• Company: Siemens IT Solutions and Services Operations Pte Ltd, Singapore

Oct 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Singapore

• Responsible for the regional account management, service delivery management, and profit & loss for all the global, regional and local IT outsourcing customers in the region.
• Company: Siemens IT Solutions and Services Operations Pte Ltd, Singapore

Mar 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Singapore

• Head of sales and business development of IT solutions and services for Industry, Energy and Healthcare sectors in Singapore. These sectors cover manufacturing, process industries, mobility, automotive, airports and aviation, logistics, energy, oil & gas, and healthcare and services industries companies. Responsible for the sales strategy, industry portfolio and P&L for the business division IEH of the Siemens IT Solutions and Services, a business unit of Siemens Singapore. Report to the CEO of Siemens IT Solutions and Services, APAC.
• Company: Siemens Pte Ltd, Singapore

Mar 2005 – Feb 2008 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Singapore

• As a CIO and Head of Corporate Information Office, responsible to provide Executive leadership for all IT matters (Infrastructure, Applications, Processes, Information Security, Data Privacy), Carve-outs, Mergers & Acquisitions (especially Post Merger Integration), Business Continuity Planning, IT Vendor Management, Project Management for the Siemens in Singapore. A member of the Senior Management team and representative of Siemens in various external bodies, I was engaged in various strategic IT planning, corporate citizenship and business related matters.
• My primary objective was to create business value for the key stakeholders through the design and delivery of effective, efficient and economic portfolio of IT solutions and services; that is aligned with the IT strategy and enterprise architecture with high performing and motivated IT professionals. Manage IT operations effectively, efficiently and economically; to be the trusted business partner for our Business Units and Corporate Functions.
• In this role, I was also tasked to lead and coordinate the post merger integration programs for Singapore right from planning to execution in close coordination with various global and local work streams.
• Developed and managed the business continuity plan (BCP) for Siemens Singapore in close collaboration with the stake holders (Business Unit Heads and Senior Management). This included the Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis for all the business units and subsequent deployment of the IT Disaster Recovery Plan to protect data processing operations.
• Company: Siemens Pte Ltd, Singapore

Apr 2003 – Feb 2005 · 1 yr 10 mos · Singapore

• Responsible to drive and institutionalize the concept and framework for 'Process Management' in the organization. The target was to increase the process orientation and organizational maturity in the definition, deployment, use and continuous improvement of processes. The scope covered all management, business and support processes within the company.
• Responsible for managing and supporting all the corporate and business IT applications (global & local) for the company. These included the likes of ERP, CRM, BI, BPM, Collaboration and KM platforms and applications. The total user based was about 1200+ users.
• Company: Siemens Pte Ltd, Singapore

Mar 2000 – Mar 2003 · 3 yrs · Singapore

• Responsible to setup and drive e-business initiatives for Siemens in Singapore in order to improve internal effeciency, increase staff awareness, automate processes, and support business growth in the internet era.
• Company: Siemens Pte Ltd, Singapore

– Present

May 1998 – Feb 2000 · 1 yr 9 mos · Singapore

• As a consultant appointed through SR Singapore Pte Ltd, I was involved in the development, maintenance and APAC support of branch automation systems for Deutsche Bank AG, Asia Pacific HQ. Development platforms included PowerBuilder / C / C++.

Jun 1996 – May 1998 · 1 yr 11 mos · Singapore

• A consultant appointed through PBS Systems Pte Ltd to work on the design & development within the R&D team for embedded software as well as the front-end applications for card printers. Worked with a group of electrical, electronics, mechanical engineers and manufacturing team to design and develop the product.
• Company: Singapore Precision Industries Pte Ltd (A Singapore Technologies Group company)

Jan 1996 – Jun 1996 · 5 mos · Singapore

• A consultant appointed through PBS Systems Pte Ltd to work on the design & migration of a CAD/CAM software from a legacy operating system to the Windows platform. The project was undertaken by XSSC for Fuji Xerox; and the project team was responsible for the platform migration and functional enhancements.
• Company: Xerox Singapore Software Center (XSSC)

Oct 1995 – Jan 1996 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Assigned to group involved in the design and implementation of Messaging & Mobile computing products, on Win95 and Windows NT. Involved in the design of the scheduler engine and development of OCX components.

Dec 1994 – Oct 1995 · 10 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Part of a 4-member team porting a real-time Gas Control System, Auto-Purge LNX, from OS-9 on a 68000 based proprietary hardware to the PC running OS-9000. Of the 4 modules (GUI, database manager, system administrator and network driver & server), involved in the complete redesign and implementation of the GUI and the porting of the database manager. Used communication and synchronization resources like pipes, mutex, events, shared memory and semaphores.

May 1994 – Nov 1994 · 6 mos · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

• Part of a 5-member team developing Plant Assistant, a SCADA package used for Process Control and Automation, on Win95 and WinNT. Involved in the design and structuring of the Client- Server architecture of the entire package, including the detailing of the modules to be generated. Also developed the Data Acquisition module, Database Manager & Alarm Management Modules.

Oct 1992 – Apr 1994 · 1 yr 6 mos · Vadodara Area, India

• Sofware engineer responsible for technical documentation, software development and systems integration related topics for guard-gate security systems as well as barrier-gate security systems. The company located at Vadodara, Gujarat State, India was an off-shore research and development center for security systems for Amtel, USA.