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PROFILE
Garnered a well balanced career portfolio; with more than a decade’s experience in established end-
user Financial Institutions (Great Eastern & Banking Computer Services) and leading multinational IT
Solutions/Services providers (IBM & NCR) respectively; The career spectrum provided natural leverage
over Vendor and Project Management from an enterprise solution delivery perspective. Excellent
oral/written English/Chinese communication skills; Good grasp of complex RFP processes and abstute
client management approvals and business justification skills.
The IBM tenure provided the ecosystems to keep abreast with rapid technological evolutions in the
SMAC era (Social, Mobility, Analytics & Cloud); Oversight adoption of various aspects of SMAC in
solicited proposals to client’s business disruptors or transformational projects. The work with Great
Eastern complimented 2 decades of immersion with the Financial Solutions/Services Industry (FSI);
The LOMA certification gained along with actual work done for the General Insurance business
provided the requisite hands on experience to lend credence to a more comprehensive and inclusive
FSI career roadmap.
Noteworthy Career Accomplishments:
 Successfully drove the adoption of industry proven Qlik as the Enterprise Reporting & Analytical
Tool for Great Eastern Group’s Business & IT functions. Provided Solution Design for the adoption
of the first ever Cloud-based Human Capital Solution (CareerBuilder) for GE’s Online Recruitment
implementation;
 Successfully applied domain acquired Solution Design principles and complex Project Management
methodologies across IBM’s varied internal solutions offering in delivering proposed enterprise-level
solutions to cross industry clients; namely the Banking & Financial, Telecommunications, Healthcare
and Electronics Industries. Designed and Architected IBM’s diverse solution/services
component/competency platforms into viable business-technical implementations for solicited clients.
 Chief Solution Architect for NCR’s largest Payment Solutions’ client in Asia Pacific in 2002.
Designed, Solutioned and Implemented an unprecedented cross-country Payment System for a large
major international banking group. The then imaging technology components were new and a
challenge to network bandwidth and security transmission with strict adherence to local country’s
regulatory framework and legal constraints (Evidence Act). The solution has since gained widespread
adoption across the region and continues to serve the needs of the banking community till now (15
years into production usage).
 Responsible for BCSIS being appointed by IBM to be the sole ASEAN’s Doscheck System Support
for the regional central banks’ interbank cheque processing systems. Conducted feasibility of
downsizing Doscheck from IBM mainframe to AS/400 and RS6000 platforms, culminated in the
adoption of a ground breaking alternate solution embracing Cheque Imaging on the Windows
platform (hardware agnostic). The Cheque Imaging & Truncation System (CITS) is currently in full
operations across Asean, Hong Kong & India. It kickstarted a wide range of complementary imaging
solution adoptions amongst the participating member banks (especially in the areas of electronic
storage & online retrievals aka Filenet, Documentum, etc).
Established IT Professional with extensive solution implementation track records in
Business-IT transformational projects. Adept in Solution Design harnessing
relevant IT components (hardware, software and services) to produce practical and
feasible alternatives or new system solutions for ongoing business operations and
its effective longer term sustainable production usage and management. Familiar
with traditional SDLC methodology and aware of the AGILE approach commonly
associated with disruptive new business transformation projects.

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CAREER HISTORY
2014 to 2016 Vice President (IT Program Director) Great Eastern Group IT
2008 to 2014 Client Solutions Executive IBM Global Technology Services
1999 to 2008 Regional Business Consulting Partner NCR Financial Solutions Group
1989 to 1999 Greater China Country Manager BCS Information Systems
APAC Marketing/Business Dev Manager
Marketing/Project Manager
Senior IT Officer
Analyst/Programmer
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Written: English & Chinese
Spoken: English & Mandarin (Dialects: Teochew, Hokkien and Cantonese)
FORMAL EDUCATION
Year Course Description Academic Institution
2011 IBM Strategic Conversation – Executive MBA
CEIBS – Shanghai
INSEAD - Singapore
1999 NCR Banking School Macquarie University - Sydney
1997 Setting up a Distribution Network in Asia Singapore Institute of Management
1997 Managing People in China through Strategic HRM IBI (NUS) - Singapore
1988 Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies
BTEC – United Kingdom
Ngee Ann Polytechnics - Singapore
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
OCT 2014 TO NOV 2016 GREAT EASTERN GROUP INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
VICE PRESIDENT, IT PROGRAM DIRECTOR
 Accountable for Group IT’s new business initiatives service levels to all key business functions at
the Group level; Major stakeholders include the Head of Internal Audits, Chief Risk Officer, CFO,
COO, CMO, Chief Investment Officer and CIO as the fulfilment stakeholder;
 Instrumental in bridging key Regulatory and Compliance initiatives between related business
functions and Group IT; Notable ones include Common Reporting Standards (IFRS9/4), Premium
Suspense Handling, Customer Risk Profiling re Anti Money Laundering and Outsourcing of online
recruitment functions on Cloud platform.
 Key contributions in mapping business requirements to potential IT enablement mechanisms
(Solutions, Services or Outsourcing). Facilitates due diligence clearance by IT Security and
Operational Risk Compliance leading to management approvals for project implementations.

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AUG 2008 TO APRIL 2014 IBM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
CLIENT SOLUTIONS EXECUTIVE
 Primary job function as IBM GTS’ Large Complex Deal Maker; overall in charge and accountable
for assigned qualified deals, led and managed the deals encompassing initial high level Solution
Design right through to Operations Transition & Transformation Planning, Execution and
Implementation upon deal closure.
 Key KPIs internally entail complex IT integration solutioning across all IBM Business Units
(STG, SWG, GTS & GBS) and obtaining approvals and buy-ins from Country/Region/Global Sales
Management, Legal and Finance for both contractual obligations including and not limited to terms
and conditions and pricing across all Business Units’ delegations and obtaining investment funding
as may be required on a case by case basis.
 Key KPIs externally comprise devising detailed account coverage strategy across all levels of
clients’ organization touchpoints with special focus on the C-suites. Parallel responsibility for
management of IBM’s Alliance Partners and/or third party solution providers to ensure optimal IT
integration solutioning vis-à-vis budgeted pricing and service support delivery.
NOV 1999 TO JULY 2008 NCR FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS GROUP
ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL BUSINESS CONSULTING PARTNER
 Bagged the coveted NCR Professional Services Consulting Excellence Award in 2002 for
capturing strategic multi-million dollar deals; Instrumental in following through the implementation of
a key Payment Solution for HSBC across Hong Kong and mainland China over a period of 18
months.
 2000-2001: Re-defined the Business Unit’s key order/revenue focus leading to over-achievement
of Asia Pacific Annual Revenue target of around US$ 20 million;
 2002-2003: Over-achieved in overall Solution Revenue and Profit Margin of around US$ 5 million
and US$ 2 million respectively.
 2004-2005: Clinched a US$ 4 million Interbank Payment System deal with People’s Bank of China
(Shanghai) – Central Bank.
 2006-2007: Formulated China’s Nationwide Cheque Truncation System (CTS) Initiative to be
aligned with NCR’s Global Corporate objective – Solution Design across all of NCR’s key Business
Units at that juncture (Teradata, Retails, Self-Service and Payments). Invited as Speaker and
Facilitator for many of China Central Bank’s internal subject forums, leading to the successful pilot
launch of China CTS in July the same year.
 2008-2009: Pitched Financial Inclusion (Micro/Rural Banking) as they are being inter-changeably
used between China and India in particular. Represented NCR Asia Pacific in its foray into Mobile
Payments via the adoption of Near Field Communications (NFC) solicited from a venture in Silicon
Valley.

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AUG 1989 TO OCT 1999 BCS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Banking Computer Services (BCS) operates the Singapore’s Automated Clearing House which
provides inter-bank payment services (eg. Interbank GIRO, RTGS, Cheque Imaging & Truncation
System, etc). Source and implemented national level projects across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Hong Kong and China (FOAK project for Shenzhen’s PBOC’s Interbank Payment Systems).
Duration Company / Position Description
1997 - 1999 Country Manager, Greater China
Oversees all business activities within
China, Hong Kong &Taiwan.
1996 - 1997
Marketing / Business
Development Manager, Asia
Pacific
Responsible for business opportunities
within emerging markets in APAC.
1994 - 1995 Marketing / Project Manager
Responsible for demand generation
through to the award of deals and the
eventual project management and
implementation.
1991 - 1993 Senior IT Officer
System Design and Analysis,
Management of project software
development teams.
1989 - 1991 Analyst / Programmer
Maintenance & Support of national
payment systems operated by Singapore
Automated Clearing House.

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PUBLIC DOMAIN CONFERENCE/JOURNAL PROFILES
Being effectively bilingual, Paul
was instrumental in generating
market demand in Asia’s two
largest continents – China and
India. In China and India, Paul
was Keynote Speaker in
various International Payment
Conferences, delivering his
speech and presentation
materials in Chinese and
English respectively. Here are
excerpts from some of the post-
conferences’ reporting in key
industry journals:
中国金融信息科技主导期刊-
第5期
www.fcmag.com.cn
The Asian Banker Journal
Issue 23