Professional Profile
With experience in both enterprise IT solution and technology startup, I provide technology consultant to large enterprises on cloud strategies and innovation transformation as well as provide lean startup consultant to technology startups. I am motivated by the bleeding-edge innovation and the systematic and scientific way of grooming them into an actual product with lean methodology.
Information provided in this website is my work experience and projects that I'm directly involved in and does NOT include all consultant and projects due to privacy and confidentiality of the projects. Should anyone have any query please feel free to contact me via the phone number, email or LinkedIn provided on this page.
Work Experience
March 2015 - Present
Regional Cloud Technical Professional
IBM Singapore Pte. Ltd., Full-Time
Technical professional for IBM Bluemix cloud Platform-as-a-service covering ASEAN countries - i.e. Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. IBM Bluemix platform is the all-in-one cloud platform that provides end-to-end ready-made services for software developers to build and deliver innovation faster.
- Counseled large enterprises with market cap more than $30B on organizational cloud transformation
- Led a team of 8 technical specialists on cloud transformation sales project in ASEAN worth more than $2M
- Won first IBM Container (based on Docker) deal in the world which got published as case study for IBM teams in 170 countries worldwide
- Advised biggest enterprise clients in ASEAN on establishing lean innovation platform and culture
- Gave interview to Bangkok Biz News press (with circulation of 250,000 copies) on IBM cloud platform
- Arrange enablement workshops for IBM business partners on mobile and cloud technical architecture design, microservices design and transformation best practice.
- Support and enable startups and education ecosystem on cloud technology and give advises on leveraging lean startup with cloud & DevOps technology
October 2013 - March 2015
Client Solution Professional
IBM Thailand, Full-Time
IT Solution professional for IBM Customer Engagement Solution suite, which includes enterprise campaign management solution, digital marketing solution, cross-channel customer journey and engagement solution as well as online analytics tool.
- Advised large enterprises in banking, telecom, retail and insurance sectors with market cap more than $10B in Thailand on digital marketing solution, targeted campaign and data analytics
- Consulted on enterprise marketing and campaign management.
- Deployed IBM Marketing showcase that led to one of the biggest deal closure in Thailand worth more than $3M
- Led recovery team of 9 people to solve technical crisis at the largest implementation site of IBM Marketing solution in ASEAN that led to 3x increase in throughput
- Reviewed a book “IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials” which was published and sold worldwide
- Arranged multiple training sessions for business partners on Enterprise Marketing solution.
June 2012 - September 2012 & July 2013 - October 2013
Technical Specialist
IBM Thailand, Internship
Responsible for developing application for the technical sales team for demo purpose as well as rapidly learning new IBM technology and acquisition and build internal enablement asset for the internal team.
- Developed Smarter Retail showcase asset for IBM Innovation Center (IIC) in Thailand.
- Developed Worklight demo application using IBM Worklight 5.0.
- Developed IBM Thailand’s event registration system using IBM Worklight 5.0.
- Developed a scoring system using Android tablet as a scoring device with a centralized PHP application server and MySQL database, as IBM Thailand’s CSR project.
- Participated in Intelligent Operating Center (IOC) pilot project for Nakorn Nayok province in Thailand as well as developing portlets for the project.
June 2011 - August 2011
Coordinator
Bangkok Cogeneration, Internship
Responsible for developing application for the technical sales team for demo purpose as well as rapidly learning new IBM technology and acquisition and build internal enablement asset for the internal team.
- Assisted major maintenance planning for company’s power plant.
- Coordinated with Bangkok Bank for inland and properties insurance during the maintenance.
July 2010 - September 2010
Application Programmer
True Money, Internship
- Developed iOS & Android App for True Money that allows users to view campaigns and promotions from True Money as well as locating nearby True Money resellers.
January 2009 - March 2009
Online System Programmer
Gosoft, Internship
- Participated in phones top up system project that used Java as the core language with connection via web service and Oracle database. The system would be used by more than 2,000 branches of “7-11” mini marts and 4 major mobile network providers in Thailand.
- Developed security API that will encode and decode data using PGP data encryption library.
Projects & Portfolio
Cognitive CarMatcher
Cognitive CarMatcher is an application that analyze your age and gender based on Facebook profile picture as well as analyze your personality based on your Facebook posts. It leverages IBM Watson cognitive computing power, which uses linguistic analytics to infer individuals' intrinsic personality characteristics, to analyze personality based on the person's Facebook. The application then suggests the person the best car that suits him/her based on the result of the analysis.
My Involvement:
I'm the creator of Cognitive CarMatcher
- Related skill: NodeJS, ExpressJS, jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3, Cognitive Computing
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NJoin.io
NJoin service allows the user to quickly and easily create customer engagement logic across multiple channels. The users can send personalize campaigns and messages to their cusomters and measure the response, initiate interactive conversation with their customers for specific action, receive requests or orders from the customers or even provide automated customer support.
My Involvement:
I'm the leader of NJoin.io project from the idea inception phase to development and pilot. The technology is built based on Node-RED open-source project and is packaged using Docker container technology, making the technology extremely easy to port between environments. NJoin is currently under MVP1 phase where the first MVP is being tested and continuously improved according to user feedback. Seed funding is targeted after MVP1 has matured and is ready to be commercialized to the wider audience.
- Related skill: NodeJS, ExpressJS, jQuery, Node-RED, HTML5 & CSS3, MongoDB, Docker Container
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Sabye-D Experience
Sabye-D Experience project aims to leverage mobile and micro-location technology to provide better experience to tourists. The project aims to provide a self-guided tour experience with end-to-end self-service booking and tour experience via mobile phone and automated system that notifies, guide and books transportation and tickets for the user.
My Involvement:
Sabye-D is a project that I suggested to Lub D Hostel chain in ASEAN countries. The idea has gained traction from the insiders and the team is currently developing the first MVP under my constant advise and guidance.
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Lub D Innovation
Lub D is a hostel chain in ASEAN with net worth of more than $10M. Facing fierce competition from newborn hostel brands and such open accommodation rental platform as Airbnb, CEO of the hostel has launched a massive innovation project to improve hostel competitiveness in the market as well as to become the market leader in technology field within hostel industry.
My Involvement:
With their innovation team formed and ready, I was asked to give the team constant advise on innovation and technology strategy, direction as well as lean startup practice, initial minimum-viable-product development guideline and its feedback metrics design.
ShopSnap
The ShopSnap mobile SAAS platform is a decision support tool providing marketing and merchandising staff from CEO to shop floor with real time, 360 oversight and actionable feedback on all POS and visual display areas, balancing localised requirements with head office global guidelines ensuring consistent, on-brand customer experiences.
My Involvement:
I developed the first MVP for ShopSnap together with a team of 4 people under my technical direction. I have now transitioned my role into technology advisor to oversee the project on platform technical architecture, stability, scalability, security as well as overseeing the team of developers.
- Related skill: Android, RESTful API, Java
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Portable Energy Audit Device
Device that estimates energy wasted within a typical room by continuously measuring temperature and brightness of the room and detecting human presence. The device was awarded the best engineering project of the year.
- Related skill: Python, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Raspberry Pi & Circuitry
My Involvement:
I developed the device from sensor circuitry design up to software development and web application deployment inside Raspberry Pi unit.
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The Guestlist App
Available on both iOS and Android, The Guestlist App allows exclusive access to Edinburgh's most prestigious and popular clubs 7 days a week. The Guestlist App allows you to add you and your mates on the guestlists receiving the best offers to Edinburgh most exclusive clubs directly from your mobile phone.
- View Information and Offers of Every Club Nights in a Month
- Instant Guestlist Access to top Edinburgh Club Nights
- Share your nights out with your friends on Facebook
- Related skill: Objective-C, Android, RESTful API, Java, SQL
My Involvement:
I'm the co-founder and CTO of The Guestlist App project. I developed the application from the cloud server to iOS and Android apps. I'm also involved in several marketing event and user feedback gathering session to extract ideas and improvements for the application.
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Scramble Touch
Online word search game on Android devices. The game is available in both single player and online multiplayer mode where players can compete against each other.
- The game was featured as Free App of the Day on Amazon on 4th April 2012.
- Scramble Touch multiplayer server was hosted in the cloud with transaction peaked at more than 4 millions gameplay per month.
- Related skill: Android, Java J2EE, Apache Tomcat, Cloud, WSDL, SQL
My Involvement:
I'm the sole developer of Scramble Touch game. The server was deployed to Amazon EBS service cloud where integration to the mobile client is done with WSDL/SOAP Webservice.
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Doodle Hunt
Doodle Hunt is an item search game that let players search for items inside each room. The faster they can find the higher score they can achieve. The game was available in both iOS and Android version.
- The game was featured as Free App of the Day on Amazon on 4th January 2013.
- Integration with Open-feint online leaderboard to unlock challenges and online score competition.
- Related skill: Android, iOS, Objective-C
My Involvement:
I'm the sole developer of Doodle Hunt game and I developed both iOS and Android version from the ground up.
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Technical Skills
Java & Android
Expert, 7 Year
Experienced in J2EE enterprise application development. Advance programming skill on Web Application using Java and Apache Tomcat / WebSphere Application Server. Hosted a multiplayer game server written in Java in the Cloud with more than 4 millions games played per month.
With 2 games and several Android applications launched, I'm also fluent in developing advance Android applications from core Android games to networked Android apps.
Web Application (HTML5, CSS3, jQuery JavaScript)
Expert, 7 Years
Having developed various modern web application for client demos and startup projects, I'm expert at web application technology stack and frameworks, specifically jQuery. I'm also capable at leveraging newer technology stack such as WebSocket and HiveMQ to build a high quality event-driven web application. Related frameworks experience include: jQuery, Reactjs, Angularjs.
Node.JS
Advance, 2 Years
Node.JS has been gaining popularity in the cloud era with its none-blocking event-driven heritage from JavaScript. More and more of my demos client projects and startup projects are being built on NodeJS technology stack and thus, combined with my experise in JavaScript programming, I'm an advance user of Node.JS
PHP
Expert, 6 Years
Having developed multiple server-side applications using PHP both during my internships and at IBM, Object-Oriented PHP is another main language that I'm very comfortable with. The language has been my main language of choice for apps those do not require complex enterprise integration.
Objective-C
Advance, 5 Years
Objective-C is at the core of every iOS app. With experience in developing and optimizing several iOS games and applications I'm also fluent at building iOS app using Objective-C with CocoaPods dependency manager. My newer iOS applications are also already using the newer Swift language.
R
Intermediate, 2 Years
R is the fast-rising scripting language for data analytics. With wide support for the language inside Bluemix Cloud platform - the language has become the analytics language of choice for me while developing data analytic reporting applications and showcases for clients.
Education
September 2009 - June 2013
University of Edinburgh
Mechanical Engineering with Renewable Energy
Second Class Honour; First Division
- Developed Portable Energy Audit Device - device that estimates energy wasted within a typical room by continuously measuring temperature and brightness of the room and detecting human presence. The device was awarded the best engineering project of the year.