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Francis Lim
B.Sc(Glasgow), M.S.c(NTU), MFM(ANU)



CAREER OBJECTIVE

Seeking responsible and challenging position that will utilize my diversified experience in the Business Research, Education, Financial Management, Information System or Operation functions.



CAREER SUMMARY

  • 10 years of professional experience in foreign, private and public sector. Sectors experience in Education, Finance, Information Technology, Research & Development.

  • Multi-Lingual Software Project Development on Administration Management System for Audio, Data Record Keeping, Images and Video Management. Working experience in education, e-commerce, financial research and IT consulting sectors.

  • Strong cross-functional leadership and management experiences.

  • Have experienced in business research & strategy development, business system analysis & design, financial data analysis, Internet and application development, procurement budgeting, project management and system re-engineering.

  • Detail oriented, multitasking, problem solver, quick learner and ability to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.

  • Processing knowledge in Quantitative Data, Information and Operational Management.

  • Self-motivated with strong interpersonal and communication skills; comfortable working independently or as part of an integrated team.

 

PERSONAL      Nationality: Singapore, Race: Chinese, Marital Status: Single


EDUCATION BACKGROUND

2002 - 2003

University: Australian National University (ANU). Full-Time.

Faculty: School of Finance and Applied Statistics.

Country: Australian,  Canberra.

Degree Awarded: Master of Financial Management.

Year Graduated: May 2003.

1997 - 2001

University: Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Part-Time.

Faculty: School of Communication and Information.

Country: Singapore.

Degree Awarded: Master of Science in Information Studies.

Year Graduated: Dec 2001.

1990 -1993

University: University of Glasgow. Full-Time.

Faculty: Information and Mathematical Sciences.

Country: United Kingdom, Scotland.

Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Science in Computing Science.

Year Graduated: Dec 1993



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dec 2003 - Present

ITech Training Centre. 
Foreign Joint-Venture Computer Educational Training Centre.

China, Shandong province, Jinan.

Business Research & IT Manager

*   Business Planning, Market Research & Strategy Development.

*  Developed multi-lingual software project development for

    School Educational System.

*  Liaise with internal/external Business Associates, IT vendors

    and Training Instructors.

Nov 2000 -
Feb 2002

CSA, Computer Systems Advisers Pte Ltd.

Affiliated of CSC, USA.

Project Manager (Contract Basis), Financial Application Team at

Ministry of Education (MOE), Infocomm Development Authority

(IDA).

*      Acted as an IT advisory role, managing problem resolution, system and functional requirements, projects escalation plan, roll out projects and maintained project management documentations.

*        Keep abreast of new IT development, reviewing re-engineering financial technology processes, liaise with consultants and system engineers from IBM, Peoplesoft, Oracle, NCS and Helpdesks Supports.

Significant Achievements:

*       Roll out deployment of New Financial System for more than

    1000 users for all Divisional Levels of Ministry of Education and

    School Headquarters.

*        Mapping out re-engineering processes and diagrams with

     external consultants, and end-users to streamline and

     improve work processes.

Apr 2000 -
Nov 2000

WorldBoz.Com Pte Ltd.

A start-up Internet Company. 

Technology & Operation Manager.

Digital Photos, Video & E-documents Section.

 

*         Strategizing business plan, market research, financial budgeting and formulating IT directions.

*         Architect online digital photo portal, user access directories and photos exchange services. Devised safe e-document and storage management.

*        Supervised members of Information Content and designer team.

*         Research online photos competitive intelligence market reports.

*         Managed IT procurement and n-tier distribution architecture.

*         Setting up computer networking, office automation, databases and security administration, performance tuning and optimization.

Significant Achievements:

*         Developed portal directory services and semantic web-contents indexing for user registration and database management.

*         Setup company computer infrastructures, front-end and back-end applications integration and software development.

Apr 1996 -
Apr 2000

HTS Asia Ltd. Financial and Investment Research, Foreign

(European) firm.

Computer Administrator and Financial Data Analyst.

*         Research and development on quantitative data analysis, financial models, Internet development and programming techniques.

*         Planning and managing IT projects, computer networks and data center.

*         Automating, developing and re-engineering in-house software programs.

*         Keep abreast of new IT development. Evaluating, analyzing and defining user's requirements and liaise with computer vendors and external IT developers.

*         Managing and maintaining various computer platforms, networking, office automation, software applications and vendors information systems.

*         In-Charge of standard operational procedures for daily and weekly databases distribution, data-mining, security administration, statistical simulation and operational activities.

Significant Achievements:

*         Developed & administrated International Equity and Forex Database Distribution System.

*        Developed & re-engineering the Derivative Database Distribution System.

*         Architect data backup, restoration and preservation of e-documents.

*         Developed auto-scheduling system and simulations modeling.

*         Setup Data Networking Center for parallel computational and simulation.

1995

CSA, Computer Systems Advisers Pte. Ltd. Multinational.

                      

Associate Consultant. Management Resource Planning (MRP) Business System Development for Manufacturing sector.

*         Provided MRP consultation to clients and supporting end-users requirements. Customizing programming and development in Customer, Supplier and Inventory management.

1991 - 1992,
1994

IPCS Computer School. Affiliated of Yamaha Organization.

IT Trainer and Programming Analyst (Part-Time).

*         Taught Part-time IT computer and application courses. Review and enhance computer courses curriculum development for all beginners & higher levels.

Significant Achievements:

 

*         Implemented projects development for

      a) Office Automation for a Construction firm.

 

      b) Scheduler Onboard Work Permit Prints System for a Marine Service firm.

 

      c) Insurance Investment Financial Calculation for an Insurance Firm.

 

BUSINESS RESEARCH, FINANCIAL AND INFORMATION SKILLS

Business Skills

Business planning, Market Research and Strategy 

development.
Financial Skills

Quantitative Analysis , Financial Modeling, Interpreting

Financial Statements & Reporting, Financial Spreadsheet

Techniques, Simulation Techniques, Financial Information ISO

Code Extraction for Derivative, Equity and Forex.

Financial System

Financial Markets and Systems: Bloomberg, Bridge,

Telekurs, Commodity System Inc., Knight-Ridder InfoTech, and DataStream.

Information Skills

Information Data Mining Extraction, Indexing and Categorization.

Information System

Knight-Ridder Dialog, Library and Citation Tools.

Multilingual Database

Development

Online Multilingual Translation Tools and Unicode Database

Development Tools.



COMPUTER TECHNICAL & SOFTWARE SKILLS

Computer Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows 3.x/95/98/2000/ME/XP, NT 4/2000 server, Macintosh Classic 8.0 to 9.1, MAC OS X, Unix, Palm 4.0.

Programming Languages

 

Windows: Realbasic, Visual Basic, ScriptEase, Java, ANSI C, Borland C++, Turbo Pascal.

Macintosh:

RealBasic, CodeWarrior C++, VIP-C/Basic, AppleScript, Java, Perl,

Think Pascal.

Unix:

COBOL.

Internet: DHTML, HTML, XML, CGI, SOAP, POP3, SMTP,  Javascript, VBScript, Frontier Content Management, Webstar Server, Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe GoLive.
Computer Networking TCP/IP, LAN (PC & Mac), MacLAN, CISCO Router, Switches & Hub, Novell Administration.
Computer Databases FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Access, Realbasic Flat Database, SQL knowledge.
Digital Photos, Graphics & Music Editors Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Canon Digital Photo tool & editor, GraphicsConverters, Realbasic 2D & 3D Programming, 2D CAD, Music Audio Mixers, Music Formats & MP3 Converters.
Office Software Microsoft Office:- Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Adobe PDF, Lotus Note, SPSS Statistics, Flowcharting, Remote Access, Eudora, Outlook Express, Internet Browsers, and most essential Office-Ware.

 

COMPUTER TECHNICAL SKILLS SET

Skill Name Skill Level Last Used/Experience
Windows Operating System Expert Currently Used/ 15 years
Macintosh Operating System Expert Currently Used/ 13 years
UNIX Operating System Beginner 9+ years ago/ 2 years
Palm OS Expert 1 year ago/ 7 years
C/C++(Cross-Platforms) Expert 2 years ago/ 7 years
Visual Basic Expert 2 years ago/ 7 years
RealBasic(Cross-Platforms) Expert Currently Used/ 3 years
ScriptEase Expert

4+ years ago/ 3 years

Turbo Pascal Intermediate 4+ years ago/ 3 years
COBOL Intermediate 9+ years ago/ 2 years
Computer Networking and Admin(Cross-Platforms) Expert

Currently Used/ 7 years

FileMaker Pro(Database Developer) Expert Currently Used/ 5 years
RealBasic(Database Developer)
Expert Currently Used/ 3 years
Microsoft Access
Intermediate 4+ years ago/ 3 years
Digital Audio, Images, Video Editors
Expert Currently Used/ 5 years
Microsoft Office and Software Tools
Expert Currently Used/ 12 years
Financial data analysis
Expert 2 years ago/ 7 years
Business Research and Planning Tools
Intermediate Currently Used/ 2 years
Information and Data-Mining Tools
Intermediate 4+ years ago/ 5 years
E-Commerce(Frontier, Perl, Apache Server)
Intermediate 3+ years ago/ 2 years
Java/JavaScript/VBscript Beginner

4+ years ago/ 2 years

Multi-Lingual Database Development Expert Currently Used/ 2 years



PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

i)  Internet Society (ISOC), Member.

ii) The Professional Risk Managers' International Association, Member.

LANGUAGES

English and Mandarin.

 

Conversant in Chinese dialects:

Cantonese, Hokkien and Teochew.

INTERESTS

Lateral thinking, meeting people, research & computing,

photography, travelling, cooking & trekking.

 

 

 

APPENDIX - EDUCATION BACKGROUND

2002 - 2003

University: Australian National University (ANU). Full-Time.

Faculty: School of Finance and Applied Statistics.

Country: Australian,  Canberra.

Degree Awarded: Master of Financial Management.

Year Graduated: May 2003.

Financial Management Courses:

1) Applied Research Essay                   
2) Financial Management

3) Financial Markets and Systems      
4) Financial Spreadsheet Techniques

5) Financial Statements and Reporting
6) Fund Management

7) International Finance Concepts   
8) Organization Management

9) Quantitative Method             
10) Special Topics in Financial Mgmt

11) Strategy

12) Strategy & Control Using Management Accounting

1997 - 2001

University: Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Part-Time.

Faculty: School of Communication and Information.

Country: Singapore.

Degree Awarded: Master of Science in Information Studies.

Year Graduated: Dec 2001.

 

Information Science & Computing Courses:

1) The Information Society

2) Applications of Information Technology

3) Computer Programming for Information Professionals    

4) Information Sources & Services

5) Business Information Sources and Services

6) Services to Users

7) Development of Internet Services & Products

8) System Analysis & Interface Design

 

1990 -1993

University: University of Glasgow. Full-Time.

Faculty: Information and Mathematical Sciences.

Country: United Kingdom, Scotland.

Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Science in Computing Science.

Year Graduated: Dec 1993.

Computing Science Courses:

1) Artificial Intelligence   
2) Computer Architecture

3) Computer Mathematics   
4) Databases

5) Programming Linguistic

6) Human Computer Interaction & Graphics

7) Software Engineering
8) System Analysis and Design

 

UNIVERSITIES DISSERTATION, PROJECT & RESEARCH PAPER

2003

Applied Research Essay: Using Genetic Programming Approach to Model Stock Trading Returns. The Australian National University. Australia.

2001

Dissertation: Design and Development of Financial Trading

Expert System. Nanyang Technological University. Singapore.

1993

Team Project: Designing and Testing Intelligent Planning.University of Glasgow. UK, Scotland.

PROFESSIONAL COURSES/ FORMAL TRAINING ATTENDED

Jan 2004

Certificate of Financial Mastery. Conducted by Freely Pte Ltd.

Sep 2001

Planning & Managing Projects Certificate. IPS Project Management

Program conducted by Charter Member of Project Management

Institute.

Jun 1997

Advanced Java, Building Networked Applications Certificate

Institute of Systems Science (ISS), National University of

Singapore (NUS).                       

Jun 1997  Java, Adding Interactivity to the Web Certificate. Institute of Systems Science (ISS), National University of Singapore (NUS).
Jan 1997 MacWorld EXPO, San Francisco, USA. Attended overseas short courses on Internet web design, Software Development Kits.
Jan 1997 

Mobile Satellite Products: California Microwave,  USA. Attended

overseas courses on Transportable Inmarsat-B, global wireless

connectivity, Satellite equipment for Networking Video

Conferencing and remote data transmitting.

Jun 1996 -
Oct 1996

Fuzzy logic, Knowledge-Based Representation and Case-Based Reasoning. Using Case-Based Tools, Kappa OOP and FlexiNet to develop fuzzy logic financial decision-support system. ISS, NUS.
May 1996  Basic and Advanced NetWare 4 Administration Certificates. Conducted by Drake Training School.
Mar - May 1996 "C" Programming Language Certificate. ISS, NUS.

 

AWARDS

1992

The Premier Computer Co-operative Society Ltd -University of Glasgow Scholarship Award.

1982

Braddell Scout Group - The Best Scout of the Year.

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