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My Resume
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
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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. |
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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.
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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
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Dec 2003 - Present |
ITech Training Centre. Foreign Joint-Venture Computer
Educational Training Centre.
China, Shandong
province, Jinan. |
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Business
Research & IT Manager
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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. |
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Nov 2000
- Feb 2002 |
CSA,
Computer Systems Advisers Pte Ltd.
Affiliated of CSC,
USA. |
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Project
Manager (Contract Basis), Financial Application Team
at
Ministry of Education (MOE), Infocomm
Development Authority
(IDA).
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Acted as an IT advisory role, managing
problem resolution, system and functional requirements,
projects escalation plan, roll out projects and maintained
project management documentations.
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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. |
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Significant Achievements:
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Roll out deployment of New Financial
System for more than
1000 users for
all Divisional Levels of Ministry of Education and
School
Headquarters.
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Mapping out re-engineering processes and
diagrams with
external
consultants, and end-users to streamline and
improve work
processes. |
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Apr 2000
- Nov 2000
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WorldBoz.Com Pte Ltd.
A start-up Internet Company. |
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Technology & Operation Manager.
Digital Photos, Video &
E-documents Section.
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Strategizing business plan, market
research, financial budgeting and formulating IT
directions.
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Architect online digital photo portal,
user access directories and photos exchange services. Devised
safe e-document and storage management.
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Supervised members of Information Content
and designer team.
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Research online photos competitive
intelligence market reports.
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Managed IT procurement and n-tier
distribution architecture.
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Setting up computer networking, office
automation, databases and security administration, performance
tuning and optimization. |
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Significant Achievements:
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Developed portal directory services and
semantic web-contents indexing for user registration and
database management.
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Setup company computer infrastructures,
front-end and back-end applications integration and software
development. |
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Apr 1996
- Apr 2000 |
HTS Asia Ltd. Financial and Investment Research,
Foreign
(European) firm. |
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Computer Administrator and Financial Data
Analyst.
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Research and development on quantitative
data analysis, financial models, Internet development and
programming techniques.
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Planning and managing IT projects,
computer networks and data center.
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Automating, developing and re-engineering
in-house software programs.
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Keep abreast of new IT development.
Evaluating, analyzing and defining user's requirements and
liaise with computer vendors and external IT developers.
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Managing and maintaining various computer
platforms, networking, office automation, software
applications and vendors information systems.
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In-Charge of standard operational
procedures for daily and weekly databases distribution,
data-mining, security administration, statistical simulation
and operational activities. |
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Significant Achievements:
* Developed & administrated
International Equity and Forex Database Distribution
System.
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Developed & re-engineering the
Derivative Database Distribution System.
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Architect data backup, restoration and
preservation of e-documents.
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Developed auto-scheduling system and
simulations modeling.
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Setup Data Networking
Center for parallel computational and
simulation. |
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| 1995 |
CSA, Computer Systems Advisers Pte. Ltd.
Multinational.
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Associate
Consultant. Management Resource Planning (MRP)
Business System Development for Manufacturing sector.
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Provided MRP consultation to clients and
supporting end-users requirements. Customizing programming and
development in Customer, Supplier and Inventory
management. |
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1991 - 1992, 1994 |
IPCS Computer School.
Affiliated of Yamaha
Organization. |
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IT Trainer
and Programming Analyst (Part-Time).
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Taught Part-time IT computer and
application courses. Review and enhance computer courses
curriculum development for all beginners & higher
levels. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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Financial
System |
Financial Markets and Systems: Bloomberg,
Bridge,
Telekurs, Commodity System Inc.,
Knight-Ridder InfoTech, and DataStream.
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Information Skills
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Information Data Mining Extraction,
Indexing and Categorization.
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Information
System |
Knight-Ridder Dialog, Library and
Citation Tools. |
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Multilingual
Database
Development |
Online Multilingual Translation Tools and
Unicode Database
Development Tools. |
COMPUTER TECHNICAL & SOFTWARE
SKILLS
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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. |
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| Programming
Languages |
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| Windows: |
Realbasic, Visual Basic, ScriptEase,
Java, ANSI C, Borland C++, Turbo Pascal. |
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Macintosh: |
RealBasic, CodeWarrior C++, VIP-C/Basic,
AppleScript, Java, Perl,
Think Pascal.
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Unix:
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COBOL. |
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| Internet: |
DHTML, HTML, XML, CGI, SOAP, POP3, SMTP,
Javascript, VBScript, Frontier Content Management,
Webstar Server, Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe
GoLive. |
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| Computer
Networking |
TCP/IP, LAN (PC & Mac), MacLAN, CISCO
Router, Switches & Hub, Novell
Administration. |
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| Computer
Databases |
FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Access,
Realbasic Flat Database, SQL knowledge. |
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| 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. |
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| 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
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| Palm OS |
Expert |
1 year
ago/
7 years
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| C/C++(Cross-Platforms) |
Expert |
2 years
ago/
7 years
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| Visual Basic |
Expert |
2 years
ago/
7 years
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| RealBasic(Cross-Platforms) |
Expert |
Currently
Used/
3 years |
| ScriptEase |
Expert |
4+ years
ago/
3 years
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| Turbo Pascal |
Intermediate |
4+ years
ago/
3 years
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| COBOL |
Intermediate |
9+ years
ago/
2 years
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| Computer Networking and
Admin(Cross-Platforms) |
Expert |
Currently
Used/
7 years
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| FileMaker Pro(Database
Developer) |
Expert |
Currently
Used/
5 years
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RealBasic(Database Developer)
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Expert |
Currently
Used/
3 years
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Microsoft Access
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Intermediate |
4+ years
ago/
3 years
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Digital Audio, Images, Video
Editors
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Expert |
Currently
Used/
5 years
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Microsoft Office and Software
Tools
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Expert |
Currently
Used/
12 years
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Financial data analysis
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Expert |
2 years
ago/
7 years
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Business Research and Planning
Tools
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Intermediate |
Currently
Used/
2 years
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Information and Data-Mining
Tools
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Intermediate |
4+ years
ago/
5 years |
E-Commerce(Frontier, Perl, Apache
Server)
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Intermediate |
3+ years
ago/
2 years |
| Java/JavaScript/VBscript |
Beginner |
4+
years ago/
2 years
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| Multi-Lingual Database
Development |
Expert |
Currently
Used/
2
years |
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
i)
Internet Society (ISOC), Member.
ii) The Professional Risk Managers'
International Association, Member.
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LANGUAGES |
English and Mandarin.
Conversant in Chinese
dialects:
Cantonese, Hokkien and
Teochew. |
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INTERESTS |
Lateral thinking, meeting people,
research & computing,
photography, travelling, cooking &
trekking. |
APPENDIX - EDUCATION
BACKGROUND
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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
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2003 |
Applied Research Essay: Using Genetic
Programming Approach to Model Stock Trading Returns. The
Australian
National
University. Australia. |
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2001 |
Dissertation: Design and Development of
Financial Trading
Expert System. Nanyang Technological
University. Singapore. |
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1993 |
Team Project: Designing and Testing
Intelligent Planning.University of
Glasgow.
UK, Scotland. |
PROFESSIONAL COURSES/ FORMAL TRAINING
ATTENDED
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Jan
2004 |
Certificate of Financial Mastery.
Conducted by Freely Pte Ltd. |
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Sep
2001 |
Planning & Managing Projects
Certificate. IPS Project Management
Program conducted by Charter Member of
Project Management
Institute. |
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| Jun
1997 |
Advanced Java, Building Networked
Applications Certificate
Institute of
Systems Science (ISS),
National University
of
Singapore
(NUS).
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| Jun
1997 |
Java, Adding Interactivity to the Web
Certificate. Institute of
Systems Science (ISS),
National University of
Singapore
(NUS). |
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| Jan 1997 |
MacWorld EXPO, San Francisco,
USA. Attended overseas
short courses on Internet web design, Software Development
Kits. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| May
1996 |
Basic and Advanced NetWare 4
Administration Certificates. Conducted by Drake
Training
School. |
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| Mar - May
1996 |
"C" Programming Language Certificate. ISS,
NUS. |
AWARDS
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1992 |
The Premier Computer Co-operative Society
Ltd -University of
Glasgow Scholarship
Award. |
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1982 |
Braddell Scout Group - The Best Scout of
the Year. | |