Work Experience

Senior and Junior Associate

Ernst & Young

Sep 2022 - Apr 2025
  • Assessed and evaluated financial institution's overall IT risk profile, design and operating effectiveness of processes and controls that address relevant technology and cyber security risk, based on industry standards and regulatory requirements such as MAS Technology Risk Management, Cyber Hygiene, TRM Guidelines, BCM Guidelines and other technology related advisories and circular
  • Through the assessment and evaluation performed, highlight deficiencies, areas of improvement and observations to the management of the financial institutions
  • Employed data analytic whenever necessary to support the assessment of IT controls operating effectiveness based on regulatory, internal policies and other relevant stipulations..
  • Created Python and Visual Basic (VBA) scripts, and also MS Excel functions to improve efficiency and effectiveness of audit tasks, such as data consolidation, comparison, and transformation.
  • Cross collaborated with financial audit teams on performing IT General Control (ITGC), IT Application Controls (ITAC) and regulatory audit

IT Development Office

Jay Machinery Pte Ltd

Jun 2022 - Jul 2022

Requirements gathering, process improvements, and product update management.

Intern

Titanfour Business Solutions Sdn Bhd

Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

Received introductory training on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and provided research into possible ways to use Machine Learning in Image Recognition to create a general image recognition system to integrate with the ERP system.

Programmer & Admin Assistant

Citibank Singapore

Jun 2016 - Mar 2017

Proposed and improved the performance evaluation system using Visual Basic (VBA) in Microsoft Excel. Assisted in the Audit Confirmation and several administrative tasks.

Administrative and Event Assistant

Kino Biotech (M) Sdn Bhd

Mar 2014 - Aug 2014

Assisted the main event manager and shadowed the marketing manager in several product launch roadshow, as well as performing administrative tasks such as data entry, in Malaysia and Singapore


Project Experience

Financial Market Prediction (LSTM)

Replicated a research paper and improved LSTM models for S&P 500 prediction, experimenting with architectures like CNN-LSTM.

Home Lab & Virtualization

Deployed a local Proxmox hypervisor to host applications (like this portfolio) via Tailscale, exploring system administration and networking.

Forex Trend Pattern Recognition

Implemented Unsupervised Clustering algorithms to identify and predict trends in the Forex market for Final Year Project.

Surveillance Object Detection

Combined Feature Detectors with YOLO algorithms to uniquely identify and track subjects in surveillance footage.

Entrepreneurship Competitions

Winner of multiple Junior Achievement competitions; pitched business ideas, developed products, and managed sales/operations.


Professional Qualifications

Chartered Instituition for Securities and Investments


International Introduction to Investment

ID:10531338


Certificate in Wealth and Investment Management

ID:10548490



Honours and Awards

  • 2nd Runner-Up, Junior Achievement Company of the Year Asia Pacific Finals (2016)
  • 2-Time-Winner, Junior Achievement Company of the Year Singapore Finals (2015 and 2016)
  • Singapore Representative - FedEx Express Junior Achievement International Trade Challenge Asia Pacific (2015)
  • Admitted to Director's List in Financial Business Informatics 2015 and 2016

Co-curricular Activities

  • Vice President and long active member of Sunway Photography Club - hosted many events such as competition with sponsors, offline and online classes / tutorial, source and manage photo/video job opporturnities for
  • 2-Time-Winner, Junior Achievement Company of the Year Singapore Finals (2015 and 2016)
  • Singapore Representative - FedEx Express Junior Achievement International Trade Challenge Asia Pacific (2015)
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Interest

  • Self-Hosting
  • Financial Strategies
  • Fitness
  • Gaming
  • Photography