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Lau Choo Leng, Simon

Lau Choo Leng, Simon

Senior Instructor Lead

Singapore, Singapore, SG
English, Mandarin

Background


About

About

Full Stack Developer with deep experience in Front end HTML with Javascript and Back end in Python. He has also done significant work in Robotic Process Automation, with some experience in Machine Learning and Data Visualization. Throughout his tenure, he has led and developed funded projects as the Subject Matter Expert and Developer to completion, and inspired a generation of IT learners through his teaching as a Senior Instructor Lead

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Lead SEI Instructor

    Nov, 2020 - Present

    Senior Lead Software Engineering Immersive Instructor

    • Guide students through a rigorous, transformational journey towards a junior-level role in software development

    • Inspire and support students as they identify their passions and drive their own continued learning beyond the curriculum

    • Adapt global curriculum and use it to guide my teaching, building my own lesson plans as needed and contributing back my lessons learned over time

    • Facilitate a safe, supportive, and energetic community that welcomes the various needs and learning styles of my students

  • Senior RPA Consultant

    Aug, 2020 - Oct, 20201 month

    Team Lead for RPA involved in Requirement Analysis, Estimation, Designing to Coding, Debugging, Testing and Deployment in an Agile environment

    • Developed RPA processes related to Consumer Banking which include creating customised reports

    • Conceptualise initial Use Case with Process flow and Effort Estimation for new RPA process

    • Mentored team members by conducting code reviews to improve their code quality and coaching on RPA development

  • Solutions Enabler

    Feb, 2020 - Apr, 20181 year 9 months

    Seconded to COI-SCM to do projects and training for Supply Chain companies

    • Trained adult learners in Robot Process Automation (RPA) under SkillsFuture

    • Provided IT consultancy services using UiPath RPA for government agencies and Supply Chain companies

    • Led team to automate extracting pre-approved tenders in National Environmental Agency internal system then automate raising tender in GeBIZ

    • Led team to automate extracting Order info from various customers PDF invoices for Mentor Media Ltd and then automate entering into their SAP system

    • Led team to automate Infocomm Media Development Authority internal project closure checklist

    • Co-led team for Mindef Singapore to extract written-off equipment issued to non current military personnel from their internal system

    • Co-led team to automate Temasek Polytechnic (Human Resource Department) yearly Public Service staff Self Declaration for casino visits, additional properties etc

    • Primary lead to scrap commercial websites for the Singapore Department of Statistics, in order to validate the correct ranking for Government monitoring

    • Primary lead to automate Republic Polytechnic (Academy for Continuing Education) to allow e-invocing for Government participants and email invoice for other participants

    • Primary lead to provide dashboard of statistics of active counselling cases for Sembawang Family Service Center

    • Primary lead for STELOP Pte Ltd to automate sending of maintenance emails according to equipment Mean Time To Failure

    • Assisted in team with Thermo Fisher Scientific to automate reconcile SKU part numbers of incoming orders with inventory and raise Purchase Order when shortfall occurs

    • Developed Singapore School Data Visualization at http://bit.ly/sg-schools

    • Developed Typescript Teabreak Ordering System with Workflow integration on Google Suite for Republic Polytechnic

    • Developed Bulk Printing Ordering System on Microsoft Office 365 for Republic Polytechnic

    • Developed Python Machine Learning System for predicting late deliveries for SIM Solutions Pte Ltd

    • Developed Proof of concept Nodejs on AWS Lambda Telegram Chatbot for Customer Service for UTC Logistics Pte Ltd at https://t.me/utctelegrambot

    • Developed Python Excel Automation for Tax reporting for Zephyr Consultancy Pte Ltd

    • Developed React Graph Visualization of Bluetooth Low Energy sensors for Makino Asia Pte Ltd

  • Lecturer

    Dec, 2012 - Apr, 20185 years 3 months

    Lectured in the School of Infocomm

    • Create Problem Packages, Examination papers and handle Module Administration for Data Structures and Algorithms (Java), Enterprise Java (J2EE), Systems Scripting (Python), Web Application Development (PHP), Object Oriented Programming (Java), Introduction to Programming (Python)

    • Developed Python PDF Visualization of Computed Module Statistics at mid and end semester for Republic Polytechnic at http://bit.ly/sch-report which creates PDF reports like http://bit.ly/sch-graph

    • Coached and Supervised SiTF Awards Competition Teams and Final Year Capstone Project Teams

    • Trained adult learners in Part-Time Diploma In Infocomm & Digital Media (Information Systems)

  • Technical Consultant

    Jan, 2002 - Dec, 20042 years 11 months

    Consulted on technical standards for e-learning as well as development of technical reference model

    • Assisted Executive Manager on training Ministry of Education and Singapore Police Force on various E-Learning Standards and Technologies

    • Produced QTILite reference system for inaugural ITSC PlugFEST testing usage in E-Learning domain

    • Coordinated IMS Seminar and Workshop

    • Assisted PlugFEST Committee in testing QTILite interoperability during PlugFEST

    • Wrote articles in ECC Newsletter as well as for E-Learning Clearing house website

    • Assisted in organising of ECC Official Launch

    • Presented on QTI on World Standards Day 2002 and Enterprise Specification in 2003

    • Participated in Asia E-Learning Network project and interview

    • Set-up the QTILite repository in GELS

    • Developed sample Learning Object for Gateway to Learning Objects in Singapore

    • Develop critical modules for ECCEL

    • Assisted in organising Learning Objects Competition

    • Team member for PlugFEST 2004 testing group in E-Learning domain, a neutral and standard based platform to test and demonstrate product interoperability

  • Engineer

    Jul, 2000 - Jan, 20021 year 6 months

    Did software development in a start-up incubator

    • Formulate and developed company ASP webpages, for designing and management of name cards

    • Conceptualised and administrated Oracle Database back-end for above system

    • Developed C++ Database backend for Business Card Management System, together with help documentation

Skills

Skills

  • Languages

    Python

    Java

    PHP

  • Web Development

    HTML

    CSS

    Javascript

    Typescript

    React

    Vue.js

  • Front end Frameworks

    React

    Vue.js

    Jquery

  • Frameworks

    Laravel

    Spring

    J2EE

    Django

  • Machine Learning Libraries

    Pandas

    Plotly

    Dash

    scikit-learn

  • Databases

    Sqlite

    Oracle

    MySQL

    MongoDB

Education

Education

  • Instructional Design and Technology, Master of Arts, National Institute of Education

    Jan, 2006 - Jul, 2008

  • Software Engineering, Master of Technology, National University of Singapore

    Jan, 2002 - Jul, 2004

  • Computer and Information Science, Bachelor of Science with Merit, National University of Singapore

    Jul, 1997 - Jan, 2000

Awards

Awards

  • Merit Award , Standards Council of Singapore

    Awarded on: Nov 01, 2005

    In recognition of meritorious service and contribution to the Singapore national standardisation programme

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Volunteer Python Trainer, Code in the Community

    - Present

    Introduced and helped under-privileged children to learn and start on their coding journey

    • Taught online Zoom Python class for Juying Secondary

Publications

Publications

  • Using Open Source Tools (Python based and others) To Create Computing Instructional Content, International Symposium on Advances in Technology Education 2012

    Published on: Sep 19, 2012

  • Specification for eLearning Framework Part 4: Assessment and Performance Tracking, SPRING Singapore (Co-authored Singapore Standard SS 496 : Part 4 : 2003)

    Published on: Jan 01, 2003

  • Specification for eLearning Framework Part 6: Enterprise Integration, SPRING Singapore (Co-authored Singapore Standard SS 496 : Part 6 : 2004)

    Published on: Jan 01, 2004