Christopher Tan

• Formulated company, product and marketing strategy & financial and revenue and cost projections models. • Engaged in Business Development and collaboration with partners. • Developed app UI/UX and specified backend system design.

• Teaching Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Becoming Future-Ready and Entrepreneurship. • Coaching students to understand concepts & engage in critical thinking in the analysis of daily life and world affairs.

• Overhauled company, product and marketing strategy. • Created presentations, financial models, revenue and cost projections. • Established working relationships with partners companies in logistics, banking, remittance, inspection and certification providers.

• Defined module syllabus & created course material as Module Leader for Macroeconomics. • Crafted exams and projects to stimulate critical thinking encourage understanding and application of concepts. • Taught IT Applications, basic digital skills -- online safety, poster, image & video creation and editing, web portfolio design, MS Office skills.

• Acquired and managed new and existing local and international commercial property, asset-based, term and trade loan customers. • Assessed customers’ business requirements to structure and restructure loans.

• Increased portfolio with new customers through referrals and networking. • Assessed, structured and managed trade finance loans for customers. • Identified and increased cash revenue streams from existing customers. • Cross-sold global markets / treasury products according to customers’ operational requirements and investment objectives. • Worked with dissatisfied customers to not only resolve issues but increase bank's liabilities and established new opportunities.

• Co-established new niche business comprising business plan, needs analysis, calculations, product features etc. • Sourced, assessed and managed both personal and corporate loans for medical professionals. • Achieved over 117% of target in approved loans, with large pipeline of pending deals. • Conceptualised and conducted own marketing campaigns, networked closely with equipment suppliers and corporate service providers.

• Acquired more than 110 new corporate clients/year, achieved 232% of annual target for ’07 and exceeded run-rate for ‘08. • Managed portfolio of SME accounts and partnered with colleagues across product lines to improve client coverage and improve cross-business fee revenue (Transaction Banking, Mezzanine Capital, etc). • Co-championed development & implementation of Siebel CRM system. • Initiated creative department fundraising for Corporate Social Responsibility activities.

• Engaged in mid/back office activities in the Treasury and Markets Operations department, entering trade details and confirmations into reconciliation system. • Attended Bloomberg training during lunch breaks and built Bloomberg API spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel to automate collection of financial market data for colleagues to ease their workload & earned outstanding appraisal from supervisors.

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (Specialising in Biomedical Engineering + Minor in Business) Final Year Project (FYP) of research nature on “Micro-imprinting on Soft Substrates” for micro-tech prototyping.