daren lam

lead consultant

About

Senior Application Consultant at NCS Group

Country

united states

City

kelso

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

c#, software design patterns, asp.net, software development, project management, microsoft office, c, c++, program management, testing, leadership, linux, biztalk, windows server, system administration

Experience

application consultant

ncs group

2012-7 - 2016-6 · 4 yrs

* Joined the company to support and develop applications that aid in the policies of the Ministry of Health (MOH). * Worked with the some pioneer developers of applications who either left or transitioned to managerial positions. * Few wanted to stay technical but I persisted to hone skills, experiment with automation and develop a center. * Applied Agile best practices in all projects I touched in spite of apathetic response.

application consultant

hewlett-packard

2012-2 - 2012-7 · 6 mos

Working in the financial sector dealing with time-critical data loading using Java and PLSQL. Dealing with users as a vendor and facing odds with legacy spaghetti code without documentation. Started to see what it means when a generation of technical expertise is lost in Singapore.

lead consultant

ncs group

2018-7 - Present · 8 yrs 3 mos

senior application consultant

ncs group

2016-7 - Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

A fearless refactorer of legacy applications created by NCS for the Ministry of Health. Motivated and persistent. A creator mindset to implement anything given the time. A hands-on worker who has written thousands of lines of code just to automate testing and eliminate doubt. Rewrote outsourced applications that I don't understand which ultimately withstood the test of time with its integration to all public hospital's SAP systems and participating private institutions. Leading peers and seniors in automation and design patterns. A strong advocate of SOLID, DRY principles regardless because I personally know it works. The team is happier when computers are made to do the dirty work. I'll spend 80% of allocated time to automated a manual task, 5% to run the job and remaining 15% to admire it.

contract worker

amd

2010-1 - 2011-12 · 2 yrs

Developed in house software to optimize factory space within an Agile Team. Started IT with automated software testing and Continuous Integration. Was later transferred to another team help with the major upgrade of the company's Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Completed refactoring of the reporting application and integration with the revamped MES system within 3 months and the software replicated to the company's other manufacturing sites in Asia. Learnt that Oracle was an amazingly fast database.