James Lim

Spearheading a MYR100m outsourcing division. Built and took care of the operations team, process, backend system, customer and vendor management. Singlehandedly architect and built the backend system to handle resources requests and responses and ensure all critical data is captured for data driven decision making. Developed the talent development programme for the company with collaboration to universities and industry experts focusing on data roles and study on artificial intelligence. Around 70 candidates had been admitted into the program with 6 cohort thus far and with around 80% successfully secured first job. Strategize and developed business centric AI solutions for go to market (GTM). Includes AI on Human Resource, customer support, knowledge management, planning and collaboration. In the midst of developing AI Competency Center by working with multiple universities

Leading and working with a young and dynamic team over modern data integration, management, visualization environment. Overseeing team working on projects and technologies related to IoT, Cloud, Data Lakes, Video Analytics, MQTT and Zigbee, change data capture, containerization and managing it over in an agile working environment. Built a multi-million outsourcing business as extension to the current business unit. Through this new initiative; established working relations with vendors, contractors, local universities and customers using SOP and business processes which is backed up by data technologies like data quality, master data and integration. Spearhead establishment of Data Science COE - built based upon industry needs and challenges. Work with principle vendors to build a repository of sandboxes, demo kits, proof of concepts as well as a establishing a SWAT team to handle demand and challenges from customers.

Starting the Data Management division in the organization:- * To lead and hands-on with team in building technical artefacts (Demos, Proof of Concept, Presentation) related to Data Management solutions. * Mentor and advise project team in data management approach and building technical artefacts. * Plan and architect data management solutions to present to customers. * Work with Business Intelligence team to participate in sales bid and part of total proposed solutions * Explore and recommend to go market technologies to fit into the new Data Management market

Tasked to run operations, strategic planning and execution for the organization. Focus on profitability and transformation of the organization for growth - in line with the new competitive and disruptive market. Enact and improve KPI measures for departments and uses analytics to discover performance improvements areas for both profit and cost centers

Presales for SAP DDM and BI products with main focus on SAP HANA, HANA CLOUD PLATFORM, BIG DATA & HANA integration (VORA) and IoT & HANA Integration (Leonardo) covering SEA region.

Continuation of prior role but being positioned as technical specialist within the data integration / data management space in the organization. This role covers the following responsibilities:- - Business Development: Identify new business opportunities working together with partners and sales team. - Solution Architect: Organize whiteboarding and discussion forums with customer/partners to put in total solution. Develop solution proposals and revised based on further understanding with customers - Pre-sales: Helps product vendor present product presentation as part of the total solution, highlighting on the keypoints of why the product was chosen as part of the total solution - Solution Lead: Respond to RFP/RFI; working on total solution which covers software, hardware and services. This includes producing Statement of Work (SOW) and solution write-up. - Sales support: Helps prepare opportunity costing and price-to-win sheet. Providing options to be presented to end customer like resource planning (onshore/offshore) and deployment platform (on-premise/cloud) and financial options (outright purchase/utility model/financial services) Others: - License validation and price negotiation with product vendors - Join internal solution governance discussion and review sessions - Join product update session by product vendors and organize the same for the sales team (if applicable) - Develop go-to-market solutions and present to sales team

Advise and position different Data Integration and Analytics solutions to customers. Being product agnostic, solutions can be from different vendor products in the industry but mainly cater to customer's requirements and budget. Solution can be of the following nature:- - Analytics (Risk, Retail store, Churn, Sentiments) - Data Integration related (Replication, Migration, Information Lifecycle Management, DataWarehouse) - Big Data adoption (including Social analytics) - Portal development - Content management Integration platform may be web, desktop or mobility - depending on customer's requirements

Helps in sales qualification and presentation of Data Integration solutions like Oracle Golden Gate, Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Enterprise Data Quality. Architect best approach in Data Integration solutions while working with BI and DataWarehouse team. Specialist for Oracle Data Integrator across ASEAN countries.

Client Technical Professional (Data Integration) - Oversees as a technical sales over a whole range of Data Integration as well as Data Management products. Inclusive of Data Management:- - Informix (Trained and certified) - DB2 and families (Hands on POC) - Guardium - Optim - Netezza (Trained) Data Integration: - DataStage (Hands on POC and troubleshooting) - Quality Stage - FastTrack (Hands on POC) - Metadata Workbench (Hands on POC) - Business Glossary - Blueprint Director (Daily tool) - Data Architect (Hands on POC) - Change Data Capture/Data Mirror MDM: - Initiate MDS - MDM Server

Mid Market Sales Consultant - Travel to tier 2 cities in ASEAN to educate partners and customers on Oracle products (Database, Data Integration and Content Management solution) Sales Consultant (Database) - Localized role. Helps fulfill RFPs, architect solutions and presentations on Database, Testing as well as Real-Time Web Monitoring solutions (Oracle RUEI) Sales Consultant (Data Integration) - Regional role. Helps local and regional sales team on Data Integration related solutions such as Data Integration (ODI), Change Data Capture (Golden Gate) and Data Cleansing/Profiling (ODP/ODQ).

Consultant for PowerBuilder development - Develop PowerBuilder program and help customer troubleshoot PowerBuilder related problems PowerBuilder Evangelist - Promote and teaches PowerBuilder development in Malaysia Mobile development architect - Assist customer and partners in mobile development using Sybase products as well as PowerBuilder Pre-sales Consultant - Assist sales in answering technical aspects of Sybase products - inclusive of Sybase IQ (DataWarehouse), Mobile Security, Content and Database and PowerBuilder development