JK Tan

Director @ Uni Connect

About

Self-motivated entrepreneur successful in seizing viable opportunities for expansion and innovation in business. Background in increasing profits, reducing costs, and transforming customer service standards. Experienced in leading and supervising operational team. Employment Activities Co-Founder, La Saigon Pte Ltd September 2019 till now * We setup La Saigon in 2018 to promote the goodness and freshness of Vietnamese coffee and banh mi with vision to populate La Saigon cafe in every major smart city of the world. * Our concept is highly scalable and has been proven to work. Senior Business Development, Uni Connect Pte Ltd July 2021 -Now December 2017 – August 2019 • Develop new business account through networking events and cold calls. • Performed research to uncover potential target areas, markets and industries. Evaluated state of art AI resume parser software SOUVREN.. • Uncovered and qualified prospects and sales opportunities in targeted markets using social media marketing platform such as Facebook & Google advertisement. Senior Marketing Director, ERA Realty Network Pte Ltd September 2019 till now • Offered advice and assistance to property customers, paying attention to special needs or wants. Founder, Spyro Technology Pte Ltd June 2005 – November 2011 • Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth. • Developed and organized both technical and non-technical training courses. • Provided embedded system design and software design services to companies in Singapore such as GES, NXP and Continental. ASIC Design Manager, ComSOC Technology Pte Ltd June 2005 – November 2011. • Provide technical support to IC design companies in mapping their design to Samsung foundry and ensuring a smooth tapeout and qualification phase. • Attended and study ARM Architecture design with plan to develop ARM SoC design capability. • Setup a core design team to study and develop ARM SOC design methodology. Project Management Team Leader, Infineon Technologies June 19960 – April 2000 • Completed 18 months of intensive VLSI design training in Siemens Semiconductor in Munich, Germany. • Completed few tapeouts of Siemens 8-bit mircontroller SoC from design to mass production with in-depth appreciation of each design steps. • Team member of Infineon first 32-bit mircrocontroller SoC to be tapeout in Singapore. • Trained in leadership skill in Junior Circle program. The program culminated with donation of medical machine for kidney patience with fund raising program.

Country

City

Singapore

Industry

Semiconductors

Skill

VLSI, Embedded Systems, Integrated Circuit Design, ARM, Microcontrollers, Real Estate Marketing, Creative Real Estate Investing, Real Estate Economics, EDA, Electronics, ASIC, Processors, IC, Semiconductors, SoC

Experience

Director

Uni Connect

2022-3 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Sinagpore

Uni Connect is a local boutique talent acquisition firm specializing in semiconductor industry.

Senior Business & Technical Adviser

Uni Connect

2021-7 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Singapore

We believe that talents are the most important asset in a company. And talents should be in a position that they can excel. Our mission is to connect talents to their opportunities. Industries that we serve: - Semiconductor - Embedded systems - Information technology - Internet of Things - Cyber security Our Services - Executive search - Contract staffing - Design services

Co-Founder

La Saigon Pte Ltd

2018-8 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

Singapore

La Saigon is the home of Vietnamese coffee & handcrafted sourdough banh mi in Singapore since 2018. We are the first to introduce Viet Fine Robusta coffee to Singapore's coffee lover. After handpicked by farmers in Vietnam, the selected green beans are imported to Singapore and roast locally to extract the natural flavor of the beans. Our banh mi is created with top quality Italian flour and each processing step is handled with love and passion. Our vision is to populate every major cities of the world with our coffee and banh mi.

Senior Marketing Director

ERA Singapore

2012-1 - Present · 14 yrs 8 mos

Singapore

Real Estate Services - Perform financial analysis and calculation for client - Advise client based on consultation and affordability check - Conduct comparative market analysis - Compare recent transaction price - Photo shoot of unit - Online marketing - Negotiation for a win-win deal

Director

Spyro Technology Pte. Ltd.

2012-12 - 2015-6 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Singapore

Spyro Technology Pte Ltd provides technical training courses and design solution with design services to electronics industry in Singapore. Our technical courses focus on niche area on integrated circuit and we do so inviting respectable trainers who has direct link to industry on the topics they are teaching. We are partner of innovative EDA company in providing innovative and cost effective solution to improve IC design flow. This include EDA tool that enables designer to perform their DFT integration in early stage of development and get a glimpse of the test coverage before the chip synthesis is completed. It also allow user to create customize design rule and this greatly enhance the quality of DFT integration and reduce design iterations. Going beyond silicon chip, we also partner up with embedded system solution company to provide complete turn key solution based on ARM microprocessor. We have complete hardware & software solution based on Freescale iMX series of processors and also Intel Atom processor. The OS that we support include Android, Linux, QnX, WEC7, iTRON, etc...

Director of Spyro Technology

Spyro Technology

2005-7 - 2012-6 · 7 yrs

Organize and provide training courses and consulting services to semiconductor companies. Courses organized include :- - Analog IC Design - Advance Analog IC Design - Modern VLSI Design - Design-for-Test - Power Management ICs - Embedded System Development - ESD Issues In Sub-Micron Devices - ADC/DAC Data Converter

Design Manager

COMSOL, Inc.

2001-4 - 2005-7 · 4 yrs 4 mos

- Manage ASIC project from specification to mass production - Sourcing and distribution of new innovative product such as ARM Emulation board and Conditional Access System for set-top-box.