Wilfred Yang

Talent Attraction I lead a team to design and deliver the DSTA employer brand strategy, refresh the outreach and engagement initiatives, as well as diversify the sourcing channels. Key Achievements: • Designed the manpower strategy as well as articulate the specific initiatives to build up the engineering capabilities in DSTA. • Revamped the approach to build the DSTA employer brand on campus and through social media. • Developed the social media strategy to leverage on the strengths of different social media platforms including the conceptualisation of the playbook to ensure content builds both the corporate and employer brand. • Worked with internal stakeholders to design creative and consistent marketing materials that resonate with target audience segment. • Overhauled the sourcing strategy by moving the recruitment of talents upstream through the DSTA internship programme and through strong partnerships with the local tertiary institutes. • Diversified the sourcing channels by working with line managers to implement innovative sourcing solutions such as recruitment through hackathons and cyber camps. Talent Management I led a team that partnered senior management in DSTA to future proof the organisation by ensuring there is a robust leadership pipeline for succession planning. Key Achievements: • Designed and implemented a structured process to identify and develop the leadership capabilities of talented staff in DSTA • Revamped the talent identification process to ensure it is relevant to DSTA operations and maintain alignment with public service talent initiatives. • Led a review of the talent programme to ensure leadership experience is not only built on executive leadership training, but also on experiential learning through rotations within DSTA and secondments within organisations in the defence sector. • Worked with the team to implement the career development road map for staff on the talent programme to track proper execution.

Strategic Planning I led a team that support specialist teams in policy reviews and HR analytics. The strategic planning team also drives internal HR communications in A*STAR. Key Achievements: • Aligned the HR strategy with A*STAR’s strategic goals and set up metrics to measure effectiveness of HR plans. • Overhauled the manpower accounting principles and implemented the process to ensure manpower reporting is timely and accurate. • Set up the HR analytics team and championed the use of analytics to generate actionable insights. Supported the Talent Attraction team in analysing the employer brand, attrition, and workforce diversity. The team also supported the A*STAR Graduate Academy in a longitudinal study of A*STAR scholars which offered insights on the ROI on scholarship investments. • Set up HR intelligence which allowed HR to keep abreast of developing trends and design appropriate responses to threats or opportunities ahead of time. • Implemented the HR risk framework to ensure risk management is built into all HR plans

Talent Development I led a team to deliver leadership and core competency programmes in A*STAR. The team also supported the line in identifying officers for functional training programmes to build up their professional competencies. Key Achievement: • Modernised the training administration with the introduction of learning needs analysis. • Supported the build up of core competencies in A*STAR by ensuring alignment of the core competency framework to performance dimensions. • Designed and implemented the leadership development framework, and partnered with the Center for Creative Leadership and the Civil Service college to offer a suite of leadership and milestone programmes to A*STAR officers. • Automated the tracking of L&D metrics improve efficiency and reduce human errors. Concurrent Appointments in A*STAR • Deputy Management Representative (ISO Working Committee) • ISO Internal Auditor • Deputy Head (Crisis Management Group) • Lead (Singapore Quality Class and People Developer Committee)

I led a team of officers to reshape the vocational education system for special needs children in Singapore to enable them to be effectively prepared for employment and eventually lead meaningful and independent lives. Key Achievements: • Led a team to study special education practices in the United States of America and Japan and bring the best practices together into a vocational education programme that is contextualised for special needs children in Singapore. • Worked with the special schools to customise their curriculum and resources to tailor to the complex and diverse needs of students across the special schools. • Partnered with the Institute for Adult Learning to customise the Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA) for school teachers to enable them to deliver industry training and assessment. • Engaged the Workforce Development Agency and the Institute for Technical Education to partner with the special schools so that they are able to award nationally recognised vocational certificates to the students (Workforce Skills Qualification and ITE Skills certificate respectively) • Together with the National Council of Social Service and the Singapore National Employers Federation, the team fostered a strong relationship with voluntary welfare organisations and businesses to provide support and work opportunities for students and graduates of the vocational education programme. The programme received wide coverage on national news outlets and the efforts of the team was recognised with the presentation of the MOE Innovation Award and the Outstanding Contribution Award in 2010, followed by the presentation of the MOE Innergy Award (Bronze) in 2011. Other Projects • Data Management Team (Project Lead) • Divisional Knowledge Management Committee (Member).

As the product lead for the Fab Yield Enhancement team, I led a team of engineers to manage the day to day operations and provided timely updates on issue resolution to the management team. I was also the instructor for raising the proficiency level of technicians and engineers in the area of electrical failure analysis. Key Achievements: • A member of a highly successful team which achieved record probe-to-ship yield for Micron’s flagship DDR2 SDRAM and Mobile Memory Product. • Presented with a commendation from the Vice-President of the Mobile Memory Group in 2009 for outstanding contribution to the first silicon debug. • Developed the electrical failure analysis training programme to level up the knowledge and skills of the technicians and engineers. This included working with the line managers to identify learning needs and scoping the materials to cater to varying levels of experience. • Deployed to Micron Japan to develop and implement a training programme for the Product Engineers. This involved engaging the line managers to understand their business requirements, and the engineers to identify their learning gaps, followed by the development of the theoretical and practical aspects of the training programme.