Aspiring Consultant, Co-Founder of Exoro Studio
Singapore
- Current
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- Co-Founder at Exoro Studio (www.exorostudio.com)
- Past
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- Development Banking Consultant at Edgeworth Properties Inc
- Part Time Model at Create Talents Pte Ltd
- Operation Research Analyst at Defence Science and Technology Agency
- Engineer (Advanced Package Technology Services Department) at AMD (Sunnyvale)
- Market Researcher at PortaEnterprise
- Research Assistant at NUS Business School
- Product Marketing/ Sales Consultant at Aztech Systems Ltd
- Chief Financial Officer at Start-Up@Singapore
- Co-Leader at Berkeley Industries
- Education
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- National University of Singapore
- Stanford University
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Kenneth Tan (www.exorostudio.com)’s Summary
A professional with over 3 years of management, marketing and business development experience in both private and public sectors, I am a dynamic team player and leader who works with passion, embraces change and thrives in face of challenges.
My personal goals in life are to:
1) Achieve optimum excellence in the mind, body and soul.
2) Help others to succeed in Life
3) Make the world a better place, even if it means changing one mind at a time.
4) Thrive to do the impossible
Kenneth Tan (www.exorostudio.com)’s Specialties:
Negotiations and Fund-Raising, Marketing and Sales Research/Analysis, Strong Organization skills, Events and Logistics, Business Development, Project Management
Kenneth Tan (www.exorostudio.com)’s Experience
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Co-Founder
Exoro Studio (www.exorostudio.com)
(Education Management industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Exoro is a business simulation game company which aims to educate youths and professionals about entrepreneurship through experiential learning. Our card based simulation game teaches aspects such as leadership, effective team communications, market demand & supply correlation, adaption to competition and logistics management.
I am responsible for spearheading sales, collaborations and marketing initiatives.
(visit us at www.exorogame.com for more information) -
Development Banking Consultant
Edgeworth Properties Inc
(Real Estate industry)
August 2008 — February 2009 (7 months)
Specialises in providing alternative short term 2-5 years' principal-protected investment that yields 60%-100% returns at low risk. Edgeworth Properties Inc., a corporation listed in USA, Nevada pinksheets. Specialises in land development, and real estate in Alberta, Canada by re-zoning it, servicing the Lots with infrastructure such as water, electricity & gas. The final stage of its development is building apartments/houses for sale.
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Part Time Model
Create Talents Pte Ltd
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2007 — September 2008 (11 months)
Portfolio includes electronics, insurance and wine companies.
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Operation Research Analyst
Defence Science and Technology Agency
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
December 2007 — January 2008 (2 months)
Assisted in developing resource deployment educational software
Providing financial and engineering applications to new variance theorems
Done due diligence on operation research software companies and help provide recommendations for software deployment within organization
Obtained Certificate of Achievement (Excellence) for good overall performance during internship stint -
Engineer (Advanced Package Technology Services Department)
AMD (Sunnyvale)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMD; Semiconductors industry)
August 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Electrical/Thermal Characterization Projects Management and did a company business case on deploying change management in Asia
Lead Officer of University Relations Committee Center, responsible for organizing events for interns to build strong long-lasting relations.
Working with Assembly Process Equipment for package fluxing/building, O/S testing and gather lid-attach specs
Obtained Vice-President Spotlight Award for exceptional interdepartment support, producing high quality work and turnaround time, and demostrating outstanding contribution to important projects in the thermal testing area.
Set up and automate a capacitance / temperature characterization capability using LabVIEW. This method is later implemented across sites to filter chip caps from various vendors. -
Market Researcher
PortaEnterprise
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Wireless industry)
February 2007 — May 2007 (4 months)
• Market Research on SAP Asian clients and product placement in US/Asian films.
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Research Assistant
NUS Business School
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
July 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 9 months)
• Co-Author for Best-Seller Textbook. Adapting “Advertising: Principles and Best IMC Practices”, for Asia-Pacific region.
• Online Consumer Protection research between countries.
• Other marketing projects in Scent and Retail Research -
Product Marketing/ Sales Consultant
Aztech Systems Ltd
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
May 2006 — July 2006 (3 months)
• Conduct market research on competitors, new products and trends
• Cold calls, send quotations, compile sales matrixes and inventories
• Obtained Undergraduate Scholarship -
Chief Financial Officer
Start-Up@Singapore
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2005 — July 2006 (1 year)
Organizes and oversees the competition. Was in charge of sponsorship department and help team raised over $150k funding. Also established PR committee and build strong ties with partners.
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Co-Leader
Berkeley Industries
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
May 2005 — July 2005 (3 months)
Oversees the production line. Ensures quality control and responsible for coordinating with engineers to devise improvement on the system efficiency.
Kenneth Tan (www.exorostudio.com)’s Education
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National University of Singapore
Electrical Engineering , 2004 — 2008
Final Year Honours Project and Thesis are based on enhancing the capacitance / temperature capability in AMD (Sunnyvale) I set up previously, and devise a more cost effective recommendation for its Asia site in Singapore.
- Activities and Societies:
- NUS Entrepreneurship Society, Start-Up@Singapore
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Stanford University
Entrepreneurship (Management Science & Engineering) 2006 — 2007
Additional Information
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Kenneth Tan (www.exorostudio.com)’s Honors:
Defence Science and Technology Agency Certificate of Achievement (Excellence) - 2008
National University of Singapore Student Achievement Award for Enterprise - 2007
Best Soldier Award/Letter of Commendation obtained during military training - 2003
Undergraduate Scholarship from Aztech Systems - 2007
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Vice-President Spotlight Award - 2007
Sports Colour’s Award (Zone team Award), 1997 and 1999
ASEAN Table-Tennis Youth Championships (Silver), 1999
National table-tennis tournament (National Champion), 1997- 1999
