Yoke Yong Lai

Current

• Manager at IDA of Singapore

Past

• System Engineering at ETNS (Service Provider Startup)
• Senior Research Engineer at Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R) www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg
• Development and management of wireless communication products at ST Electronics

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Education

• Nanyang MBA, Dean's honour list for top 5% in performance
• MSc, National University of Singapore
• Bachelor of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

• Foon Yew High School (宽柔中学）

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Industry

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Yoke Yong Lai’s Summary

1. Passion on Info-communication technologies and businesses
2. Experienced in leading cross organizational projects; Good at articulating vision and providing consultancy to internal and external senior management
3. Good interpersonal skills: enthusiastic, trusting and optimistic. Adaptive and able to put different pieces together in volatile environment

Yoke Yong Lai’s Specialties:

Mobile industry, CFA Level 1, program management, industry collaboration, selling to top management, experiences in R&D of electronics industry

Yoke Yong Lai’s Experience

• Manager

  IDA of Singapore

  (Telecommunications industry)

  May 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)

  Current Role:
  Manager (2008- present)
  - Manager in Industry Development Group to grow Mobility and Green ICT as strategic industry clusters
  - Assessment of business proposals from start-ups and enterprises
  
  
  Former Role:
  Consultant (2001-2008)
  Evangelist of emerging technologies. Planned, generated strategies and secured resource from management, followed by collaborating with stakeholders in industry value chain for further adoption of these technologies
  
  Past projects undertaken:
  - Consultant for TV Whitespace and Software Defined Radio (SDR) strategic studies
  
  - Consultant for Wireless@SG nationwide Wi-Fi deployment project. Provided consultancy in whole project life cycle, from specification of network, billing and settlement among partners to terms of acceptance
  
  - Project Manager for China Mobile/Huawei testbed in multi-million Intel-IDA program on Public WLAN adoption. Drove the project by integrating the effort from members of China Mobile, Huawei, Microsoft and Cisco
  
  - Project leader for RFID adoption framework. Developed assessment framework and conducted coexistence studies of EPC compliance RFID system with vendors and SCM users
  
  - Consultant for Ultra-Wide Band(UWB) adoption program. Drove the industry adoption program and test-and-measurement studies
  
  - Consultant for study of IEEE 802.11a. Trialled, analysed and recommended industry best practices of large scale 802.11a deployment.

• System Engineering

  ETNS (Service Provider Startup)

  (Telecommunications industry)

  December 2000 — May 2001 (6 months)

  - Planned and built the network infrastructure to support the startup's businesses within 3 months
  
  - Managed key customers of the startup on engineering and operational issues

• Senior Research Engineer

  Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R) www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg

  (Research industry)

  August 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 5 months)

  - RF transceiver system and circuit design
  
  - Submitted patent application for home wireless entertainment system “Interactive wireless digital audio distributed system”
  
  - Promoted to Senior position after 6 months of joining

• Development and management of wireless communication products

  ST Electronics

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 1 month)

  - Worked in each stage of communications product lifecycle, from R&D to after sale customer service
  
  - Promoted to lead a New Product Development (NPD) project in 1999: Managed a team of 4 engineers and successfully completed the project in 4 months

Yoke Yong Lai’s Education

• Nanyang MBA, Dean's honour list for top 5% in performance

  2006 — 2008

  Specialize in Strategy, focus including corporate business strategies, strategies formulation and implementation.

• MSc, National University of Singapore

  Master of Science , Communication Engineering , 1998 — 2001

• Bachelor of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering , Electrical and Electronics Engineering , 1992 — 1996

  Final year thesis on Analog Integrated Circuit Design. Received A for "Excellent" in the thesis.

  Activities and Societies:

  - Publicity Chair of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Convention Organizing Committee, NTU, tasks include organizing publicity activities to attract participants from students
  - Main Committee member for Astronomical Society of NTU, responsible for driving the membership recruitment and organizing vacation camp for Junior College students
  - Table Tennis and Chinese Chess representative for Inter-hostel Games

• Foon Yew High School (宽柔中学）

Additional Information

Yoke Yong Lai’s Interests:

Reading, Swimming, picking up ballroom dancing recently

Yoke Yong Lai’s Groups:

IEEE Member
ACM Member

•    Worldwide Management Consultants (23,000+ members)
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    Consultants Network
•    Nanyang MBA Alumni Group
•    Wireless Telecommunications Worldwide
•    THE NANYANG MBA ALUMNI
•    Change Consulting
•    Sustainable Energy Development
•    STRATEGY PROFESSIONALS NETWORK

Yoke Yong Lai’s Honors:

- IDA Staff recognition award (2004,2006,2007)
- Singapore National Technology Award domination
- Kuok Foundation Scholarship
- Award in National Mathematics Olympiad