About Me
Hello! My name is Wong Yew Huat, I’m an IT enthusiast with a passion for leveraging technology to solve complex problems and drive business growth. Throughout my career, I’ve successfully built and led high-performing IT teams, cultivating a culture of collaboration, innovation, and adaptability. By empowering my teams and fostering a mindset of continuous learning, I’ve consistently delivered impactful, cross-functional projects that align with organizational goals. My leadership approach is rooted in mentorship, accountability, and a focus on results, ensuring that projects are not only completed on time and within budget but also deliver measurable value to the business. I thrive on enabling teams to achieve their full potential while driving strategic outcomes.
My journey began in the late 1998, as a system analyst in one of the stock broking firms, where I honed my analytical and coding skills throughout my tenure. I was fortunate to be transferred to another subsidiary, an investment firm, where I developed an investment application for the company. As the firm grew, my team grew as well, I managed a team of developer, server and network specialists. The investment firm then went through a M&A exercise, my team and I migrated data from an in-house system to a third-party back-office system. Subsequently, another round of system migration happened, migrated this third-party back-office system to a more robust and flexible third-party back-office system.
This experiences immersed me in the world of IT project management, where I mentored a project team to build systems for the investment firm. During this time, I learned and developed essential project management skills, including project timeline and budget management, effective communication, negotiation, risk management, vendors & stakeholders management. These skills are crucial for driving projects to completion and ensuring they meet all stakeholders’ expectations.
Today, I hold the position of Head Of IT at the investment firm, where I oversee a dedicated team of server and application support specialists. Our mission is to ensure that servers and applications consistently operate at optimal levels, preventing IT disruptions and maintaining operational efficiency.
Throughout my career, I have worn many hats & faced many challenges. My early years as a system analyst laid a strong foundation in understanding and optimizing workflows & system functionalities, which naturally progressed into roles with increased responsibilities, the IT Manager and then Head of IT.
I have helped the investment firm migrated several large-scale back office systems, covering both on-prem and cloud architectures. Over the years, I have had the opportunity to develop, migrate & implement several critical systems within the investment firm, which bring enhanced operational capabilities and streamline processes. I have involved everything from workflow designing, report building and system configuration. One of the critical missions during these large-scale system migration projects, I have to ensure seamless transitions and minimum disruptions to our daily operations.
All the migration projects were a complex puzzle, requiring meticulous planning, coordination, and execution, but the satisfaction of seeing them through to completion was immensely rewarding.
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