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THE IT SOCIETY — Issue Two 2014
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HAPPENINGS
Well DoneYesterday, On With Tomorrow At our respective Chapters’ AGM, members elected the leaders and committee members who will guide and serve them this year.
Through our various chapters and interest groups, we enable our members to choose the specific fields in which they wish to immerse themselves. Here’s a look at the names that will lead the respective chapters in the coming year. Business Continuity Group (BCG)
President Paul Lee, SMSCS DC Connect Vice-President Caroline Tan, MSCS Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore Honorary Secretary Yong Foo Onn, MSCS UBS Assistant Secretary Alex Siow, MSCS Pantropic Online
Honorary Treasurer Wong Tew Kiat, FSCS Organisation Resilience Management Assistant Treasurer Ronald Chan, MSCS MOH Holdings
Certification in IT Project Management (CITPM) Chapter
President Thomas Lai, SMSCS ST Electronics (Info Software Systems) Vice-President Sean Lim, MSCS Ministry of Finance
Honorary Secretary Wu Chun Wei, MSCS Accenture
Honorary Treasurer Sim Boon Hwa, MSCS Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Quality Assurance (QA) Chapter
President Francis Mahendran, SMSCS EasyWorks Vice-President Quek Ser Choon, SMSCS Singapore Aviation Academy Honorary Secretary Ang Ho Keat, MSCS Integrated Health Information Systems
Council Members Carolynn Lock, SMSCS Hitachi Data Systems Jasper Tan, SMSCS IBM Singapore
Micah Tan, MSCS Horizon Resiliency Inc
Roland Tan, MSCS Eastern Health Alliance
Ex-Officio Raju Chellam, SMSCS Dell Enterprise Solutions: South Asia Co-opted Members Dr David Chew, MSCS Aris Integrated Medical Lok Ee Choon, MSCS Arete Consultancy
Sasanka Sahu, MSCS Acclivis Technologies and Solutions Council Members Jessica Lee, MSCS Integrated Health Information Systems
Low Soon Woon, MSCS NCS
Tan Seng Chong, SMSCS IBM Singapore Vivian Tan, MSCS Defence Science and Technology Agency
Jonathan Tay, MSCS SATS
Honorary Treasurer Balaji Balasubramanian, MSCS Great Eastern Life Council Members James Tey, MSCS Nanyang Polytechnic
Santheep Singh, MSCS Accellion Inc
President, BCG Paul Lee, SMSCS DC Connect
“In today’s competitive industry landscape where organisations are exposed to adverse change, the ability to respond to and recover quickly from catastrophic events/adversity can really change the fate of any organisation. The BCG has been instrumental in promoting organisation resiliency – adopting a holistic business continuity management (BCM) approach of combining all 3 domains of IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR), Data Centre and BCM in one. This year, BCG will continue to organise its signature annual BCM Conference, together with a range of site visits and workshops on prevailing topics such as Organisation Resiliency, Crisis Management through Social Media, and Cloud DR solution.”
President, CITPM Chapter Thomas Lai, SMSCS ST Electronics (Info Software Systems)
“The Certified IT Project Manager’s chapter brings those with CITPM and COMIT together for the purpose of knowledge and experiential sharing of the latest trends and developments in the IT project management and outsourcing management arena. This year, the chapter will be focusing on developing an agile training course and evening events featuring exclusive consultative sessions with experienced PMs to explore how participants can overcome some of the challenges in managing their projects.”
President, QA Chapter Francis Mahendran, SMSCS EasyWorks
“The QA Chapter received great support from SCS members for the evening seminars we organised in 2013. This was reflected in the exceptional attendance of the CMMI Seminar — a full house with 31 participants. This year, we are sparing no effort in planning these seminars equally well and looking into upto-date IT topics such as CMMI, Agile and Security.”