Charlie Tan's Resume

Charlie C. Tan


· Extensive Knowledge & Career in Management; Management Services, Sales & Marketing; Business Development; Product Development; General Management

· Excellent track records with Fortune 500 corporations in business management & operation

· Expert in business turn-around, breaking new frontiers

· Highly self-motivated; Innovative & Creative

· Business Consultant & adviser for various Asia companies
Knowledge & Skills Includes:

· Hardware/ Software; Mainframe; Mini; Micro System; Business Initialization, Business Launch; Business Development; Sales & Marketing; Telecoms; ASIC; Plasma

· Business Start up & Driving to its success both in Revenue & Profits

· Consumer Electronics; Office System; Printers; Peripherals; Robotic

· Microprocessor; Servo & Control; Communication; eCommerce; eBusiness

· Capital Project funding & management; Negotiation; Training; Public Speaking

· Customer Services; Technical Services; High Level interpersonal skill

· Corel; Photoshop; Paintshop Pro; Picasa, MS Office; WordPerfect; Lotus; Assembly Language; Blogging; Presentation

· Leadership; Business Ethic; Business Conducts; Corporate Culture

1999 – Present Gemini InfoTech/ eBusiness Inc. (Self-Employed)
· Capital funding projects on both high-tech & infrastructure building projects in China
· Promotion in F.A.S.T. & I.C.F. eCo-Building Systems
· Sourcing for investment funds in Finger Print Recognition / Global Sign On; Giffie (VOIP); Mainframe Laser Printer Processor; Home Shopping System
· Deal making on Telecom & Switching Center; Call Center; Energy Plants; for China
1992 – 1999 Printset & Princeset Group - CEO & Group Managing Director
· Transforming a $3.7M office product Singapore based company to $37M Hardware/ Software, Professional Services regional groups of company.
· Initiated Network services; Training & Education Business Division; Web Design Services; eRetail Services; Internet services
· Streamlined the business from hardware base to Software & Professional services based company
· Reduce the Number of retail shops to an electronic storefront.
· Down size workforce while increasing revenue & profits.

1991 Silicon Compilations Technology Pte Ltd. General Manager & Vice President
· Achieve $2M contract for PC-Voice Operated firmware
· Initiation of 2 Chips Chipset Motherboard
· Established wafer fab relationship with SGS Thomson, UMC; Samsung
· Making deals with Sharp & Casio on ASIC projects.
· Charting the company’s Vision & drafted the business & budget plan

1987 – 1990 Philips International B.V. Regional Manager Marketing – Asia Pacific
· Lead the Telecom & Data System group from Zero to over US$700M in revenue, with net profit of 5%.
· Initiated New Excellence Philip Corporate Culture
· Initiated the Lotus; AutoCAD; Novell; 3Com certified training program
· Initiated Enterprise-Clients/Server Network system using Tandem; Philips Unix box & PC.
· Achieve 5% total PC market place for Philips
· Initiated PC banking; ATM; Laser Disc/ CD Licensing; Laser Printers
· Lead National Sales Organization winning bids/ Tender business
· Business & market breakthrough for Philips in Japan
· Champion business award with Government & education market in Asia Pacific
· Submitted business plan for Philips to relocate HQ in China

1986 – 1987 Perkins Elmer/ Metco Regional Representative Asia
· Chair the Asia Pacific Distributorship conference
· Resolved both Technical & Business issues with GE Aviation
· Implemented PC/ Robotic/ Plasma control system

1984 –1986 ICL/ Fujitsu Trader Point Manager
· Initiated Electronic Post office System; Hotel Information System; Clan Unix system
· Initiated ICL version of MSDOS PC; PC Post System; PC-Robotics
· Champion Electronic Design & vertical application using PERQ workstation
· Initiated Electronic Fund Transfer Network
· Gaining working relationship with 3rd parties channel
· Achieve $3.7M Revenue 10% on profits

1982 – 1984 NEC Assistant Marketing Manager
· Achieve Business revenue grow from $1.5M to $16M
· Proposed & Successfully implemented Business Plan for NEC Computer & Communication Business in South East Asia
· Achieved Revenue/ Profit Ratio & lead in lower the debts issues
· Lead in drafting & implementing NEC show room & Software House collaboration
· Suggested MSDOS version of NEC PC
· Lead Distributor’s into application specific projects
· Resolving Shipping & Logistics Issue

1980 – 1982 Texas Instruments Asia Field Sales Engineer/ Acting Regional Manager
· Achieve $6M revenue & 12% profits within one year.
· Initiated various Vertical industries Applications packaging with T.I. hardware; includes Hotel; Logistics; Airlines; Education; manufacturing; Communication.
· Successfully assisted S.W.I.F.T. on Technical & Service support issues
· Participated in City Bank; Electronic Banking project
· Resolved Letter of Credit & Debts issues with distributors
· Collaborated with Raytheon using Texas Instruments DS Systems & Omni Printers for Airport terminals in Asia.

1977 – 1980 University of Wales; Swansea
· Working on Cyber M – Multi-Microprocessor System
· Working on Automatic Maintenance firmware for Cyber M

1975 – 1977 IBM World Trade Corp/ Singapore Customer Engineer
· Achieved 200% on Selling service contract
· Best Customer Satisfaction
· Products trained includes, Electric & Electronic Typewriter, Copier; Word processor; Computer I/O; Office System; Dictaphone.
· Submitted paper works on Desk Top Computer to IBM HQ
· Submitted paper works on Desk Top Printers
· Coordinator for the Customer Engineering Seminar

Education
· University of Wales; Swansea -- B.Sc. Degree Computer Technology 1980
· Subject includes Hardware/ Software; Assembler/ Compiler; Data Base; Programming Language; System Architecture & Design; Microprocessor; Control system; Electronics Circuit design; Data Communication.

· Singapore Technical Institute – Industrial Technician Cert, Electronics Eng. 1973

· Subject includes Electrical Principle; Material Physic; Electronics Principle; Industrial Management; Control & Instrumentations; Telecommunications;
Other Courses Taken
· NEC; ICL; Philips; Business; Leadership & Senior Management Course
· IBM Tack Customer Engineer Course; IBM/ Lexmark Sales/ Marketing Management
· Business Weeks; Fortune Magazine; Forbes CEO/ Leadership Workshops
· Color Management; Series 6; Series 7; Real Estate Sales;
· Capital Venture & Funding; Public Speaking;

Not For Profits Organization Experience
· Founder CommerceNet Asia/ Singapore
· Singapore America Business Association
· L.A. Venture Association member
· Founding Director & Conference Chair - Society for International Trades & Economy
· Founding Member EU G8 -- Worldwide Electronic Market Place
· Founding Director – Malaysia Technology Forum
· Founding Advisory Director – Malaysia National Trade & Industrial Bureaus
· Secretary Feng Shan School District - Singapore

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