I work for a public listed, multi-national engineering and construction company in Singapore which specializes in building Power Plants, Industrial Plants, Incineration Plants, Chemical Plants, Oil & Gas Plants, Offshore/FPSO Process Eqpts Skids and Topside Modules, Refineries, Petrochemicals, High Rise Buildings, etc.

Though I'm a Civil Engineer by profession, I have considerable knowledge, significant experience and exposure in handling various projects and different disciplines covering Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical & Instrumentation, Commissioning, Insulation, Painting/Surface Treatment, etc.... from tendering and designing stage till the completion of the project

I consider myself fortunate, that in the process of doing my actual job, I have developed a very keen interest in Computers and the Internet... and exploring this interesting field, has become a hobby... it helped that my work gave me the challenge and opportunity to learn and apply this IT knowledge in practice....

Currently, I am assigned as "Operations Manager" for the Fabrication Center which controls five (5) Regional Manufacturing Facilities in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and India.

As Operations Manager,I handle around thirty staff (Engineers and Supervisors) and few hundred workers and in-house subcontractors..

My main duties and responsibilities include the following:

• Directly reporting to the General Manager of the Fab'n Center and is in-charge of all the Operations of the Singapore Manufacturing Facilities.
• Oversee, Plan and Control all activities of the Project Engineering Section and Quality Control Section.
• Oversee, Plan and Control the execution of all projects secured by the Fabrication Center at Singapore Workshop, Regional Shops and/or Subcontractors facilities. Involved in all phases from tendering and contract negotiations with clients till completion of the project.
• Oversee, Plan and Control the activities of Procurement and Subcontracting Department.
• Spearhead and plan for the extensive use of Information Technology in all activities of the Fabrication Center.
• Prepare Management Reports, Presentations, Business Plans, Investment Plans, Feasibility Studies, etc. for the Fabrication Center.

In addition to my main duties, I was recently appointed by our top management (personally selected by our MD) to sit as one of the Board Members (Director) of our subsidiary company in Vietnam, and has been tasked to make significant contributions towards the improvement of our business activities there.

Programming in Visual Basic, C/C++, Java, HTML, XML, ASP, Macromedia Flash, Fireworks and Dream Weaver, MS Windows 95/98/2000, Microsoft Frontpage,MS Office 97/2000/XP (MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word, MS Power Point), Microsoft Projects 98/2000, AutoCad, Lotus, WordPerfect, DBase, Artemis, Corel, Adobe, etc...

I have developed several in-house software programs for our company, such as the Integrated Material Inventory and Tracking, Production/Project Control and Quality Control Software Program, written in Visual Basic/MS Access with automated reports generation in MS Excel (this is not my actual job, just an interest, that's all)...

Currently, I am working on implementing E-Procurement and Web On-line Bidding System for our Procurement Department.. Likewise, I am working on the development of our Fab'n Center's intranet webpage...

Back in 1997, I turned down an offer to work in the U.S.A. as a Software Developer & Tester... Had I accepted the offer, it would have drastically changed my line of work... I wonder where would I be right now, had I done so...

My father is from Ilocos Sur-the northern part of the Philippines and my mother is from Surigao Del Sur-the southern part. Besides English and Tagalog, I can also speak the following filipino dialects - IIocano and Cebuano. I was born in Tacurong, Cotabato (now Sultan Kudarat) in Mindanao, South of the Philippines. When I was young, our family moved on from place to place, due to my father's work. I have resided in different places in the Philippines: from Digos (Davao Del Sur), to Davao City, to Tagum (Davao Del Norte), to Bislig (Surigao Del Sur), to Cebu (briefly), to Candon (Ilocos Sur) and then to Manila (from 1975).

Sports?? Well..I like to play Chess, Tennis, Bowling, Billiards, Swimming, I took formal Golf lessons and used to play Golf few years back (now am too busy..).... All these activities seem to make me appear the athletic type, but I'm really not, coz' it's either, I don't have much time or I just prefer to stay at home and read or otherwise tinker with the computer or just sleep the whole day....

Thru my work, I had the opportunity to visit the following places:
U.S.A. (Chicago, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Disneyland, Las Vegas, etc.), The Netherlands (Amsterdam, The Hague), Australia (Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, etc.) , New Zealand (Christchurch, etc.), Japan (Tokyo, Kobe, Chiba, Osaka and other parts of Japan), Thailand (Bangkok), Indonesia (Jakarta, Surabaya, Batam, many others), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, many others), Hongkong, Vietnam and of course, Singapore (where I'm now based).