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Raymond Lou

Raymond Lou

Director
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Summary

Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
2007
2007
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director of Operations

Raymond Books Ltd
03.2018 - Current
  • Negotiated with vendors, suppliers and other stakeholders to acquire mutually beneficial contracts and agreement.
  • Monitored budget and utilized operational resources.
  • Analyzed business operations and implemented strategies to improve operational cohesiveness.
  • Set up Import and export supply logistics chain.

English as a Second Language Teacher

YSL Language Group
05.2015 - 03.2017
  • Educated students in basics of English grammar and conversational speaking.
  • Created new lesson plans based on course objectives.
  • Increased ESL students' reading levels by integrating online word games and altering lesson plans for students needing extra guidance.
  • Developed and taught ESL curriculum to improve students' conversational abilities.

Marketing Manager

High Street Market Group
04.2014 - 04.2015
  • Boosted brand awareness and generated leads while managing internal and external marketing campaigns and programs.
  • Boosted sales performance through the creation of engaging promotional materials and targeted advertising strategies.
  • Increased brand awareness by developing and implementing strategic marketing campaigns.
  • Managed social media accounts for optimal audience engagement and increased online presence.
  • Analyzed market trends to identify new opportunities, adjusting marketing plans accordingly for maximum effectiveness.

Corporate Events Planner & Brand Management Systems Manager

Procon Corporate Events Pte Ltd
04.2012 - 12.2012
  • Recruited to oversee transition from current company IT usage models and financial controls to a more streamlined and efficient process
  • Scope of position became expansive with time to encompass and inclusive of full IT design, implementation, support, training, administration and management authority for: PC Desktop Systems, LAN/WAN Networks, Application Systems, Web/Internet Design & Operations
  • Additional roles include the spearheading of existing fiduciary financial systems to a more streamlined, highly functional system, achieving significant savings in man hours and administrative costs
  • In addition, exposure to project and event planning of varying degrees of time and costs constrains resulting in exposure to management of senior to middle management of clientele
  • Oversaw transition of current deployment of business solutions from existing one, which resulted in a increase of efficiency and decreased operational costs by 30%
  • Involvement in conceptualization, budget planning, contract negotiations and implementation of a brand new privileges program with BMW, resulting in a 2 year SGD$6 million contractual agreement
  • Spearheaded implementations of financial controls and systems which resulted in avoidance of $2 million in potential fiduciary fines and increase in efficiency of 40% in relation to man hours and costs
  • Current involvement in the budgetary planning, it deployment and infrastructure for $USD2 million investment in overseas branch office
  • Decreased inventory, application pricing and licensing costs by establishing standardizing for applications, desktops and networking systems

Account Manager

Innosys Pte Ltd
11.2008 - 04.2008
  • Company Overview: It retailer of customized business solutions for freight industry
  • Recruited to provide requirements analysis, implementation, training and support to clientele who purchased business solutions packages
  • Scope of position allowed for full authority on implementation, training and requirements analysis stage for clients as well as provision of back-end customer support and liaison with programming team
  • It retailer of customized business solutions for freight industry
  • Successfully completed and implemented on time customized business solutions for 8 clients
  • Involvement in conceptualization, implementation, marketing and testing of new software module for the submissions of documents to customs Singapore
  • Liaison with overseas and local programming teams for product bugs and module testing

Education

BSC - IT Systems & IT Applications, Robotics, graphics and database design & Management, Human Computer Interaction, networking and security

UNIVERSITY OF Western Australia

TOEFL Certification - undefined

British Education Center

Skills

Linux

Unix

Windows

Macintosh Operating Systems

Microsoft Office Suite

SOAP Suite

PostgreSQL

HTML

Joomla

CAKEPHP

JQuery

Internet Marketing Methodologies

Google Adwords

Facebook Advertising

PPC campaigns

SEM campaigns

Object Oriented Programming

Project Planning

Management methodologies

development tools

SVN

SVC

Java J2EE

Visual Basic

C

C

Visual C

JSP

PHP

Iphone SDK

Strategic planning and execution

Timeline

Director of Operations

Raymond Books Ltd
03.2018 - Current

English as a Second Language Teacher

YSL Language Group
05.2015 - 03.2017

Marketing Manager

High Street Market Group
04.2014 - 04.2015

Corporate Events Planner & Brand Management Systems Manager

Procon Corporate Events Pte Ltd
04.2012 - 12.2012

Account Manager

Innosys Pte Ltd
11.2008 - 04.2008

TOEFL Certification - undefined

British Education Center

BSC - IT Systems & IT Applications, Robotics, graphics and database design & Management, Human Computer Interaction, networking and security

UNIVERSITY OF Western Australia
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