Kang Poh Sing

BLK 842, #09-61, WOODLANDS ST 82, SINGAPORE 730842

PHONE (65) 3687165 / (65) 97817152 • E-MAIL poh_sing@hotmail.com

Jul 98 – Jul 02         National University of Singapore

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) with minor in Technopreneurship

n     2^nd class honours (upper)

n     Awarded Engineering Colours for outstanding extra-curricular activities

n     Participated in student exchange program at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Mar 94 – Dec 95     Catholic Junior College

n     Graduated top of class

n     Awarded Academic Excellence in Physics

n     Awarded Bapu Supramaniam Memorial Award in Chemistry

Apr 01 – Jul 01       Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory         Berkeley, CA

Software Engineering Intern

n     Led a project team to design and develop an automated tape processing system (ATPS) to process 130 Terabytes of raw experimental data

n     Developed a database monitoring system using PostgreSQL to monitor parallel processing

n     Collaborated with Parallel Distributed Systems Facility (PDSF) group to administer parallel processing of data using PC farm (150 PCs)

Oct 00 – Jun 01       Diamond Laboratory, UC Berkeley               Berkeley, CA

Research programmer

n     Collaborated with the graduate students to develop three-dimensional neuronal maps of the mouse hypothalamus using an automated imaging microscope system.

Jun 00 – Aug 00      California Institute of Technology                  Pasadena, CA

Teaching and Interdisciplinary Education Fellow

n     Collaborated with Prof. Sossina Haile to develop computer-based teaching tools to enhance instruction

n     Created three-dimensional crystal structures using Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) and animation for movement of dislocations using 3D Studio MAX

n     Designed and implemented a course website using HTML and JavaScript

Mar 96 – Jun 98       School of Naval Training                               Singapore

Chief Administrative Supervisor

n     Commanded a team of twenty to handle all administrative matters of the camp

n     Led a Work Improvement Team (WIT) team and won a silver award at RSN WIT Convention 1997

n     NUS Delegate, Harvard Project for Asia and International Relations – Asia and the Knowledge Economy

n     CRCA certified Whitewater kayaking Level I

n     Vice-Chairperson, NUS Student Union Public Relations Unit

n     Logistics Officer, NUS Student Union Open House Committee

n     Quarter-master, Canoeing sub club, NUS Students' Sports Club

n     Communications, AIESEC

n     Teaching and Interdisciplinary Education Fellowship, CALTECH

2000

n     Best Sub-Club (Water), NUS Sports Club Award

1999

n     Best Councillor, NUS Geographical Society FOC

1999

n     Silver Award, Republic of Singapore Navy WIT Convention

1997

n     Outstanding Individual Suggestor Award, School of Naval Training

1996

n     Best Trainee, 113th Basic Administrative Supervisor Course

1995

HP-UX, Solaris Unix, Linux (Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian), Windows

n     Experience with Sony Advanced Intelligence Tapes (50GB) backup system

n     Software development on UNIX and Linux for x86 (Intel) and ARM processors based machines

n     Red Hat Linux System Administration and Software Development

n     Parallel programming using parallel distributed Linux clusters

n     Proficiency in Bluetooth and 802.11x standards

n     Perl, Perl-Cgi

n     C / C++

n     PostgreSQL, MySQL

n     Assembly

n     3D Studio Max

n     Shell Scripting (Bash & tcsh)

n     Tcl/Tk

n     HTML, Java Script

n     Fortran, Pascal

n     VRML