Project Manager
Resume:
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Personal Particulars
Name: Darren Chan Keng Leong
Date of Birth: 24 December 1992
Age: 20
Residential Address: 31 Springleaf Walk S787883
Contact Numbers: 64511407 (Home)
: 91552032 (Hand phone)
Email: ************@*****.***
Career Objective
To be part of a company and to take on challenges which will help increase its
growth. It will make me a better individual as well through my time in the company as
I gain more knowledge and skills.
Education
Primary School:
St Michael s School (1999-2004)
Certificate:
PSLE
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Secondary School:
Montfort Secondary School (2003-2008)
Certificate:
GCE O Level
Tertiary Education
Republic Polytechnic (2009-2012)
Certificate:
Diploma in Communication and Information Design
National Service
BMT (Armskote 2IC) / UNIT (ST Trooper) (2012-2014) (on-going)
PES B
Certificate:
Completed the 14/12 Security Trooper (Combat) Course (Oct to Nov 2012)
Achievements
2003:
Received Approaching Expectation grade in project work for Innovation
Project
2005:
Received Star Award 2005 in Secondary One for Best attendance and
punctuality
Awarded the 2005 Edusave Scholarship for overall excellent academic results
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2006:
Awarded the 2006 Edusave Scholarship for overall excellent academic results
Received Certificate of outstanding performance in Literature & Visual Arts in
Secondary Two
Received Civil Defence Proficiency Badge Course Certificate for completing a
fire-fighting exercise and test
Received Fairprice Used Textbooks Project Certificate in the participation of
sorting and arranging of books for needy students
Held a Membership Rank in NPCC as a Cadet of 4 years in helping out and
participation of school camps.
Held a post of Vice Chairman of Class Secondary Two
2010:
Held a Membership role as a Technical Crew in Republic Polytechnic s
Jammerz Arena Interest Group as a technician for two months.
2011:
Led a team of 4 in a 3rd year FYP on IGNITE! Music Festival which is a
student ran festival in Republic Polytechnic. Team Achievements:
- Wrote 9 team articles about the festival
- Did copywriting for 4 event blurbs
- Managed and executed a photo-exhibition
- Did a marketing plan to analyze the festival
- Did a Final Report of the team s findings
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Avid Contributor to STOMP Youthphoria Section
- Featured and Interviewed in MyPaper, Catch the buzz in Youthphoria,
9 December 2011, Page A24, By Mr Kenneth Tan, Editor of STOMP
- Article can be found at my online portfolio
at : http://darrenchanklpd.weebly.com
2012:
Received a certificate of the participation in Singapore s Child Pitch held at
Republic Polytechnic
Led a team of 5 in a 3rd year FYP on designing a proposed idea for Wildlife
Reserves Singapore and The Singapore Zoo in attracting more youths to
come to the Zoo. Team Achievements:
- Did a Integrated Marketing Communication Plan to market our ideas to
youths
- Successfully conducted two surveys online and in the Zoo
- Did a client presentation to Ms May Lok, Wildlife Reserves Education
Officer
- Completed and designed mock-ups for our proposed ideas
- Did a Final Report of the team s findings
Was employed by Republic Polytechnic (RP) Office of Corporate
Communications to be a full-time graduate writer from May to June 2012
- Did writing of 8 articles in total, all were published on the website
- Helped with stock-take of corporate magazines
- Did photography for certain events
- Mentored two student writers
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Did part-time writing for CatholicNews
- Planned and wrote 2 articles for print format, later converted to online
format
- Research story angles that the youth would likely be interested to read
Community Involvement Programmes
Participated in Racial Harmony Day @ Montfort Secondary School
(Participant)
Participated in Taking the city walk @ Padang (Participant)
Participated in HSBC Tree Top Walk (Participant)
Participated in St. Gabriel s Foundation Flag Day (Participant)
Participated in Food From the Heart @ Montfort Secondary School
(Participant)
Participated in Archery@ Montfort Secondary School (Participant)
Skills
IT
Microsoft Office
Fundamentals of Computer Diagnostic Skills
Basic In-Design and Photoshop Skills
Designing of Basic Website Layouts
Languages
Written and Spoken English
Conversational Chinese
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Interpersonal
o Sociable and polite
o Good software & writing skills
o Good communication and organisational skills
o Ability to work with teams
o Enjoys researching information
o Goal-oriented, creative, dilligent worker
o Always review work before submission
o Able to lead a team
Modules that I have taken & found it to be useful for my application
Modules Strengths
A) G101 Cognitive Processes & Develops my analytical skills to
Problem Solving solve problems and to be able to
handle situations effectively.
B) B216 Marketing Gives me knowledge about how to
advertise, analyse both consumer
and market behaviours, branding
and how to ensure a product s
success in the market.
C) C111 Web & New Media See how new media and the
internet can be used as a form of
communication and the impact they
have on society.
D) T201 Creative Concepts Helps me to think out of the box,
be creative in handling situations
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and transforming an idea to be
unique.
E) M202 Media Writing Equips me the skills to write well
and teaches me about the role of
reporters and the different types of
mediums that reporters does such
as writing for print, web and
advertising.
F) M205 Research Methods Equips me with both enterprise &
research skills and data research to
enhance credibility of sources.
G) M333 Communication Equips me with PR tools and event
Strategies for Events management planning skills to
Management prepare for a successful event and
organization of the event layout.
H) M313 Development Journalism Equips me with in-depth journalism
skills to tackle issues in a
developing country.
These issues range from poverty,
disasters which are all human
interest-related. It will enable me as
a writer to bring out a call to action
in my articles.
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I) M314 Editorial & Feature Equips me with skills to write
Writing feature articles and the usage of
sub-headlines which can break
down the article.
It also helps me with caption writing
for visuals and writing of sidebar in
the article.
J) M332 Campaigns & Focuses on copy-writing in
Advertisement Design advertisements and understand the
function of an advertisement.
It also helps me to prepare
advertisements and the
components to put inside an
advertisement.
K) M334 Branding Equips me with branding concepts
that could be applied to a new
programme or a product that the
company wants to market out.
It also helps me to plan for product
launches and communicate the
branding of the product effectively
to the masses via its brand
message.
l) G208 Reasoning Through the Equips me with critical thinking skills
Ages to help me in analyzing situations
and looking at every possible
situation in the context of doing
things.
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Referees
1.) Name : Ms Joanna Lim
E-mail : **********@**.***.**
Designation : Academic Staff
: Mentor
Company Name: Republic Polytechnic
2.) Name : Ms Seow Yen Ping
Email : *************@**.***.**
Designation : Assistant Director
: Covering Programme Chair of DCID
Company Name: Republic Polytechnic
3.) Name : Mr David Chin
Email : **********@**.***.**
Designation : Senior Academic Staff
: G913 Professional Development (PD) Advisor
Company Name: Republic Polytechnic
4.) Name : Mr Moey Kok Keong
E-mail : **************@**.***.**
Designation : Academic Staff
: Final Year Project I Supervisor
Company Name: Republic Polytechnic
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5.) Name : Mr Raoul Le Blond
E-mail : **************@**.***.**
Designation : Academic Staff
: Final Year Project II Supervisor
Company Name: Republic Polytechnic
6.) Name : Ms Samantha Loh
Email : *******@*****.***
Designation : Trainer
: Previous Facilitator of Republic Polytechnic
Company Name: Civil Service Club
7.) Name : Ms Natalie Goh
Email : ***********@**.***.**
Designation : Senior Manager
Company : Republic Polytechnic
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