Resumé

Education

  • National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
    Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honors), Class of 2007
    Majored in Communications and New Media
    Awarded NTUC Income Prize by NUS Senate in 2007 for graduating as class valedictorian; placed on Dean’s List in three semesters during course of study.

Experience

  • Teaching Assistant, Communications and New Media (CNM), NUS (July 2007 – Present)
    Responsible for teaching undergraduate tutorials and labs; average class size of 25 students. Teaching areas include introduction to media writing, news reporting and editing, publications and graphics design. Won the CNM Excellent Teaching Assistant Award in both 2008 and 2009. Won the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Student Teaching Award in 2010.

  • Founding Managing Editor, The Campus Observer (May 2006 – May 2007)
    Co-founded the first online NUS student newspaper, and the first editorially independent student newspaper in Singapore. Wrote, edited and published a range of news stories and managed over 15 staff members.

  • Intern, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore (May 2006 – July 2006)
    Designed publicity collaterals (donation card, poster and billboard) for a fundraising run organised by the institute, and did a partial revamp of intranet interface.

  • Founding President, CNM Students’ Society, NUS (Dec 2004 – Feb 2006)
    Founded the student society and established a strong and mututally beneficial relationship between the Communications and New Media Programme and its students.

  • Honorary Assistant Secretary, NUS Students’ Union, Singapore (Oct 2004 – Oct 2005)
    Elected to Students’ Union executive committee and represented the Union at the Universitas 21 Student Network conference held at University of Nottingham, UK, Dec 2004. Was conferred Silver Award for dedicated service to the Union.

Proficiencies

Able to speak and write in Mandarin Chinese
Competent in using Microsoft© Office, Openoffice.org, Adobe© Photoshop, Adobe© InDesign and Adobe© Dreamweaver
Good working knowledge of WordPress CMS