Foo Siang Yian, Daniel
PERSONAL PARTICULARS
NRIC Number S1205399A
Date of birth 02/Dec/1956
Address Block 329, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3,
#09-2050, Singapore 560329
Contact Number 97803895 (Mobile), 6858-5045 (Home)
PROFILE
I have left the corporate world in 2012, January 31 to do some freelancing and at the same time spending more time with my family.
My 2018 Resolution is to go back to the corporate world to work in the area of Facilitating, Training or Teaching.
Here is a short story of me:
Interestingly, I am a certified trainer in Malaysia but after so many years of facilitating, training and teaching, I am not yet a certified trainer or an Adult Educator in Singapore. Maybe I was from the old school of the ‘Train-The-Trainer’ era that is obsoleted.
With that in mind I enrolled to upgrade myself for the WSQ Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTAv5) and completed the course, and now I am a certified Adult Educator (Trainer) in Singapore.
Now the old school & the new school merged in me and I am equipped to deliver training and conduct assessment as well as meet the training needs of people in a technological age.
Something a little more about me
With my 33 years of operations experience in the oil & gas industries should be beneficial to your rapidly growing operations.
Having various capacities of Operations, Quality Improvement Process (QIP) & Health Safety & Environment (HSE) within the oil & gas organisation that lead me in achieving my Regional QIP (TQM) & HSE position. During my tenor, I have acquired real & soft skills in all phases of my work life journey.
Though having retired from operations, I am still keen on moving towards my passion in teaching and sharing my lifelong working experiences to our younger generations.
I would greatly appreciate having the opportunity to show you ways that I can assist in your operations achieving your goals of Making Money & Love Safety.
The underlining strategy is to achieve Quality Work; Quality Life for everyone in your organisations
EDUCATION
Certified to...
· I have completed the Quality Improvement Process Management College course conducted by Philip Crosby Associates Inc (1993) as well as the Quality Management Course by SPRING SINGAPORE (1995)
· A Certified Trainer in Total Quality Process (1995), I am licensed to conduct the Quality Improvement and Quality Action Courses by the then PSB, now known as SPRING SINGAPORE.
· I received trainings in Developing an Effective Instructor from PSB (1995)
· I am trained in Service Quality Leadership from Service Quality Centre (1995)
· I completed Effective Speaking and Human Relations from Dale Carnegie & Associates Inc. (1993).
· I have an Advanced Diploma in Quality Management with PSB (1998).
· On safety, I also completed the OHSAS 18000 Management System Lead Auditor Course with the National Safety Council of Australia Ltd (2000) and IS0 14001 Management System Lead Auditor Course by Regional Institute of Environmental Technology (RIET) in 2001.
· I am trained in Psychology of Safety and Behaviour-Based Safety conducted by Safety Performance Solutions Inc, a US based company (2001).
· I have received my Bachelor of Business Administration Degree with University of Western Sydney, Nepean (2001).
· I was a Singapore Quality Class (SQC) Assessor with SPRING SINGAPORE.
· I am an individual member (ordinary) of Singapore Institute of Management, a member of National Facilitation of Singapore and also an ex-member of Toastmasters International.
Freelancing Experience
· Facilitated a Team Retreat for a MNC Workshop title : “Management Appreciation & Team Bonding”
Purpose
The purpose of this Team Retreat is to provide the participants with an awareness of their interpersonal skills in creating a FUN working environment. Also, to build stronger relationships with their team members they work with, the customers they serve, the staff they teach and the people they love.
a. As a leader you need to define fun by communicating your definition of fun to your team.
b. The ability to play is critical not only to being happy but also to sustain social relationship, as well as being a creative and innovative person.
c. It has been well accepted that there is a direct relationship between 'fun at work' and employee’s motivation, productivity, creativity, satisfaction and retention.
d. Identify and implement the framework of “LOVE” Leadership.
· Facilitated a 2 days’ workshop for a MNC in Malaysia title: “Igniting Facilitation & Storytelling @work”
Purpose
The purpose of this workshop is to provide the participants with the interpersonal skills in facilitating and storytelling required to meet the challenges of their role as a leader of other leaders.
a. Increase effectiveness at generating creative ideas for facilitating & storytelling.
b. Know how ‘Frames Mental Model’ can expand and increase creativity in facilitating & storytelling.
c. Understand different ‘Frames Mental Model’ and when each is most appropriate to use in facilitating & storytelling.
d. Hook your audience by creating a “Be Interesting” environment using the storytelling techniques is a crucial part of a trainer/facilitator.
· A 6-months project Implementing an OSHMS for a MNC in Malaysia
This project covers the development and implementation of an occupational safety and health management system (OSHMS) Gelang Patah, Johor, Malaysia. The OSHMS will consist of 17 elements, with a continual improvement life cycle of four high level processes, namely the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle. The OSHMS aims to identify, assess, evaluate, and implement adequate control measures to eliminate or minimise occupational safety and health risks at the workplace.
· A 2-years contact to provide an Advisory cum Consultancy for Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) services to a MNC in Singapore.
Purpose
The purpose of the Advisory cum Consultancy for Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) services is to design and support the start of discussing HSE of all the workers at your workplace. To provide management and workers with an awareness of their interpersonal skills in creating a fun & safe working environment. Also, to build stronger relationships with their team members they work with, the customers they serve, the staff they teach and the people they love.
· Developed a Six Months Guided Workshop “Make Money; Love Safety - A Being-Safe Process’
Come together to practice Being-Safe Process and cultivating an open heart for workplace safety. A six months in-company program-based series to open your heart, mind and ideas. This is a six months workshop focusing on extraordinary safety elements to begin Being-Safe in your workplace. We'll soften our hearts and listen more to others as we navigate the transformation of a Being-Safe workplace.
· This is my 33 years Core Expertise : The Total Quality Culture Initiative -The Unexpected Quality Journey
The Unexpected Quality Journey (UQJ)
This Unexpected Quality Journey (UQJ) will allow an organization to take a deep dive into the inquiries, practices as well as a learning journey…
….If an organization who...
o Wants to reduce the cost of non-conformances and make more money.
o Are committed to make quality products and services certainty.
o Insists that the employees’ work contribute to improve Quality Work; Quality Life (QWQL) in the workplace and generating substantial rewards for everyone in the organization.
o Are committed to rebuilding trust in the workplace using the UQJ framework.
o Is eager to learn and works together within a team environment to achieve QWQL.
o Is seeking a fresh interpretation of Total Quality.
o Has an appetite to create something great to achieve QWQL and know that the employees require going beyond what they already know.
o Is creating a vision and mission that requires an expansion of the organization capacity.
o Understanding that the organization is stuck and not achieving QWQL.
o Is eager to be and lead the change you want to see in the workplace to achieve QWQL.
o Are seeking a Total Quality framework that allows all employees to see beyond the current interpretations of Total Quality knowledge.
o Recognize that fulfilling the organization quality vision & mission requires expanding the ability to mobilize and optimize resources in the organization.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Here is my long story:
Quality Improvement Process & Health Safety Environment
Regional Manager
FMC Technologies Singapore Pte Ltd
I have extensive experiences in Total Quality Management and training of staffs as well as frequently volunteer my services to both the public and private sectors. I have been with FMC Technologies Singapore Pte Ltd (formerly known as FMC Southeast Asia Pte Ltd) for the last 33 years.
(1979 to January 2012)
Positions held...
In my 33 years employment with FMC Technologies, I held few major positions in the company as Production Supervisor and Senior Cost Estimator. With my many skills and being multi-disciplined, I was promoted in 1993 to champion Total Quality Management which FMC named as Quality Improvement Process (QIP).
To make life more challenging and ensuring that Health Safety Environment (HSE) and QIP go hand-in-hand, I took over the managing role of the Safety Management System (SMS) in 1996.
In QIP and HSE, I am a Mover, Shaker and an Enabler. I plan, implement and conduct company-wide trainings, facilitate processes mapping, Cost of Quality (COQ), and is the caretaker of Total Quality theology and Safety Behaviour-based process. I have increased the awareness of QIP and HSE as an essential element of the organizational culture that ensures all employees are motivated and totally embraced into the concept of Housekeeping, Safety, Health, Environment, Quality and Teamwork.
After many years of promoting QIP and the quality mindset, I took another step to benchmark the QIP concept against the best in the world. The Singapore Quality Class (SQC) award accredited to the SPRING SINGAPORE (formerly PSB) under the highly structured National Best Practises Program, which FMC attained in 1997, provides a roadmap to chart the progress towards a world-class standard of business excellence performance.
I also coordinate the QIP and HSE processes implementation in FMC Technologies’ Pasir Gudang & Gelang Patah Plants in Johor, Malaysia, Santana Plant in Jakarta, Indonesia and also provide assistance to other plants and sales offices in the Asia Pacific and Middle East Regions.
Public Involvement...
I have been constantly networking with the public and private sectors to keep pace with the marketplace in order to enhance the Quality of the company’s products and services. Being actively involved in networking in both the public and private sectors (SPRING SINGAPORE and Singapore Institute of Management), my mission is to promote organizational and managerial effectiveness through the application of the principles of Total Quality Management. I also network with other quality practitioners to promote the application of Total Quality Management concepts among organizations and individuals in Singapore. Since 1993, I have been in the Executive Committee for the Jurong Zone’s Productivity Activist Group of the SPRING SINGAPORE. I am also involved in the Best Practice Networks Group (Manufacturing).
School Involvement...
In the spirit of learning and sharing the QIP’s concept with the community, I collaborated with the Student Work Improvement Teams (WITs) from Jurong Junior College (JJC) and FMC in 1998. The objective is to enhance the students’ skills and learning by applying tools and principles of Quality Management to identify opportunities for improvement in the real world. And for the first time in Singapore, students from the JJC presented the FMC’s project that they had completed in the National QC Convention and they bagged a bronze medal for the school in 1999. FMC continue to collaborate with the student WITs from the JJC in the hope that the students’ new-found knowledge and skills are immediately transferable to the curriculum and will stay with them for life.
Private Sector Involvement...
In response to the considerable interests shown by the management in the philosophy of Total Quality Management and under the arms of Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), I formed the Total Quality Management Group (TQMG). I have served as Secretary in the Executive Committee from 1993 to March 1996. I continue to serve as President from April 1996 to March 1998 then as Vice-President from April 1998 to March 2000. I was again elected to the Presidency from April 2000. During this period of my Presidency I have imitated to include innovation in the quality journey, thus the name change to Innovation & Quality Management (IQM). I have conducted innovation workshops during the SIM’s Interest Group Convention. The group has been involved in business trip studies to Beijing, Shanghai, Malaysia and Vietnam to explore innovation & quality learning. I continue to serve as the President and Vice-President, rotation roles on every 2 years till March 2012.
OTHER TRAININGS/COURSES
· Completed the WSQ Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTAv5)
I am a Certified Adult Educator (Trainer) in Singapore.
· Completed the Train The Trainer in Malaysia
I am a Certified Trainer in Malaysia
· During my 33 years working in the Oil & Gas industries, I have travelled vastly throughout Asia-Pacific/Middle East attending global meetings & auditing regional sites and many other seminars, workshop/trainings that might not have been mentioned under the education & working experience sections where we can explore further when we meet face to face.
OTHER SKILLS
· Facilitating, Coaching, Mentoring & Storytelling
A Little Quote about me
I am a prime mover of QIP initiatives in Cost of Quality (COQ) and have been saving FMC Technologies Singapore an average of US$500,000 in COQ on a yearly basis. My extraordinary contribution towards FMC’s long term growth through exceptional creativity, initiative with my perseverance is pushing for the limits of QIP to newer heights.
I have contributed so much on FMC Technologies’ QIP and HSE journeys all those years that I was with them. In fact, as a founding father, I should be very proud of my achievements. The tasks and stresses to go where I have taken FMC’s managers are the most difficult as I consider that FMC Technologies started off with a very low base and as a staff function, I have to push really hard and be thick-skinned enough to get their behaviour changed. FMC Technologies’ Senior Managers still think that when they need to make that change in 1992, I was the right person for the job. Fast forward to 2011, we can see it was indeed the right decision.
My Quality Motto: Quality Work ; Quality Life
On Safety, I am a devil advocate that “safety is NEVER first” and that business priorities are all about making more money and promotes safety as a value.
My Safety Motto: Make Money ; Love Safety
About Qualipreneur…
A self-proclaimed Qualipreneur (Instilling Quality in Business) who eats, talks, walks, sleeps and dreams quality, my blood type is “Q”. I am an enabler who uses resources to make more money for all parties in the organization.
The bottom-line of my work is always about the absence part between work and home. I sell dreams (Transformation) to people who craves about Quality Work ; Quality Life and a workplace that Make Money’; Love Safety & is free from injury.
I don’t describe or define what I do. I let people like you to do that.
SALARY INFORMATION
My last pay: To review upon interview
Expected Pay: Negotiable
Notice period: immediate
Reason for leaving: NA
A photo: Top right hand
INTERESTS
· Voracious Reader
· Walking in nature
· Travelling
LOCAL OR OVERSEAS REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
My Ex Director: Steven Ward in Houston
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