Vincent Chen

Lead Engineer, Account Escalations

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

About

The epitome of an IT system is when business users it to perform their tasks intuitively and effortlessly because it just works for them. I am the person who facilitates and makes that happen. I help business and users to solve performance issues and provide feedback to enhance and improve the system so that it evolves with the business and processes. I have worn many hats - Project Manager, Support, Developer, Business Analyst and have worked in various industries, including end users and vendor environments. I am open to opportunities in both Singapore and Sydney. Thank you for viewing my profile. Please contact me at [email protected] and connect. I'd love to speak with you.

Experience

  • ServiceNow (Full-time · 9 yrs 4 mos)
    • Lead Engineer, AEE
      Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

    • Senior Staff Performance Support Engineer
      Mar 2017 - Sep 2023 · 6 yrs 7 mos

      • Part of the Performance Team who are focused in high priority cases related to instance performance issues and service interruptions • Deep dive into application logs, configuration files and heap dumps to investigate probable causes of performance degrdation • Identify slow queries (MySQL) and take actions to improve performance • Drive P1 bridges and collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure customer is kept informed and relief provided without delay • Awarded Product and Technology Award within the first year of joining the company for efforts in resolving a highly escalated customer's case and am the only recipient of the award from Sydney • Promoted to Staff Engineer within 2 years of joining ServiceNow

  • Technical Support at Salesforce
    Jul 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Certified Salesforce Administrator, Advanced Administrator and Platform App Builder • Answer technical questions, resolve issues and suggest appropriate workarounds related to Salesforce CRM and areas such as Data Management, Performance, Security and Wave Analytics • Develop and maintain technical expertise in product functionalities, new and updated features in each release and utilize that expertise to help customers effectively and resolve their issues • Assist customers from APAC including Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China as well as other regions

  • Manager at Prudential Assurance
    Jun 2012 - Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Assigned work and managed a team of 4 (onshore and offshore) • Managed 3rd party vendors on outsourced project, coordinated project schedules and reviewed project artifacts and deliverables • On time implementation of ETL jobs to extract data from AS400 (physical/logical files and journals) and populate into Netezza data mart • Designed and developed over 200 SSIS packages (which included data cleansing, data type conversions and reconciliations) from 120 SQL Server databases to Netezza in 4 months for a data migration project • Managed 2 internet facing Java EE Web applications. Responsible for BAU activities including software/hardware upgrades, production rollouts, enhancements and bug fixes • Developed DDLs and scripts to create Netezza database objects. Ensure distribution keys defined are correct and do not cause table skews • Assessed technical impact of user proposed changes and enhancements. Worked with users to agree on priority, scope and delivery timelines • Developed codes, led UAT and prepared production deployment packages for Java EE applications. Provided peer reviews of codes written by team members, contractors and third party vendors • Produced functional and technical specifications as well as updates to user manuals for new enhancements developed and changes • Write the tender for a Policy Sale Quality Review System. Drove tender process end to end and provided management with evaluation criteria and assessment of vendors and proposed solution.

  • AVP at Unicom data
    Aug 2011 - Jun 2012 · 11 mos

    • Managed the implementation of a Local Regulatory Reporting project for the South Korean branch for various products such as bonds, fx, IRS and money market • Created and maintained data mapping specifications for data extraction from Data Warehouse • Worked with Seoul finance users to implement LRR application • Oversaw the development of Informatica mappings for the extraction of required data into flat files • Participated in AIX server refresh exercise as application owner

  • Associate Data Architect at NOL
    May 2010 - Jun 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Participated in Master Data projects – gather as-is usage of master data in various systems so as to establish the unified business glossary and implement solutions to create and manage Master Data. • Designed data models (Logical and Physical) for Master Data Domains. • Reviewed and approve changes to Enterprise Data models. • Maintain and update Enterprise Data modeling standards and guidelines. • Application administrator of Embarcadero ER/Studio