Chee Yong Lee

My name is Chee Yong, born in Singapore.

I am a seasoned software development leader with a proven track record of architecting and delivering reliable and scalable systems in domains spread across hospitality, consumer electronics, telecommunication, defense and educational sectors. I have worked in Singapore, Malaysia, China and United States, managing multinational teams comprising more than 30 IT professionals.

I have benefited from working in different functional roles ranging from SW program management, offshore outsourcing, software development, quality assurance and project management. Handling project escalations, managing project risks and timeline schedule discussion with top management stakeholders, seeking win-win solutions to often conflicting priorities across concurrent SW projects, levering upon external outsourced SW teams to deliver SW modules in hybrid development models, provisioning for competency development of employees and optimizing human resource deployment across different simultaneous projects are the tasks I juggle well with as a senior software development manager. I have good hands on experience in deploying development best practices required to deliver projects on time, on schedule, with the specified scope at good quality.

A strong believer in agile methodology, I have introduced and deployed SCRUM with significant success in improving intra and inter team communication and reducing defects turn-around time.

I served as a Scrum-Master in Agilent Technologies, teaching values such as self-organization and teamwork to the team. I work closely with the Product Owner to help groom the product backlog, and guided the team in best practices such as continuous integration, code refactoring, pair programming.

In Philips Electronics, I served as the Scrum Coach, guiding 2 scrum-master in the respective scrum adoption. I also helped to provide the agile development process within the Philips SW development processes. Under my involvement, our project manager managed to achieve CMMI Level 3 while carrying out agile development work.

In NCS Pte Ltd, as the agile practice lead, my role is to promote the agile development methodology within the service provider company. This is achieved through serving as coaches to the existing project teams and providing just in time agile education from scrum process overview, engineering best practices to agile project management.

I am a certified CSM, PSM I, PSM II and PMI-ACP.