Keen to work in the middle east? Here’s an opportunity!

Position summary 
A system engineer role focused on providing support  to clients’ critical Linux/UNIX systems locally and internationally. Position require to be deployed in a middle-east country for 1 year.


Duties & accountabilities 
• Providing infrastructure provisioning, deployment and support service to  internal and clients’ critical systems including on-call and out-of-hours work
• Configuring and troubleshooting application servers, web servers, mail services and other UNIX/Linux services, as well as windows based services, relevant to company’s products and services. 
• Maintaining a broad knowledge of operating systems and hardware and making recommendations on improving administration, availability, scalability, and disaster recovery of current systems.
• Documenting systems design, configuration, and administration items for the purposes of educating new hires and to provide better and consistent global support.
• Enforcing change management controls on production and QA systems.
• Coordinating with development teams for releases of in-house and third party software.
Business competencies 
Education and experience
2 – 3 years of proven track record working as a Linux Systems Engineer.
• Good tertiary education from a recognized institution
• Experience of problem solving in a demanding production environment.
• Experience of working independently and effectively without a high level of direct supervision.
• Able to relocate for work in an foreign location for fix period as required
• Knowledge of various computing hardware and their configuration (Server, SAN, Network, etc).
• Experience with Linux operating system and different Linux distributions, networking protocols, services, and utilities (RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu)
• Knowledge of installation, configuration, and management of Apache, Tomcat, JBoss and ActiveMQ 
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix security best practices. 
• Knowledge of web application security, including common vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate attacks. 
• Knowledge of various virtualization techniques and related technology, including VMWare, Hyper-V, Xen
• Experience of VMWare infrastructure provisioning and support an advantage, but not required.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux certified an advantage, but not required

 Interested parties, please contact outsidethelt@gmail.com

From France to Singapore

We managed to sneak in a quick interview with two of our french attachment students, Sampath and Frederic, who were doing their project with us from May to end July 2010. Want to know what are their opinions of Singapore, NYP and their project? Read on!

Photo: Right to left - Frederic, Sampath and their supervisor, Mr. Henry

OLT: So, why did both of you decided to do your project in Singapore/NYP?
Fred : I wanted to have an international learning experience.
Sam : Yes, I wanted a international experience and also discover more about the asian culture.


OLT: What was your project about?  
Fred & Sam : We were developing a wearable computing application for the elderly, which comes with features such as falling detection, temperature detection, and emergency button through Wi-Fi transmission and potentially also via 3G networks.


OLT:  What are some of the things you have picked up or learnt here? 
Fred : We developed a web site, installed web server and picked up a new kind of language for arduino.
Sam : We discover the Arduino and Lilypad technology, as well as networking and techniques in debugging.


OLT: How do you find the students and teachers? 
Fred : The students are friendly and kind. However, I did not have a lot of contact with other teachers, except our supervisor who was really nice! 
Sam : The students are kind, but a little bit too shy, so they didn't really talk to us a lot. Same thoughts as Fred for the teachers.


OLT: Did you visit Singapore's interesting places and the surrounds? 
Fred : Yes, during the week-ends we travelled a lot. I went to Thailand and Malaysia and a lot of places in Singapore(the Zoo, East Coast, Pulau Ubin... the list goes on).
Sam : Oh yes. I went to Tioman in Malaysia which was really nice, and traveled also a lot in Singapore during the week-ends.


OLT:  Overall, how do you find your Singapore student exchange experience and would you recommend other ESIEE to come here too? 
Fred : It was a very good experience because I met a lot different people coming of different countries around the world. And I also really like the city of Singapore and the Asian lifestyle. Yes of course I will recommend for all the ESIEE students to come here at NYP.
Sam : It was a really interesting experience. We learned a lot of things, technically and culturally. We had the chance to travel a bit and meet a lot of people. I will definitely recommend this to the other ESIEE students.


Thanks guys, for taking out some time for this short interview, and all the best for your future endeavors! :)

iLife@MIT 2009 Edition in our Facebook Page

Dear all, our 2009 Edition of iLife@MIT is now available via the DMIT@NYP Facebook Page.





Download a browsing copy if you have not read it. :)

Campus Concert by Olivia Ong - Fri 23/7/2010

Date:  Fri 23/7/2010 
Time:  5.30pm (concert + autograph session)
Venue: Theatre for the Arts


Effectively bilingual, Olivia is the rare Singaporean singer who found success in Japan. She quickly rose to fame when one of her earlier hit-songs was selected as the theme song in a popular Japanese anime series. Olivia is currently based in Taipei where she continues to on her regional tours and product endorsements in Asia, including Japan. Locally, she is most well-known for her song "ru-yan" which was the theme song for The Little Nonya. In addition to Mandarin pop hits, her latest releases have been bossa nova & jazz covers. She also performed live with Jason Mraz while he was in Singapore on his World Tour.  Tickets are available from the Students Affairs Office, on a first-come-first-served basis. Thank you!

Training at YOG 2010 for IT Helpdesk Call Agent Officer

Hi, we are MIT(Multimedia and Infocomm) Year 2 students and we were selected to be volenteers for YOG(Youth Olympic Games) to be a IT Helpdesk Call Agent Officer. We are Abhradeep Banerjee(Left), Loh Yong Liang(Center) and Randy Kwek(Right). Our training was the YOG headquarters at redhill. Our training started at 26th June at 9am.

I had joined the first YOG as volunteer because it's a good opportunity to take advantage of. I switched from being a Logistic Support Officer to being a IT desktop Call Agent. This will actually add to my current resume. As I would have found it a bit more interesting. We were told at the end of the training if we wanted we could go for a IT desktop Support position which I find it will be very useful to have an exposure in it. There aren't much opportunities given especially when your working as a volunteer at the Youth Olympic games. I had already done some IT desktop support as I had already learned some of it during my MIT course. "commented by Abhradeep Banerjee"

I had joined YOG as a volunteer because I wanted to get involved in first ever YOG and experience it. During the training, i was new to the skills they were teaching. I did not understand at first, and slowly I started to understood it and somehow managed to get the hang of it. After all, the teaching was so difficult to understand and the people was kind and helpful." commented by Randy Kwek

As this is the first YOG held in Singapore, I am very excited and eager to learn new stuff by volunteering as a IT help desk agent. With this opportunity, i am able to assist the engineers in solving related IT problems. I am sure this will be an enjoyable event for my learning journey for future use. --- commented by Loh Yong Liang

Our Job scope is basically to receive phone calls from users who are experiencing problem with the computers or laptop. We are to enter the information such as the problem and who is experiencing it. Next we are to print out a receipt for the IT desktop support personnel who will come and collect the receipt. When he's done fixing the problem we will update on the database where we'll indicated on how he/she had solved the problem.

We felt that the training was very interesting as we never had done anything like this before. We also got to know that during the actual job we would actually learn new skills for example how to fix various problems,etc. I hope in the future we would all get more opportunities like this. We like to thank Mr Edmund Teo and Ms Jessie Goh for this wonderful opportunity

DMIT Student receives NYP Scholarship

Our DMIT student, Colin Pang has been awarded the coveted NYP Scholarship for his excellent academic performance.  This scholarship is awarded to full time diploma students who have outstanding academic results, are active in co-curricular activities and have leadership potential. Congratulations to Colin! For more information on scholarships, you can visit the scholarship page

IT Administrator Job Opening

IT/Infocomm Administrator

Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing the company’s IT infrastructure & network
- Administer the Windows Servers, LAN, VPN and wireless connectivity
- Provide 1st level support to internal users on IT equipment, OS, application software and network.
- Assist in planning of hardware and software replacement and upgrades
- Maintain inventory records of computer equipment and software licenses.
- Issuing and returns of computer assets
- Aliase with vendors for computer equipment purchases
- Perform systems data backup
- Housekeeping of IT room and allocation of computer resources

Requirements:
- Proficient in IT administration
- Knowledge of web programming will be advantageous
- Service oriented personality and is able to work independently

If you keen to explore this opportunity, email us.

YOG Environment Challenge Game featured at NEA Event

The "Singapore 2010 Environment Challenge" Facebook game, a NYP/SEG(E)- SYOGOC collaboration project, was featured during the "Official Launch of the New Anti-Littering Campaign", by National Environment Agency (NEA) on 6 June 2010 at Plaza Singapura.

Students from DMIT were there to support the event and explain the game to the Guest-of-Honour, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, other VIPs and the members of the public.

This game enables players to grow fruit-bearing trees by supplying “nutrients” such as Water, Sun and Fertilizer. To earn these nutrients, players have to answer environmental related questions correctly to earn them.

By applying knowledge acquired throughout the 3 years of studies in DMIT and sheer hard work, the several batches of students involved in the game development have emerged successful in their efforts.

Encouragement from mentors have really boosted students’ moral and played a significant part of their success in many ways. Although some hiccups were encountered, guidance and encouragement helped to improve the game to what it is now.

“We have learned designing, animation in DMIT in the first two years. This helped us to create this game”, commented one of the student. He added, “As an innovative polytechnic, we are also asked to explore our own limits with knowledge being acquired outside our field of study. For example, we had to learn the less familiar FaceBook Markup Language or FBML.”

“It has been a daunting task yet an interesting one for all of us. We learnt something new in the process. In conclusion, it has been a great experience and knowledge gained. I can also say it has been a great start for something new."

Overseas Educational Trip – Dalian & Shanghai

An excellent opportunity for NYP students to experience the technological & business development of the ICT industry in China. You also get to interact with students from China through education exchanges.

Visits include:

Dalian Software Park (大连软件园)

Hewlett Packard (HP) Global Solution Centre (惠普全球客户服务中心)

NeuSoft Institution of Technology (大连东软信息 技术学院)

Waxwork World Celebrity Museum (世界名人蜡像馆)

Pudong & Waitan Bund 浦东外滩

Interested? Please contact Mr Kor Hian Loon (Kor_Hian_Loon@nyp.gov.sg) or Mr Foo Yong Wee (Foo_Yong_Wee@nyp.gov.sg) before 7 July!

IAP Opportunities (salesforce.com)

For students starting IAP next semester, salesforce.com is looking for 4 students who are responsible and fast learner.

Interested students to contact Mr Foo Yong Wee asap:

foo_yong_wee@nyp.gov.sg
6550-0962
P.521