Reflections from the Tertiary Tech Conference 2010

We caught up with Mitchell, Kelvin and Weiming after their participation in the Tertiary Tech Conference 2010, and they shared with us some of their post-event reflections.  


Mitchell Yogen

"It was a great experience showcasing my game to the visitors. There were a few visitors interested in my game and came up enquiring about it during the lunch time demo.

My presentation in Room 2 went well as many were listening and interested in what I had to say. I had feedbacks at the end of the presentation by some of the visitors telling and complementing me for what I have created. It was nice hearing those feedbacks.

The good part about my presentation was when I introduced my project and the design aspect of it. Not forgetting the demo of the game also. I could have improved my presentation by showing them my software development kit UI for them to have a look at how it was and how I went about creating my project. Otherwise, I was satisfied with what I have done.

In conclusion, it has been a great time spend and meeting other creaters of applications and games. I have also understood that everyone has their own troubles creating their games and apps. While some were very new concepts, they were also very interesting. I am proud to be a creator of my game amidst other competitors."



Kelvin and Weiming

"Kelvin and I presented our Final Year Project in 2010’s Tertiary Tech Conference at SMU. As one of the only two presenting teams from a Polytechnic, we were really nervous and at the same time grateful for such an opportunity.

Each presenting team was given a round lounge table facilitated with power extentions, located outside the presentation rooms. The SMU staff were really helpful and pleasant. We demonstrated our game to the curious people while they held on to their lunch. It was a casual interaction with students from other institutions, representatives from companies and lecturers. Unfortunately, we were too engrossed in showcasing our work to others, such that we(Including Mitch) forgotten to take our lunch.

As our presentation slot was right after the lunch break, the SMU committee had a difficult time recalling the audience back to the presentation room. However, we still presented to a sizable audience. We enjoyed presenting our project to them, as it was more of a sharing session of our development process. Overall, we were glad that there were no technical faults or hiccups. Mr Edmund Teo, being apart of the audience, made us more comfortable in front of the projector screens.

I believe the area where we had did well in, will have to be our commitment. It was only through our commitment and interest, we were able to take some time off to prepare for our presentations and express our seriousness in our work. Instead of having the “Do and go back home” attitude, we rather follow the “Put our best in what we do” mantra.  It was only then, we could achieve and benefit from the experience.

As for areas of improvement, we should have the initiative to produce namecards before attending the conference. There was a number of occasions where people enquired for our name cards. We are still students, who would have thought of that? =] However, I believe it will be a good practice to design and personalise our very own namecards, so as to leave a deeper impression to the people we met. Our presentation can still be vastly improved, as I believe we lack the natural expressions we have seen from other presenters. We have to add more ammunitions to our vocabulary. We have to develop our confidence further.

Overall, the TTC was sweet... and once again, we are grateful for the opportunity. In fact, We have learnt and gained alot through this event:
- We managed to view impressive demonstrations of Augmented Reality from other presenters
- We learnt unique presentation slide designs and styles
- We have the chance to meet different people from fellow students to employers of Tech companies.
- We gain valuable experience through the participation of this event :)"


Breaking news: Kelvin and Weiming's Peek-a-Boo Android game also won the 1st prize for the Singapore Android Developer Challenge 2010! Congratulations to their success! ^-^

Sharing from National Infocomm Scholar 2010 : Ivan Khor

Hi Everyone !

NIS 2010 Award Ceremony

I’ve recently been awarded the National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS) with IDA and BT Frontline, feeling both happy for myself and grateful to DMIT. I’m going to share with you my experience and process of getting the NIS. As mentioned somewhere in this blog, it’s awarded to keen learners and wanting-to-succeed performers, a chance to work with leading Infocomm companies and MNCs like Microsoft, Oracle, Barclays Capital, BT Frontline and 23 others. (Link: http://www.infocommtalent.sg/nis.aspx).

Ivan with Minister Lui

I had three fruitful years in DMIT, with my caring lecturers to thank for my outstanding academic results. I was given the chance to represent NYP and Singapore in the biennial Worldskills Competition. I also had my overseas industrial attachment with Cisco Systems (USA), which is available to each and every one of you. So why wait? There’s a lot more opportunities and challenges for fellow DMIT-ians to explore and take up!

Going on to share with you my experiences on getting the NIS. On the day of the scholarship interview, apart from the formal wear and my thick portfolio, there are other things that need preparation. You will have to understand what the company is doing, their visions and their directions. Be prepared that they will ask you tricky questions that you may never have thought of before. For example, “Which kind of boss you will like to work for, the employee benefits driven one, or the goal driven one?” Do not bother about telling them what are already stated in your resume because most likely, they would have already have read through them. You got to prove to the interviewers why you are the right one, how you can contribute to the company and vice versa, your keen interest in a career with them and also why you have chosen this path, to be an Infocomm professional. I came across this description of an interview somewhere and hope it might be useful for you.

“The fact that you were called up for interview is because, on paper, it shows that you are different from the other applicants and it’s worth their time to interview you and get to know you more. Now is the time for you to show your interviewers that their filtering system hasn’t gone wrong and you are the right one for them."

Before I end off, just want to urge all fellow DMIT-ians to look for opportunities that can make you the brightest star in the sky. Believe in yourself that you can be one!

Ivan Khor
Class of 2008

Allied Educators in Teaching and Learning

Are you interested in investing in the future generations? Do you have a passion for education?

MOE is looking for Allied Educators in teaching and learning. As an Allied Educator (Teaching and Learning) you will work with teachers to enhance the teaching and learning of primary and secondary school students in both academic and non-academic areas. 

Application period : 18 Sep to 1 Oct 2010.

If you are keen, why not visit http://www.moe.gov.sg/careers/allied-educators/teaching-learning/ and find out more about what it takes to be one! 

Free entry for students - Tertiary Tech Conference (TTC) 18 Sep @ SMU

Dear all, three of our very own DMIT students, Wei Ming, Kelvin and Mitchell, will be presenting their project at the Tertiary Tech Conference (TTC). TTC is an inaugural conference targeted at tertiary students. Focusing on Games, Augmented Reality and Mobile Applications, the organisers have an exciting line-up of speakers and projects presentations ready for your enjoyment! Registration is now free for all students! To register, simply click on the link: http://tdm.sg/events?eventId=204904&EventViewMode=EventDetails

Position for a Systems Engineer (SE)

Calling alumni members! There is an opening for a Systems Engineer (SE). As an SE, you will be providing consultation, implementation and configuration services for IT management solutions. You may be required to travel 30% of your time within the Asia Pacific Region.


Work Experience 
Fresh Graduate or with 1 to 2 years of work experience. 

Education Qualification / Professional Certification 
Diploma in Information Technology or equivalent 

Skill / Knowledge 
Self-motivated and excellent communication skills. 
Demonstrate excellent verbal and written skill to communicate effectively with cross functional teams. 
Able to work independently and resourceful in getting support to complete task on hand. 
Have excellent interpersonal, negotiation and analytical skills. 
Knowledge in IT Service Management will be an added advantage. 


Knowledge in any of the following domain will be an added advantage: 
- Windows 2003, 2008 etc... 
- Unix (Solaris, HP UX, AIX) 
- Linux 
- Networking 


Knowledge in any of the following technologies will be an added advantage: 
- HP Service Manager or equivalent 
- HP Network Node Manager or equivalent 
- HP Operations Manager or equivalent 
- HP Network Automation or equivalent 
- OpenSource such as Nagios or equivalent, Syslog (e.g. Kiwi) 
- HP LoadRunner / QTP 
- WildPackets 
- Splunk 


Knowledge in writing scripts using shell, Perl, AWK or equivalent 


If you are interested, contact us at outsidethelt@gmail.com.

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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.
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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.
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• 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!