2021T2 VirtualTSM/Participant Information/Yap Wen Jie, Terence
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About Terence
SMU email: terence.yap.2018@sis.smu.edu.sg
Linkedin: LinkedIn
Academic Year: 3
Degree: Bachelor of Science (Information Systems)
Major: Digitalisation and Cloud Solutions
Why Virtual TSM?
What motivates you to join TSM?
Technopreneurship has always been one of my favorite topics of interest as it is really intriguing to get to learn of the ideas entrepreneurs have before they started their startups and what hardships and challenges they had to overcome while running their startups. My motivation to join TSM largely stems from how much I want to learn about technopreneurship in this digital age that we are in where technologies advance so quickly. I took a course on technopreneurship back in my final year of polytechnic and got the opportunity to meet local startup entrepreneurs such as Rakesh Gupta of Guptasoft Technologies, Douglas Gan of Vanitee, and Aaron Tan of Carro whom have taught me a lot about being entrepreneurs in the local scene, now I wish to seek for the opportunity to learn of startups from outside of our Little Red Dot and widen my knowledge on how they are run and managed. One of my all-time favorite reads is Bad Blood by John Carreyrou which covers the rise and downfall of Theranos, a deceitful startup which deceived many investors and endangered the lives of innocents, I enjoyed the book thoroughly as it highlighted all the dos and don'ts for startups if they wanted to succeed. This course also provides a channel for the students to be daring and innovative with their ideas and I hope to get the opportunity to see the interesting ideas my peers will get to generate through the tenure of this course.
Where would you like to visit virtually?
Starting a business
What types of business interest you?
What plan do you have in starting a business? (list existing business)
Past Experience
Work
Singapore Management University – Research Intern [May 2020 – Aug 2020]
Singapore Management University – Teaching Assistant for MITB [May 2020 – Aug 2020]
Singapore Management University – Teaching Assistant for MITB [Aug 2019 – Dec 2019]
Agency for Science, Technology and Research – Python Developer (Intern) [Oct 2015 – Feb 2016]
Community Service
Local Community Service Project – Leader of Project Young At Heart [2020]
Overseas Community Service Project – Leader of Project Jai XII [2020] CANCELLED
Overseas Community Service Project – Member of Project Jai XI [2019]
Competitions
DSTA - BrainHack [2020]
Shopee – Shopee Code League [2020]
Intel - Invent50 [2015]
Cyber Security Agency of Singapore - GovWare 6th Singapore Cyber Conquest [2015]
Certification
Amazon Web Services - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner [2020-2023]
Ministry of Defence Singapore - Certificate in Generic Manufacturing Skills [2017]
