Careers - (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho

Multirole Founder

ZORALab Enterprise, Malaysia (December 2016 — Present)

Founded for broadening and continuing my software development careers incorporating business acumen from ground-up and branching out from the very niche embedded domain. In this pursue, my past achievements were:

1. Currently actively managing at least 5 SMEs technological requirements by providing next-day tech-ready service.

2. Continuously developing ZORALab's in-house products for mitigating current industrial threats:

   1. ZORALab's Hestia — web UI backend+frontend technologies using Go, TinyGo, and Rust supporting PWA+WASM via SPA / Reactive Rendering / conventional server site rendering; AND

   2. ZORALab’s Legal — continuously improving agreement documents; AND

   3. ZORALab's Montuer — automation CI tools for DevOps and Kaizen; AND

   4. ZORALab's Salut — enterprise IT grade cloud and endpoints services.

3. Accumulated at least 25 bona-fide testimonials from customers.

4. Successfully mitigated from suppliers’ supply chain threat in less than 1 month.

5. Rescued a firm from a vendor’s mercenary practices that threatened to stop their business during the 2021 COVID19 Lockdown over the weekend. I restored their enterprise IT system, and mentored 6 of their staff so their business could continue regular operation on Monday.

6. Published 20 papers to Zenodo and ResearchGate open-science data repository.

7. Successfully prototyped horticulture’s portable mixed plantation module.

Device Driver Engineer

Intel Corporation, Malaysia (2012 — 2015)

Tasked as a research and development engineer, I was a rehired after my internship with Intel. The goal is to explore work life in Malaysia; C programming language software development operating worldwide; embedded market and industry; and my strength and weakness. In this pursue, my past achievements were:

1. Developed multiple IO drivers (SD, eMMC, PWM, GPIO, I2C, HSUART) for both Windows and Linux kernels in less than 3 months.

2. Reduced departmental equipment cost from purchasing resources of MYR5k to MYR2.4k via smartly sourcing computer interfacing capable digital instrumentation.

3. Summitted 2 research papers and 2 patent ideas for my team.

4. Second-in-Chief for organizing 2013 Intel Global SWPC conference where the project executed on-time (not overrun) and saved ~MYR3k total project budget.

5. Intel Volunteer for SJKC Chong Cheng Robotic Club, Penang — startup and established club organization; developed administrations and self-sustaining management processes; and mentored their 2 teams to won 2nd place in district level competition.

My reason of leaving are:

1. Aggressive and impeding family matter requiring me to reside in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and my role are not permittable (secrecy).

2. I will regret losing my remaining family if I choose to stay selfishly disregarding them.

First Class Honours Graduate Engineer

Asia Pascific University of Technology and Innovation (2012 — 2009)

Pinpoint focus on developing my bachelor degree alongside networking with international peers. In this pursue, my past achievements were:

1. Procured First Class Honours Degree in Mechatronics Engineering. [Recognition] [Recognition]

2. Received IEEE CAS Innovation Award in year 2013. [News] [Recognition]

3. Received graduate engineer recognition from Board of Engineers Malaysia in year 2019. [ID] [Recognition]

My reason of leaving are:

1. Graduated via successful completion of the university program.