After working for more than 20 months, 20 months and 1 day to be exact, I have decided to leave IRAS to further my study in Australia.The decision is made by me about 6 months back after much consideration of leaving Singapore for good.

Here is a snapshot of my work:

First Day: 30 May 2005
Last Day: 31 Jan 2007
Title: Senior IT Analyst Programmer/Senior Inforcomm Officer
Role: Siebel Developer and Configurator/Siebel TA (Technical Architecture)
Company: Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore

During the course of employment in IRAS, i have learned many things ranging from the job to the office politics in Singapore. For example, starting out as a Siebel Developer, I learnt how to build an EAI calls from different sub system to siebel, learn how does the avaya phone calls work etc. While being a Siebel TA gives me an edge of supporting the whole Siebel environment in Iras including the hardware and server software. Being in a large scale software development program, I have learned how the management works, how boss motivates his/her employee and most of all, how people from various teams interact with one another.

Below are some people I have known during my course of working:

Siebel Team
1- Joanne Lau (First team lead currently in Melbourne, Aussie)
2- Joanne Lim (second and active team lead still in IRAS)
3- Louis Teoh (current team lead still in IRAS)
4- Eileen Xie (Siebel TA guru currently in IRAS but leaving soon too)
5- Ser teck Yeo (ex teammate and lunch buddy still in IRAS)
6- Vivian Lim (Ex teammate and ex TA studies at SIM university, singapore)
7- Nicholas (Ex teammate and ex TA, currently in Australia)
8- Chin Kia Hui (teammate currently in IRAS)
9- Mathew Khoh (teammate currently in IRAS)
10- Ying Fong Chia (Siebel developer cum Actuate report guru already left IRAS)
11- Raymond (Guru- left Iras to complete his Master course in NTU)

My Users (Those officers in IRAS I work with)
1- Kwa Kah Boon
2- Sylvia Loh
3- Loh Yen Lee
4- Tan Sheau Yann
5- Chan May Ling, Judy

IRAS employee that I’ve known
1- Ms. Raj (Personnel branch officer who assisted me in settling down)
2- Mr. Kumar Srirengan (DB2 guru)
3- Mr. Kumar Satish ramachandran
4- Ms. Ang Soh Lang (previous reporting officer)
5- Miss. Seah Ling Ling (aka Adelle, current reporting officer)
6- Ms. Chew Soh Lang (Director Inforcomm Service)
7- Mr. Leo Ann thong (Manager)
8- Ms. Lai khim wee poh (Director Inforcomm Operation)
9- Mr. Kenneth Leo (Seebeyond guru)
10- Mr. Ong Kok Beng (aka Cephas, seebeyond guru)
11- Miss. Arianty (Seebeyond guru)
12- Mr. Jeremy Au (EVN expert)
13- Mr. Iskanda (Jamband member and bassist)
14- Mr. Derek (Jamband member and vocalist)
15- Mr. Vivaldi Antonious (Jamband member, Guitarist and lunch buddy)
16- Miss. Mona Christanto (CMTA .NET pro)
17- Mr. denny (Antonious cousin)
18- Mr. Ramsay Dennis (Lunch mate)
19- Miss. Jessica Nonis (ex lunch mate)
20- Mr. Desmond (Intern student from Accenture, currently a commando)
21- Mr. Melvin Lim (Ex File Return teamlead and a cool dude)
22- Mr. Yeo Mun Wong (Guru and left Iras)
23- Mr. Tan Bo Rui (TA lead)
24- Mr. Bak honwai (Dragonboat friend)
25- Miss. Grace Chua (Dragonboat friend)
26- Miss. Koh Wei Ling (Dragonboat friend)
27- Mr. Irving Sin Taa (IRAS Lawyer and Dragonboat mate)
28- Miss. Weisan Loh (Dragon boat friend)

*List is not an exhaustive list.

I Would like to thanks many more friends and officers in IRAS who have supported and helped me during my course of employment.

It’s been a long while that I have been assigned a Siebel TA role. Since then, I have learned really a lot of things thank to the previous TA (Eileen Xie, a cool, knowledgeable Siebel TA, Vivian and Nicholas). Let me just summary on things I have learned thus far as below.

1- Windows 2000 Administrator Tools
+ Event viewer
+ Services.msc
+ DCom
+ Users and Group Administration
+ Window IIS
+ Window Cluster Admin
+ Window Load Balancing System
+ ODBC admin Tool

2- DB tool
+ DB2 Command Line Center
+ DB2 Performance Expert

3- Siebel Severs
+ DDL Sync
+ Siebel Enterprise Server
+ Siebel thick client
+ Siebel Deployment

4- Script
+ Batch Files (.bat)
+ Visual Basic Script (.vbs)

5- Application Software
+ Actuate Report (to work with Siebel Application)
+ Resonate Dispatch Manager

1- Database Tool
+ Quest Central
+ Advance Query Tool (AQT)

2- Day to Day operation
+ Netwriter (LAN messenger)
+ SnagIt (Printscreen tool, mostly used by tax officers)
+ Siebel Tool 7.5.3.11
+ Siebel software 7.5.3.11
+ Visual Source Save (VSS)
+ CompareIt (Tool to compare two source codes)
+ Remedy system (To keep track on the problem raised by users)
+ TrackRecord (Similar to Remedy System)
+ SAP system (Just used it, I do not know how to develop with it)
+ Post It Note

*Hope I can list out as much as I could so it will be an evidence after many years down the road when I read back this old post*

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