IFACTORS SDN. BHD. - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Project Director
Abu Bakar has been in the telecommunication and IT industry for more than twenty (20) years, earning the valuable experiences through out various companies while developing himself to become one of the finer technical manager to manage a large or small scale telecommunication project. Abu Bakar has since indulged himself into entrepreneurship world hoping one day to lead the emerging bumiputra companies into the ever challenging telecommunication industry.
Prior to his entrepreneurship world, Abu Bakar was assigned to another Siemens owned company. The submarine cable division, NSW. He was the Technical Sales Support Manager for the Asia Pacific Region. Among his notable success was securing 200km submarine cable project between Norths to South Island New Zealand. He personally designed and planned the cable route and landing points which was successfully completed by February 2001.
Professional Experience
Mr Ismail's eighteen (18) years experiences lies in Fibre Optic networks implementation on land and submarine mainly for SDH and DWDM transmission. He was deeply involved in the land cable business before being transferred ti the submarine cable department.
He has undergone various training from NSW cable experts in Germany. Apart from being a qualified safety officer from the Universiti Tenaga Nasional, he is also competent in computer skills and familiar with Microsoft, Unix, Apple Operating System.
Kamarudin received his Bachelor Degree with Honors in Electronic System Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He has been involved in projects throughout Asia Pacific Region namely a few:
New Zealand North South Island Project- 200km
Hong Kong 96 Fiber project from Lantau Island to Hong Kong Island
Singapore Shell Submarine cable laid with pipeline project- 20km
Indonesia Pt Excelcomindo Domestic Feestoon project more than 2000km
Malaysia SACOFA East West Link project- 1000km.
More than 15 submarine cable repair works in Indonesia including deep
water 3000m araound Sumbawa Island.
Laying of 70km Double Armoured cable in Caspian Sea from Turkmenbashi
to the off shore platform.
Laying of 160km Single Armoured Cable from Bali to JAVA at water depth of
more than 2500m.
Laying of 180km of Fibre Optic Submarine Cable from TCOT to ANGSI
Platform for PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. in Kerteh, Terengganu
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
- Project Manager
Professional Experience
An energetic and driven professional with 15 years' experience in electronics industry specifically in Internet of Things (IoT) market segment. Siva joined Ifactors in January 2015, and expanded his horizon to submarine fiber optic cable installation. He has lead and delivered a project worth USD 10 million for iFACTORS with approximately 200km fiber optic cable installation. Siva successfully managed multiple disciplines during the project planning and execution phase covering procurement, operations, vendor engagement, documentation and finance.
Siva has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Warwick Business School as well as Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. He has the ability to build strong relationships with all stakeholders and to turn proposals into winning solutions with experience in both hardware and software products. Siva's experience in working with cross-cultural, global teams from Asia Pacific, Japan, India and USA enables him to tailor our solutions to customer's specific needs.
Siva graduated with a Bachelor Degree with Honors in Electronics Engineering from Multimedia University. His engineering background coupled with his business acumen enables him to envision business practices that are practical for engineering based company. Siva has previously worked in Intel Microelectronics Sdn. Bhd as a project manager and technical marketing engineer.