Ching Fang Chong

Experience

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  Sekolah Menengah Kerajaan Riam, Miri

  Dec 1992 - Jun 1993

  Teacher

  • Responsible for teaching form one English, form one Chinese language class and form two art class. • Prepared, administrated, performed corrections and marking for test and examination papers.• Appointed as form teacher for form one class.• Selected as one of the teacher judges for interschool debate competition.

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  Sekolah Menengah Bantuan St. Columba

  Oct 1997 - Nov 1997

  Teacher

  • Responsible for teaching physics for the best form 4 and form 5 class students. • Coach, guide and help form 5 students to prepare for their Sekolah Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM)/Malaysia Education School country level examination.• Prepared, administrated, performed corrections and marking for test and examination papers.

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  Sarawak Shell Berhad

  Jan 1998 - Dec 1999

  Geodata Specialist

  • Responsible for providing IT maintenance and support services for Shell Proprietary and third party software application in the seismic interpretation, drafting and topography area which covered voxelgeo, oct32, spiritis, spirit II, 3DVIP/express, 123DI, Jason, AVO, Promise, Savior, LCT, Zeh plotting software, microstation, mapman, Atrans and map.• Achieved average score 3 out of 5 for customer scorecard conducted annually, meeting customer's satisfaction for the support services provided.• Upgraded software application to year 2000 (y2k) compliant with 2 months ahead of targeted date and without disruption to the customer business activity.• Coordinated for the successful overpressure Seminar and Promise training Show less

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  Sarawak Shell Berhad

  Apr 2000 - now

  • Led, coordinated and delivered on time annual/multiyear business plans of up to $16 mil budget for Subsurface & Wells (SS&W) application and data portfolio, aligning with business and global plans & strategy, in close partnership and collaboration with business stakeholders & global in business case development, ITIM and finance to ensure demand requirements match financial plans. • Presented in annual budget challenge and engagement sessions with Joint Venture (JV) Partners and Petronas Malaysia Petroleum Management (MPM) and jointly achieved overall 100% approved for ITIM local 3rd party spend in WPB2021 (Work Progamme & Budget) despite economic downturn and pandemic situation.• Partnered closely with business in Consumption Based Charging Model (CBCM) cash preservation initiatives, reviewed usage and developed dashboard to pro-actively monitor and report monthly spend, performed analysis, identified usage trend, highlighted non-regular usage which contributed to overall 2020 CBCM cost savings of MYR 1 mln below approved WPB amount.• Managed and optimized cost for External Information Sources (EIS) services via user awareness & annual clean-up with a total of 178 user subscriptions removed from 16 products services and estimated cost avoidance of $498,000 over 2 years period.• Engaged Exploration business in collaboration with Technical Data Managers and proposed storing huge seismic input files using cheaper non backup storage and irregular used seismic data onto tape media has resulted an estimated cost savings of $338,000 annually.• Challenged & disputed incorrect charges which has resulted estimated cost avoidance of $53,000 for CBCM.• Identified proactively cost optimization opportunities resulting estimated total cost savings/avoidance of $60,000 over 2 years period via reduction of local in use software M&S and clean-up of Virtual Work Space (VWS) & spotfire account in collaboration with business & support team. Show less • Led and delivered Technical and Competitive IT (TaCIT) annual/multiyear SS&W operational plan in Asia/Asia-Pac region and managed multiple stakeholders internally and externally under complex and dynamic business environment while fully meeting different local/global/JV/MPM tight deadline and ensuring alignment in global strategies & plan with local business vs affordability.• Managed $8-26 mil Asia-Pacific budget and Latest Estimate(LE) rigorously within approved ceiling, with spending reduced by over 30% for year 2017.• Led and managed ArcGIS 10 desktop suite deployment project of 6 members with cost savings of $15,000 utilizing internal resources to deliver training.• Negotiated with vendor resulting in savings and reduced Amount Contract Value (ACV) of estimated 5% or $15,000 for software license, consultancy, maintenance & support contract while managing contract within ACV and in compliance with local procedures & guidelines.• Challenged appropriately and influenced team to further negotiated with vendor resulting a further 27% or $91,600 contract value reduction. • Awarded Special Recognition Awards (SRA) by acquiring Eclipse license for Gumusut-Kakap (GK) in less than 1 month during challenging time frame of financial year end closing in December which help meeting Petronas’ expectation and support reputation as prudent operator in Malaysia.• Simplified multiple software procurements with single multi-year umbrella contract resulting manpower effort reduction of 0.1 FTE.• Reviewed proactively with business stakeholders resulting in reduction of yearly M&S for 8 software over 4 years periods from 2013-2016 with estimated total annual cost of $130,000 and 0.15 FTE support effort. Show less • Responsible for supporting the regional planning and providing input to the global/regional investment and baseload programme, management of application i.e. application rationalization, step-out management, licenses coordination and compliancy for SSW LOB.• Coordinated, prepared and delivered Business Plan 2009 and 2010 Work Programme and Budgets in a timely manner for Subsurface and wells LOB• Engaged with joint venture partner and successfully got their support for overall Subsurface and Wells 2010 projects capex with some projects scope reduced due to recession.• Delivered timely Petronas (National Oil Company) Work Programme and Budget reporting for 2010• Coordinated Latest Estimate and monitored expenditure for subsurface and wells budget.• Planned and coordinated for application retirement for subsurface and wells related application in EPA. • Took up additional role as EPA regional operational Production Geology portfolio consultant and Subsurface and Wells E-PIMS focal point Show less • Responsible for managing and delivering end-to-end service delivery/operations covering subsurface and wells application services and liaising with technology and external providers • Supervised subsurface and wells LOB functional support team of 10 Shell staff and onsite 3rd party consultants to ensure quality and cost effective application support services delivered to subsurface and wells customers.• Motivated a productive functional support team. 3 support staff & onsite contractors in the team have been awarded Special Recognition Award (SRA) for their excellent support in ad-hoc tasks and project works. • Achieved “impressive” i.e. average score 4.26 out of 5 in the annual customer feedback collected for application support team for services delivered to subsurface and wells user community • Received Special Recognition Awards by Maarteen Lechner, EPA Chief Production Geosciences for the support and contribution in the successful deployment of petrel 2007 project which enhanced and improved reservoir modeling workflow. • Reduced service center call logging time and effort for support staff by introducing TypeItIn tool to facilitate the call logging into service center.• Initiated and improved subsurface new user on-boarding procedure and process by coordinating a few on-boarding awareness session for subsurface technical assistant as well as complementing subsurface general on-boarding pack with disciplines specific on-boarding pack with personal contribution in compiling production geology and reservoir engineering on-boarding pack• Participated as a member and contributed to the regional assist desk as well as support tools & processes workpack in SSW Global Application Support Model project.• Expanded subsurface and wells application support services for the team to provide 2nd level emergency support to SEIC in Yuzhno for 7 months. Show less • Responsible for managing and overseeing SMEP application support team of 13 Shell staff and onsite 3rd party consultants to ensure quality and cost effective application support services delivered to customers across subsurface and wells, business administration, engineering and production area. Additional role as Exploration & Production Asia (EPA) Application Support Center manager as well as Service Center focal point & approver in EPA.• Received Special Recognition Awards from Maarteen Lechner, EPA Chief Production Geosciences for contribution in application testing in EPA petrel 2007 pilot.• Motivated and led a productive application support team. Progressed 2 support staff to SG4 and 9 of the support staff have been awarded Special Recognition Award (SRA) for their excellent support and contribution in project works.• Played a key role in implementing project archiving and retrieval for Mores and Petrel using CDS/PARS replacing previous manual ADAS system and improved management of project data and records• Developed and provided hands-on training to steadily increase the technical and business knowledge of staff taking over global/regional/local application support.• Expanded and delivered linux cluster for MoRes and HFPT application system and increased computing capacity resulting less simulations jobs pending in EPDTW queue, shortened simulation time and allowed more time for results analysis.• Delivered disk storage expansion with no service disruption to the customers' reservoir modeling activities by planning and coordinating well ahead of time the migration of petrel and mores project data to higher storage capacity. Show less • Responsible for providing petrel application support to customers globally and subsurface application support to customers regionally in Asia. • Played a key role in managing global petrel assist desk functional email in Borneo hub and ensure prompt support & response to users. Supervised one petrel onsite consultant staff and ensure petrel support provided to customers meeting their expectation.• Expanded Petrel global support services to cover Petrel Geophysics apart from Petrel Geology and give benefits to the seismic interpreter who seek support and assistant from the existing petrel global assist desk.• Received Special Recognition Awards by Maarteen Lechner, EPA Chief Production Geosciences for the contribution in supporting Integrated Reservoir Modelling training in 2006• Achieved “impressive” in the customer survey with an average score of 4.2 out of total score 5 in delivering IT application support services to customers in production geology and reservoir engineering in subsurface area.• Implemented and delivered linux cluster and x336 servers for Dynamo/MoRes which improved and speed up dynamic simulation work.• Conducted petrel-openspirit session for exploration users to give training on importing data from openspirit to petrel via Openworks.• Organized and coordinated “Petrel for Cartographers” sessions to geomatic users and cartographers which provide an overview and knowledge to geomatic team on using petrel in geomatic area.• Delivered openspirit 2.9 client to all petrel users which increased efficiency in data importing from openworks to petrel as compare to ASCII import.• Delivered and contributed to the successful Regional Learning & Development training events i.e. MO01 MoRes course, IRM course, Saphir, petrel and HFPT training by prompt and excellent technical support provided which received appreciation from organizers, trainers and participants. Show less • Responsible for providing application maintenance and environment support such as installation, setup, upgrade and applying patches within the Reservoir Engineering and Production Geology disciplines of the Subsurface portfolio.• Delivered of Malikai dynamic simulation solution ahead of schedule, with cost savings and in line with the IT global strategy and received EVP’s list Applaud Awards by Yahkup Menudin, EP Asia Pacific Regional IM &IT Manager• Awarded Thank You APplaud by Guenter Jaeger, EP Asia Pacific Production Seismic Discipline Lead for the support services given in the Global Evaluation Project for Petrel Seismic Interpretation• Received Thank You APplaud Award by Axel Geisslinger, Head, Subsurface IT and Wells IT Portfolio 2005, EPA Asia Pacific for contribution to Emerald City Migration • Exceeded customer expectation by providing prompt and quality IT support services to the Macademia project team located at Perth for reservoir simulation package, MoRes via EPDTW-Lite in Miri and contributed to the successfully completion of Macademia project in a timely manner.• Achieved “impressive” with a score of average 4.2 out of 5 in customer feedback survey especially high score in staff attitude and proactiveness in application support services provided to the subsurface reservoir engineering and production geology community.• Piloted the Global Rollout of Application Support (GRASP) model in petrel pathfinder project and played a key role in providing 1st line petrel support in Borneo Hub to customers in Asia Pacific region as well as other regions globally. The Borneo hub assist desk was awarded an OSCAR (Outstanding Subsurface Contribution Award Recognition) by the BSP Subsurface Forum in 2004.• Played a key role to restore HFPT critical subsurface application system remotely at fallback site in Bintulu in Business Continuity Plan (BCP) drill and contributed to the overall successful BCP drill conducted. Show less • Responsible for planning, implementing, providing application maintenance and environment support within the Reservoir Engineering and Production Geology disciplines of the Subsurface portfolio to meet the needs of the business efficiently and cost effectively.• Accelerated Nov 01 2001 completion of Barton Full Field Dynamic Study (~7 months) by prompt and creative solution to various problems such as program version incompatibility/simulation run delay due to users congestion/system downtime• Supported and contributed to the SJ team in the V2V process by bringing about new way of running reservoir simulation package, i.e., MoRes more efficiently via distributing loads to various TIS SUN machines.• Contributed to the timely delivered of SF30 dynamic modeling studies 2002 viaquick and creative solutions for various technical problem and managing disk space for SF30 huge project. • Shortened the cycle time for dynamic modeling studies for mega Kinabalu Main simulation model via timely delivering of IBM P655 series nodes which was capable of producing fast turnaround time and handling huge reservoir model• Reduced the cycle time for geological modeling via implementation of CIFS which has improved the speed of PETREL data accessing and storing on NetApp.• Awarded consecutive 2 years for Certificate of Appreciation from Jon Chadwick, Chairman Shell Malaysia for Unix and Software support for G220 (Quantitative Interpretation of Subsurface Data) and HFPT (Hydrocarbon Field Planning Tools) regional course conducted in the year 2002 and 2003• Played a key role in implementation of MoRes in EPDTW for the reservoir engineering community. Supported and contributed to the successful of live demonstrations of running MoRes in EPDTW to the EP Leadership Forum (EPLF) in the Hague via video link. The success story was published in EP Spectrum. Show less

  • Subsurface Technical Planning Consultant

    Jul 2018 - now

  • Business Analyst & Planner

    Jan 2010 - Jun 2018

  • Subsurface & Wells IT&IM Portfolio Planner

    Jan 2009 - Dec 2009

  • Subsurface & Well LOB Functional Support Team lead

    Jun 2008 - Feb 2009

  • Application Support Team Lead

    Aug 2007 - May 2008

  • GRASP Support

    Jan 2006 - Aug 2007

  • Subsurface IT Analyst

    Nov 2003 - Dec 2005

  • IT Application Specialist

    Apr 2000 - Oct 2003