An alumnus and a final-year student of Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s (NP) School of InfoComm Technology, were awarded the “SCS Young IT Professional of the Year 2012” and “IT Youth 2012” award respectively by The Singapore Computer Society (SCS) in its annual IT Leaders Awards on 2 March 2012.

Kelly Choo, co-founder and Business Development Director of Brandtology, a leading company dealing with online and social media intelligence, was conferred “Young IT Professional of the Year” for his notable contributions to the IT industry and significant IT innovations in Singapore. Brandtology made headlines last year when it was invested by Australian Media Monitors for a 8-figure sum.

The 2011 and 2009 awards also went to our alumni – Douglas Gan (co-founder and former CEO of ShowNearby Pte Ltd) and Rakesh Gupta (co-founder and CEO of Heulab Pte Ltd) respectively.

Nicholas Ooi, on the other hand, is a final-year NP student who joined the polytechnic through the ITE route. This late bloomer is both a software developer and technopreneur. His company, “Towards Technology” has completed over 20 projects. Nicholas is passionate about IT and has shown exemplary leadership to promote IT among his peers. For this he was awarded the “IT Youth of the Year”.

 

NP takes pride that we have a good record of finalists and winners to the SCS IT Youth Award.  There were 5 finalists shortlisted from a pool of more than 60 nominees for the IT Youth Award 2012 out of which 2 came from NP.  The other finalist is Sam Yong Shan Xian (Dip IT, Y3)

Our past years’ winners for the SCS Young Professional of the Year are as follows: 2012 – Kelly Choo Hon Min (Co-Founder, Business Development Director, Brandtology) 2011 – Douglas Gan (Co-Founder, Executive Director, ShowNearby Pte Ltd) 2009 – Rakesh Gupta (Co-Founder, CEO, Heulab Pte Ltd)

Our past years’ winners and finalists are as follows: 2012 – Nicholas Ooi Hsien Loong (ICT, Y3) 2012 – Finalist Sam Yong Shan Xian (ICT, Y3) 2011 – Finalist Wong Cheng Teck (now in NS) 2010 – Finalist Chua Khim Teck (just graduated from NTU), Maimunah Nokman (now in NUS), Ang Jin Hui (now in NUS) 2009 – Finalist Maimunah Nokman (now in NUS) 2008 – Finalist Shen Yi Zhe  (now working in Microsoft after completing NUS) 2007 – Sangar s/o Annadorai (now in GeorgiaTech after completing NTU) 2006 – Finalist Shen Yi Zhe (now working in Microsoft after completing NUS) 2005 – Aaron Tan Wei Cheng (completed SMU SIS and CMU on IDA scholarship and now working with SingTel Inno8) 2004 – Finalist Zach Lim RenJie  (now entrepreneur) 2002 – Darran Nathan (now running his own technology company, featured by Prime Minister previously) 2001 – Martin Leo Chen Hong (now working with public sector)