Ben Ley Au

Ben Ley Au Address: No 16, SS19/4A, Subang Jaya, 47500, Selangor, Malaysia. Mobile : - Email :-PERSONAL DETAILS Age : 32 Driving License :Yes Date of Birth : 19 November 1988 Gender :Male Nationality : Malaysia Marital Status :Single Language spoken : English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien IC No. :- EDUCATION BACKGROUND Master in Business Administration, University of Lancaster (Oct 2015 - Dec 2017)  Post graduate in Executive MBA, specialising in Consultancy, Corporate Strategy and Change Management. Quadruple Accredited Executive MBA  Graduated with Second Class Division One, excelled in soft skills & strategic topic such as Consultancy challenge, Managing Change, Corporate Strategy, Organising & Managing  Developed a crossed model from Construction Risk modelling to Corporate Strategy specific for better market segmenting and prioritisation  Dissertation: Building blocks of Brand Relationship Quality across low and high involvement brand BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying, University of Salford (Sept 2009 - June 2011)  Bachelor degree (Honours) for Quantity Surveying, Specialising in Construction Law, Cost & Risk management  Graduated with Second Class Division One. Champion of Discipline Project in year 2009 for strategising construction planning  Dissertation: Towards minimising construction waste in the United Kingdom: could prefabrication be the future sustainable development? Diploma in Quantity Surveying, Taylors University College (Sep 2006 – July 2009)  Foundation course for Quantity Surveying, specialising in construction cost estimation and budgeting  Lead a team of 5 for final year mixed discipline challenge and secured a Runner-up placing WORKING EXPERIENCE  Senior Engineer – Cost Estimating at Samsung C&T Sdn Bhd (August 2019 – Present) Award winning Main Contractor specialising in Mega-Scale project and knowledge sharing with Burj Khalifa construction team - Cost build up from scratch and estimation for project tendering - Successfully secured RM750million project tender (Petronas Lot LL1M) and assisted in project enabling work (i.e – Tender and Award for crane logistics, site office set up etc) - Managed two executives for award delivery and achieved overall 15% savings from budget - Responsible and successfully organised knowledge sharing session to all across department for expectancy alignment  Senior Quantity Surveyor at Sunway Property, Kuala Lumpur (Nov 2014 – July 2019) Tier-1 leading property developer in Malaysia, eighth year of winner for BCI Asia Award among 7 ASEAN countries - Consultancy experience to senior management of construction procurement methodology & strategic contract arrangement for in-house / JV projects to achieve business revenue KPI. - Planning and execution of strategic procurement project in SAP ARIBA to achieve greater cost savings. The strategic procurement method generally leads to 15-20% cost saving - Cost data analysis – responsible for gathering & consolidation of historical data, using Microsoft Excel to predict future development cost estimation - - Ownership of development projects. Responsibility starts from feasibility studies, supplier/contractor sourcing and pre-qualification, awarding of tender, construction cost monitoring and closing of final account. Master cost and profit tracking, working closely with multiple departments in matrix organisational structure Lead a team of consultants to project management and delivery. Handled a profile with construction cost worth of RM 800 million (Project Name: Sunway Geo) Stakeholder management – rapport building & dealing with vendors, customers to ensure long term business sustainability  Quantity Surveyor at WCT Land Sdn. Bhd, Selangor Malaysia (Nov 2012 – Oct 2014) Public listed property developer with Tier-1 in house construction division - Involved as a team member of 3 Quantity Surveyors in undertaking housing development project, for combined contract value of RM 220million. - Scrutinising of variation order works and negotiation of rates to ensure budget is under control - Successfully lead the tender and award process worth up to RM150 million from inception to final account. Responsibility includes product research for cost analysis, contract management in payment and accessing extension of time, and Variation Orders - Cash flow monitoring and consultation to management on unforeseen cost and risks  Contract Executive at Macro Resources Sdn Bhd. (Dec 2011 – Nov 2012) - Ownership of project value estimated at RM80 million - Advised Senior Manager on costing and risk management based on meticulous analysis. - Achieved overall tender savings from budget at the range of 10%  Intern at TACT bright builders (M) Sdn Bhd. (July 2009 – Aug 2009) - Build up construction cost from scratch for a construction project of double storey link house development in Bukit Chegang, Seremban. - Execute construction risk management by administering PAM form of contract and initiating Variation Order claims as per contract. SKILLS AND ABILITIES  Proficient with MS Word, SAP ARIBA, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, and basic AutoCAD.  Strategic thinking, self motivated, loves communication, and innate curious  Excellent negotiation and analytic skills  Resourceful and entrepreneur spirit  Multi-Lingual (English, Bahasa Melayu, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien)  Internal ISO & OHS Auditing NOTICE PERIOD  Reason for moving – To seek a platform to challenge my industry experience and to be empowered to create value.  Notice period – 2 months PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATION  Member of Association of MBA, United Kingdom  Provisional Chartered Quantity Surveyor, Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia  Graduate Member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor (U.K) and Royal Institution of Surveyor Malaysia  CIDB green card holder, Malaysia EXTRA-CURRICULAR & VOLUNTEERING  Vice President of Sunway Property social projects – Lead a team of 11 to organise and promote positive organisation culture and increase staff morale through social events. Activities are focused in increase of engagement between cross departments and reaching a hand for the under-privileged homes  Assistant Chairman for Annual dinner committee (Sunway Property 2019) – Planning and leading the committee team of 10 to organise annual dinner. Tasks including team leading, budget monitoring and project execution with given RM 450,000.00 budget.  One of twentieth Malaysia’s Delegate of Harvard Project for Asian and International Relation 2018 (Kuala Lumpur). Semi-Finalist for Tencent’s impact challenge – Worked in a group of 5 and developed a blue ocean strategy of product innovation for Tencent’s Dun Huang digital interactive challenge. Idea is based on a digital travel diary that integrates social platform and augmented reality interactive functions. (https://www.hpair.org/asiaconference-2018/impact-challenge)  Spearhead fund raising project for orphanage home (Trinity Children Centre), target to reach out to public with viral marketing tools. Status: On-going -End-