Curriculum Vitae
Han Yong Lim
IT Infrastructure Leader & AI Engineering
Professional Summary
Technology leader combining enterprise infrastructure expertise with hands-on AI engineering. Experienced across Keppel, SIPEF Group, DB Schenker, and financial services: leading multi-country teams, enterprise transformations, and building production AI systems. Certified in ITIL, VMware, Linux, and networking.
Experience
Senior Manager, IT – IT Shared Services
Keppel LtdConglomerate (real estate, infrastructure, connectivity)Sep 2025 – Mar 2026Supported Head of Technology Services in executing strategy for shared services across Infrastructure and Network Management. Led hybrid delivery model with 3 direct reports and ~40 Accenture resources. Managed service delivery governance, budgeting, and cost recovery.
Global IT Infrastructure Lead (Global Head of IT Infrastructure)
SIPEF GroupAgri-industrial group (23,000+ employees)Jul 2022 – Aug 2025Pioneer IT infrastructure employee establishing Singapore operations. Led team of 26 IT professionals across 5 countries (Singapore, Belgium, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Ivory Coast). Supported Global CIO in strategic planning for 1,500+ knowledge workers overseeing 23,000+ employees.
- Program SEED: Global consolidation: OneMail (Office 365), OneIdentity (Azure AD Connect SSO), OneNET (SD-WAN)
- Replaced legacy network across 100,000+ hectares with Cisco Meraki (Indonesia) and Cambium (Papua New Guinea)
- Designed and implemented Azure Landing Zone architecture
- Migrated from CheckPoint to Palo Alto Firewalls globally; GlobalProtect VPN with SAML SSO
- Built 6 production MCP agents: 40% reduction in manual tasks, 60% faster incident response
Global Infrastructure Services Country Head
DB SchenkerGlobal logistics (Deutsche Bahn)Feb 2020 – Jun 2022Managed country Infrastructure department of 8 people supporting IT operations for 2,000+ employees. Provided critical IT infrastructure support for major enterprise customers including Apple, Cisco, and Intel.
- Led IT infrastructure for flagship EUR 101M Red Lion warehouse: IT/OT integration supporting AGVs, robotic systems, and Pick-to-Light. 100% productivity increase, 40% lead time reduction
- Led resolution of 20,000+ HIGH/CRITICAL vulnerabilities using Nessus and Rapid7
- Managed datacenter operations (Singtel Kim Chuan 2) with 600+ VMs across 3 vSphere clusters
- Implemented server hardening using CIS guidelines with Ansible automation
System Engineer (Linux/UNIX and ESXi)
AtosIT services & consultingMar 2019 – Feb 2020Managed Linux servers (Red Hat, SUSE) and VMware vSphere clusters with 1,500+ VMs. Automated tasks using Ansible for patching, health checks, and security hardening (CIS/NIST).
System Engineer → Senior System Engineer
CWT Globelink (CWT Limited Group)Freight forwarding & logistics (CWT Limited)Jun 2016 – Feb 2019Executed comprehensive virtualization migrations: P2V, V2V (Hyper-V to XenServer to VMware vSphere). Implemented VMware Horizon 7 VDI. Deployed Traefik reverse-proxy with automated Let's Encrypt SSL. Implemented Atlassian JIRA Service Desk for CMDB with integrated ITSM.
Resident Engineer / Wintel Engineer
ServLink Technology ResourcesIT staffing & solutionsFeb 2012 – May 2016On-site infrastructure support in tier-1 investment banking environments, seconded to Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank under Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Managed mission-critical server infrastructure supporting trading floor systems with 99.99% uptime SLAs. Executed change management following financial services protocols and regulatory compliance (SOX, Basel III, MiFID).
Education
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
University of HertfordshireIn Progress (Year 2 of 3)Diploma in Infocomm and Digital Media
Temasek Polytechnic2019 – 2021Diploma in Information Technology
Kaplan Higher Education Institute2012 – 2015NITEC in Info-Communications Technology
Macpherson ITE2008 – 2009Certifications
IT Service Management
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- EXIN Microsoft Operations Framework v4.0
Virtualization
- VMware VCP-DCV 2019
- VMware VCP6-DCV
- CompTIA Server+
Linux & Systems
- CompTIA Linux+
- LPIC-1 Server Professional
- Novell SUSE CLA
- Oracle Linux OCA
Network & Data Center
- Juniper JNCIA-Junos
- HP FlexNetwork Solutions V3
- APC/Schneider Electric DCCA