Gian Jian Xiang

Gian Jian Xiang

Executive Planner, Strategic Planning, URA

Singapore
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  • Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA) Graphic

    Executive Planner, Strategic Planning

    Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA)

    - Present 3 years 1 month

    Singapore

    In URA's Strategic Planning Group, we are responsible for Singapore's long-term land use planning, while being attuned to global trends and local issues. In 2011-2022, we conducted the 10-yearly Long-Term Plan Review (previously Concept Plan), where we concurrently engaged with the private sector and the public to capture their ideas and thoughts on Singapore’s land use planning approach.

    As an Executive Planner in Strategic Planning, I am in-charge of several portfolios, namely Port…

    In URA's Strategic Planning Group, we are responsible for Singapore's long-term land use planning, while being attuned to global trends and local issues. In 2011-2022, we conducted the 10-yearly Long-Term Plan Review (previously Concept Plan), where we concurrently engaged with the private sector and the public to capture their ideas and thoughts on Singapore’s land use planning approach.

    As an Executive Planner in Strategic Planning, I am in-charge of several portfolios, namely Port, Airport, Tourism and Dormitory land uses; I maintain an overview of related planning matters, while working with ministries and agencies to develop and evaluate land use strategies and safeguard land needs.

    As the dormitory OIC, I am also collaborating with a few agencies to pilot a new housing typology for foreign workers in the Services sector to ensure labour resilience amid a heated rental market.

    On top of these, I also have the opportunity to work with colleagues from other departments on cross-functional projects such as:
    (a) Sprint - visioning and masterplanning for a site in Serangoon (as part of the Draft Master Plan 2025),
    (b) Studio - visioning and masterplanning for a site in Rochor,
    (c) Draft Master Plan Horizontal 1 - identifying new planning strategies to factor in technological changes that could lead to a shift in howe we live, work and play

  • Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Graphic

    Graduate Student, Research Studio

    Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

    - 4 months

    Sponsored by URA's Strategic Research team, this research sought to discover the factors of public spaces that affect social mixing. By conducting extensive qualitative researches on two sites in Singapore, we derived five factors of public spaces that could foster social mixing, and devised six interventions to further this objective.

  • Changi Airport Group Graphic

    Senior Associate, T5 Planning

    Changi Airport Group

    - 4 years 3 months

    Shaped the operations planning of Changi Airport's Terminal 5 by deriving insights and providing analysis using agent-based simulations and data analytics over a variety of studies. These ranged from sizing up capacities of processors and facilities based on forecasted passenger demands to validating feasibility of future operational concepts, as well as coming up with business continuity plans for scenario planning.

  • Infineon Technologies Graphic

    Student Consultant, Systems Design Project

    Infineon Technologies

    - 9 months

    Singapore

    As part of the Systems Design Project, a core module under the Industrial & Systems Engineering bachelor programme, this project sought to improve capacity planning by devising solutions to manage identified product groups that are highly sensitive to demand fluctuations. As the team leader, I was responsible for setting project direction, scope and execution, as well as liaising with the representative from Infineon Technologies.

  • Micron Technology Graphic

    Intern

    Micron Technology

    - 3 months

    Singapore

    1. Reverse-engineered derivation of a complex Queuing Theory formula used by the plant, compared it with an alternative method (Operating Curve) and presented recommendations to improve cycle time estimation.
    2. Further compared two variations of the Operating Curve method used by two other overseas fabrication facilities, and recommended changes for both variants to improve estimation accuracy of the local facility.
    3. Built a simulation model in Excel VBA to determine the bounds of a…

    1. Reverse-engineered derivation of a complex Queuing Theory formula used by the plant, compared it with an alternative method (Operating Curve) and presented recommendations to improve cycle time estimation.
    2. Further compared two variations of the Operating Curve method used by two other overseas fabrication facilities, and recommended changes for both variants to improve estimation accuracy of the local facility.
    3. Built a simulation model in Excel VBA to determine the bounds of a transportation-allocation problem.

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Head of Education Team

    Youth Expedition Program - Project SEEK

    - Present 15 years 9 months

    Education

    Project SEEK was part of VJC ODAC's yearly Youth Expedition Program, where the goal that year was to advocate the importance of sanitation and maintaining personal hygiene to the natives of Sikkim, India located in the Himalayan Mountains. Prior to the expedition, we spent several months preparing for the education programmes for the natives through liaison with the World Toilet Organization and the Singapore Restroom Association. We also had to prepare ourselves physically for the trek up to…

    Project SEEK was part of VJC ODAC's yearly Youth Expedition Program, where the goal that year was to advocate the importance of sanitation and maintaining personal hygiene to the natives of Sikkim, India located in the Himalayan Mountains. Prior to the expedition, we spent several months preparing for the education programmes for the natives through liaison with the World Toilet Organization and the Singapore Restroom Association. We also had to prepare ourselves physically for the trek up to the villages and beyond, along the Goecha-la trail, up to a height of 5500m above sea level.

    As the head of the Education Team, I was responsible for leading team in:
    ■ Preparation of easy-to-understand educational materials (booklets, souvenirs, posters) for children at a local school,
    ■ Conducting of an interactive lesson with songs and dance for said children,
    ■ Choreographing a cultural exchange performance for said school.

    As a team member of the expedition group, I:
    ■ Aided in construction of an ecological toilet for said school and the painting of murals.
    ■ Engaged in community service in Singapore prior to trip in collaboration with Singapore Restroom Association and World Toilet Organization to advocate same agenda among local primary school children.

Courses

  • Advanced Maintenance and Service Logistics

    1CM30

  • Consumer Behaviour

    MKT3402

  • Data Structures and Algorithms

    CS1020E

  • Database Technology and Management

    IT2002

  • Design of Healthcare Planning and Control Systems

    1CM60

  • Designing Effective Performance Management Systems

    1JM21

  • Engineering Economics

    IE2140

  • Engineering Statistics

    IE3101

  • Human Factor Engineering

    IE2150

  • Introduction to Systems Thinking

    IE2101

  • Manufacturing Logistics

    IE3120

  • Marketing 101

    MKT1003X

  • Operation Research

    IE2110

  • Operation Research II

    IE4120

  • Probability

    ST2131

  • Probability Models with Applications

    IE2100

  • Programming Methodology

    CS1010E

  • Project and Process Management

    1CM15

  • Quality Engineering

    IE2130

  • Simulation

    IE3110

  • Software Engineering

    CS2103

  • Supply Chain Operations Planning

    1CM25

  • Transportation Economics

    IE4229

  • Transportation Management and Policy

    TP5026

Projects

  • Personal Resume Website

    - Present

    ■ Self-taught HTML, CSS and jQuery through Codecademy
    ■ Done on Adobe Brackets

  • TimeWise

    Semester-long software engineering project to learn the concepts of software engineering.
    Project: C++ based TODO app
    Repo: https://github.com/terencelimzhengwei/cs2103jan2014-t17-3c

    Skills learnt:
    Revision Control, Design Patterns, OOP, Documentation, Unified Modeling Language(UML) Diagrams, Unit Testing, Test Driven Development

    Other creators
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  • Final Year Project - Optimizing Bus Deployment for Bridging Services during MRT Disruptions

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    ■ Essentially, it is about using Operation Research techniques (or Linear Programming) to optimize the deployment of bridging buses to the various stations during an MRT disruption case scenario I set.

    ■ The motivation of my project came from learning that the current public transport operators (PTOs) deploy buses on an ad-hoc basis.

    ■ My project used travel demand from EZ-link card data, derived using R to find what is the best arrangement and number of buses sent to each…

    ■ Essentially, it is about using Operation Research techniques (or Linear Programming) to optimize the deployment of bridging buses to the various stations during an MRT disruption case scenario I set.

    ■ The motivation of my project came from learning that the current public transport operators (PTOs) deploy buses on an ad-hoc basis.

    ■ My project used travel demand from EZ-link card data, derived using R to find what is the best arrangement and number of buses sent to each station, given the limited supply of buses available, among other constraints.

    ■ Initially, my project was at a larger scale. To optimize the bus bridging system, there are several sub problems to solve. One would be to create the optimal routing system based on the stations that are down, the other would then be to send the optimal number of buses per route. Then there is the matter of accurately modelling the commuter flow. Ultimately, to scale down the scope, I only focused on finding the optimal number of buses per route, which was designed manually, and assumed a deterministic flow of commuters.

Honors & Awards

  • Lee Kip Lin – SUTD Graduate Scholarship

    Singapore University of Technology and Design

  • Micron Scholarship

    Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd

    Recipient for 4 years

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Mandarin

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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