School of Film & Media Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Hua Yi Secondary School

Graphic Designer, Photographer, & Musician

As part of my mandatory 2 year National Service duties as a Singaporean citizen, i was enlisted into the Army in Aug 2022, and after completion of my Basic Military Training, I was enrolled as an Occupational Health and Safety Specialist in the military. My primary job scope was to ensure safety was a priority in the training activities of our soldiers through enforcement, checks, and education, handling safety reports made by our personnel, and investigating when safety has been compromised and led to safety incidents.

This is what I am proud of being able todo throughout this journey so far:
• Prepared safety reports and updates to the board using Microsoft Office
• Designed and promulgated safety materials to educate and encourage safety culture with Canva
• Planned large scale events to help educate personnel on current safety issues
• Conducted random checks on trainings to ensure safety protocol was being kept
• Managing reports from personnel on any safety issues they have flagged
• Investigating where serious lapses in safety have occured and led to injury or damaged equipment

Singapore Army

Occupational Health and Safety Specialist

While awaiting the commencement of my mandatory National Service duties, I interned at Meltwater because I had been interested to pursue a more data-oriented role as I felt it would be deeply beneficial for my own personal growth and development. As part of my job scope, I was to assist in procuring public sentiment and data on various news and happenings regarding Singapore for our client, the Singapore Government.

This is what I managed to experience and learn from this role:
• Data scraping from local news and social media on public sentiment regarding government affairs
• Data scraping from mainland Chinese news and social media on views regarding Singapore
• Data cleaning and consolidation to create useful reports and information
• Setting up rules and formulas on Excel to simplify the work

Meltwater

Media Monitoring Intern

I began interning at this social services organisation as I felt that its purposes and goals deeply aligned with my own, to help young people who had been dealt a bad hand in life to break out of the poverty cycle and not inadvertently lead to a vicious cycle that lasts generationally. I also was very moved by the underlying meaning within the organisation’s nomenclature, that it seeks to help push toward a future whereby there will no longer even be a need for social services organisations to exist here in Singapore, as the local community or ‘villages’ will be able to support one another sufficiently.

As part of my duties as a Communications Intern, this is what I feel I have managed to achieve:
• Captured photographs and video of our members for outreach materials
• Created content and managed social media accounts for our various initiatives
• Designed graphics and posters to help increase public awareness of our activities and goals
• Designed a web portal for beneficiaries and people interested to volunteer to see where they can reach out for help or to support our activities
• Created reports for donors to know how their donations are being used to help underprivileged individuals and families in the areas we operate
• Helped in the creation of the org’s 2024 Annual Report with the use of InDesign

Wen Liang Teo