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Mr R. Swaminathan

Technical Advisor

Mr Swaminathan is a seasoned IT leader with more than four decades of experience in software development, consulting, project management, digital transformation, and education. Based out of Singapore, he serves as an Adjunct Faculty member in IHLs, Private Business Schools and in Training Institutions

Industrial & Technical Expertise

Entrepreneurship

As the Co-founder and Director, provide advisory and consulting services in Data, AI, and Digital Transformation, focusing on educating, enabling, and empowering SMEs and non-profit organisations in their Digital/AI transformation journey. Conducts complimentary workshops on Data Driven Decision Making, Digital Transformation and Data & AI Fluency

Engineering & Manufacturing

Experience in end-to-end product design – user requirements, design, development, testing, and training. Design and development of quality control measures through software systems and integrating different business functions towards improving productivity and efficiency.

Software development

Gathering requirements, compiling specifications, design, development, UAT, training and deployment. Managing software development projects, both onsite and offshore.

Education Services in an MNC

Design, development, and delivery of customer and partner training that includes vendor-agnostic topics such as Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, and Data Science. Managing the delivery and operations of education across Asia Pac & Japan

Education – IHLs and Private Schools

Delivery and assessment of technical courses such as Design Thinking, Data Visualisation/Data Analytics, Data Mining/Machine Learning, as part of their Degree and Diploma.
Design, development and delivery of customised technical workshops that include Data Visualisation, GenAI, Prompt Engineering and AI Agents.

Education – IHLs and Private Schools

Co-authored “Transform or Perish” and contributed to SCS’s “AI Ethics & Governance Body of Knowledge.”
Executive Mentor at NTUC, SCS, a Student Mentor at SINDA and a Volunteer Career Advisor at WSG.
A Senior Member of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) and the Secretary of the Business Analytics Chapter.
Volunteer at Red Cross Singapore.
A Distinguished Toastmaster from Toastmasters International.
Member of Tech Kaki supporting user research and user testing of GovTech Apps. And solutions.