David Lim Technical Audience Lead
Developer & Platform Evangelism
Asia Pacific Region
Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd
David is the Technical Audience Lead in Asia Pacific. He oversees the interests of technical professionals so that and will be better equipped with Microsoft platform resources and knowledge to help their customers. David also oversees the academic program efforts. His team equips and empowers the next generation of software professionals with the software tools, knowledge and skills they need before graduating. Microsoft hopes that students would have more career choices, opportunities and to be adequately skilled, so as to be easily accepted into the workforce.
David had accumulated over eighteen years of experience in International business development, sales and marketing of products and services. Before joining Microsoft, David held the portfolios of Business Development Director, Sales and Marketing Director, in the International Business Division of CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd.. He was a pioneer in CrimsonLogic’s efforts in establishing their International presence back in 2001. He was also in the regional teams of corporations like Samsung and Sony, where he was involved in regional marketing strategy development and engineering projects. During the dot.com era, he was the Marketing Director of a start-up technology company, Stegami.com, which specialised in Internet marketing.
David loves to share his experiences, hence, he taught after office hours on e-Business topics in tertiary institutions in Singapore. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree and an M.B.A. from the National University of Singapore. He also holds a post-graduate qualification in Financial Management from the Singapore Institute of Management.