Singapore · Open to relocation globally
I build the systems that hold when things go wrong.
Thirteen years leading police operations, crisis response and national communications for the Singapore government — now applying that operational discipline to AI safety, trust & safety, and the programs that keep fast-moving organisations coherent.
AI Safety + Trust and Safety
Threat intelligence on AI misuse, information integrity, incident response, and turning written policy into something you can actually measure. Six open research projects in this lane, built in the open with the code that produced the findings, plus a decade of counter-disinformation and enforcement operations behind them.
See the threat intelligence atlas Download CVChief of Staff & Strategic Operations
Building operating models from zero: decision protocols, escalation paths, monitoring cadences and ownership that survive the person who wrote them. Program management across 1,500-officer divisions, ten-year technology masterplans, and a pre-seed startup's entire back office — and two projects below that model an operating system rather than describe one.
See the operations simulator Download CVCommunications & Policy
Official police spokesperson through crises and controversy — 25+ press conferences, and more than twenty disinformation campaigns countered at national scale. The hardest lane to evidence on paper, so it has its own artefact: a crisis comms playbook published alongside the adversarial simulator built to attack it, with the results attached.
See the crisis comms war-game Download CVEight open research projects, builts based on my experience. Each one asks a question the field talks about but rarely measures, and each ships the code that produced the answer, so the results can be checked.
AI Misuse Threat Intelligence Atlas
Eight frontier-lab and platform threat reports, turned into 55 structured, individually cited operation records coded against a purpose-built kill chain and a verified MITRE ATLAS mapping.
AI Incident After-Action Library
Structured after-action reviews of public AI safety incidents, written in the format an operational incident-response function actually uses — timeline, contributing factors, detection gap, corrective actions with owners — plus the code that validates them.
Policy-to-Eval Harness
Can a written usage policy be turned into something you can measure? This builds the missing step explicitly — where policy language becomes a decision an evaluator can score — then reports how far five open-weight models sit from the policy as written.
Enforcement Operations Simulator
A discrete-event simulation of a Trust & Safety enforcement queue, plus the written operating model it exists to test. The premise: a human-review operation is a system you can design and tune quantitatively, not a thing you staff up and hope about.
APAC Regulatory Readiness
A maintained, cited tracker of platform regulation across ten APAC jurisdictions — and the three things you build on top of a tracker: a regulator response workflow, an AI toolkit with the measurement attached, and a readiness framework that turns an obligation into a dated, owned plan.
Crisis Comms War-Game
An adversarial multi-agent simulator for AI-safety incident communications, published alongside the crisis comms playbook it exists to test. Four incidents, four adversary agents that react to what you actually said, three response postures scored on the same rubric.
Multilingual Enforcement Consistency
Takes the policy-to-decision taxonomy from project 03 and adds one variable: the language a request arrives in. Thirty borderline prompts, hand-translated into English, Chinese, French, Singlish and Singapore Mandarin — with the SEA scam typologies, care-system vocabulary and racial-harmony framing that only exist in-language — then measured for whether the same request gets the same decision.
Distress-Conversation Safety Eval
A rubric-based harness for multi-turn conversations with escalating user distress. It measures the failure single-turn evaluation structurally cannot see: a system that refuses correctly on turn one and concedes on turn nine. Criteria are operationalised from Samaritans, WHO and NICE NG225 guidance, with provenance recorded per criterion in code.
- Lead emerging public-safety technology programs across industry, frontline agencies, academia and technical teams.
- Developed the Home Team Space Technology Roadmap and built the operating concept and launch-readiness plan for a new space-technology capability, defining stakeholder roles, data requirements, monitoring expectations and escalation protocols through to durable ownership.
- Translate ambiguous public-safety technology needs into operating models, evaluation criteria, trial plans, deployment protocols and adoption safeguards for emerging AI, quantum and space technology.
- Prototyped AI-assisted workflows on non-confidential open-source data, including public-sentiment forecasting for policy announcements and an LLM behaviour and personality-trait dashboard assessing drift under positive and negative user interaction.
- Co-founded a biotech startup developing an accessible home testing kit for the bacteria causing Lyme disease. Owned go-to-market, business development and financials.
- Built the pre-launch operating model across product, customer, data, fulfilment, regulatory-risk and vendor workflows — clarifying owners, decision protocols, escalation handling and the roadmap from prototype to launch readiness.
- Created automated reporting and task-tracking workflows across 5 cross-cutting workstreams, reducing manual consolidation by ~10 hours per week (66.7%).
- Led app and data-product development including hotspot mapping and computer-vision test-result reading, converting customer-submitted tick signals into structured risk intelligence.
- Official Police spokesperson. Led strategic communications, media relations, crisis communications and digital media strategy for the SPF, managing a team of media officers in a high-intensity environment.
- Program Manager for the Police Communications Masterplan — brand reputation on social media, narrative shaping, and a framework for countering disinformation online — contributing to a 96% public trust rating.
- Approved 1,000+ news releases, 1,600+ media lines and 90 proactive publicity features annually; led at least 25 major press conferences for police initiatives and crisis incidents.
- Commanded the media operations room; planned and executed counter-narratives to more than 20 disinformation and smear campaigns against public institutions.
- Mentored and supervised more than 20 media officers.
- Selected specialist negotiator deploying to high-stakes, life-safety incidents alongside primary postings.
- Managed threat-to-life escalations using structured de-escalation, behavioural risk assessment and decision thresholds to support frontline commanders in determining intervention pathways.
- Headed operations for a police land division of ~1,500 officers, overseeing deployment, resourcing and policy, and commanding major security events.
- Set up a counterterrorism response team to raise the unit's incident-response capability; the model was later adopted across other Police Divisions in Singapore.
- Planned and commanded 30+ security operations including the F1 race and national-level events, with red-teaming and joint exercises alongside foreign security agencies.
- Initiated analysis of emergency call data to drive frontline deployment during COVID-19 operations.
- Commanded 88 officers; used crime analysis and ground intelligence for shift planning, reducing five major offences by 30% and cutting urgent-call response time to under 15 minutes over 90% of the time.
- Awarded one of the Top 5 Neighbourhood Police Centres in Singapore, 2018–2019.
- Contributed to an interdisciplinary AI ethics policy paper feeding into Singapore's Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of AI and Data and the subsequent national AI Governance Framework.
- Founded the division's first Women's Committee; the model was later adopted across SPF.
- Started a skunkworks unit for futures and technology policy planning to anticipate public-safety challenges.
- Program Manager for a joint operations–investigations–intelligence technology masterplan on a ten-year horizon, achieving a 42.9% reduction in duplicative systems and moving technical teams from waterfall to agile.
- Product Manager for police UAV use and for a wearable command-and-control system giving live situational feeds to the command post.
- Pioneered six proof-of-concept trials with IoT devices, patrol robots and chatbots; three were adopted for frontline use.
- Devised cybersecurity policy with an inter-agency team for Singapore's National Digital Identity project.
- Led general crime investigations in central Singapore, averaging 20+ investigations solved per month and maintaining case solvability above 85%.
- Horizon scanning and scenario planning to detect and plan for emerging threats in the international security landscape; staffed INTERPOL's Secretary-General for missions.
- Produced INTERPOL's Environmental Scan series forecasting operational challenges for law enforcement agencies over a 5–10 year horizon.
- Revised INTERPOL's Enterprise Risk Management Policy and drafted SOPs for risk reporting and monitoring.
- Financial news beat for the national daily, with more than 50 articles published during the internship.
Selected early writing
Seventeen bylined articles for Mic between 2011 and 2012, on drone strike policy, cyber warfare, nuclear proliferation and counter-terrorism. Dated now, but the thread running from them to the AI misuse work above is not accidental.
Currently open to roles, globally.
Based in Singapore and open to relocation worldwide — visa authorisation is straightforward. Most interested in trust & safety, AI safety operations, chief-of-staff and strategy roles, and communications leadership at organisations building consequential technology.