How We Began
DreamCatcher began its existence in 2002 in the garden of Choo Wai Heng's house in Bukit Tambun, Penang when two old friends, Choo and Chin Soon, agreed that the DreamCatcher name sounded pretty catchy and would stick in people's minds once they heard it - and that proved true.
The plan was to major in technical training, initially focused on wireless technologies. In fact, it was Chin Soon's unemployment that was the kick start for the company - having used up his limited savings, and in a poor job market at the time, he had few alternatives but to venture out on his own. It was also with the support and encouragement of his former manager in Agilent, that DreamCatcher was able to begin its existence.
Choo Wai Heng joined soon after, again due to a downward-spiraling communications industry, and brought his management and operational experience to the company, and worked hard to bring the company through its initial growth stages.
Not long after, Poh Jin, another old friend, joined too and brought with him a sharp business acumen that would help the company to further develop and grow into a viable technical training provider to the local and regional market.
Wai Heng has over 20 years of experience in the electronic and telecommunication industries. He started his career in Andersen Consulting before joining Hewlett-Packard/Agilent. He last served as the Regional Manager for OSS business in Asia Pacific and Japan before leaving to start DreamCatcher.
Dr Hor has spent more than 14 years in the electronic industry, working on electromechanical devices, data storage and electronic instrumentations in various capacities as educator, researcher, and technical manager. Dr Hor is currently overseeing the design services portfolio.
Mohd Radzi has more than 18 years in the semiconductor industry while working at Hitachi Semiconductor, Akashic Kubota, Advance Semiconductor Engineering, Hewlett-Packard/Agilent and Intel Technologies. His job experience varies from being an academic staff at USM School of Physics to various engineering positions in Packaging and Test Development.
Cheng Yian has over 25 years of experience in the test and measurement industry with various executive positions from R&D, Technology Management, Professional Services and Global Support & Delivery. He started his career with Hewlett-Packard Test & Measurement Business (later became Agilent Technologies) in 1982. Before he joined DreamCatcher, he was an R&D Technology Manager of Agilent Measurement Systems Division.
Lean Hong began his career in 1989 as a test development engineer in Motorola. He joined Hewlett-Packard/Agilent as a systems engineer in 1993 to deliver regional telecom system projects. His last position at Agilent was as a business manager for the South-East Asian integrated solutions business. He ventured into the test & measurement solutions business in 2001, and co-started the courseware business in 2007.
Pin Lee came on board after spending 10 years in the manufacturing industry. Prior to joining us, he held various positions in the manufacturing operations of Renesas Semiconductor and Agilent Technologies, including the areas of process and materials. Pin Lee currently oversees our technical writing arm, DreamReka.
Kah Hoe started his career as a lecturer in Multimedia University for 8 years. With increasing needs of technical training in the industry, he was invited to join the force in DreamCatcher. He focuses on professional technical education and technical consulting in programmable logic, digital and signal integrity portfolios.
Steven has been in the training and education industry for more than 10 years, leading various functions such as administration, operations, marketing, customer support, and sales. He is also a trained teambuilding facilitator where he helped organizations run programs focussing on people development and team motivation. He is currently responsible for sales and marketing in DreamCatcher.
Celine has started her career in the training and education industry for more than 8 years, leading various functions such as sales, marketing, and customer support. With her passion and values in customer satisfaction, she continues her career with DreamCatcher as an Operations Manager.
A jack of all trades within the RF domain, Dr Teoh has been an Application Engineer, System Engineer, Project Manager and RFIC Designer with Hewlett-Packard/Agilent/Avago Technologies before venturing out in 2007 to start up DreamCore Technologies, the design services arm of DreamCatcher.
Dr Fabian has a keen interest in science and electronics since childhood. He has worked as a PCB design engineer and embedded system design engineer at Intel Technology and General Microsystem Sdn Bhd respectively prior to joining Multimedia University, where he is now a faculty member. He has many years of experience in digital and analog circuit design.
Kam has spent more than 15 years in Communications Test & Measurement related work activities - 3 years working experience as Test Engineer in Sony TV Tuner Department and 12 years working experience as Technical Support Consultant in Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Telecom Network Assurance Solution. Kam is currently responsible for the Telecommunications training portfolio.
Prof Koo has more than 10 years experience in engineering education and has been actively involved in research and consultancy projects, in the area of radar technologies and embedded systems. He is the recipient of the inaugural Young Engineer Award by the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia in 2004.
Dr Tang has worked for IDAC Limited, an UK engineering consultancy firm, for over 10 years. He specializes in engineering modelling and simulation of mechanical and multiphysics systems. His consultancy work covers all major industries including oil and gas, aerospace, biomechanical, environment, energy etc. Dr Tang relocated back to Malaysia in Jan 2010 and joined DreamCatcher as a principal consultant to develop and expand its mechanical engineering portfolio.
Dr Dasline has more than 25 years working experience in the oil & gas industry, 21 years of these with Shell Malaysia Upstream and Petroleum Development Oman, and 4 years as Senior General Manager of Petra Energy Bhd. Currently, he is the CEO and Principal Consultant of Dream Catcher Energy Sdn Bhd, the oil & gas subsidiary of DreamCatcher group.
Dr Leong has more than 15 years working experience in the pharmaceutical industry in Malaysia, The Netherlands and Singapore. She has overseen various formulation development processes through to global clinical trials, managed product scale ups and commercialisation of new R&D technologies. She focuses on professional technical education and technical consulting in Life Sciences.
