Singapore · workplace learning · AI at work

Charles Tay

Workplace learning designer since 2004, making AI adoption at work practical, careful and easy to explain.

about

I started work in HR administration in 1999 and moved into learning and development in 2004. Along the way I've been a regional trainer teaching 3D laser scanning to distributors, forensic and law-enforcement teams across Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and held training, learning-design and quality roles at AIG, Temasek Polytechnic, Kaplan and the Singapore Institute of Technology.

Today I'm a Workplace Learning Manager at Republic Polytechnic, working on workplace learning with Singapore companies. In 2025 I took a year out to retrain in AI automation, and in photography and video with AI.

I don't write code, but I build with AI: a personal knowledge vault, scheduled automations and short motion-graphic explainers like the one below. What I care about is the question I asked as a trainer: can the person in front of me use this tomorrow?

Focus

Workplace learning design

Programmes, on-the-job training and blended learning for working adults.

Focus

AI adoption at work

Careful, tool by tool, starting from the work and not from the hype.

Focus

AI governance, explained plainly

Helping non-technical leaders see why AI needs rules it can't change.

Focus

Visual explainers

Short motion graphics that make one idea clear, with the process shown.

  1. 1999HR administration. Where my working life started.
  2. 2004Moved into learning and development.
  3. 2012–14Regional trainer, FARO Technologies. Product and sales training on 3D laser scanning across SEA, Australia and NZ. Best Employee of the Department, 2013.
  4. 2014–16Quality and Training Specialist, AIG. Customer service and sales training; quality calibration for audits.
  5. 2016–17L&D Officer, Temasek Polytechnic. Three learning roadmaps; needs analyses and pilot programmes.
  6. 2017–19Learning Design and Technology, Kaplan Singapore. Custom learning solutions for corporate clients.
  7. 2019–20Manager, L&D, Singapore Institute of Technology. Moved staff training online.
  8. 2020–25Senior Manager, Kaplan Singapore. Teaching & Learning, then Academic Quality. Course proposals approved by SkillsFuture Singapore; EduTrust; internal assessor.
  9. 2025Retrained. SCTP Automation with AI, and SCTP Photography & Videography with AI.
  10. 2026–Workplace Learning Manager, Republic Polytechnic.
  • ACTA · IAL 2014
  • SCTP Automation with AI · RP 2025
  • SCTP Photography & Videography with AI · RP 2025
  • Adv. Cert. Gen AI Apps Design & Prompt Engineering · SMU Academy 2026
  • BCom, HRM & Industrial Relations · Curtin

work

live · NEA hourly PM2.5 · US AQI · 5 regions

Singapore Haze, Hourly

One page instead of two. NEA's 1-hour PM2.5 sits next to the US AQI for each region, with wind, the 2-hour rain forecast, haze news, A&E links and a GP finder by postal code. Unofficial; NEA is the official source.

contact

The best way to reach me is on LinkedIn.