Adrian Anantha Raja

B.Sc, MBA | Principal Consultant/Trainer

Mr. Adrian Anantha Raja, more fondly known as Adrian, is a consultant and trainer at Arpro Training & Consultancy. He brings along with him a wealth of experience in various fields including Management Systems development, implementation, training, and consulting.

Adrian received his initial education in India before pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology Management and completing his Master’s in Management and Marketing with Honolulu University. He has also completed the following courses:

• ISO 14001:2015 EMS Lead Auditor
• ISO 45001:2018 OHSMS Lead Auditor
• RBA (Responsible Business Alliance) Lead Auditor
• Certificate in Purchasing Management
• Safety & Health Officer Course – NIOSH, Malaysia
• Train the Train Course with PSMB (Reg. No.: TTT/0200)
• Certified RPL (recognition of prior learning) assessor
• Certified Risk Professional
• Certified ISO 9001:2015 QMS Lead Implementer
• ISO 18788 Lead Implementer
• PSMB/HRDF approved TNA consultant
• Certified Environmental Professional in Scheduled Waste Management Course.

Having served various multinational corporations such as Samsung Corning (M) Sdn. Bhd, Yano Electronics (M) Sdn. Bhd., Adrian carries with him the expertise of a purchaser, quality system administrator, customer service personnel, human resources and administration executive, and a corporate trainer as well as a marketer that is able to understand and blend with the working culture and way of life at these organizations.

Adrian also brings along with him the wealth of developing and implementing an integrated management system (IMS) at various multinational corporations and local conglomerates.  This includes the Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital in Kuala Lumpur (under the KPJ Group for which he developed and implemented ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 IMS), Nestle Manufacturing in Shah Alam, Petaling Jaya, and Chembong, Emery Oleochemicals in Teluk Panglima Garand, Toyota Boshoku UMW, YMP (M) Sdn. Bhd. and Abe Hatome (M) Sdn Bhd in Seremban, B. M. Nagano Industries in Johor and Grand Circuit Industries Bhd. in Penang, and many more.  His work involves providing training and consultancy on quality, environment, safety & health, waste management, legal compliance, pollution control, customer service, handling customer complaints, problem-solving as well as other soft skills programs for various levels in an organization.

Adrian represents our strength in quality, environmental and safety & health management systems, business management, integrated management systems, business tools development, training needs analysis and soft skills.  As such, he is overall responsible for Quality, Environment, Safety & Health, Integrated Management System, Quality System Tools and other corresponding programs such as Customer Surveys Management, Document & Records Control, Supervisory Skills, and Time Management, auditing/assessment, Problem Solving, and Japanese Housekeeping Systems (5S and 6S). The various businesses that he has provided training and consultancy include metal stamping, injection molding, mechanism assembly, electronic products, printed circuit boards, thermoforming, glove manufacturing, construction, sporting goods, packaging, trading, welding machines, automotive, food processing, labor supply, IT, oil and gas, hospitals, hospitality, training, and education. Adrian also conducts quality, environment, health & safety-related training for clients of SGS Academy, Malaysia. He has provided training and consultancy services in Malaysia, India, Libya, Brunei, Dubai, and Indonesia.

He has conducted training for Yakult (M) Sdn. Bhd., Xyratex (M) Sdn. Bhd., Ceramtec Innovative Ceramic Engineering Sdn. Bhd., Sanyu Jushi Sdn. Bhd., Logoplaste Malaysia Kuantan Sdn. Bhd., Malaysian Environmental Cleaning Science Sdn. Bhd., International Medical University (IMU), Newcastle University Medicine (NUMED) Malaysia, Edge Academy International Sdn. Bhd., Bridgestone Sporting Goods Sdn. Bhd., Konica Minolta (M) Sdn. Bhd., Toyota Boshoku UMW, Honda Malaysia, D. K. Leather, APM, Evergreen Fibreboard Berhad, Gardenia, F&N Dairies Sdn. Bhd., Nestle (Shah Alam, PJ, Chembong & HOU), Kerry Ingredients (Shah Alam, Johor & Penang), Malaysia Milk Sdn. Bhd., Sunway Pyramid, Ministry of Health, Top Glove, TPG Oil & Gas, National Oil Wells & Drilling Company Libya, Libyan Petroleum Institute, Leopad (Malaysia & Dubai), Hilton Sentral, Pullman Bangsar, Grand Hyatt, Prince Hotel, New World Hotel, Welding Industries Malaysia, Penerbitan Pelangi, Press Metal Sdn. Bhd., Biforst Holdings, TNT, Citylink Express, Agility Logistics, Line Clear Express, DB Schenker Logistics, AICA Chemical, Eastman Chemical, Flexsys Chemical, Toyochem Speciality Chemicals, AIC Display, Inzi Display, Elpar Herbs, Matrix Flavours, GSK Pharmaceuticals (M) Sdn. Bhd., GSK Shared Services Centre, GUH Circuit Penang, Sarawak Plantation Berhad, MIDA, Weber (M) Sdn. Bhd., Hitachi Air-Conditioning (M) Sdn. Bhd., Felda IFFCO, YNH Construction, B.M. Nagano Industries, Panasonic Johor, AEC & URC Engineering Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia Airports Berhad, Medipharm Brunei, Brunei International Air Cargo Centre, SGS (M) Sdn. Bhd., Shibata Asia Sdn. Bhd. and many more.

Adrian conducts the following management systems related to training:

• ISO 9001 and Quality– Awareness, Risk-Based Thinking, Documentation & implementation Control, Internal Audit, 5S Housekeeping Practices, Root Cause Analysis.
• ISO 14001 and Environment – Awareness, Risk-Based Thinking, Environmental Aspect & impact, Environmental Legal Requirements, Documentation & implementation Control, Internal Audit, Scheduled Waste Management, Green Procurement, Emergency Preparedness.
• ISO 45001 and Occupational Health & Safety – Awareness, HIRARC, OH&S Legal Requirements Risk-Based Thinking, Documentation & implementation Control, Internal Audit, Effective OSH Committee, Emergency Preparedness.

Adrian is a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and a Life Member of the Institute of Quality Malaysia (IQM).  He has served for a regional consulting firm for several years. Adrian’s guiding principle in any training and consultancy project is to develop and provide practical solutions that add value to the customer.

Meera Rasadurai

Senior Trainer

Meera Rasadurai is passionate about creating change, she is adherent about being the change she wishes to experience. Her passion is to create peace and understanding between people and at large world peace. She is a Go Greener and tries he level best not to cause harm to mother nature’s creations thus adopting a Vegetarian diet for the past 20 years. As a walk-in her spiritual journey of self-discovery she has attended many motivational and meditation camps. Her hobby is reading, and dancing; mainly the Bharatanatyam. She has in-depth experience with people of all faiths and backgrounds. Her purpose and work are to help people emotionally heal, have deep self-awareness of self-power. She has been actively involved in the field of personal development for the past 9 years of which two years were spent in research of Mind, Body and Spirit, Auric, Energy, and Crystal Healing. She has given short talks and training in various secondary schools for girls. Her forte is Kids of both sexes and Women. Her flair is with kids and women. Currently, she is pursuing her MD in Alternative Medicine and authoring her own book. She holds a Diploma in Marketing, Public Relations & Advertising from Stamford Business School, and an MS in Human Nutrition from PDCI, USA, University of Bridgeport.

She is a:

• Registered and Accredited Hypnotherapist with the Malaysian Society of Complimentary Therapy-Ministry of Health Malaysia
• Registered and Accredited Stress Management Consultant – IACT
• Registered and Accredited NLP Practitioner with the American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming(ABNLP)
• Certified Yoga Practitioner and Color Therapy – Chennai
• Associate Member of the International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT)
• Registered and Accredited Clinical Hypnotherapist – IACT
• Registered Complementary Therapist (Ministry of Health Malaysia)
• Registered and Accredited Time Line Therapist – ABH, Leading Performance Singapore
• Basic Certification in Naturopathy
• Certified Aroma and Acupressure Therapist – Pivot Point, India
• Accredited Mind Power and Metaphysical Meditation – Kolej Utara, Malaysia
• Certification for Train The Trainer for Occupational First Aid and CPR with AED

She has worked in the hospitality industry for about 5 years, taught Mind Body and Spirit at Melaka College of Science and Management, and has been a freelance trainer for more than 8 years. She has provided Personal Coaching and consulting to expatriates, dignitaries from various countries. She is currently focused on business development.

She believes an interactive environment is crucial in ensuring knowledge gain. In fact, case studies and sharing experiences are two core aspects of her training that have been successful and proven productive especially in strengthening language skills and enhancing soft skills in an individual.

Adrian Anantha Raja

BSc Elect Eng, MSc Mfg Eng, M.I.I.E | Senior Consultant/Trainer

Mr. Sivapalan is an Electrical Engineer with a Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems from the United Kingdom and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Production Management from the University of Delft in the Netherlands. He is a certified Lead Assessor for the ISO9001 Quality Management System. He has also attended the MTM, U.K courses in MTM 1, 2 & 3, and passed the examinations with distinctions.

Mr. Sivapalan has a vast working experience spanning over twenty-five years, most of which was at the National Productivity Corporation. During his tenure at the Corporation, he had the opportunity to attend the Total Quality Management training for three months in Sweden and also attended the Malcolm Baldridge Convention in Washington D.C. He was also responsible for the following important functions:

• Chief Judge, Ministry of International Trade and Industry Quality Management Excellence Award
• Judge, Ministry of International Trade and Industry Product Excellence Award
• Chief Judge, National Quality Control Circles Conventions
• Chairman, Annual Quality Camps for Industries
• Program Manager, Malaysian Technical Program in Work-Study for International Participants

Throughout his working experience, he had the opportunity to attend various courses abroad, e.g. Maintenance Management (Philippines), Production and Quality Systems (France), Quality Management Training (Japan), Method Time Measurement (UK), and Production Management (Holland).

At Arpro Training & Consultancy, Mr. Sivapalan represents our strength in all fields of Quality Management including TQM, ICC (QCC), 5S, Warehouse Management, Preventive Maintenance, and various other QC tools.

Uvitra Shanmugalingam

Trainer

Uvitra Shanmugalingam is OSH Trainer’s fresh and latest recruit specializing in First Aid and CPR since 2018.  Academically, she holds a Bachelor’s (Hons) Biomedical Science and was formerly a Medical Underwriter for Prudential Services Asia from 2015 to 2018.

Her job scope as a medical underwriter includes analyzing the health and financial status of an applicant proposing an insurance plan, to determine the risk of insuring a client, to screen applicants based on set criteria such as age, gender, smoking status, to evaluate recommendations from underwriting software and to decide whether to offer insurance coverage based on applicant’s overall profile.

She has also completed the Train the Trainer Course with PSMB (Reg. No.: TTT/24555) and she is also certified for Train the Trainer with First Aid and CPR with AED. Uvitra is passionate about educating people to live a wholesome life, cleanliness, and to be the first to save lives. She is currently researching further to enhance her knowledge of these fields.

Chan Wai Yip

Associate Trainer/Consultant

Mr. Chan is a professional in the field of Safety & Health. He has served various organizations including the Royal Malaysian Navy. He is also a Registered Safety & Health Officer and has provided training and consultancy for organizations such as Petronas Carigali Sdn. Bhd., Petronas Management Training Institute, BHP Transport, BHP Steel, and Gas Malaysia.

Mr. Chan holds a Diploma in Occupational Safety & Health from the University of Newcastle and has attended various training on Safety & health both locally and abroad such as  Basic Firemanship from Pusat Latihan Bomba Malaysia, Bushfire & High Rise Building Firefighting Certificate from NSW Fire Brigades (Australia), Certificate of Proficiency on Breathing Apparatus & Rescue from Pusat Latihan Bomba Malaysia, Smoke Control & Ventilation In Buildings & Structures, Care & Maintenance of Sabre Centurion Breathing Apparatus, Dupont Course – Safety & Environmental Management System, Line Supervisor Safety Management Training (Singapore), Operating Manager Safety Management Training (New Zealand), Safety Management Audit Training (New Zealand), Incident Causation Analysis Methodology.

Chan Phooi Lai

Associate Trainer

Ms. Chan is a certified trainer for various Microsoft related courses such as Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel for Financial Professionals, Financial Analysis Using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Charts – Tips and Tricks, Microsoft Excel Formulas and Functions, Automating Tasks Using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel VBA Programming, Microsoft Access VBA Programming and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Ms. Chan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from La Trobe University, Australia, and a Graduate Diploma in Business in Computing from Monash University, Australia.

She has conducted various Microsoft courses, provided technical support for corporate clients, developed new courses as well as trained trainers. At Arpro Training & Consultancy, Ms. Chan represents our strength in developing and providing IT-related training.

Sivem

Associate Consultant/Trainer

Mr. Sivem is a consultant and trainer at Arpro Training & Consultancy. He has more than 21 years of work experience and brings along with him extensive knowledge in the field of Medical Laboratory and Management Systems development, implementation, and consulting.

He has served various well-known organizations and has helped them set up medical laboratories, develop management systems such as ISO 15189 and ISO 17025 as well as good laboratory practices. He started his career as a Medical Laboratory Technician in independent testing laboratories (Pathlab, Gribbles, and Clinipath) and moved on to well-known hospitals such as Fatimah Hospital, Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre, and Columbia Asia Medical Centre where his skills were sought. He rose to the positions of a Senior Medical Lab Technologist before becoming a Laboratory Manager. He also actively participates in conferences, seminars, and exhibitions both locally and internationally.

Subra

Trainer

Mr. Subramaniam, more fondly known as Subra, is a trainer at Arpro Training & Consultancy. He brings along with him extensive experience in various the field of hotel management. He has over 20 years of hands-on experience in the hospitality industry, mainly in hotels and resorts.

Subra completed his Diploma in Hotel & Restaurant Management with ICS and Degree in Business Administration and Management with the Association of Business Executives, UK. Subra worked his way up from a rank and file position to the position of a Manager in Sales in the hospitality industry. He has served at Eagle Ranch Resort as a Sales Manager, Swiss Garden Group as a Vacation Sales Manager, The regency Hotel & Resort Port Dickson as a Front Office Executive and Sales Executive, Guoman Resorts Port Dickson as a Restaurant Manager, Holiday Inn Park View Singapore as a Restaurant Captain.

During his service, he was actively involved in training staff on various topics such as front office skills, food & beverage, customer service, handling customer complaints, etc. His hands-on experience makes the training lively, fun, easy to understand and implement at the workplace. Subra has also assisted hotels in improving profitability, customer service, and innovation. 

Raymond Martin

Trainer

Raymond Martin is a lawyer by qualification and training. He is an experienced security and investigations practitioner with over 15 years of Industrial, Manufacturing, Electronics, Hotel, Logistics, and Telecommunication security, amongst other security-related genres for both local and multinational companies. Raymond is also a certified ISO 28000 (Specification for security management systems for the supply chain) auditor. He has conducted many training sessions especially in the field of security and investigations at his workplace over the years both locally and overseas. Raymond is very experienced in the application of technology to security.

Among the companies, Raymond has worked with throughout his career are Credit Corporation (M) Bhd. / Hong Leong Bank – Fraud Investigations, Hill & Associates (M) Sdn. Bhd. – Security, Investigations & Risk Management, Komag (M) / Western Digital – Regional Security Manager, Sunway Hotel Group – Head of Security & Safety, Ceva Logistics / TNT Logistics – Country Security Head – Security & Safety, Japan Tobacco International – Country Security Head, YCH Logistics – Country Head Security, Celcom Axiata Bhd. – Country Head of Security & Risk Management.

He has also orchestrated many sting operations, close protection, and bodyguarding for high profile clients and VVIP’s. At Meta Minds, Raymond represents our strength in Security and Risk Management. Raymond is currently a training consultant with a few major security firms namely Hybrid, Mahmood, Asras, and Defence security.

P. Balachandran

Trainer

Mr. P. Balachandran, more fondly known as Bala is a training consultant with over 18 years of experience in manufacturing and 17 years in training. Mr. Balachandran began his career in the Equipment Maintenance function in Motorola Malaysia and grew steadily to become an Equipment Engineer. He later took on a position as Section Head for a Production Unit which he ran for several years. He moved on to Thomson Audio Electronics in Muar as a Production Manager in 1991 where he spent 2 years. Subsequently, he assumed a position as Production Manager and then as a Training and Education Manager at Samsung Electron Devices, Seremban till 1995, and then became a trainer in July 1995.

Mr.Balachandran specializes in Equipment Maintenance, Manufacturing, and Training. Since becoming a manufacturing trainer, he has conducted more than 500 training sessions covering more than   10,000 participants both in-house and public programs in the last 17 years.  He currently is one of the most prominent maintenance consultants for theoretical and subject matter expertise. He also specializes in TPM and has conducted numerous in-house training for the above topic.

His vast experience both hands-on and conceptual training makes him a valuable resource person for maintenance Development in the Manufacturing and service sector. He was also invited to speak in Universities and in Maintenance Seminar’s and also trains hospital and hotel, maintenance staff.

Chandran Lechumanan

Sr. Trainer

Mr. Chandran Lechumanan is a professional in the field of Safety & Health particularly in Fire Fighting and Emergency Response. He started his career as a firefighter with Malaysia Airports in 1974 and retired as a Penolong Penguasa Bomba. He has served in both the operations and administration divisions.

Since then he has been actively involved in providing training for various local and multinational organizations. He has also completed the Safety & Health Officer course at NIOSH, Bangi. He has also attended the following Fire Safety related courses.

• Kursus Lanjutan Pemandu
• Kursus Asas Methodology
• Advance Airport Firefighter
• Technical and Vehicle Maintenance
• Kursus OSH ACT
• Integrasi AFRS/AVSEC
• Kursus Pencegah Kebakaran
• Kursus Penyesuaian Pegawai Bomba
• Jurulatih Kawad Bomba
• Accident investigation Training
• Inspection Tech. Training Walk Through
• Fire Safety & Evacuation Training
• Strategic & Operational Risk Management

Khairul Anwar

Trainer

Khairul Anuar was a paramedic and has 35 years of experience working in the Accident and Emergency department. His job scope includes evaluating the patient’s condition on the scene and performs preliminary diagnosis, attending to injuries or sudden illnesses by applying a variety of pre-hospital simple and advanced treatments (first aid, CPR, administering injections and oxygen, etc.) or surgical procedures, monitoring patient’s condition en route to the hospital. He retired in 2017 as the Head of Accident and Emergency department from Hospital Port Dickson. Since November 2009, he has been a part-time trainer with OSH Trainers specializing in First Aid and CPR and became a full-time trainer after retiring in 2017. He was also the cemerlang award winner in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Accidents, and Emergencies.

Yeo Siok Beng

Trainer

Yeo Siok Beng was a medical assistant and has 30 years of experience working in the Accident and Emergency department. His job scope includes evaluating the patient’s condition on the scene and performs preliminary diagnosis, attending to injuries or sudden illnesses by applying a variety of pre-hospital simple and advanced treatments (first aid, CPR, administering injections and oxygen, etc. He retired in November 2011 after serving for 20 years in Hospital Tuanku Jafaar Seremban in the Accident and Emergency department. Since November 2011, he has been an assistant trainer with OSH Trainers specializing in First Aid and CPR. He was also a member of State CPR Team Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

Arjo Bhaumik MAVMgt, AVSEC

TTT/7544 – Senior Trainer

Arjo has done his initial schooling in Delhi (India) and then went on to the UK to pursue his Hotel Management. There he went through intensive training and got to understand the working modules of the front office, housekeeping, food, and beverage outlets and eventually worked at key establishments, like Park Lane Hotel, THF, Hilton on the Park as Management of different outlets. He further came to Delhi and joined Hyatt Hotel as Front office Management.

Later he got the opportunity to work for Pan Am, one of the leading airlines, as cabin crew and got experience of working in a multinational cultural environment. He moved on to join world-leading, Emirates Airlines which was renowned for the world-class service and safety standards where he rose to Cabin Manager and a Training Specialist.

In his tenure at Emirates, he capitalized on over 30 years of experience of being a Manager on-board, where he analyzed, mentored, and performed performance appraisals based on human performance on-board flights.

During this phase, he realized his passion for training and he felt the need to educate himself to further his passion, so he did his Masters in Aviation Management (Australia) specializing in Human Factors and Diploma in Aviation Security (Australia), Train-the-Trainer, and other credentials along the line. As an airline, Emirates set the highest standards of training, which has been filmed by National Geography and written in multiple magazines, where he has been intensively involved in over 15 years of training to aircrew of over 150 different nationalities on various subjects and levels which covered safety, performance development, competencies, evaluations and assessment’s, amongst other related fields.

Arjo brings along a wealth of experience and high standards in training for safety management, customer service, problem-solving, customer satisfaction as well as other soft skills required for the success of any organization.

In conclusion, Arjo brings experience and qualifications in Hotel and Aviation environment, he has been managing the culture of Human Factors for optimum results for over 3 decades and understands the limitations of performance in result-driven organizations, and identifies resources to overcome them by focusing on training needs analysis.