Courses & Events
Little Lives
Apr 5, 2011
04:15 pm - 05:30 pm
About LittleLives Inc.
LittleLives Inc. is a Singapore based startup focusing on intuitive and user engaging
educational products. Their flagship product, LittleLives.com, is an educational network
for children that is safe, fun, and wholesome. Started in 2007, the network serves over
85% of the primary school market in Singapore, with recent in roads into the pre-school
education arena as well. LittleLives is now being developed as a pilot application for
select California schools, with a bigger launch in the U.S. planned for the near future.
Sun Ho
Sun Ho is the founder of LittleLives Inc., a company founded in Singapore, and
operations in Silicon Valley. She is passionate about bringing the best technology to
education.
Sun started her career developing SAP-based Sales Force Automation software at Toppan
Forms. Then at WorldGroup Consulting, she deployed Onyx CRM onsite at Mobilink
in Pakistan. Moving to Chicago to work for Tellabs Inc., she developed a testing and
simulation framework using Expect/Tk for the Tellabs 6500 platform, and also enhanced
and supported the managed equipment feature in the command domain using UML
and C++. Upon her return to Singapore, she joined ST Dynamics to develop the Video
and Map portion for Ground Station Software of the Fantail UAV (Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle) using VC++. The features she designed were showcased at the Asian Aerospace
2006 exhibition.
Sun’s entrepreneurial inclinations led her to switch to doing business developing with
eClub. She successfully established new partnerships to manage computer and training
facilities, and set standards for management of key operational activities, marketing
programs, and training courses. Besides achieving profitability within 6 months of
operations, she drove revenues to double in less than a year.
She holds a BSc in Information Systems & Computer Science from the National
University of Singapore where she was part of the Business Committee and Computer
Science Society. She is Cisco certified and has had varied professional training from
object oriented analysis to multiple telecommunication technologies and protocols.
Throughout school, she was also decorated in Mathematics competitions and actively
involved in the performing arts.
John Schliesser, Ph.D.
John Schliesser holds a Ph.D. from Berkeley, where his research addressed the impact
of digital and nonlinear media on traditional narrative form and cognition. Schliesser
started his career as a consultant at Lightbulb, an early New Media subsidiary of Viacom
in Los Angeles, developing story formats for web-based entertainment applications.
From 2004-2007, Schliesser was the co-lead for Time Treks, an International Cooperative
Research Project sponsored by the South Korean Ministry of Information and
Communication for the purpose of designing a new edutainment platform for cultural
tourism to be deployed on mobile devices in South Korea. During his time in Asia,
Schliesser also worked on related projects with such Hong Kong companies as Mobile
Adventures and Sterling Ltd.
Upon returning to the United States, Schliesser began work as a consultant for Decizium
Inc., a Belgian company set to release an online decision engine for travel planning
in the U.S. consumer and business markets. He later acted as CEO of the company’ s
U.S. subsidiary. Schliesser has recently returned to his more familiar role of consultant
at U.S. Market Access Center, where he has been advising and assisting a variety of
overseas high tech companies seeking successful U.S. market entry. Along with software
applications, Schliesser has worked with foreign companies in the renewable energy and
aerospace sectors.
Schliesser began working with Little Lives in October 2010 as a business mentor. In
January 2011, Schliesser became officially engaged as a consultant to the company, and
is now working to drive this compelling new initiative forward in the United States’
education market.
