Albert Wong

Current

Distinguished ACM Speaker at Association for Computing Machinery
IT Architect at IBM
Technology Go-to Guy at Organization of Chinese Americans

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Past

Open Source Worldwide Community of Practice Co-Leader at IBM Global Services
Information and Computer Science Alumni President at University of California Irvine
IT Architect at IBM

IT Specialist at IBM
Undergraduate Researcher at University of California Irvine
Lead Residential Computing Support at University of California Irvine

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Education

University of California, Irvine

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Albert Wong’s Summary

Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with 8 years of experience working with industry specific technology solutions that consist of multiple hardware and software products in a technical sales and technical delivery role. For instance, as a member of the IBM Industry Solutions organization, he has deep business and technical experience in the Retail industry -- ranging from retail business processes and key performance indicators, to strategic retail solution areas like Total Store, Multichannel retailing, Supply Chain and Merchandising, and Retail Business Intelligence. His technical area of expertise is 1) business process execution excellence using technology and programming language agnostic tools, 2) process/messaging/data integration using Services Oriented Architecture techniques, and 3) IT architecture design, IT lifecycle management and IT Services Management using Rational Unified Process, IT Infrastructure Library and other industry-wide recognized methodologies.

Not at work, Mr. Wong is very active in Asian American Civil Rights as a officer for the Organization of Chinese Americans, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and was a past president of the University of California Irvine Alumni Association Information and Computer Science Chapter. He enjoys traveling all over the world, eating at local mom and pop restaurants, shopping, learning about anything and everything, donating time to worthy causes and helping his family's business.

Albert Wong’s Experience

Distinguished ACM Speaker

Association for Computing Machinery

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

The ACM Distinguished Speakers Program is an outreach program of ACM that brings distinguished leaders from academia, industry, and government to give presentations to ACM chapters, members, and the greater IT community in a variety of venues and formats. Request an ACM Distinguished Speaker for your next event. See http://www.dsp.acm.org/ for details.
IT Architect

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with IBM Retail On Demand Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO), the IBM skunkworks organization missioned to increase IBM business and technical solutions within the Retail industry. His specialization is the IBM Store Integration Framework, a store-level SOA framework, and IBM WebSphere Remote Server, a software package designed to provide a centrality managed, geographically distributed Java runtime environment for business process execution.

Due to the dynamic nature of the EBO, his skills span the whole spectrum of I/T business and technical development from technical pre-sales, solution design and implementation, offering development to ecosystem enablement.

Software Products: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, DB2, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Configuration Manager, Tivoli Provisioning Manger for Software, Tivoli Enterprise Console, IBM Retail Environment for SUSE Linux, IBM Remote Management Agent
Technology Go-to Guy

Organization of Chinese Americans

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

Technology person for the Organization of Chinese Americans - Orange County Chapter and Organization of Chinese Americans - Sacramento Chapter

Founded in 1973, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) is a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States. OCA aims to embrace the hopes and aspirations of nearly 12 million Asian Pacific Americans in the United States.

OCA’s goals are:
• to advocate for social justice, equal opportunity and fair treatment;
• to promote civic participation, education, and leadership;
• to advance coalitions and community building; and
• to foster cultural heritage.
Open Source Worldwide Community of Practice Co-Leader

IBM Global Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2002 — June 2006 (3 years 7 months)

As a result of Mr. Wong's thought leadership and knowledge in the Open Source space, he has been assigned as the Co-Leader of the IBM Global Services (IGS) World Wide Open Source Community of Practice, a position within IBM Global Services’ Global Strategy and Operations Organization.

As IGS World wide Open Source Community of Practice co-leader he oversees the community governance functions, advise IGS on their Open Source strategy, help design and implement IBM’s Consulting processes within the Open Source space to the IGS lines of businesses and responsible for the IGS' Global Open Source Intellectual Capital database.

Served as one of IBM Global Services representatives to the IBM Academy Study on IBM's Knowledge Management Process and Tool Strategy. He advises the team on what IBMers would like in their Knowledge Management tools and what are the emerging solutions in this space.
Information and Computer Science Alumni President

University of California Irvine

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

June 2002 — January 2006 (3 years 8 months)

Mr. Wong is very active and committed to contributing back to his alum mater and to his community. As a result he was the acting president of the University of California, Irvine Information and Computer Science Alumni Chapter between 2002 to 2006 where he coordinates alumni, college and community events and mentors students that attend the University of California, Irvine.
IT Architect

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 6 months)

Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with IBM Linux and Grid Computing Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO), the IBM skunkworks organization missioned to develop solutions based on Linux for the IT marketplace. His specialization is J2EE application development and application development on Linux, Linux system management, LAMP and multi-platform Grid Computing.

Due to the dynamic nature of the EBO, his skills span the whole spectrum of I/T business and technical development from technical pre-sales, solution design and implementation, offering development to ecosystem enablement.

Lead the IBM Open Source Software Review Board in IBM Global Services, Americas geography. IBM Open Source Software Review Board is part of the IGS Quality Assurance Process that reviews IGS engagements/projects with Open Source licenses for risk assessment and mitigation.

Software Products: IBM middleware on Linux, LAMP, Redhat Linux, Novell SLES, Platform Computing, Altair, DataSynapse, IBM WebSphere XD
IT Specialist

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

June 1999 — June 2004 (5 years 1 month)

Mr. Wong is an IT Professional with IBM Global Services (IGS), the 180,000 strong consulting arm of IBM, with five years experience specializing in business-to-business and Enterprise Information Portal solution design/implementation for the Manufacturing, Health Care, Government industries.

His background in enterprise-wide web-based solutions provides him with the ability to not only implement, but also instruct, on the whole spectrum of IT development. His ability to effectively realize proven design concepts has also furthered his experience in the procurement of customer requirements, software application construction, customer relationship development, and technical mentorship. He has extensive knowledge and experience in object-oriented design principles, n-tier architecture, Sun J2EE, web application servers, open source/closed source frameworks/libraries like Apache Struts and IBM's EAD4J framework.

Software Products: IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ
Undergraduate Researcher

University of California Irvine

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 6 months)

Mr. Wong was a member of University of California Irvine NetGroup Research Team under the direction of Professor Tatsuya Suda from 1997 to 1999.

He spent two years of undergraduate research dealing with automous mobile agents in a peer-to-peer architecture and edge server architecture and design. Paper submitted for publication titled, "Real World Applications with Mobile Agents" co-authored with University of California, Irvine Computer Science Netgroup research team.
Lead Residential Computing Support

University of California Irvine

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

September 1997 — June 1999 (1 year 10 months)

Founded and managed the University of California Irvine Residential Computing organization at University of California Irvine. With a staff of 20+, Residential Computing provides computer technical support and services for 8,000+ on campus residents.

Additional Information

Albert Wong’s Websites:

Albert Wong’s Groups:

Organization of Chinese Americans, University of California Irvine, Association for Computing Machinery

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
UCI Alumni
Organization of Chinese Americans
Overseas Chinese Youth Language Training and Study Tour to the Republic of China
Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Science
ICS.UCI