Simon Jia

Current

• Soft Engineer at Demand Media

Past

• Technology Director at Manify360 Inc.,
• CTO at U-Phone Corporation

Education

• Azusa Pacific University

Recommended

4 people have recommended Simon

Connections

64 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Simon Jia’s Summary

9 Years of LAMP experience
Able to quickly analyze projects and determine the technology needed, workload needed, and time needed.
Always make as many test scriipts as possible
Able to maintain a good practice of clean coding format. Always make clear comments
Always maintain a detailed documentation on any projects.
Fast troubleshooting and identifying bugs

4 Years of Tech Management
Able to communicate with external source (clients) or internal source to properly scope projects
Able to split large projects into smaller tasks/projects so that progress of a project can be properly measured and success of the project can be measured.
Able to manage priorities based on urgencies and corporate vision
Able to properly manage the timelines (milestones) based on realistic measurements. (the efficiencies of the current resources and skill level of the current resources)
Able to scope projects based on the current status of the system (enhancements, refactoring, and etc.) and also based on the vision of the corporation.

Technical Skills
LAMP
Framework designs
OOP Programming (MVC and other patterns)
Data caching (bytecode caching, memcache, etc)
MySQL Database Optimization
AJAX (participated in some developments of jQuery)
Web applications targeted at Mobile devices (eg. Iphone web apps)
Web Security
*nix System Resources Managements (CPU, Memory usages, Page Load Time and etc.)
Large scale Data Migrations
Large file processes
Data Synchronizations (cron or daemon)
Telecommunication Applications (VoIP, PSTN Based Products, Control Panels for Soft Switches, etc)
Template system (before smarty)
Socket Server+Client
API Server+Client
E-Commerce Solution (shopping cart, member system, admin control panel, etc)
Blog Platform (front end, back end, templates, etc)
Email Client (using Socket / IMAP)
TCP / UDP Server+Client
RSS Feed Reader and Creator (XML Parsing)
SMS Service Implementation (SMS, MMS) Interacts between user and service

Simon Jia’s Specialties:

Project Mangement
Software Development Management
Server architecture
LAMP
XML, HTML, JavaScript, usability, CSS

Simon Jia’s Experience

• Soft Engineer

  Demand Media

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  April 2009 — Present (8 months)

  Building the next generation of social media web sites
  Maintaining Cracked.com and Mania.com

• Technology Director

  Manify360 Inc.,

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 11 months)

  Web development, PHP programming, Ajax Implementation, MySQL Database Management, Technical Analyzes, Project Planning, and Programming Team Management.

• CTO

  U-Phone Corporation

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 9 months)

  Project Management, Project Planning, Product Design, Extreme Programming, Managed 5 person team in China
  Customer Service Support, Client Relationship

Simon Jia’s Education

• Azusa Pacific University

  2000 — 2002

Additional Information

Simon Jia’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Simon Jia’s Interests:

new technology, extreme programming, playing guitar, drifting cars

Simon Jia’s Groups:

LAChinaRen.com

•    Hong Kong IT Professionals Association
•    Hong Kong I.T. & T. Association
•    HK Expat
•    Tech Terrace

Simon Jia’s Contact Settings

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