Buu Nguyen

Technology Director, University Lecturer

Viet Nam

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Education
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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Buu Nguyen’s Summary

Technical director and university lecturer with experience in managing & developing n-tier desktop/web-based applications and teaching advanced software development courses. Open-source commiter.

In-depth knowledge in various programming languages (Java, C#, Scala, Groovy, Ruby, VB.NET, JavaScript, and C/Win32), development processes (XP, Scrum, and RUP), and tools/technologies (e.g. ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX, Entity Framework, LINQ, jQuery, db4o, xUnit, JSP/Servlet, EJB 2.x/3.0, Struts 2.0 etc.)

Certified with SCJD, SCBCD, and MCSD.NET.

Buu Nguyen’s Specialties:

Program/project management, technical consulting and education, agile method, OO design, programming languages, .NET and Java development.

Buu Nguyen’s Experience

  • Director of Technology

    KMS Technology

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2008 — Present (1 year )

    KMS Technology is a software development company based in HCMC Vietnam. Founded in 2007, the company’s aim is to leverage the skills and experience of its staff to provide world class software solutions and services to its clients. The management team of KMS has gained considerable expertise in world class software development in the past 13+ years in the Vietnam IT outsourcing industry. KMS leverages that expertise to build packaged solutions for the Education/E-learning space and provide other innovative solutions for our clients.

  • Lecturer

    RMIT International University Vietnam

    (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

    RMIT Vietnam, the Asian hub of RMIT University headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, is the only foreign-owned and the top university in Vietnam.

    I teach courses in software architecture design & implementation, enterprise system development with J2EE 1.4, and .NET 3.5 web development as part of the IT degree.

  • Open-source/Community Contributor

    Community

    (Computer Software industry)

    January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

    - http://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/buunguyen
    - http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=3904402
    - http://stackoverflow.com/users/17815/buu-nguyen

  • Senior Manager

    Viet Phu E-Payment Corp. (Mobivi)

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)

    MobiVi is a technology company led by veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and technologists. It aims to build a payment network that transforms the current Vietnamese cash-mostly transaction economy into an electronic-based transaction economy.

    As a senior manager in the Engineering department, I led the implementation effort of 3 software (Remittance web application, eWallet Checkout API, and One-Time-Password module) employing many technologies such as .NET WinForms, Spring, Struts 2.0, Axis, jQuery etc.

  • Engineering Manager

    Computer Sciences Corporation

    (Public Company; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2008 — September 2008 (3 months)

    CSC is a leading global Information Technology services company with approximately 91,000 employees and centers in 92 countries around the world.

  • Associate Engineering Manager

    Computer Sciences Corporation

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

    July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year )

    Led the company's capability building account whose purpose was to develop competencies of all resources on-bench. Provided oversight too all technical training activities in the company.

    Steering member of Resource Management Office and a 70-resource department. Core member of many company-wide R&D, process improvement and training programs.

    Program manager of three enterprise software projects having nearly 50 resources and employing various technologies including MOSS, WCF, WF, C#, ASP.NET, Ajax, Office System, Documentum, and Java. Coached and developed many team members in leadership and technical skills.

  • Principal Software Engineer

    First Consulting Group

    (Public Company; FCGI; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year )

    Onshore project manager for a development project of 40 resources. Worked directly with the client on all day to day project matters. Worked with offshore director and managers in project planning and execution.

    Involved deeply in many company-wide training and process improvement activities and initiatives.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    First Consulting Group

    (Public Company; FCGI; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 11 months)

    Managed engineering effort of an HL7 integration project which has 4 resources.

    Led the design and implementation effort of three healthcare projects employing Java (Swing, RMI, socket), .NET (C#, WinForms, .NET remoting), AOP, MS SQL Server 2000, and Ruby.

    Researched and applied various open-source tools such as Ant, JUnit, Javassist, Log4j, CruiseControl, Barbecue, and HAPI. Developed project members in technical capability.

    Worked as a business analyst and communicated directly with the US client to compose requirement documentations for development team.

  • Project Lead

    Sao Xa

    (Computer Software industry)

    April 2004 — August 2004 (5 months)

    Managed team and led the implementation of three web applications employing various technologies including ASP.NET, C#, PHP, SQL Server 2000, JavaScript.

  • Software Engineer

    Paragon Solution Vietnam

    (Computer Software industry)

    February 2003 — September 2003 (8 months)

    Involved in building a distributed conferencing and banqueting application. Skills utilized include C#, WinForms, .NET Remoting, Office automation, and Crystal reports.

Buu Nguyen’s Education

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

    Bachelor , Applied Science in Software Engineering , 2001 — 2004

    • Top graduate in 2004

Additional Information

Buu Nguyen’s Websites:

Buu Nguyen’s Interests:

Technologies, software development, books, movies.

Buu Nguyen’s Groups:

Golden Key International Honor Society

  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    IT/Software Development Outsourcing and Offshoring
  •    ALT.Net
  •    Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
  •    The Enterprise Architecture Network
  •    Project Manager Networking Group
  •    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - 2007, 2010, ...
  •    .NET People
  •    .NET Developers
  •    Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  •    J Architect
  •    Startup Specialists
  •    XNA Game Studio Developers
  •    Sales/Marketing VP's & Directors - Software & Technology
  •    Vietnam Programme and Project Managers
  •    Sun Certified Java Programmer
  •    Sun Certified Java Developer
  •    Outsourcing to Vietnam
  •    jQuery
  •    Silverlight Experts
  •    Vietnam IT Outsourcing
  •    Current and Former CSC Employees
  •    E-learning community
  •    Vietnam Business Info
  •    VNKMC - Vietnam Knowledge Management Community
  •    TechLang: Vietnam Technology Venture Networks
  •    SME Community Network - VCCI
  •    Viet Freelancers
  •    IPv6 Forum MY
  •    Career Development with KMS Technology (.Net, C++, Java, J2ME, Testing...)

Buu Nguyen’s Honors:

• db4o Most Valued Professional (dVP) for the year 2009
• db4o Most Valued Professional (dVP) for the year 2008
• FCG's Jim Reep award (given to 6 out of 2500 associates) in 2007
• FCG's 2nd Quarter's QRS (Quality, Reliability, and Service) award in 2006
• Top Software Engineering graduate at RMIT in 2004
• RMIT scholarship for outstanding academic record since 2002
• Second prize in the Ho Chi Minh City High-school English competition in 2001
• Bronze medal in the South Vietnam English competition in 2000

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