Jason Wong

Co-Founder at Discount Metrics

Greater New York City Area

Current
  • Co-Founder at Discount Metrics
Past

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Education
  • University of Waterloo
Connections
45 connections
Industry
Computer Software

Jason Wong’s Summary

Professional Experience (from most to least recent)
* C++ and Standard Template Libraries (STL); Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) and Windows API
* C# and ASP.Net on Microsoft .Net Platform; MS SQL; XML and XSLT
* C# and Visual Basic 6; Migrating ActiveX components to Microsoft .Net Platform
* Java, Swing and AWT on Sun Microsystems J2EE Platform
* Java on Sun Microsystems J2EE Platform; XSLT, SAX and DOM for XML processing

Miscellaneous
* Ability to thrive in demanding conditions by effective time management
* Self-motivated, reliable and resourceful problem solver
* Highly adaptable to different work environments
* Effective written and verbal communications skills
* Experienced at debugging in addition to authoring source code

Jason Wong’s Specialties:

Real-Time Programming, Distributed Systems, Graphics, Embedded Systems, Concurrent and Parallel Programming and User Interfaces

Jason Wong’s Experience

  • Co-Founder

    Discount Metrics

    (Computer Software industry)

    2008 — Present (1 year )

  • Systems Analyst

    Infusion Development

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2007 — March 2008 (11 months)

    * Designed and developed Excel automation system that allowed users to schedule runs of actuarial models
    * Developed object relational mapping database layer for design driven database schema
    * Gained experience with a diverse number of technologies on the Microsoft technology stack including Virtual Earth, MOSS 2007, BizTalk, .Net Framework 3.0
    * Gained client interfacing experience through requirements gathering sessions and delivering demos

  • Software Development Engineer Intern

    RealNetworks Inc.

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RNWK; Computer Software industry)

    May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

    * Focused on user interface development for Rhapsody 4.0 client for Windows, a major release of the Rhapsody music client in the hectic four months immediately preceding its release
    * Regularly debugged device/client interaction code for a variety of portable music devices; consequently acquired knowledge about Component Object Model (COM) interfaces to devices
    * Implemented device registration wizard that registers device and acquires DRM licenses upon first time user connects to application
    * Credited in Rhapsody 4.0 Windows client easter egg, ('TUNETO4EVER')

  • Software Engineer Intern

    Waterfront Media

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

    September 2005 — December 2005 (4 months)

    * Developed Global Content Management System used by content editors to modify settings for shared tools for multiple products
    * Worked with advertising vendors to integrate XML based targeted advertisement content service into registration forms for existing product

  • Trading Systems Development Intern

    E*Trade Canada

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ET; Investment Banking industry)

    January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)

    * Debugged and developed funcationality for institutional trading application based on ActiveX controls and .Net components
    * Authored unique custom report generation implementation for one-to-many data sets
    * Suggested and implemented caching support to COM responsible for retrieving user profile information that noticeably improved performance
    * First hand experience migrating Win32 components to .Net Platform through use of COM interoperability
    * Familiarization with ComponentONE .Net component libraries

  • Java Software Development Intern

    E*Trade Canada

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ET; Investment Banking industry)

    May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)

    * Debugged and developed front-end components for Java stock-ticker web application
    * Utilized Java Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and Swing libraries in user interface development

  • Java Software Development Intern

    ING Direct Canada

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TSE:IIC; Banking industry)

    September 2003 — December 2003 (4 months)

    * Designed and developed adjudication matrix class utilized in internal mortgage approval decisioning process
    * Authored tool to batch convert large number of XML marshalling classes to compile under new version of IBM Websphere Application Developer when the classes broke after migrating from previous version

  • Junior Software Development Intern

    Qualicom Innovations Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2003 — April 2003 (4 months)

    * Rewrote a number of database scripts for Oracle DBMS for mySQL, PostgreSQL and DB2
    * Tested and debugged Java Server Pages (JSP) and Struts based web applications

Jason Wong’s Education

  • University of Waterloo

    BMath in Computer Science , Computer Science , 2002 — 2007

    Activities and Societies:
    Co-Founder of University of Waterloo Poker Club; a university recognized club consisting of over one hundred members and member of the University Poker League

Additional Information

Jason Wong’s Interests:

game programming, embedded programming, user interface design

Jason Wong’s Honors:

* Received distinction at Northwestern University's Centre for Talent Development philosophy of science summer program for writing excellence

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