
Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Greater Pittsburgh Area

Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Greater Pittsburgh Area
Lead application developer involved in system analysis, design, implementation and quality assurance. Worked on a wide variety of value-added mobile services. Particularly interested in developing products and services that integrate diverse technologies and business domains.
System analysis, design, implementation and quality assurance.
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 5 months)
•Led a distributed software engineering team in the development of a state-of-the-art client-server interview tool.
•Exceeded customer expectations by promoting strict quality assurance guidelines and best practices.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
April 2003 — June 2006 (3 years 3 months)
Additional responsibilities in managing a small group of engineers during the development lifecycle, and introducing new technologies and techniques to improve product quality and process efficiency.
Project highlights:
Content Card: service for selling mobile content through collectable cards.
*Coordinated outsourcing efforts as a technical project manager: drafted RFPs, evaluated vendor proposals, and interfaced with vendor and business partners to meet target project delivery date.
Data Broadcasting III: web-based application for sending high-volume SMS.
*Spearheaded system migration from C to Java.
*Improved system throughput by more than 100%.
*Enhanced system maintainability and stability.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 2000 — March 2003 (2 years 8 months)
Responsible for requirement analysis, system design and implementation of value-added services based on SMS and USSD. Also played the technical project manager role who supported project manager on evaluating solutions, and worked with operation and customer service departments on resolving operation issues.
Project highlights:
Fleet Management: GPS and USSD-based service providing vehicle-tracking for enterprise customers. Winner of the GSM Association Awards in 2002 for Best Corporate Wireless Application or Service.
*Designed and implemented a new platform architecture based on messaging queue middleware; improved system availability and stability to sustain high-volume message traffic.
Mobile Info: Real-time stock quotes and foreign exchange information.
*Migrated a part of the system to meet new business needs and at the same time improved its maintainability.
*Maintained a distributed legacy system that provides real-time data for the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
Master, Software Engineering, 2006 — 2007
B.S., Information and Computer Engineering, 1994 — 1998