Stanley Yao

Current

• Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corp.

Past

• Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com
• Software Engineer at National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• Part-time Programmer at Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Education

• University of Arizona
• Nankai University

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Stanley Yao’s Summary

Stanley Yao’s Specialties:

PUBLICATIONS (CO-)AUTHORED:
1. Tamper Detection in Audit Logs, 30th International Conference of Very Large Databases (VLDB), Toronto 2004
2. A Case Study of Object-Relational Persistence Mapping, Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XIV, Pasadena CA, 2004

PATENTS:
1. PRC Patent# CN00130887.4, Smart Home Control Systems Based on Wireless Application Protocols, 7/31/2002
2. PRC Patent# CN00131035.6, Integrated Home Server for Smart Homes, 7/31/2002

Stanley Yao’s Experience

• Software Design Engineer

  Microsoft Corp.

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

  November 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Software Design Engineer in Enterprise Search Group of Microsoft Business Division. My focus is on the core search experience and application framework of Microsoft Enterprise Search Engine products. Skills related to my work include cross team collaboration, product integration, architectural design, C#, C++, SharePoint, ASP.NET, databases, Windows Server, and AJAX.

• Software Development Engineer

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  I worked at the Business Intelligence team building XIRF (eXtensible Interactive Reporting Framework) based on one of the top 3 world's largest data warehouses. We serve topnotch online daily business reports (e.g., sales, web analytics, click streams) to thousands of Amazon's premium merchants and partners. Skills related to my work include business requirement analysis, project management, cross-team collaboration, agile development, data warehouse, OLAP, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), C++, SQL, Oracle, and Perl.

• Software Engineer

  National Optical Astronomy Observatory

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

  June 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Design and implement sperical indexing for astronomy databases. Design and implement science archive database applications using Java, J2EE, OO, and Relational DBMS.

• Part-time Programmer

  Chinese Academy of Sciences

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  September 2000 — July 2001 (11 months)

  As my undergrad thesis topic, I worked in a multi-million dollar joint venture product R&D project between Chinese Academy of Sciences and Kelon Inc. This Smart Home project connects home appliances to the Internet for remote monitoring, control, and programming. Skills related to my work include system design and programming in C++ and Java on Linux platform.

Stanley Yao’s Education

• University of Arizona

  MS , Computer Science , 2001 — 2004

  Research focus was on algorithms, DBMS enhancements, database security, tamper-proof transaction systems, and information privacy

  Activities and Societies:

  ACM student member,
  VLDB conference proceedings and presentation,
  US Patent co-Applicant for tamper-proof audit logs,
  SIGMOD conference external reviewer,
  Univ. of Arizona Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year

• Nankai University

  BS , Computer Science , 1997 — 2001

  Admission with entrance exam waived and 1st prize scholarship

  Activities and Societies:

  Chair and co-founder of ACM Nankai Chapter,
  Vice chair of CS dept students origanization,
  Representing Nankai Univ. in ACM ICPC Asia Regional,
  Honorable Mention, International Mathematical Contest in Modeling

Additional Information

Stanley Yao’s Interests:

Music, druming, swimming, ping pong, XBox 360

Stanley Yao’s Groups:

• 1/2008 ~ present, Member of Toastmasters International
• 12/2003 ~ 02/2004, SIGMOD'04 external reviewer.
• 1998 ~ 1999, Chair & Co-founder of ACM Student Chapter of Nankai Univ.
• 1998 ~ 1999, Vice chair of CS Department Student Committee, Nankai Univ.

•    University of Arizona Alumni
•    Amazon Alumni
•    Web 2.0
•    Business Intelligence Professionals
•    Microsoft Employees
•    Sharepoint Experts
•    Database Experts
•    Venture Capital
•    Chinese Academy of Sciences Alumni
•    Nankai University Alumni
•    Enterprise Search Engine Professionals

Stanley Yao’s Honors:

• 02/2004, Univ. of Arizona Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year
• 02/2000, Honorable Mention, International Mathematical Contest in Modeling
• 11/1999, Nankai Team, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (Asia)
• 1998~2000, 1st Prize Scholarship of Nankai Univ. (top 2%), Computer World
National Scholarship (2 out of 600+), City Scholarship (20 students city-wide)
• 02/2005, Sun Certified Java Programmer (Java 1.4)
• 03/2005, Microsoft Certified DBA (SQL Server 2000, ASP.NET, Windows Server 2003)

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