Tom Z Zeng

Current

Director of Strategic Technologies at iJET International, Inc.
Director of Strategic Technologies at iJET Intelligent Risk Systems

Past

Senior Consultant at Unwired Express
Software Development Manager at SpaceWorks
Software Development Manager at Ironside Technologies Inc.

Developer->Architect->Development Manager at Footprint Software Inc.

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Education

University of Waterloo
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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Tom Z Zeng’s Summary

I've been developing computer software applications all my professional life. I am familiar with all aspects of the software develop life cycle and had experiences in managing development teams of various sizes. I am very interested in using the latest technologies to solve real world problems and have constantly kept myself up-to-date with the latest technology trends.

Tom Z Zeng’s Specialties:

- Software Development Life Cycle
- Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Java, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, Groovy/Grails, PHP
- Javascript(ExtJS, JQuery), XML, AJAX, CSS
- Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic
- Portal(Liferay), CMS(Alfresco, Radiant), Lucene/Solr, Sphinx, Xapian
- Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- GIS (ESRI/Google/Yahoo Maps, Geospatial/Oracle Spatial/MySQL Spatial/PostGIS, GPS tracking)
- Trac, Git, CVS, SVN, Maven, Ant
- Wireless devices, SMS, VoiceXML

Tom Z Zeng’s Experience

Director of Strategic Technologies

iJET International, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

2001 — Present (8 years )
Director of Strategic Technologies

iJET Intelligent Risk Systems

(Privately Held; Security and Investigations industry)

December 2001 — Present (8 years 1 month)

iJET is an operational risk management company for the Global 2000 corporations.

I am mainly responsible for researching emerging cutting-edge technologies, building prototypes with them, and if proven useful, integrating them into our products. Some of the technologies that I introduced to our applications since joining the company: machine-to-machine data exchange using XML and web services, VoiceXML, wireless/SMS(realtime alerts and flight status notification), scripting(BeanShell), GIS (mapping with ESRI & Google Maps, geospatial queries, and GPS tracking), JSR 168 portal, JSF, web clipping (Kapow RoboSuite). My latest research interests include: Ruby on Rails enterprise and web 2.0 services (workflow, messaging and queuing, full text search, machine learning / text mining, GIS, spider / robot).
Senior Consultant

Unwired Express

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

April 2001 — November 2001 (8 months)

Unwired Express developed the first commercial context-aware application platform called the Express Mobile Platform.

• Gained in-depth understanding of the Mobile Express Platform architecture and system components. Developed context aware apps with the Mobile Express Platform(J2EE, WebLogic, XML/XSL, JSP, Palm, WinCE, RIM, WAP).
• Developed prototype and proof of concept applications using the Express Mobile Platform. Specific tasks include: a demo mobile SFA app; the Flight Sensor, interface to Flytecomm; the Traffic Sensor, interface to TrafficCast; the mobile alerts with the Categoric alert engine; the “Late for Event” context model.
• Participated in the requirement analysis and design of a context aware Field Service app.
• Contributed on the architecture and feature enhancement of the Mobile Express Platform
Software Development Manager

SpaceWorks

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

February 1999 — April 2001 (2 years 3 months)

SpaceWorks developed sell-side business-to-business e-commerce system for the Fortune 1000 companies.

• Managed SpaceWorks’ new product research and development.
• Managed the delivery of version 4.1, 4.11 and 5.1 of SpaceWorks’ award winning product suite.
• Responsible for project management, technical directions and design reviews.
• Managed the Offline Access, Wireless Access, Product Returns and Auction projects.
• Responsible for design and development of the Wireless Access project.
• Introduced and managed the University of Waterloo’s co-op program.
• Managed the first two projects that SpaceWorks successfully outsourced to its offshore development center in New Delhi, India.
• Technologies used: JDK, J2EE, WebLogic, JBuilder, Rational Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Rational PerformanceStudio, XML, webMethods, MOAI, OpenSite, WAP, Palm WebClipping, Oracle and MS SQL Server.
Software Development Manager

Ironside Technologies Inc.

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

November 1997 — January 1999 (1 year 3 months)

Ironside developed real-time web and Java based b2b ecommerce applications for small to midsize companies.
Developer->Architect->Development Manager

Footprint Software Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

November 1989 — November 1997 (8 years 1 month)

Footprint Software built custom and off-the-shelf software for the financial industry, it later became a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM.

Tom Z Zeng’s Education

University of Waterloo

M.A.Sc , Management Sciences, MIS, DSS, AI, Expert Systems, Neural Networks , 1986 — 1989
Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Postgraduate Diploma , Management Sciences , 1985 — 1986
Huazhong University of Science and Technology

B.A.Sc , Optics Engineering (Laser) , 1980 — 1984