Fred Wu

Current

• Freelance Web Developer / Designer at Directlayer

Past

• Web Developer at Trout Creative Thinking
• Web Developer at Electronic Productivity Solutions
• Owner at Mezoc

• Channel Editor in Chief at 51digi

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Education

• Monash University
• Holmesglen Institute of TAFE

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Fred Wu’s Summary

Have built the first website back in 1997, and started working in the IT industry since in high school. Worked in online publishing, building and promoting websites as well as web hosting before becoming a professional web developer and designer.

Have always been a quick leaner and enthusiastic about the industry. Below are some of the key experience during the past few years.

- 12 years of web publishing
- 7 years of dynamic (database-driven) website publishing
- 6 years of online community management
- 4 years of web development and design
- 4 years of open source web development
- 4 years of PHP / MySQL
- 3 years of MVC design pattern
- 2 years of Kohana
- 2 years of CodeIgniter
- 2 years of Linux/BSD server administration
- 1 year of Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- Exposed to RESTful design

Fred Wu’s Specialties:

- Ability to grasp knowledge and technologies in a short time
- Attention to detail
- Solving problems rather than creating blind solutions

Major Skills:

- PHP / MySQL
- Kohana / Yii / CodeIgniter / Zend Framework / CakePHP
- JavaScript (jQuery / Mootools / YUI / ExtJS / others)
- Ruby on Rails
- AJAX
- SCM (Git / Subversion)
- TDD
- (X)HTML / CSS
- W3C standard
- Usability
- User experience
- SEO
- Adobe Suite

Fred Wu’s Experience

• Freelance Web Developer / Designer

  Directlayer

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years)

  Freelance web development and design.

• Web Developer

  Trout Creative Thinking

  (Media Production industry)

  June 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  Web developer & designer.
  
  PHP web development and design.

• Web Developer

  Electronic Productivity Solutions

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  Part time / casual PHP web developer.

• Owner

  Mezoc

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

  Web hosting provider.
  
  Maintained 3 servers in the USA. Partnered with 2 servers in China.

• Channel Editor in Chief

  51digi

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

  Contribute reviews, previews and other articles of PDA (Personal Digital Assistance) devices on a regular basis.
  
  Manage community forums.

Fred Wu’s Education

• Monash University

  Bachelor of Information Technology Systems (Multimedia) , Information Technology and Services , 2006 — 2008

  Received scholarships for academic achievements.

• Holmesglen Institute of TAFE

  Dual Diploma of Multimedia & Website Development , Information Technology and Services , 2004 — 2006

  Graduated with high academic achievements.

Additional Information

Fred Wu’s Websites:

• My Blog

Fred Wu’s Interests:

New technologies and gadgets.

Fred Wu’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
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