Kenneth Yeh

Current

• Managing Partner at Blogged.com

Past

• Sr. Software Engineer at Snap.com
• Sr. Software Engineer at Idealab
• Founder at Media888

• Sr. Software Engineer at Odetics
• Member of the Technical Staff at Nortel Networks

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Education

• University of Southern California
• University of California, Los Angeles

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Industry

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Kenneth Yeh’s Summary

Has unique combination of software engineering experience, business knowledge, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Over 10 years of industry experience. Strong problem-solving skills. Ability to architect, build and implement abstract ideas into applicable products.

Kenneth Yeh’s Specialties:

Software Engineering, Programming, Server Architecture, Information Technology, Market Analysis, Project Planning

Kenneth Yeh’s Experience

• Managing Partner

  Blogged.com

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

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

• Sr. Software Engineer

  Snap.com

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

  October 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 7 months)

  - Lead engineer on the "Snap Adsys" advertising system. Snap Adsys offers many of the same functionality as Google Adwords, MSN Adcenter and Yahoo Search Marketing platforms.
  
  - Implemented various features on the Snap.com website including optimizations for speed, performance, and UI. Snap.com is implemented fully in AJAX.
  
  - Implemented various features on the Keyword Suggestion Tool (KST) for Snap.com. Also implemented the administration interface for KST to add, remove, and update various keyword suggestions from the KST database.
  
  - Implemented the admin interface for the Snap Preview Image Crawler. Also maintained the image crawler, loader, and database.
  
  - Templatized various components of the Snap.com website using PHP Smarty templates.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  Idealab

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

  September 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 2 months)

  - Implemented the solar panel tracking software for Energy Innovations's Sunflower solar concentrator product which was demo'd at the TED conference. (C/C++/VB)
  
  - Worked with team on the Google Picasa advertising/tracking software system in PHP/MySQL. Also worked w/ team on redesign of Picasa website and e-commerce platform.
  
  - Designed and implemented the Evolution Robotics ER1 Music Jukebox software. (C/C++)
  
  - Designed and implemented the Java-Based Clearmesh Network Management client for the Clearmesh OmniNode product.
  
  - Designed and implemented the original Wizmik online educational gaming software in Flash 5/MX.
  
  - Worked with team on the LikeThis clustering search engine. (PHP/MySQL).

• Founder

  Media888

  (Internet industry)

  October 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  - Produced financial software for the Asian investing community such as real time quotes, news, and charting tools.
  
  - Created Quote888.com, a "Chinese" Finance portal with multilingual stock investing news, analysis and reports.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  Odetics

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; ODETA; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  - Worked with team on the CAS voice signalling software.
  
  - Designed and implemented the Java SNMP client software for the Dexter 3000 Access Device.

• Member of the Technical Staff

  Nortel Networks

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  August 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 1 month)

  - Worked with team on the Magellan Passport Access 4400 on a VxWorks platform.
  
  - Worked with team on the SNMP agent and client software for the Passport 4400 product line.
  
  - Received the annual Nortel/Micom STAR award for developing an application to automate SNMP agent source code generation.

Kenneth Yeh’s Education

• University of Southern California

  M.S., CS, Software Engineering, 1997 — 1999

• University of California, Los Angeles

  B.S., CS & Electrical Engineering, 1993 — 1997

Additional Information

Kenneth Yeh’s Interests:

new technology, snowboarding, investing, movies, video games

Kenneth Yeh’s Honors:

Micom Nortel Star Award, 1997
Patent - SNMP Ping
Patent - WNS Wireless NS Protocol

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