Ricky Yin

Current

• Freelance Consultant (C#, Java, C++) at Soft Trek Consulting

Past

• Technology Solutions Manager at Hutchison Telecommunications Australia
• Tech Lead at State Rail
• Java Consultant at Tower Technology (now Vignette)

• Java Consultant at 21st Century Insurance
• Team Leader at RTA
• Software Consultant at Siemens Building Technologies
• Software Development Engineer cum Team Leader at Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

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Education

• The University of Queensland
• Anglo Chinese School, Kampar
• Buyong Adil, Tapah

• IT/Telco training

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Ricky Yin’s Summary

I am a freelance technologist with over 20 years' solid experience in hands-on software development within the IT and communications industry. Over this time frame, my skills have grown on par with the tidal wave changes in IT, and I have played a major role in designing several world class products.

Key skills/experiences
1) Wide spectrum of solid hands on technical knowledge (from Databases*, programming languages (C#*, C++*, Java*) and scripting languages (powershell*, vbs, Unix Shell), front end, backend, middleware technologies, application servers)
2) Leadership experience (team leader - 3 times, and tech lead roles)
3) Working at the bleeding-edge technologies frontier.

Ricky Yin’s Specialties:

* Expert practioner in any new technologies/framework
* Tech lead on C#, C++, Java, ASP, or JSP systems
* QA on quality of business data
* Performance tuning on C#/C++/Java apps, trouble-shooting using JProbe, JMeter, Ab, Statpack/thread-dump
* Expert Data Analyst, Integrator

Ricky Yin’s Experience

• Freelance Consultant (C#, Java, C++)

  Soft Trek Consulting

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1994 — Present (14 years 4 months)

  * MFC/WPF projects
  * Integration projects (to Thunderhead©, IQ Rapid address©, ALIS, PAS, LEO)
  * SOA projects using WCF supporting distributed transactions
  * Powershell projects
  * Sharepoint customisation projects
  * Providing guidance on best development practices (software branching, unit testing, using app.config, ClickOnce)

• Technology Solutions Manager

  Hutchison Telecommunications Australia

  (Telecommunications industry)

  April 2004 — April 2008 (4 years 1 month)

  Achievements:
  * Planned 30+ work orders concurrently to cut-over more than 40 products smoothly (interacting with multiple teams - involving 3 development teams, unix,ops,network and storage teams)
  * Part of the key elite team to achieve missed ingestion SLA
  * Tech lead a 3G portal which handles more than 3 million hits per day.
  * Dealt with more than 40 external service providers to ensure a smooth and minimum impact service to the Hutch customers.
  * Tech lead a X-Y Location value-added webservice
  * Designed a Struts based work flow system to provision a clustered J2EE system centrally
  * Implemented a Real-Time Content Pack subscriptions framework
  * Rearchitected a MMS value-added webservice (provides charging, S&F, fault tolerant)
  * Streamlined the development process to handle multiple projects

• Tech Lead

  State Rail

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  February 2003 — November 2003 (10 months)

  * Migrated an olden servlet architecture to the newer Struts/Taglib/Javabean/JSP architecture successfully
  * Co-Designed and implemented simple interface between C++ app and J2ee application
  * Designed single ear deployment for multiple StateRail environment (Development, UA, Production)
  * Co-Designed and implemented single source multiple versions switchable implementations
  * Designed and implemented server to server ejb interface between two separate J2ee systems
  * Analysed an overrun project to produce a definite status report on the actual project state
  * Lead on creating a JSP based prototype to extract business requirements
  * Created framework for coding and development standards
  * Co-designed best practices framework and guidelines for MVC (Type 2) using Struts
  * Managed downgrading development from Oracle 9iR2 to Oracle 9iR1 (including JSTL to Struts taglib)
  * Co-designed extensible Java reporting engine for CSV,HTML,PDF (replacement for Oracle Reports)

• Java Consultant

  Tower Technology (now Vignette)

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2001 — February 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  * Product was awarded Software Innovation of the Year 2002
  * Contract renewed three times due to continued outstanding performance.
  * Added a thin client based report editor (alternative to Crystal Report) under a very tight timeframe
  * Assisted globalization of web product (Successful localization test in Traditional Chinese)
  * Implemented framework for additional licensing and functional partitioning based on privilege
  * Reorganised framework with proper MVC and layering architecture for applet/javascript/html-JSP/Servlet/EJB
  * Designed applet-JSP/Servlet architecture for Tower Worktray module
  * Designed generic LDAP framework to support Active Directory, eDirectory. Framework makes it easy to support other LDAP providers
  * Identified and improved App server performance through proper profiling measurement
  * Replaced their C based storage manager application to Java whose performance is comparable to the native C program but more scalable

• Java Consultant

  21st Century Insurance

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; TW; Insurance industry)

  October 2000 — January 2001 (4 months)

  * First J2EE Project and 1st Insurance project
  * Made major design contributions to develop common persistence architecture that is used by both Tiering and Credit Score projects.
  * Completed both design and implementations ahead of schedule in Tiering Project.
  * Introduced to US colleagues the usage of formal design patterns in designing new classes and to refactor existing classes.
  * Mentored permanents on defects fixing, Jrun and servlet architecture.

• Team Leader

  RTA

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  February 2000 — October 2000 (9 months)

  * My first Java project.
  * Promoted to Team Leader after joining 2 months.
  * Popularized the usage of design patterns in class designs.
  * Improved product quality through code-review and X-approach.
  * Managed team schedule through calculated reshuffling of individual tasks.
  * Designed and implemented an configurable Java based macro engine (inspite of busy team leading schedules).
  * Designed and assisted in the implementation of various infrastructure libraries (including a pub/sub library).

• Software Consultant

  Siemens Building Technologies

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Security and Investigations industry)

  September 1994 — February 2000 (5 years 6 months)

  * Designed and Implemented one of the first Win32 application in the Access control Security domain.
  * Sub contract for Siemens was renewed continuously since 1994 due to continued outstanding performance.
  * Played a major part to release Siemens Access Control Security product (advaNTage for Windows NT) first product in 9 months.
  * Globalized Siemens security product in record time (4 months). Software product is localized in Korean, Chinese (Mainland), American English and UK English.
  * Added a new module "Pager module" to Siemens product
  * Acted as an excellent ambassador for Siemens during five successful trips to commission and troubleshoot in Melbourne and Adelaide.
  * Added a new module Guard Tour with minimal contribution from Siemens domains experts within 4 months
  * Developed global employee distribution for Ansett Airlines within 3 months.

• Software Development Engineer cum Team Leader

  Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

  (Computer Software industry)

  1989 — 1994 (5 years)

  * My first Windows NT projects.
  * Fujitsu Professional Award (RDB2 for Windows NT project).
  * Fujitsu Achievement Award (OSP/PC)
  * Work assignment in Numazu, Japan

Ricky Yin’s Education

• The University of Queensland

  Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), 1984 — 1987

• Anglo Chinese School, Kampar

• Buyong Adil, Tapah

• IT/Telco training

  * Project Management theory - 2007
  * BEA SOA/Virtualisation seminar - 2007
  * Round table - Web 2.0 direction - 2007
  * JSP - 2002
  * MQ Series - 2000
  * COBRA IDL -2000
  * UML - 1998
  * Advanced C++ and Patterns - 1995
  * OLE Automation - 1995
  * Win32 Workshop - 1994
  * Writing that works - 1993
  * SunOS Network Programming - 1993
  * Unix Fundamentals - 1993
  * C++ - 1992
  * Programming Microsoft Windows - 1991
  * DECNET Internal - 1989
  * AXB - 1989

Additional Information

Ricky Yin’s Interests:

Australian shares investment, Aquarium fishes (Gold,Kois,tropical), new technologies, SOA, Social Computing, Soccer, Writing sharewares, Foreign languages (German, Thai, Japanese),

Ricky Yin’s Groups:

IT Professionals Network

•    SIEMENS-World-Wide Network
•    The University of Queensland Alumni
•    Mobile Marketing Industry Australia
•    Telecom Solution Architects

Ricky Yin’s Honors:

Fujitsu Professional Award (RDB2 for Windows NT project).
AXB (Telex Exchange) best student

Ricky Yin’s Contact Settings

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