Professional Career
I have been devoted to web development since age twelve. With the innate knowledge in web usability and human-computer interaction, I am committed to help clients in building successful web sites and applications that are conducive to reaching the clients’ goals.
I used to be a software engineer and consultant at Molecular/ Isobar. I have received various awards in web design and appeared in magazines and radio programs. I have been on technical teams in a variety of web projects for clients including Hong Kong Disneyland, Disney Vacation Club, ABC Family, Seagate, AIG, Alico, Southwest Airlines, Network Appliances, Boost Mobile, Wells Fargo, Ernst & Young, and many other local companies and organizations.
I am currently on the Box.net front-end team developing user interaction and interfaces, where I also spend time experimenting new technologies and best practices such as HTML 5 and performance optimization.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, I further expanded his international exposure and became a professional engineer when I went to the United States and received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. Since then, I have worked in Hong Kong, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Boston and New York, and am looking forward to getting more overseas opportunities.
My Web Engineering Specialities
- Proficient in JavaScript (jQuery, YUI), HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, Photoshop, CMS deployment (GoPublish, Tridion, Crownpeak, Sitecore), usability analysis
- Knowledge of WordPress, Java (Spring), ASP.NET, Tea, C#, XML, Visual Basic, Flex, Flash, Perl, Jira, SVN, Apache, Tomcat, CGI, C, C++, Tcl, Scheme, Pascal, Matlab, PSPICE, MS Office, general UNIX commands
- Microsoft Certified Professional in Windows since 2002
Honors (since 2000)
- Winner, MITX Awards (Professional Services Category), WebAwards (Outstanding Website), OMMA Awards (Website Excellence Award) 2008 - Ernst & Young’s “EY Insight” [http://www.ey.com/eyinsight/index.html]
- Received A+ distinction in the User Interface Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation class at UC Berkeley 2005
- Honorable Mention, the National Dean’s List [www.thenationaldeanslist.com] 2002 – 2004
- Scholarship Recipient, CCSF Memorial, Peers International, Faculty Association, Square and Circle Club, MCSE course (fee-waived) 2001 – 2004
- Best ‘Idol’ Website Designer, Hong Kong Web Awards 2000 - Awarded among a hundred nominated professional web designers in Hong Kong
- 2nd-runner-up, CIA Dreamware Multimedia Design Contest, held by Macromedia Inc. 2000
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