Myo's random rambling

I have been designing and developing software for nearly 10 years. I have involved in building custom software, prototyping research concept, and building as well as supporting Enterprise software. I have worked on projects that store and analyze terabyte of data, program which grows from 10 people to 200 people in two years, and systems with constantly changing requirements and delivery timeline. I have contributed in designing system from scratch to maintaining and adding new feature to production systems. With my wide range of interest from designing intuitive user interface to scalable backend, I enjoyed working on all tiers of application. Using Agile/Scrum techniques have been essential part of my role while leading small (3 people) to large (15 people) team to deliver quality product.

Software development has been a passion for me. I pride myself with craftsmanship put into the system and promote getting things done philosophy to deliver quality product with timely schedule.

Skills

• Languages: Java, Ruby, ActionScript3, JavaScript, JSP, PHP, Perl
• API/Toolkits/Frameworks: Adobe Flex, AIR, Rails, Spring, Hibernate, SWT, Struts
• IDE/Tools: Eclipse IDE, NetBeans IDE, Visual Studio .NET, Ant, CVS, Subversion, GIT
• Related Technologies: Servlets, WebService, XML, XHTML, CSS, XMLHTTP, Unix Shell Scripts, Eclipse Plug-in Development
• Operating Systems: FreeBSD, Linux, SUN Solaris, OS X, Windows, DOS
• Application Servers: Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, MS SQL Server

Relevant Experience

Lead Software Engineer
The Active Network Ltd. — Burnaby, British Columbia Nov 05 – Present
Java & Adobe Flex Developer for flagship product of market leader in Parks & Recreation. I spend most of my day writing highly reusable components & designing infrastructures for Flex modules with efficiency, flexibility & scalability in play.

• Leading as Flex domain expert in building a highly configurable, high volume application platform that will support multiple market applications.
• Design core RIA framework and provide architectural assistance to 30+ Flex developers.
• Leading and mentoring team with mixed talents in Adobe Flex & JavaEE using Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Recognize as good team player while helping team’s day-to-day problems and working across development teams and support teams.
• Acknowledge as an eager adopter of the new technologies that improve productivity & effectiveness for developers and products overall.
• Technologies: Adobe Flex 3, Cairngorm, BlazeDS, Spring, Jetty

Systems Analyst
Capraro Technologies, Inc. — Utica, New York May 03 – Jun 05
Served as a lead developer in many successful projects not limiting to web-based time, expense and applicant management system for International adjusting firm, web-based Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for board of realtors with over 300 realtors, web-based voice recognition transcription system, and software re-engineering project sponsored by Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

• Designed and developed custom Web-based applications using LAMP Technology and Java.
• Redesigned and increased usability on website design and web-based applications.
• Designed and developed Java SWT applications / Eclipse IDE Plug-Ins.
• Developed and applied new semantic web technologies such as Ontology and RDF.
• Participated in team to research and develop solution for software problems in legacy systems.
• Technologies: Java, PHP, MySQL, Linux

Consultant Systems Engineer (Part-time)
WebArchivist Research Team — Utica, New York Sept 01 – Oct 08
Coordinated and built archived materials for several projects with Library Of Congress, Internet Archive and several organizations from Asia and Europe for Asian Tsunami Archive, September11 Archive, Election 2002 Archive, Internet & Elections Project Archive.

• Operation manager for archiving research materials from web.
• Develop tools to archive, report and control quality of archived materials.
• Implement tools to support researchers in cataloging and analysis of archived materials.
• Monitor and maintain Linux cluster to run web crawler.
• Technologies: FreeBSD, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL

UNIX System Administrator (Part-time)
SUNY Institute of Technology, CS Dept — Utica, New York Sept 01 – Aug 03
Served as an active team member in service critical environment to support, maintain, and deploy new services for several hundred users.

• Managed and maintained servers and lab machines under Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows 2000 Advanced
• Server and Windows XP as a team member.
• Created and maintained productive computing environment for faculty and students.
• Performed network, software and system upgrades to achieve high security & reliability.
• Automated daily administrative tasks with Shell and Perl scripts.
• Implemented new technologies for department to widen usability, reliability, and security for faculty and students.
• Technologies: FreeBSD, Windows ActiveDirectory, TCP/IP, Perl, Shell Scripts

Education
State University of New York – Institute of Technology Utica, New York
Master of Science, Computer Information Science — August 2003, GPA: 3.89

London Guildhall University London, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Science, Computing & Information Systems — December 2000, GPA: 3.6

Hobbies / Interests

• Keeping up-to-date with Industry
• Random software / hardware hacking
• Competitive Badminton Player
• Mediocre Tennis player
• Occasional Swimming & Hiking hobbyist
• Fan of Battlestar Galactica, Alias & Grey’s Anatomy