SHERRY WANG, MBA / MA / BS / PMP Certified

US +1-516-***-**** ASIA +886-*-****-**** acqz3c@r.postjobfree.com Top performing technology Manager with international experience and a proven record of accomplishment rolling-out products and services and positioning product lines for sustainable and consistent revenue growth.

Professional Summary

Demonstrated International experience in startups as well as multi-national Financial Services companies including Merrill Lynch, and Salomon Smith Barney, leading Program/Project Management and Directing Software Development of technology products and services with comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the software development & deployment process.

• Significant experience Identifing and documenting business requirements and communicating these to product architecture and development.

• Significant experience leading multiple simultaneous projects in Financial Services. Project Managed development and support of thirty-four Solomon Smith Barney General Services Division’s software applications including: Corporate facilities management, Branch Management, Finance and administration, Purchasing, Corporate Travel, Document Services, Food Services, Conference Services, Mail Services, Security, And Health and Fitness.

As in-house consultant to the Merrill Lynch Investment Banking Department technology support team, led technology solutions effort that improved business productivity. Led development of a LBO tracking system for M&A transactions.

• Significant experience leading FinTech Program/Project Management efforts for a Mobile, Social and Payments Network with eCom site and Mobile Apps Development.

• Significant International Ad/Digital Media marketing and technology experience. Program managed a consumer in-the-home next generation Ad platform and Digital Media Appliance.

• Significant Software Development experience. Led mobile device GPS-Location-based software system design and development.

As Development Director managed the development of web-driven, consumer-accessed, travel information databases accessible via interactive cable and kiosk networks. Led design of the software for a family of handheld devices that combined driving directions and GPS navigation with navigable maps.

• Significant eCom Project Management experience. Project managed the e-commerce netmarket/portal development effort for medical equipment parts and services procurement, providing a comprehensive source and exchange for parts, tools, services, resources, information and knowledge base to the Healthcare Equipment Industry.

• Significant experience Program Managing Consumer Electronics products development in Shenzhen & Taiwan. Led ODM design, development & manufacturing of LCD HDTV/PC/internet and wireless convergent Electronic consumer products. Arranged and managed supply chain, identified partners and negotiated terms. Managed the specification and architecture effort of this device as well as the B2B and B2C ecommerce Web property design and online applications. Collaborated on chip, component and sub-system selection with Intel, AMD, VIA and sundry PCMB ODMs such as ASUS, AOPEN, and iBase as well as OEMs such as Tatung, Quanta, and many LCD-TV OEMs in Taipei.

• Significant experience working with business stakeholders in Technology Product Management and Marketing Program management. Program managed the marketing efforts for a software start-up to launch a family of shrink-wrapped software products working closely with marketing, customers, sales, and engineering to identify: product vision, definition, pricing strategy, goto market strategy and product release roadmap. Gathered, define and facilitated prioritization of product requirements. Led efforts to develop; design packaging; and manage launch dynamics.

• Languages: Mandarin (Native), English (Fluent), Japanese (Basic) Education

MBA 2004: CORNELL UNIVERSITY -- JOHNSON SCHOOL; M.A. Computer Science 1988: CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK – QUEENS COLLEGE; B.S. of Electronic Engineering 1985: NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY; PMP CERTIFIED

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Career History

MaiJai, Inc. 2011 - Present

London / Singapore /Taipei

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (BUSINESS ANALYST)

Overview:

Development of a Mobile Social & Payments Network offering: Money Transfer, Open Publishing, Recommendations, and Social Networking functions via web sites and mobile Apps. Challenge:

To lead an internationally distributed team (London / Singapore /Taipei) to design an online social network portal with Remittance capabilities from an Ecom Site and a mobile payment app to offer migrant workers the ability to send money back home.

Accomplishments:

• Identified and documented business requirements and processes highlighting business processes, communicating these as models to product architecture and development teams.

• Project managed the development of prototype site and apps.

• Project managed the end to end development effort. MaiJai, Inc 2006 - 2010

USA/Beijing/Taipei

PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Overview:

For this Ad/Media startup creating for the in-the-home Ad market a next generation Ad platform and Digital Media Appliance that enables consumers to signal merchants and advertisers their product and service needs and permits advertisers and merchants to respond with Ads and product information. Challenge:

How to position and rollout this new in-the-home Ad platform with both advertisers and consumers so as to gain a share of the more than $70B Ad market by enabling consumers to click ads on their TVs as they can now do on a computer. Fine tune the business model by turning the home TVs to money making Ad/Digital Media Appliances. Accomplishments:

• Define the market and sustainable competitive advantages, identify competitors, and create a go-to-market entry strategy. Define product functions and features to match users’ shopping behaviours so as to speed adoption of MaiJai’s Ad/ Digital Media Appliances.

• Participated in constructing a business plan, market and sales forecast analysis, valuation analysis, high level product development & deployment and go to market plans.

• Identified the Supply Chain, secured partners, negotiated terms, planned production, and arranged and managed ODM design and manufacture of pre-production samples in Taiwan and Shenzhen respectively.

• Managed the product specification and review design of this device as well as the Web property design and online applications that, together with the new Ad platform functions like an ipod, i-tunes product service combination.

• Participated in raising capital, team recruitment, established operations, partner selection and negotiation in the Ad/Media industry, and defining channels of distribution. Nanoware Technologies, Inc. 2005 - 2006

Beijing & Taipei

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (BUSINESS DEV & ANALYST)

Overview:

Developed potential business opportunity for Asia/Pacific Insurance market for USA software company and its to-be formed China WFOE (Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises) Branch by arranging for the purchase of an Insurance software product IP (Intellectual Property) from a Multi-National company. Arranged investment from potential distributors in China/Asia with mutual goal to market the enhanced IP to the accelerating China/Asia Insurance market.

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Challenge:

These include the immaturity of IP laws in China and strategies for protecting IP from local developer/partners; business customs, spoken and unspoken, of Chinese business people; the regulatory and legal environment.; dealing with potential investor entities that are partially owned by the Chinese government. Accomplishments:

• Performed market research on the China/Asia and worldwide Insurance market and its key players, by analyzing Asia/Pacific Insurance market, Asia/Pacific Insurance practice (operation execution) & business models. Conducted due diligence on IP valuation, key players’ financial status & their business politics, technologies of Insurance IP, and the requirements of enhancing the Insurance software product.

• Investigated and analyzed the options of forming business entities for doing business in China & Asia Pacific, including Virtual Offices, Representative Offices, Foreign-Invested Enterprises (FIE), Joint Ventures (JV), and Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE).

• Participated in term sheets & offer letters structuring and coordinating negotiations with key players, including original IP creator, major Asia distributors, and potential investors by leading face-to-face meetings, conference calls, emailing and follow-up letters.

• Participated in constructing a business plan, market and sales forecast analysis, valuation analysis, high level product development & deployment plans, and go to market plan. CORNELL UNIVERSITY (JOHNSON SCHOOL) MBA PROGRAM 2002 - 2004 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (PRODUCT MANAGEMENT)

2001 - 2002

Overview:

Member of a team of a Biotech software start-up managing the development of bioinspired next generation software architectures, and built-in software and data security mechanisms with storage, security and in silico drug discovery applications.

Challenge:

Identify, define, and manage product categories emanating from this next-generation software technologies research. Define the markets, product differences, competitive advantages, value proposition, competitors, potential customers, price points, positioning and distribution approach. Identify the first product and develop a marketing strategy, and roll out plan. Determine whether to market this product or license the technology. Identify follow-on products.

Outcome:

Developed a strategic plan for the company as a framework from which to approach the above challenge. Did industry analyses for potential product categories, and identified potential first and follow-on products in each category. Ranked product and technologies based on industry fit and need and potential competitive responses. Began developing product data sheets to assist in the discussions with potential customers and early adopters. Medispares, Inc. 2000 - 2001

Wayne, Pennsylvania

PROJECT MANAGEMENT/DELIVERY MANAGER

Overview:

Oversee net market/portal development project for procurement of medical equipment parts and services. Challenge:

Technology partner and COTS vendor selection. Development team recruitment and formation. Definition and design of a scalable and interoperable standards-based solution that can be developed on time and within budget. Definition of a project governance and management structure. Definition and development/acquisition of the development, test, and production environments. Definition and development of an operations plan. As well as identify the first product and develop a marketing strategy, and roll out plan. Outcome:

Completed first two phases (Requirement Definition and Technical Architecture) of the project on time and within budget.

Accomplishments:

• Coordinated with Medispares technology team and Breakaway solution technology partner on managing the project development process, including business & functional requirement gathering, strategy assessment, SHERRY WANG, PAGE 4

technology strategy & scooping workshop, technical architecture & database design, user scenario/sitemap/wireframe design, functional spec documenting, and COTS evaluation.

• Created the integrated master & sub project plans and tracked/report the project status by using MS Project 2000.

• Coordinated on the resource management, including resource allocation, hiring and time sheet approval, and assisted CTO on the budget planning.

• Reviewed/Approved contracts and SOWs of Breakaway solution partner and COTS providers.

• Managed with partners the development of a go-to market plan for an e-commerce netmarket/portal for medical equipment parts and services procurement. Planned and conducted focus groups to better understand client needs and preferences to guide requirements definition. Salomon Smith Barney – A member of citigroup 1999 - 2000 World Financial Center, New York

PROJECT MANAGER

Overview:

Led management, development and support of thirty-four General Services Division’s software applications including: Corporate facilities management, Branch Management, Finance and administration, Purchasing, Corporate Travel, Document Services, Food Services, Conference Services, Mail Services, Security, And Health and Fitness.

Challenge:

How to assign limited staff and budget resources across competing user needs, and keep users across ten different departments satisfied.

Quickly came up to speed on the many business functions represented by these many applications and determined their relative priority. Conducted a strategic review of these applications and collaborated with stakeholders, and with IT to determine whether to enhance or re-develop certain legacy systems and the feasibility of architecting a common framework across these systems that could potentially eliminate redundancy of common functionality, reduce complexity, and thereby maintenance and support costs while enhancing user satisfaction.

Outcome:

Provided outstanding customer support as defined in SLAs and enhanced application functionality while reducing cost and improving productivity for business divisions. Accomplishments: Project Management & Technology Development

• Managed projects using SSB Project Tracking System to record project information, track project status, allocate resources, adjust head counts, perform user charge-back, and plan budgets.

• Direct management of ten developers, which includes project lead, sr. programmers, and consultants.

• Interfaced with corporate and branch users to refine business requirements, product definition, systems design, implementation, and project plans.

• Managed the project development cycle by following the firm’s methodology – SDLC (System Development Life Cycle).

• Completed the rewrite for several Paradox systems supporting the area of Document Services, Security, and Car Dispatch by implementing the framework (base classes) created in Powerbuilder 6.5 and Sybase 11.5.

• Delivered several enhancement releases of Powerbuilder System supporting the area of Car Dispatch, Food Services, Conference Services, Corporate Facilities, and Finance Administration.

• Developed Facilities Branch Furniture Intranet System using HTTP, Java Servlet, and Sybase 11.5.

• Led the implementation of adding Business Components (A/P feed, G/L Charge back, G/L Accrual, Month End P&L Reporting, Invoicing Allocation, PO Allocation, RFP, and Account Validation) to existing Powerbuilder framework which includes Login, Administration, Security, Report, and Validation; and rewriting them in Java technology.

Merrill Lynch, Inc. 1997 - 1999

World Financial Center New York, New York

INVESTMENT BANKING TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT CONSULTANT

Overview:

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Provide technology solutions that can improve business productivity. Challenge:

Investment Banking Department technology support team consultant. Development of an LBO tracking system for the M&A transactions based on requirements defined by other members of the team. Accomplishments:

Designed and developed a LBO tracking system for M&A transactions that tracked clients, contacts, business information and provided information on revenue from transactions implemented as a three-tier object oriented system using VB, WEB browser user interface, and MS Access/Oracle System 7 database systems. Personal Travel Technologies, Inc. 1989 - 1997

Uniondale, New York

DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCT MARKETING Overview:

Management, development, and support of interactive, client-server and shrink-wrapped software products for the Travel Information system market.

Challenge:

Manage and develop software applications with limited resources for this start-up company. Learned to be resourceful, creative and to think on my feet in this fast moving high-pressured start-up environment. Adapted to the culture shifts as the company grew to 150 employees. Outcome:

Managed the definition, design and development of a family of GPS location-based travel directions and travel information products implemented in shrink-wrapped, client server, Web-based, kiosk, interactive cable and wireless handheld formats.

Accomplishments: Product & Marketing Management

Owned product definition for certain platforms. Developed market forecast and contributed to the branding and market communication effort by managed package design, and trade shows. Managed package production and golden master reproduction. Visited retail and wholesale establishments to arrange distribution and organized trade shows displays.

Accomplishments: Technology

• Managed the design, development and deployment of touch screen Multimedia Information Kiosk system for major Car Rental Company with advertising system using MS Visual Basic 4.0, third-party VB components, ODBC functions for interfacing with Sybase Anywhere database, and multimedia tools for graphic image/video clip.

• As group leader, designed and developed Client/Server Multimedia System for Cable Company using MS Visual Basic, third-party VB components, database functions/tools, and multimedia tools.

• Designed and developed Travel Guide Information System that integrated a navigable map, GPS (Global Position System) and wireless functionality for PC (Window based product) using MS SDK/Visual C/C++ for interface functions for GPS and GUI functions for driving directions, using multimedia tools for 400 icons/graphics pictures.

• Designed Shrink-Wrapped software product (Personal Travel Guide) to generate driving directions on desktop and note book computers including product variants, such as Transportation (Bus, Subway, and Train), Food / Restaurant, Language Translation, Entertainment (Nightlife, Sport, and Ticket), Bank (Bank Information, Cash Machine, and Currency Converting) etc., using MS C for interface functions, geocoding/map drawing/point-of-interest displaying functions, C-tree plus library for data retrieving functions, and multimedia tools.

• Designed and developed travel information and city guide application software for a family of hand-held application specific portable computers using Informix 4GL and Unix C.

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