EVEN (HUANG-YAO) CHENG ** Hingham St. Apt. *R
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 949-***-****
****.*****@*****.***
OPERATING SYSTEMS: MS Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Unix
SKILLS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Java, C#, Objective-C, C/C++
WEB PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: PHP, ASP, Javascript, HTML
DATABASES: MySQL, MSSQL
IDE: Eclipse, Spring Tool Suite, Visual Studio .Net, XCode
TEST ENGINEERING: JUnit, CruiseControl.Net
CODEBASE AND PROJECT MGT TOOLS: SVN, Teamcity, Crucible, Jira, VersionOne
GRAPHIC DESIGN TOOLS: Photoshop, PhotoImpact, Flash, Flex
LANGUAGES: Chinese(Mandarin), Taiwanese, and limited proficiency in Japanese
WORK EXPERIENCE SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (SEARCH AND RECOMMENDATION TEAM)
Rovi Corporation Sept. 2011 - Sept. 2012
• Managed works including indexing data, tuning relevance, developing custom
tokenizers and filters, adding functionality includes playlist, custom sorting and
regionalization with Solr Search Engine. Worked under agile methodology to
develop JUnit tests and closely interact with Quality Assurance team to improve
code quality and reliability. Built internal tools to facilitate works in Media Analyst
team. Provided APIs integrated search and recommendation results with metadata
information by XSLT, and exposing final compilation in JSON and XML format to
external customers serving 7 million requests per day.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica Mar. 2007 - Jul. 2009
• Going9: Researched natural language processing with an implementation of
Natural Chinese Input Method version 9. Adopted a mixture of rule-based and
statistics-based strategy to rank words ordering. Developed user interface under a
practice of Test-Driven Development along with unit tests in C# and VS .NET.
• SVMtop2: http://bio-cluster.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~bioapp/SVMtop2/Result.html?email=example
Created a comprehensive way to predict topology of alpha-helical membrane
proteins. Integrated six 3rd-parties bioinformatics tool at server-end to provide
prediction based on weighted-voting. Visualized predicted results with informative
illustration in forms and charts. Built front-end with Flex, and backend with PHP
and MySQL in presentation layer.
WEB ENGINEER (http://www.no.com.tw/)
Jade Dragon Mountain Bookstore Nov. 2002 -Jan. 2004
• Built online bookstore to enable users to register accounts, browse products, and make
purchase. Provided e-shopping cart to hold temporary selections, and a comprehensive
backend view for bookstore staff to manage inventory and sales. Used technologies
including IIS, ASP, Flash, MSSQL and served 2,000 visits per day.
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Irvine, CA, USA Jun 2011
Master of Science in Computer Science
NATIONAL CHENG-CHI UNIVERSITY Taipei, Taiwan Jun. 2007
Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems, minor in English