Developer Engineer

Khiem Ngo ***** Moonglow Ct, Manassas, VA ***** 571-***-**** (

*****.***@**************.*** ( Page 1 of 2

Qualifications for ... Web Development ( Software Development (

Database Administration

Innovative, solutions-focused professional equipped with work experience in

web development and database administration along with a multidisciplinary

background in engineering and mathematics. Leverages unique skill set to

work, manage, and interact with individuals from a variety of technical

background.

Career Track

PHP Subject Matter Expert 2009-present

Hewlett Packard

. Served as a principal developer for three major products, namely Tool for

Outage & Maintenance Management (TOMM), Tool for Authentication Migration

& Management (TAMM), and Web Application for Server Tracking &

Engineering (WASTE), being in charge of all conceptions, requirements,

designs, to implementations, deployments, and maintenances.

. Automated the service level agreements (SLA) including all weekly,

monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports on servers commissioned and

decommissioned, response time, resolution time, server delivery, critical

and overall server uptime, asset management, software add/change. Wrote

documentation for the Tool User Manual (principal developer).

. Functioned as a reporting manager. Served as a liaison with internal and

external clients to gather software requirements, implementation, and

changes. Performed monthly demos to seven different groups: the steering

committee, system administrators, Decennial support team, Infrastructure

team, Security team, CRM/PM meetings, and incident managers.

. Provided technical consultancy to clients for all web and database

related projects including, but not limited to, TOMM, TAMM, WASTE, and

report automation (using PHP, MySQL, Ajax, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, XPath,

XBEL, OPML, CSS).

Chief Technology Officer (2008-present), Web Developer & Administrator

(2005-2008) 2005-present

Education For The Poor

. Directed the recruiting and interviewing of college students to serve as

English teachers for our Summer English Program; drafted lesson plans and

coordinated with counterparts to ensure program success. Served as a

liaison with constituents.

. Developed a course website using the Moodle learning management system

which enables teachers to login, create weekly lesson plans, quizzes,

forums, chats, wikis, web pages, text pages, directories, surveys, assign

roles, & upload contents.

. Upgraded the organization's website using the Joomla content management

system. Created flash slideshows and wrote custom code to extend

Joomla's capability, including the pagination module, Ajax add-on, and

third party code integration.

. Performed all aspects of web and database management, including

designing, developing, maintaining, and upgrading the organization's web

pages. Wrote and edited code in XML, XSLT, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery,

Ajax, Flash, PHP, and MySQL.

. Assisted the President and staff on fundraising activities, drafted

newsletters, translated materials, responded to donors

Software Developer III 2007-2009

CACI Technologies Inc.

. Performed as a wiki developer to support the US Defense Intelligence

Agency using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Added functionalities and features, integrated the FCKeditor with the

mediaWiki, upgraded LAMP.

. Fixed bugs and provided evaluation for the level of effort (LOE) for

tickets and change requests. Checked in, checked out code via Subversion

(SVN). Created change requests and provided feedback in Polarion.

Obtained TS/SCI clearance.

Freelance Web Developer / Consultant 2005-present

Multiple Organizations

. Designed and developed web pages, served as a consultant on web-related

matters, wrote and edited code in XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and

Dreamweaver, and created animations in Flash for the following profits

and non-profits: David Bulova's and Katherine Waddell's election

campaigns, National Agricultural Library, Sole Design Inc., Questox Inc.,

Jennifer Ware Inc., Vincentian Marian Youth Association, The Dominican

Friars of Calgary, Vietnam Dream For Success.

. Developed supplemental pages for the Library of Congress website for

Primary Source Learning to facilitate K12 teachers' access to different

learning experiences. Developed a database driven entry matrix that

enables teachers to select data, enter data, add rows, remove rows, save,

update, and delete. Developed a slide show that helps teachers learn

more about different learning experience at the schools in Northern

Virginia. Developed a calendar and miscellaneous pages.

. Developed a mashup that integrates Google map and Google news. Upon

entering a zipcode, users will be whisked away to that zipcode's location

which is overlaid with markers, one for the search zipcode and one for

each of the nearby. Clicking a marker triggers an infoWindow with titles

and links to the articles about that area. What is more interesting is

that new markers display wherever the map is dragged to (using Ajax,

JSON, DOM, JavaScript, YUI, PHP, MySQL, & RSS).

. Developed a website for Sole Design Inc. that enables dealers and owner

to log in, create accounts, add furniture items, edit furniture data,

upload photos, view catalog, dimension, and price list, change password,

retrieve password, and logout. The site is implemented with different

levels of authentications, with different options available for different

types of login. Designed the look and feel of all pages in addition to

coding (XML, XSLT, Ajax, JSON, YUI, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL).

. Maintained the National Agricultural Library administrative websites and

their associate databases in staging and production on a daily basis.

Developed a supplement scope using Ajax, JSON, JavaScript, PHP, Perl,

MySQL. Performed complex SQL queries and added functionalities that

enable clients to move database records from staging to production with

ease.

. Developed an XML driven website for a pizza company that allows customers

to place orders; add items to shopping cart, edit shopping cart, choose

delivery type, and check out. Customers will receive a receipt of their

order via email. The menu is made extensible in that it allows the

company to add more menu items to the list (using XML, XSLT, XPath, &

Cocoon).

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. Developed a website that helps users find directions using Google Map

API. Users will enter start and end locations which could be in the form

of an address, zipcode, or city name. Upon selecting the language type

and clicking "Get Directions", they will be returned with complete and

detailed street directions. Clicking any of the street directions

displays an little map window that shows a zoom-in of the map at that

particular place (using JavaScript, Google Map API, and CSS).

. Developed a Wordpress blog and designed a customized template for that

blog. Implemented additional functionalities and hooked them up to the

blog (Wordpress, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, XML, RSS, CSS, and Fireworks).

. Developed an admin panel for Jennifer Ware that allows the owner and his

associates to login, view, add, update, remove, and search for

information regarding model, price, order, contact (using JDBC,

Java, Servlet, JSP, Tomcat, Subversion).

. Implemented the operation of the front end and back end of an ATM machine

that connects the client side and the server side using Java multi-

threaded computing. Wrote test classes in JUnit and wrote a build.xml in

Ant.

. Implemented a simulation of an elevator that travels through seven floors

in a building using Java. The program was implemented with four classes:

Elevator, Floor, Passenger, and ElevatorFullException using NetBeans.

. Developed a web based graphical presentation that includes bar charts,

pie charts, 3D charts, line charts, and step charts. Converted web based

reports to PDF format (ColdFusion, ColdFusion Administrator, ColdFusion

Builder, Subversion

. Developed an intranet database driven web application that enables non-

technical staff to perform daily site administration (ColdFusion,

ColdFusion Administrator, ColdFusion Builder, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS,

Subversion, Tomcat).

. Developed a website for Nguon Magazine. Developed an admin panel that

enables non-technical staff to perform site administration such as daily

additions, updates, uploads, and removal of news / articles by themselves

without further help from a webmaster. Designed the look and feel of the

website (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, XML, RSS, and CSS).

Senior Engineer 2005-2006

Lockheed Martin

. Implemented numerical algorithms to estimate the shape of the payload

hardware simulator. Determined their credibility in replacing a huge

number of sensors mounted on spacecraft. Implemented structural

sensitivity analysis and test cases.

Research Scientist 2001-2003

University of Virginia, Department of Electrical Engineering

. Served as lead, managing project definitions, designs, requirements,

implementations, and documentations. Conducted the probabilistic risk

assessment of train safety by means of Monte-Carlo simulation. Coded the

simulation for Maglev vehicles. Co-developed the vehicle management

algorithm software. Participated in project documentations and peer

reviews.

Internships

2003: NASA Ames Research Center - Conducted research on the impact of

variations of the aerodynamics on aircraft gas turbine engines via Monte

Carlo simulations. Offered an alternative mean of study of aircraft gas

turbine engine.

2000: NASA Johnson Space Center - Performed financial analysis and

calculations to determine the budget for technology projects. Researched

information and material to appropriately allocate fund to support the

needs of NASA enterprises.

1999: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Contributed to financial planning

to allocate funding for near/mid/far-term technologies to support NASA

enterprises. Developed evaluation criteria to assess NASA technologies

submitted for Congress.

Technical Summary

Web Languages: HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Servlet, JSP,

PHP, ActionScript, Perl, SQL, ColdFusion

Web-XML Technologies: XML, XSLT, XPath, XBEL, XQuery, OPML, MathML, SAXON,

oXygen, Cocoon

Web Techniques: DOM scripting, AJAX, JSON, LDAP, Ecommerce; Web

Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate

Design Patterns: MVC with Servlets and JSP, MVC with JSP Expression

Language, MVC with Beans and Custom Tags

Web Libraries: JQuery, YUI, Standard PHP Library; Forums: phpBB, Phorum;

Social Network: Facebook, Ning

Web Tools: XAMPP, Adobe Creative Suite (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks,

Photoshop), Web 2.0 (Wiki, RSS, Blog, Mashup)

Web Check-In/Check-Out: Subversion (SVN); Content Management Systems:

Wordpress, Moodle, Joomla, and Drupal

Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat, IIS; WYSIWYG Editor: FCKeditor; Database

Interfaces: phpMyAdmin, Oracle SQL Developer

Databases: MySQL, Oracle 10g, MS Access, Filemaker Pro; File Transfer

Protocols: SSH, WS-FTP, CuteFTP, Filezilla

Programming Languages: Java, C++, Ant, Matlab; Programming Environments:

Eclipse, NetBeans, MS Visual Studio.NET

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/NT/Vista, Unix, Linux, Mac; Microsoft

Applications: Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Word

Others: Wrote four games (Breakout, Yahtzee, Hangman, & Dice) and four

projects in Java using various data structures.

Education

Degree of Engineer (Pre-Doctorate), Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford

University

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign

Master of Science & Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic

Institute & State University

Certificates, Java & Web Development with J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Servlet,

and JSP, Johns Hopkins University

Certificates, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, Flash, MySQL, PHP,

AcademyX

Certificate, Advanced Perl Programming (with GUI Development using Perl/Tk

graphic module), /training/etc

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