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TECHNICAL SKILLS
RAILS, RUBY, RUBY META-PROGRAMMING, JAVA (SUN CERTIFIED), AJAX, RESTFUL APIS,
MONGREL/APACHE/NGINX, MEMCACHED, CAPISTRANO, VARIOUS OPEN SOURCE PACKAGES, JQUERY, PROTOTYPE,
LINUX, GIT/GITHUB, RAKE, PEOPLESOFT, SALESFORCE, CRYSTAL REPORTS, PERVASIVE, INFORMATICA, AUTOIT,
LINUX
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Consultant @ iMustardSoft, NYC 2010-Present
Architected, designed and implemented web2.0 rails/mobile applications for iMustardSoft clients,
some of which are listed @ http://imustardsoft.com/portfolio. Hands-on with both the frontend and
backend development using Ruby, Javascript, and CSS design. Contributed to popular open source
packages such as Spree ecommerce and Rhomobile, see https://github.com/imustardsoft.
RAILS CONSULTANT @ NEW YORK TIMES, NYC 2010
LED THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF TIMES UNIVERSAL BUDGET SYSTEM (TUBS), A VITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM FOR THE MEDIA COMPANY BUILT ON Rails. ROLLED OUT THE REQUESTED FEATURES ON LINUX USING MYSQL
AND SPHINX FULLTEXT SEARCH ENGINE WITHIN MERELY 3 MONTHS, WITH ALMOST ZERO BUGS, AND WITH GREAT
NEWSROOM STAFF SATISFACTION.
BUSINESS ANALYST @ CREDIT SUISSE, NYC 2008-2009
CONTRIBUTED TO CREDIT SUISSE'S HR TRANSFORMATION PROJECT BY DEPLOYING AND CUSTOMIZING PEOPLESOFT
PROJECT WITH focus on data integration; LEVERAGED RUBY FOR MANY SMALL TO MID-SIZE INTERNAL PROJECTS
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING @ NAVATAR GROUP, WALL STREET, NYC 2006-2008
STRATEGICALLY PLANNED, DIRECTLY MANAGED, AND ADVISED DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS.
SENIOR WEB PROJECT ANALYST @ TEKCONNECT CORPORATION, NJ 2003-2005
PROJECT MANAGER @ BLUEANGEL TECHNOLOGIES & KENEXA, PA 2001-2003
IT MANAGER @ VCALL INC., PHILADELPHIA, PA 2001
PRODUCT CONSULTANT @ SAQQARA SYSTEMS, SAN JOSE, CA 2000-2001
EDUCATION
M.S.B.A, TEMPLE UNIV. (2000) CIS,
M.S., UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (1998)
B.S., PEKING UNIVERSITY, BEIJING, CHINA (1997)