TONY CHUANG
PARK RIDGE, IL, USA
Objectives
My passion is serving people. With my skillset, my aim is to ease the lives and workflows of those whom I work for. This means using best programming practices to achieve high efficiency and user-friendly products, working closely with the users. It helps that I actually really enjoy this stuff.
Experience (Non-comprehensive)
Itinerant Preacher/Evangelist/Motivational Speaker April 2012 – Present
Resource Global (Tony and Esther Chuang Ministries) Chicago, IL Preached, spoke, and taught in about 50 different churches, schools, prisons, and conferences in about 10 countries. Focuses on bringing hope to people. See website.
Technical Specialist August 2010 – August 2013 ELM Computer Systems Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Did iterative testing (in English and French). Team programming using VB.NET. Mobile/Web development with C#, Java, HTML5/Javascript, and SQL using MVVM structure. Flagship product is a tax software made for corporations, especially accounting firms.
Chef July 2010 – August 2010 Watami Sushi & Grill Markham, Ontario, Canada
Prepared and cooked Japanese food. Also did whatever needed to be done.
IT / Efficiency Consultant June 2008 – April 2009 Elamp Precision Incorporated Penang, Malaysia
Wrote an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) program backend (from scratch) for maximizing process efficiency in sales and production. Worked with VBA a lot as well as handled network issues.
Who is Tony?
Linguist: Fluent- English, Chinese. Conversational - French. Learning - Korean
Leader: Has been highly involved (i.e. student government president, small group leader, coordinator, event head, etc.) at every school/church attended.
Global: Has global perspective and is culturally aware. Lived in seven cities across four countries.
Administrative: Hard worker, careful with details, worked as a faculty assistant.
Technical: Good with computer languages, all the major operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, Ubuntu), Office products, editing software, web design, etc.
Many hats: Has done a lot of varying jobs. Can pick up new skills fairly fast and likes new challenges.
People-Person: Likes people. Spoken and encouraged people from all generations and cultures.
Lifelong-Learner: 28 years old, does not know all there is to know, but very willing to learn.
Education
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
May 2020 PhD in Intercultural Studies – Merit Scholarship Student
Moody Theological Seminary
May 2015 Master of Divinity – Pastoral Studies Emphasis
Graduated summa cum laude (4.0 GPA).
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
April 2012 Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Computer Science
Transferred from Georgia Institute of Technology (Computer Engineering).