PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
English Teacher, Tianjin Peace Institute for Global Language Studies
Tianjin, China January 2003 to January 2004, January 2007 to May 2007
· Taught young adults and junior high school students oral and written English. Included various levels, from pre-intermediate to business English. Also went to companies, such as BoHai Oil Company, and taught large classes of engineers English that suited their career needs.
Technical Specialist, Fisher’s Document Systems
Boise, ID August 2006 to January 2007
· Put in charge of the installation and maintenance of new VoIP phone system. Required complete knowledge of the Allworx phone server & web interface and configuration of Cisco VoIP phones. Trained employees how to use the new phone system.
· Maintain all of the company’s PCs, including installation of fax software, upgrades, and network administration.
English Teacher, Shenyang Korean International School
Shenyang, China January 2006 to July 2006
· Taught Korean kindergarten and elementary school students oral English. Included teaching them words starting with letters of the alphabet through songs and games. Helped the foreign language department design games for both English and Mandarin learning.
Web Site Developer, Genisys Inc., EPR and Business Solutions
Tianjin, China August 2005 to January 2006
· Implemented dynamic web pages and Flash applications for Genisys' and other incubated companies (such as Shaw Amax). Required parsing MS Excel spreadsheets and querying MS Access databases using ASP.NET to provide a multi-lingual web pages and content management.
Web Application Developer, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
Boise, ID January 2002 to January 2003
· Co-developer for hospital's new patient web site, MySaintAls.com. Using Microsoft's .Net platform, designed modules which allow patients of St. Al's to access medical records, maintain their medical history, and other health-related tools. Required experience in .Net, C#, Visual Basic, ASP, VBScript, and JavaScript.
· Project Lead for our suite of web applications. Involved making sure project schedule was feasible, that dead-lines were being met, all issues were handled and solved, and group was functioning as a team.
Web Application Developer, Wish Solutions, Inc.
Campbell, CA March 2000 to September 2001
· One of the key programmers for our commercial web services. Designed, developed, and enhanced the Gift Giving services that our wish.com and co-branded sites offer. Required experience in Java (including beans and servlets), JSP, and Oracle database.
· Developed many internal Web-based Java and CGI applications for maintenance and reporting statistics. These included: a web-interface tool for our marketing department to select products for display on our gift idea pages, a utility to check for bad pages on any given web site, a utility to graph the flow of links between web pages, a bug tracking tool for our QA department.
Software QA Engineer, Macrovision (Formally GLOBEtrotter Software)
San Jose, CA April 1998 to March 2000
· Developed and executed QA utilities for testing the company’s complete line of products. Included writing test suites and verifying fixed bugs with regression testing. Worked directly with customers and tech support engineers to solve problems.
· Instructed a 4-hour, 30-40 participant training course held 6 times a year across the country for our main Unix & Windows 98/NT end user products used by system administrators. Attended the Dale Carnie Course to perfect public speaking skills.