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United States

New York, United States

Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China

Shanghai City, China

Shanghai City, China

Shanghai City, China

- Cofounded TouchOn, an innovative digital consultancy based in Shanghai specializing in user experience design, mobile and web app design and development;- Developed and maintained clients from industries such as automobile (Audi), consumer electronics (Philips lighting), e-commerce (JD.com), innovation consulting (Continuum), and transportation (COSCO);- Partnered with our clients to use design and technology to help them transform and achieve business excellence.

Shanghai City, China

- Joined as core team members at a very early stage (1st full-time employee of the company);- Managed to roll out the first version of the product with minimum resources and a tight schedule. - Led product development by laying out product roadmap, managing product lifecycle, consolidating patient and physician users' feedback, and initiating product evolvement sprints;- Led and grew the design and engineering team;- Managed multiple external technical vendors.

Shanghai City, China

- Project manager of Business Intelligence project for Intel CS, an internal web-based BI data analysis tool that helped Intel’s assembly factories in Asia-Pacific region to gain real-time insight into the performance of their equipments so as to react quickly to optimize resources allocation;- Streamlined project requirement and assessed potential risks in various technical solutions;- Architected technical solution that integrates vendor solutions and Intel internal IT infrastructure;- Managed and coordinated external IT vendors to work with multiple functional teams, such as IT, CS and factory management inside Intel.

Shanghai City, China

- Key developer of a web application that integrated with Sony PlayStation Network and interoperable with first person shooting game SOCOM Confrontation on PlayStation console;- Worked closely with rest of the team (project manager, designer, architect, and QA) which was based in US

Kanagawa, Japan

- Research focus: Human Computer Interaction. - Researched, designed, implemented, and validated an innovative writing support system that introduced a new visualization and interaction model that encourages writes to revise globally. - Paper published in proceedings of OzCHI 2007 “Writing Blocks: a visualization to support global revising" http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1324904- Published Japanese domestic patent: Hirohito Shibata, Sheng Xu (2007). “Writing support system based on layout design“ FE07-00811.- Published Fuji Xerox company technical report: Sheng Xu, Hirohito Shibata, (2007). “Writing Blocks: A visualization to support revising”.- Support for other research projects by designing and developing software test tools. Winlogger, one of the tools I created, helped to gather data that contributes to the final research results (Paper published in Japanese using the data 柴田 博仁 (2009). 大画面ディスプレイ・多画面ディスプレイの導入による業務効率化の測定. 情報処理学会論文誌, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 1204-1213.)

Shanghai City, China

- Web developer intern that supports internal HR web tools for PGHR (China), HR at Fab17(US), and HR at Fab(Vietnam). - Increased team efficiency by 40%, redesigned and developed internal new employee orientation tool that tracks new employee training progress, moved the once excel-based system to web and automated the whole process, . - Awarded Intel HR BUM award as a recognition of my achievement as an intern.

Master, Computer Science, 3.7

- Research focus: large scale distributed software specifically designed to support typical usage of high volume RFID applications.

Bs, Computer Science, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Third prize winner of 2004 "Intel Cup" national undergrad electronic design contest, 2004 IBM scholar for 50.