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Lead developer for Pendo integration, enhancing customer data management and user experience• Co-develop a company-wide, standardized Web Service code pattern for REST API endpoints under the guidance from the architect, aligning with the customer focus and feedback while enhancing the business values of the company products• Design and maintain logging processes for ongoing SFTP payment process integration for state-level clients• Conduct extensive work on SPROCs, views, tables, and TVPs with MS SQL• Demonstrate hands-on leadership in software design, architecture, implementation, testing, and system demos across multiple product offerings

• Perform in Classics, Masterworks, SuperPops!, Educational, and TSO Piano Trio Concerts• Recruit and maintain a bench of 7-10 pianists for multi-keyboard services• Oversee the assignments among members of the section, resulting in elevated performance quality and consistency "The Tucson Symphony Orchestra, or TSO, is the primary professional orchestra of Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1928, when the season consisted of just two concerts, the TSO is the oldest continuously running performing arts organization in the Southwest. The TSO's season now runs from September to May and consists of over 60 concerts, including a Classics Series of eight programs, a Pops Series of four programs, a Masterworks series of five chamber orchestra programs, a number of one-night only specials, and run-out concerts to surrounding areas, such as Oro Valley, Green Valley, Bisbee, Safford, Thatcher, and Nogales. The TSO also provides educational programming that reaches over 40,000 school children each season. Within the TSO are a number of standing chamber ensembles, including a string quartet, string quintet, piano trio, harp trio, brass quintet, and woodwind quintet. "

Greater Cleveland

• Serve as the point of first contact with guest artists and presenting venues• Bring the Edgewater Duo ensemble to local and national attention and continue to expand its performance season • Negotiate performance rates and communicate with the venues to secure terms and conditions• Oversee all logistical details regarding the ensemble's schedule and repertoire for each seasonSelected Performances:• Duo Recital, Old South Congregational Church, Hallowell, Maine, August 2018• Duo Recital, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Waterville, Maine, August 2018• Trio Recital with Guest Soprano, Old South Congregational Church, July 2019• Duo Recital, Old South Congregational Church, Hallowell, Maine, July 2020 (rescheduled for 2021)• Duo Recital, First Congregational Church of Camden, Camden, Maine, September 2021"Formed in 2011, the ensemble is comprised of Dean Zhang and clarinetist Ben Chen, former assistant principal of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra in Washington, D.C. The Duo has performed in acclaimed annual tours throughout the New England region. "

Canton, Ohio, United States

• Perform in Masterworks, Pops, Chamber, and Educational Concerts• Oversee the assignments among members of the section, resulting in elevated performance quality and consistency"The Canton Symphony Orchestra is one of the most highly respected small-budget symphony orchestras in the United States. With musical leadership from nationally-recognized conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann – now in his 39th year as Music Director – the CSO is ranked by knowledgeable the region’s leading musicians as second only to the Cleveland Orchestra in this part of the state."

Fort Myers, Florida, United States

• Perform in Masterworks, Pops, Small Stage, and Education concerts• Maintain and recruit for a list of 7-10 pianists for the keyboard section at the Symphony for multi-keyboard services• Oversee the assignments among members of the section, resulting in elevated performance quality and consistency of the section"The Southwest Florida Symphony is Lee County's professional orchestra and is one of the oldest symphony orchestras on Florida's Gulf Coast. For more than half a century, the Southwest Florida Symphony has grown to a roster of 70 world-class musicians. "

• Lead developer for a web application for adding and maintaining business info for multiple users• Collaborate within the team in designing apps and participate in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story in a team’s backlog• Serve as an expert on the application system and share that knowledge with team members, contributing to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team• Coach team members and practice paired programming in writing software and building products• Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices• Provide support for software products in user environments• Analyze and document how business requirements fit into existing system• Translate detailed program specifications to less complex problems; clearly define segments of more complex programs into coded computer instructions• Test coded program routines and make revisions to eliminate errors and improve code efficiency• Collaborate with other teams (database, servers/routes, and DevOps) for application deployment and troubleshooting in stages during the development lifecycle• Provide weekly update in meetings with the business team and maintain real-time communication with the product owner• Review test results with the product owner, provide feedback, and assist the business in revising requirements

• Create and execute automation test scripts for ServiceNow in-sprint features to improve testing efficiency and repeatability• Execute/maintain bi-weekly ServiceNow regression automation test scripts and detect/solve issues from previous sprints• Execute and debug regression automation test scripts for ServiceNow system upgrade, contributing to smooth transitions• Create and execute manual test steps in ALM for ServiceNow in-sprint features for early detection of bugs and issues• Collaborate with the developers in the agile team to report and solve bugs for new in-sprint features

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Currently enrolled as a C#/.NET bootcamp student at Tech Elevator. Below is a list of projects I’ve completed during my time here:Vending Machine Simulator:• Coordinated a three-member team and co-designed the structure for the Vendo-Matic 800 simulator using OOP and File I/O• Created the core class of the simulator with bonus features of maintaining transaction logs and an accumulative sales report• Initiated and completed a comprehensive list of unit tests in addition to furbishing the menus for enhanced user experience“TEnmo” Mobile Payment App Simulator:• Co-designed the structure for “TEmno,” a mobile payment service app simulator using MVP • Constructed client-side components, assisted finishing server-side DAOs, and connected both sides through controllers • Furbished the menus with ASCII art and corresponding prompts for enhanced user experience Fibonacci Musicale Application: (Side-Project)• Designed and developed an educational web-application • Calculate the Fibonacci sequence leading up to the range selected by user and explores the sequence’s relation to music

Sidney, Maine, United States

• Co-designed, developed, and managed a new keyboard curriculum for NEMC’s first-ever online session due to COVID• Serve as liaison between the music director and the department, leading to enhanced communication between parties• Supervise/monitor teaching loads and facilitate collaborative performance duties among five piano faculty members• Administer admissions for piano students, assess the performances and skill levels, and assign to appropriate class sections "The New England Music Camp (NEMC) is a summer camp for music students ages 11–18, located on 200 acres in Sidney, Maine. It was founded in 1937 and is one of the oldest national summer music camp in the country. The Bowl in the Pines, North America's second largest outdoor amphitheater, is home to concerts by all of NEMC's performing groups every weekend for the entire camp season. "

Sidney, Maine, United States

Miami Beach, Florida, United States

• Invited to in-person audition with Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony after three rounds of international audition• Invited to join NWS, the most prestigious America’s Orchestral Academy, as one of the only two piano fellows• Won the 2014-15 New World Symphony Concerto Competition and was awarded two concerto performances in subscription concerts• Worked closely with Michael Tilson Thomas, Yo-Yo Ma and other guest artists in one-on-one sessions• Prepare, rehearsed, and performed multiple programs each week in weekly orchestral, chamber, and concerto concerts "The New World Symphony, prepares graduates of music programs for leadership roles in professional orchestras and ensembles. In the 33 years since its co-founding by Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas, NWS has helped launch the careers of more than 1,150 alumni worldwide."

North Ridgeville, Ohio, United States

• Oversaw a blossoming of musical activity in the choir and in concerts• Established a music ministry fund that continues now for the church's musical activity• Procured the church its first grand piano free of charge• Conducted the adult choir in weekly rehearsals and Sunday services; elevated its performance quality and expanded its repertoire list• Provided weekly high-quality, customized service music and accompaniment for the adult choir

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

• Performed more than 200 concerts and presentations in Omaha, Nebraska, and throughout the orchestra's home region in 2015-16• Performed in MasterWorks, SymphonyPops, SymphonyJoslyn, Family, Movie Music, SymphonyRocks and a series of special concerts

Breckenridge, Colorado, United States

"The National Repertory Orchestra is a preeminent intensive summer music festival creating diverse, thoughtful and socially conscious musicians through experiential learning."

Education record

A 14-week C#/.NET coding bootcamp to learn how to develop dynamic web-based software systems using the .NET programming language.

Doctor Of Musical Arts, Piano Performance

Activities and Societies: Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) include: • Four DMA piano recitals • DMA Document.

Master Of Music, Piano Performance

Bachelor Of Music, Piano Performacne, Cum Laude

Management Science