Byron Chen Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

On a volunteering basis, curating a complete solution for the purposes of exhibiting an arcade rhythm game ("ITG", can be described as "open source DDR") at the convention. This includes:• An event-exclusive, 52-song pack updated to follow recent music trends relevant to the audience• Communication with global ITG and Sydney's extended rhythm game communities for playtesting and feedback• Competition specifications ("SMA[SH]owdown! 2021"), liaising with the Event Director for advice• Self-hosted companion website for players to track competition progress and know details about the game in general (EF + Identity + Razor Core)• End to end APIs to obtain scores from the arcade machine to upload to the website (ASP.NET Core)• Hardware and software maintenance of the machine at its public location in Sydney CBDCurrently on hiatus; the project will resume in preparation for 2023's event.

Overseeing end-to-end implementations of various platforms used to organise an online, interactive webinar series for "Humans, Purpose, and the Future of Work", hosted by No Moss with an audience of ~450+ total attendees.Responsibilities include:• Adding new pages and custom code to satisfy design specs for the No Moss website• Setting up and supervising Zoom meetings and appropriate interactive activities (polls, etc)• Communicating with external hosts such as WeWork Singapore, ANZCHAM, and other companies• Sending email correspondence to attendees with resources and content• Creating visual assets for these platforms• Reporting developed and in-built analytics to Product Owner• Writing documentation on Confluence to teach other No Mossers how to do the same

React.js development and realisation of selected customer-facing forms for a new venture project with a regionally leading client that aggregates financial products such as insurance and loans, etc.

Sydney, Australia

Implementing additional functionality modules within an existing web solution for a client, working with an off-shore developer in migrating the project over to Git and coordinating between commits.The modules are a WYSIWYG "fill in the blanks" editor to speed up the process of creating legal documents, and a PDF exporter to lay out images in various orientations for reporting.

Sydney, Australia

Providing on- and off-premises (after hours) support for a variety of problems, questions and tasks – from commissioning new users and offering productivity tips and tricks, to hardware recommendations and remote troubleshooting, reducing average first reply times from 5 days to 36 hours.(Incidentally, the fastest off-premises response time was four minutes... at 2:15 in the morning. On a Saturday. Proud of that one, if I say so myself.)

Sydney, Australia

Providing programming insights, character designs and back end support for personal and group projects at No Moss Studios - all whilst sharing the experience with others.Co-founded the studio during its inception.

Sydney, Australia

An opportunity arose to join the QA/QC team when I was tasked with digitalising our factory's pen-and-paper process of data entry.Working in G Suite, I developed a user friendly (i.e. well documented) spreadsheet to help calculate customisable metrics, flag non-conforming values, and generate a summarised report for the manager.The digitalisation shortened the time it took for us to check dishbags via perks such as:• Instant calculations – cutting manual efforts;• Real-time collaboration – less redundant checks between team members;• Gamification elements – leaderboards between our team, estimated completion time, etc.As a result, our sampling rates were able to be increased from 2% to 5%, allowing us to catch more potential errors, and take corrective measures within the venue and/or with suppliers sooner. This in turn saw our customer ratings increase.(Just between us: half of the reason behind these optimisations were to provide a motivation booster to escape the cold temperatures of the fridge. *Anything* to not stay a minute longer in there...)

Sydney, Australia

Wrote a condensed, structured curriculum of videos and activities for a Java subject designed for uni students. In addition, I provided walk-through code examples and exercises of various difficulties to enforce content learnt.The videos were recorded and authored for high quality online release (x264 + FLAC) using my own studio-grade capturing hardware.Creating presentations in PowerPoint, I modified the given template into a dark-themed slide master to reduce eye strain, whilst adhering to style and branding guidelines.

Sydney, Australia

Spread the facts.Praised for writing good notes, I ran a website (hosting, CMS, domain name, etc) during my high school days for fellow students from various schools where they could download my notes for free. During its operation, the website has gathered over 4000 unique visitors.factERiA has become somewhat of a brand amongst university students who had once formerly known of the name long after the website's existence, instantly recognising the unique three-column layout, concise explanations, and coloured sections - making it their choice of notes over others.