Stephen Loo Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc

- Supported the The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health with a representative sample of over 20,000 participants.- Developed in-house applications from ground up for managing the research data from external data collection sources, imported and deliver reports for analysis. These tasks was previously outsourced to third parties, hence significant cost reduction.- Create Integration with third party company services for research data transmission in both direction. - Support data portal services that maintain data on population, health, aging, and the environment, and share data and findings that push the field forward and train the next generation of population scholars.- Actively providing solutions to meet the changing and growing requirements, and other backlog research projects.- Continue to build and deployed web sites as needed from scratch, using Laravel, Vue.js, and Wordpress.

Research Triangle Park

Design, develop, test and implement software applications and web solutions, databases, and documentation for research projects. Designs user interfaces for web projects. Gather, interpret, and document system requirements. Researches technologies suitable for cost effective solution in projects. Required to be versatile and able to implement creative solutions with the big picture in mind as a full stack developer. Able to switch roles between programmer, web designer, system administrator, and consultant seamlessly. Some of projects worked on:1) Carb-X - a Boston University global partnership dedicated to accelerating antibacterial research to tackle the global rising threat of drug-resistant bacteria. Served as one of the programmers maintaining its back-end website, adding new features and functionalities, producing customized reports. 2) Coconut Surveillance - Real time surveillance and response for Malaria Elimination3) Kenya Equity Education Project II — support refugee children in schools so they can access quality education despite the difficult living conditions. 4) Real-time Sentinel Surveillance System for Malaria, Ebola and Other Emerging Infections.5) Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research - serve as a developer, develops solutions and improvements for data collection, trains users, and builds capacity at the international sites, provide technical support to each site to facilitate the data collection and transmission.6) Combination Prevention for Vulnerable Women in South Africa - programming and testing of the mobile data collection instruments for Android devices being used for this study in South Africa.7) NTD Envision Database - collects collect, store and analyze monitoring & evaluation data reported by USAID supported projects working to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases.

Chapel Hill, Nc

- Enhanced existing in-house applications with new functionalities, refactoring the current codes for improvements.- Revamped Joomla based website with new features and functionalities.- Introduced new developer tools to improve team cooperation.- Pushed for and implement SVN version control for the project team.- Extension of applications to meet new business requirements.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Servicing Small and Medium size Business (SMBs) to achieve business goals, with long term business relationship in mind.• Review existing business processes/goals and identify business requirements, recommending solutions based on business objectives and budget.• Evaluate, investigate and troubleshoot IT issues and problems in search of for appropriate solutions. Help building software solutions to support business processes. Offering advisory and/or implementation roles for Clients's new ideas and projects.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Full time web-application development and support• Maintain and implement new functionalities of 7 corporate web sites and 1 social network site as member of a small ROR team.•Conversion of legacy PHP sites to Ruby on Rails. •Porting PHP sites to Radiant CMS.• Extension of application to meet new business requirements.• Codes refactoring, testing and implementing new gems to improve application functionality.• Configure, customize and support ERP & CRM operations on Netsuite Financials software suite.• Email Campaigns

• Develop new site according to client specs.• Adding new features and functionality to application and enhancing existing functionality. • Troubleshoot and resolving bugs and issues.• Implemented a site to conduct e-commerce for medical supplies. • Development using PHP and CakePHP, Ruby on Rails.

- Maintain develop and improve on existing web applications.- Developed new applications.- Support the CRM website- Support local office Intranet.- Supports ad-hoc projects like data migration.