Ivan Jin Email & Phone Number

Shanghai, China

• Zhicaiyi is a B2B furniture purchasing service provider, with the purpose of changing the opaque price and “bad product drive out good”, aiming to support high quality manufacturers via restrict quality first sourcing, improve circulation efficiencies via technologies • Explored business direction, raised seed and angle round investment, valuation 30 million • Managed operation across IT, purchasing, sales, marketing, finance and customer service • Formulated IT strategy and landscape, established/implemented systems include but not limited to purchase-sell-stock, sales and distribution, CRM, partner tracing and pricing (based on WeChat APIs) • Developed distribution channel, grabbed 100+ seed users, grew sales revenue from zero to monthly 500 thousand within 8 months • Digitalized the non-standard furniture products, standardized 3000+ SKU, 100+ manufactory suppliers • Designed financial modelling and budgeting, monitored cash flow, profit & loss, balance sheet

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• On-site manage day-to-day provision of long-term IT consulting services to Dow Chemical, maintain client relationship to grow Accenture presence and credibility, control resource supply and capacity, prioritize project demand, drive delivery/operation excellence and continuous improvement• As project manager, simultaneously manage average 10+ in-flight projects across various business functions, e.g. ISC, EHS, Product Produce, Market Sell, human resource in a large, heavy matrix organization • Perform end to end project management, throughout the entire project lifecycle, from initiation to closure; document project scope, lead project kickoff and planning activities, develop schedule and budget baseline, identify and track issues, risks, dependencies, assumptions and constraints; monitor project execution and take actions where necessary; design and host project related meetings; provide timely project performance reports and presentations to stakeholders at all levels; conduct post-project review. • Expert at bringing things back on track; quickly turned around multiple poor managed projects (>$2 million worth) in tough situation by refining project execution, introducing change control board, managing stakeholders and rebuilding credibility• Manage run the business service of 70+ applications, manage 3rd party vendors, optimize knowledge management, design KPI matrix to ensure SLA and customer satisfaction are met in the most effective and lower cost fashion• Provide leadership and mentoring to a global team of 25 members located in US, China and India, drive to continuous improve productive, quality and capability

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• Communicated with global business partners and key users to collect, articulate and sort out business requirements, defined project scope, created SOW and estimates, managed expectation; assessed existing systems and work processes, identified gap and improving opportunities, conducted as-is and to-be analysis, created application/solution architecture diagram and system prototype, developed test plan and implementation plan • Liaised between global business and delivery teams to provide content level expertise on varied type of projects including customized development, system integration and implementation; led the whole software development life-cycle, from requirement collection, design, development, testing, implementation to post-implementation support• Managed run-the-business service and application life-cycle in a portfolio of 70+ applications; diagnosed/proposed improving areas, defined life-cycle strategy to influence IS investment plan and initiated improvement or decommissioning projects to ensure SLA and customer satisfaction are met in the most effective and lower cost fashion • Participated in development of program level framework (.NET, MVC, Entity Framework) and certain critical system elements, fixed difficult issues and overcome technical obstacles

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• Work with global business partners to collect, sort out, articulate business requirements, and interpret requirements to system specification• Performed development, testing, enhancement, implementation and maintenance work across 70+ applications across various function domains with exposure to most of .NET technologies e.g. C#, VB.NET, SQL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, MVC, Entity Framework• Defined test strategy, scope, scenario and approach; formulated test scripts and success criteria; planned/executed/coordinated PT(product test), UAT(user acceptance test) and ORT(operation readiness test)• Managed team level plan to ensure deliverable being completed on time on budget under master project plan

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• Won $5 million in series A round in 2007; developed the 1st “MMS to Blog” application in China, increased 14% market share shortly• Worked with product manager to define, architect new features and build product roadmap• Developed and maintained the backbone of web framework to support mobility product line• Owned infrastructure (server, network, hosting) end-to-end, conducted performance tuning where necessary• Designed and developed data model, business logic layer and user interface for all internet facing applications using C#, Java, Hibernate, Sprint, TDD, log4net, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL Server, Oracle• Designed and developed online payment product which implemented the most of payment gateways including PayPal, AliPay, UnionPay, SMS, IVR• Improved performance of Shenzhen Telecom billing upload system tremendously, reduced loading time from 45 mins to 10 mins

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• Developed and maintained web applications based on ESRI GIS solution and .NET technologies• Developed a desktop application for Shenzhen Environment Institute to parse satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings ArcObjects• Developed and maintained a multi-tier .net based web property management application (www.colourlife.com)