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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

- Lead and manage three groups of the design and technology groups: DevOps, Backend API team, and front-end dev team- Coordinate with Product Manager to prioritize new feature and bug backlog items- Participate in back-end API coding (about 50% of the time spent on actual coding; 50% on managerial & business meetings)- Work closely with the system architect to adopt new dev technologies and create budgets for those technologies- Participate in the project budget and Sprint planning meetings- Monitor each dev team’s progress on JIRA and QA Status Report- Hire and interview new developers

- Full Stack Web Development of the corporate portal system (CMS, Project Management, and Accounting)- Replatformed and upgraded the system stack to PHP 7.3 and Laravel 5.7.- Task and project management using JIRA- Front-end UI development using Jquery and Bootstrap- Limited experience in ReactJS and VueJS front-end framework- Occasional involvement in managing server instances in AWS and CI

Herndon, Va, Us

- Development of a government supply management web application for both front-end and back-end utilizing Laravel 5.1, Jquery and Bootstrap- Development of RESTful API to serve JSON data to the front-end framework such as Angular and Aurelia- Daily use of Jira for Agile Sprint planning and reporting work progress

San Diego, California, Us

- Development of web-based localization tool which includes Translation Memory and Project Management Modules written in Laravel 5.1 framework- Helped the company to centralize the localization projects and re-use the past translation data to save time and cost- Processed localization requests from multiple departments (including engineering, marketing, legal, etc.) and delivered high quality localized materials to internal customers- Managed several translators in-house and outside vendors locally as well as overseas to support 11 different languages for the company

Seoul, Kr

- Provided technical translation and interpretation to software QA engineers in Design Quality Engineering Group- Technical support liaison between the Developers and QA engineers in the U.S. and Korea- Reviewed and executed test plans for LG Smartphones and feature phones

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- Management and Development of PHP based Web applications for Online Photobook with both in-house programmers and oversea development vendors (Japan, Singapore, Korea, China, and India).- Participated as a key server technology role in implementing Apple’s iPhoto and Olympus’ ibonthenet.com for Online Photo Sharing and Photo Book Creation.- Development of Fulfillment Management System (FMS) – Online Warehouse Logistics Management System using PHP Yii Framework and MySQL Database.-Content Component Management (CCM) using DITA standard XML, SDL TriSoft, and XPP (XML Professional Publisher) to automate document publishing tasks.- Management of Localization services for various languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and major European languages)

- Hand coded using PHP and MySQL an Online Project Management Tool which is similar to the commercial Project Management Tool called "Base Camp". Depending on the client browser information, the web site would have different User Interfaces (e.g. UI for Mobile Phone and UI for browsers onDesktop PC).- Allowed the Project Managers to monitor and submit project progress easily online. The online tool would have a Gantt chart to display the visual progress of each project.- Designed an in-house framework to handle database management using PHP's Regular Expression.

- Co-founded Localization Company with my brother whose service was providing web and software localization, consulting, and testing services (completed both localization and testing of Sony’s online game called EverQuest in Korean, Japanese, German, and French).- Provided Global Marketing Consulting Services including setting up localized web sites and global marketing strategies especially in Asia.- Managed day-to-day production projects including interviewing translators worldwide, organizing team resources, budgeting for each project, negotiating unit pricing and payment terms with each vendor.

- Localized and tested software drivers for HP's printers and scanners (called AIO) into Asian languages (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and Codewrite 5.0.- Participated in planning, writing, and execution of test plans for the software drivers (making sure it is compatible in Windows 95, 98, NT Service Pack 3,4, and 5, 2000, and Mac OS) and reported the defects through Lotus Notes Defect tracking System Database.- Coordinated meetings and teleconferences as a key contact point for major localization vendors in Asia.

Suwon, Gyeonggi, Kr

- Supervised 3 sales staffs helping the sales manager to maintain the existing the Japanese customers.- Received training on using ERP system called SAP R3 system to monitor sales and shipping activities.- Participated company wide ISO 9000 and Six Sigma activities.