Technical leadership in FinTech and RegTech applications, with technologies in automation, machine learning, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, distributed data warehousing, etc.

• Leadership in Enterprise Risk Engine (ERE) under Enterprise Middleware and Online Security Technology. Responsible for fraud detection and prevention in wire transfers and money movements at the firm;• Managed multiple scrum teams with 60+ developers, QA engineers, release managers and scrum master both onshore and offshore;• Led the initiatives to improve resiliency and scalability of the ERE platform, including server migration to modernized Cloud infrastructure, reduction of database size to avoid unavailability risk in cases of failures, and introduction of new decision orchestration layer to avoid interruptions of fraud detection and decision services when backend components fail.

• Managed development team to develop shared messaging infrastructure and tools for Cloud based auto dealership platform. Led the application development with onshore and near shore members in agile approach to build and maintain both Web applications and mobile app (iOS, Android) to support communication between advisors at dealership and customers, as well as among personnel within dealership. System is used by 3000+ auto dealers in US and Canada, handling 1M messages every day. Java, ReactJS, React Native, XMPP, ejabberd, MySQL, Oracle.• Headed the development of the new mobile app for dealership technicians to perform car inspection with enhanced multi-media support. App was developed in React Native and is being used by thousands of dealerships, allowing them to increase customer acceptance rate of additional services.• Site manager for Xtime team in Austin. Assisted in HR and operation related items.

• Led team of architects, developers, release managers and operation specialists in software service development and operation in agile approach. Solutions in messaging and personal information management with global customers. • Product ownership for IBM WebMail Cloud. Sales enablement and lab advocacy to key clients (Chanel, WT&T, Mitsubishi Motors, Digital China). Development priorities, technology directions, SaaS service management and SLA. Turnaround engagement to improve SLA and customer satisfaction.• Pioneered automation of product installation and configuration based on Chef. Slashed 90% platform deployment time and significantly improved quality. Made subsequent deployments on client sites and data center migration much more efficient and manageable.• Landing of WebMail Cloud product in mainland China. Strategically repackaged product to allow on-premise deployment, leading to new product offering for business partners to resell and new revenue generation. Liased with sales, product management, legal and service teams.• Managed Shared Operational Security (SOS) Service under IBM Cloud. Centralized security functions to IBM’s SaaS services (Watson Health and Data Services, Bluemix, etc). Pioneered development of SOS Dashboard to collect, analyse and report compliance statistics via Web UI and API. React, microservices (SpringBoot), MongoDB.• Focal for university collaboration (Academic Initiative). Projects with college students based on IBM’s HyperLedger blockchain technology.

• Headed IT team for system development and IT support for offices in 7 Asian cities.• Led redesign and revamp of core ERP platform for supply chain management. Liaised with sales, account management, buyers, finance and shipping. Simplified workflow and enhanced usability. PHP, CakePHP, PostgreSQL.

• Headed application development and infrastructure operation teams (60+ members) for a group of five portal sites, with PCOnline as the most popular consumer electronics and IT products portal in the world. Technology directions, system architecture, resource management and team mentoring.• Part of the leadership team to bring company to public in Hong Kong main board in 2007. Identified business opportunities from technical perspectives. Liaised with editorial and sales teams to define product roadmap.• Revamped core application architecture (product catalogues, quotation systems, etc.) to improve usability, efficiency and scalability. Platform generated over RMB$300M yearly online advertising revenue and supported 60M+ daily page views. Achieved 500% web traffic growth after revamp.• Pioneered an e-commerce system with e-mall and B2B enterprise platform. Successfully brought new revenue streams.• Re-architected online ad serving system to support ever-growing ad volume. Extended system to support ad affiliate programs to leverage external content sites to resell ads to boost revenue.• Established an indexing engine based on Lucene for cross portal content searching. Enhanced overall usability on portal group and facilitated search engine optimization (SEO) to increase page views.

• As technical head for company, led its R&D center in Guangzhou (30+ members) and software outsourcing center in Shanghai (40+ members). Defined technology directions, development standards, processes and strategies.• Provided assessment and architectural advices in projects during bidding and implementation phases. Reviewed and approved projects with values over HK$500K.• Pioneered harvesting and productization of reusable components from projects. Slashes 30% costs for subsequent projects and product development.• Led development of e-Logistics products and Web-based content management system, which formed the core of company’s software offerings.• Successfully delivered and deployed a non-residential property management system at Hong Kong Housing Authority (Subsequently transferred to LINK Management).• Pioneered transformation of a warehouse system for IBM Japan from OS/2 to Windows platform.

• Established web-based affiliate advertising network platform from scratch, forming basis for this start-up's core business. High performance system to handle ad serving, clicks and transaction tracking. Successful deployment in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China. Java, Oracle DB.• Built and led technical team (8 members) for system development and service support. Vendor management, sales support, resource and budget planning, project management.

• Designed and built Address Book and Calendar components in eSuite WorkPlace for PC and IBM Network Computer. Pioneered Java beanification of the components in eSuite DevPack. Java, DB2.• Built an LDAP based expert and skill matching system in the Lotus Knowledge Management Suite.