Zhen Yang's Resume

Zhen Yang

yangzhen@gmail.com Mobile 0401924381

Objective

Seeking application development position where I can utilise my skills, qualifications, research experience, and abilities in IT field that offers professional growth.

Qualifications Summary

• Technical proficiency in .Net (C#) Technology, and SQL database technologies. Over six years experiences in designing and developing web and desktop applications.
• Demonstrated capability to explore solutions and solve problems. Comprehensive industry knowledge on both Windows and Linux platform.
• Well established team work skills and management experience. Highly motivated and productive team player with client facing experience.
• Extensive knowledge on OO concepts, Design Patterns, Agile development, SDLC

Skills

l  Language: C#, ASP.Net, SQL, XML/XSLT, HTML/JQuery/CSS, WCF, UML, C++,

l  Software:   Visual Studio 2003-2010, SQLServer, IIS, TFS, WebMatrix, MySQL

l  Tools:         NHibernate, Enterprise Library, LINQ, ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework

Technical Experiences Details

2009.07-Now   Software Developer in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Land and Water Lab, Canberra

l  Working in a multi-disciplinary team of software developers and researchers. Working with large code base solutions in C# consisting multiple projects of libraries and components for various calibration, optimization, and simulation models, persistence of data. Familiar with the full software development life circle.

l  Daily responsibilities include developing new features for the enterprise level river modelling software according to plan. (C#, WCF, NHibernate)

l  Designed and developed standalone GUI calibration tools. (C#, SQLServer)

l  Product integration, bug fixing, performance tuning on existing code base

2007.10-2009.06 Software Developer in National ICT Australia (NICTA), Canberra

l  Constructed a customised software system for the Australian Institute of Sports as the core engineer. This multi-tier system collects data from device, analyses and stores results on central server, and allows coaches to manage and visualise athletes training sessions. It employed both Asp.Net and Windows Form technology, and used Web Service and SQLServer database as the backend.

l  Developed a GUI application to dynamically map GPS positions into formations for Defence Science Technology Organization.

l  Built various automation tools to support researcher team. Great attention to teamwork and customer service skills.

2006.01-2007.09 Part-time Programmer of Callidus Corp, Canberra, Australia

l  Created a multi-level backup utility with Web interface. (PHP, Python)

2005.01-2005.10 Technical director of FeedSky Corp, Beijing, China

l  Constructed Web2.0 site, Web Services, Web Crawler. (Asp.Net, XML/XSLT, JavaScript, SQLServer, IIS)

l  Supervised 6 software developers to deliver according to the business plan

2003.11-2004.12 Part-time Asp.Net Developer of Baihe Corp, Beijing, China

l  Developed a Quiz & Match module for the network site.(Asp.Net, SQLServer)

l  Maintained existing pages and applied bug fixes.

Education Background

2005.11-2007.09 Master by Research of Computer Science and Information Technology, Australian National University

l  Designed and constructed a Mind-Attention Software Interface, which includes data collection, processing and application plug-in modules. (C++)

l  Assisted in Virtual Reality demonstration applications development. (C#)

2001.09-2005.06 Bachelor of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing

l  No.4 in the college entrance exam to study at the best university in China.

l  Extensively studied subjects that form the basis of computer science, and actively utilised knowledge in industry during study.

Side Projects

2010            Reengineered archived projects by using ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework

2009            Developed websites using Joomla Content Management System. (Html, CSS)

2008            Managed a team of 5 to build a Time Management system to validate my agile development knowledge. (.Net, Web Service, SQLServer)

Additional Experiences

2006-2007  Tutor in the Department of Computer Science, ANU

l  “New media and the Web” , “Automating Tools for New Media”

2007            Apple's WebObjects technology Training, Sydney

2006            Volunteer of ANU Consulting Center “Get up and Go” program

Honours and Awards

2009-2010  Member of RiverManager Software Development team which won two “Team of the Year” Awards 

2007            Publication: “Mind-modulated music in the mind attention interface”, OZCHI

2007            ANU Miscellaneous Scholarship and Vice-Chancellor Travel Grants