WINNIE WONG

Software Engineer

SUMMARY

I am a passionate and experienced software developer with over 10 years of experience in web application development. I value the open-source community and evangelize best practices. I am comfortable with owning the success of a product which means being passionate about everything from database to interface design and development. I am an excellent communicator who understands the realities of business while keeping the user delighted. I enjoy going to conferences and attending facinatingly geeky meetups. I am a Scrum Master who is well versed in the Kanban methodology and know how to apply Agile suited for the culture of the team.

EXPERIENCE

Software Development Engineer - IMDb.com/Amazon.com

Sept 2008 to Oct 2010

Los Angeles, CA

Integrated IMDb RetroAdds workflow with film festival submissions, which generates over 1/3rd of all title pages for films
Implemented automation for checking each user submitted film data for logical inconsistencies and technical errors
Implemented a shortened vanity-url feature for IMDb actor pages
Wrote and followed test plans to ensure production quality
Designed and coded migration of servers from physical data center onto Amazon Web Service (AWS) EC2 and S3 platforms, and developed a practical contingency plan
Implemented Continuous Integration using Hudson and a team code review tool based on Codestriker

Senior Software Engineer - Los Angeles Times, latimes.com

Oct 2007 to Sept 2008

Los Angeles, CA

Developed an enterprise application serving the Los Angeles times readers using Ruby on Rails technology
Key developer on "The Guide" (http://theguide.latimes.com), a major Los Angeles Times property with over 200,000 unique page views a day
Implemented RSS feed syndication with Ruby on Rails.
Led a project to optimize Ruby code as well as JavaScript, on "The Guide". Developed CSS Sprite Maps to improve site performance. Worked with W3C validators and Yslow plugin for Firebug, to measure site performance, resulting in a 25% performance gain.
Implemented proprietary profile web service on "latimes.com" and packaged it as a ruby plug-in that was also implemented on "The Guide"
Primary Data Architect on "Listings" project, which powers the Los Angeles Times' Local-Social web applications
Served as mentor for Agile Web Development using Scrum methodology
Attended industry conferences including RailsConf on behalf of the Los Angeles Times. Set up knowledge transfer session with colleagues to share the trends and skills that are leading the industry.

Software Engineer - Earthlink, Inc

Apr 2003 to Oct 2007

Pasadena, CA

Designed and implemented a Map-Based Search product, which integrates Google Local Search and Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps
Acted as Scrum Master/Project Manager
Executed a rigorous and frequent build release schedule, meeting deliverables even with constantly changing business needs
Implemented and maintained Yahoo! Shopping, Shopping.com, Amazon and eBay results in commerce section of Search Engine Result Pages
Utilized REST and SOAP web services from various vendors to power an AJAX enabled search interface
Combined Velocity Templates, JavaScript, XSLT and iFrames to ensure fast load times for customers on dial-up connections
Maintained >99.5% uptime for applications built
Coordinated release schedule with QA, SA and Project Management
Worked with vendors to solve performance and technical challenges
Worked with Partner Management to ensure proper tracking of revenue generated.
Designed and implemented system to harvest content for myEarthLink portal (http://start.earthlink.net) which had 4MM users from a variety of data sources including weather, horoscope, technology news, partner news, movie showtimes, news, sport scores, video news in flash format etc.
Used Oracle Database 9.0, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL database, with code written in Java and JSP to serve the content pages to users
Coordinated launch and maintenance schedules with feed vendors such as Reuters, CBS Marketwatch etc.
Set up cronjobs for retrieving massive amount of data over ftp, on a timely basis
Wrote code to validate files and parsed them into XML format using XSLT validated against a schema as well as a combination of XPathAPI, JDom and JAXB Binding
Made data files available for the front end team to be picked up for display for our site
Single point of contact for internal and external teams for feed issues

Software Engineer - ITG Software Solutions Inc.

Jan 2001 to Dec 2002

Culver City, CA

Designed and implemented web applications to calculate transaction costs of stocks purchased or sold based on specified benchmarks as dictated by financial institution clients
Implemented code to process users' files and benchmark specifications through web submissions
Implemented code to display reports and made reports downloadable in several formats over the web
Technology used includes SQL, Java and JSP, C++ and Perl
Acted As the production support coordinator in addition to Software Engineer
Distributed tasks and managed all outstanding support issues. Responsible for reporting and tracking newly discovered bugs in the bug system and help assign bugs to engineers for future releases. Common user errors and production issues are logged and resolutions recorded for future reference.

Software Engineer - eToys.com

Oct 1999 to Jan 2001

Santa Monica, CA

Designed, implemented, and supported enhancements to an existing order fulfillment system in a leading e-commerce company
Designed and coded a customized Warehouse Printing Service and a XML parser using Object-Oriented C++ on Microsoft Visual C++
Fed parsed information into a WYSIWYG form developer (Elixir Opus) to generate customer invoices
Worked on conversion of Perl scripts that utilize MySQL DBI to Oracle DBI as part of the database migration effort
Cleaned up data and re-designed schema
Wrote cyclecount programs that allowed warehouse personnel to perform inventory count on handheld wireless units
Improved performance on Pull Forward programs given consideration to inventory and order demands
Produced many ad hoc reports as needed by business requirements.
Tools used include C/C++, CGI, Perl, Apache and Oracle8i tools on Windows and Red Hat Linux platforms

Software Engineer - Northrup Grumman, Inc

May 1999 to Oct 1999

Carson, CA

Built a three-tier e-Commerce applications based on business requirements using Oracle8, Visual Basic and Active Server Pages (ASP) code embedded in HTML
Used JavaScript client-side scripting and VBScript on server-side
Used Component Object Model (COM) approach with components written in Visual Basic and Microsoft Site Server objects to interact with data stored in Oracle8.
Created tables and enforcing integrity constraints in Oracle8
Created components in VB that will interact with ASP/HTML and the database
Designed and implemented layout in HTML
Received direct feedback from users to further improve on the usability of the system
Used Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 with Visual SourceSafe and Visual InterDev, Microsoft Site Server 3.0, Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and Windows NT IIS 4.0
Application targeted federal agencies to allow configuring and assembling customized networking solutions based upon our product offering online.
Built system with scalability in mind to handle additional users, products and modifications in transaction rates
Implemented login and search functions with consideration to security and usability.
The system allowed the user to maintain multiple shopping carts while keeping user checkout information for ease of shopping.

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