Resume Of Steven Kam Sing CHEUNG – 張錦勝

Date Of Birth: 4th July 1979
Email: cheungs7@yahoo.co.uk
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Ethnicity: Chinese (British Born Chinese)
Website: http://www.jiveturtle.blogspot.com

Introduction

I am a postgraduate with 6 years of IT-related working experience. My most recent employment is as a contractor to Globalization Shared Services Centre of IBM Taiwan, working as a test team lead.

I specialize in systems development and programming in a number of programming languages such as C# .NET and Perl.

I have recently arrived in Taiwan and am currently residing with my wife and daughter in Taipei with the intention to improve my Mandarin and Chinese language skills. I am a hard-working person who also strives for the best and work to the best of my abilities. I am a responsible person to meet my duties on time and seeking for improvements at the same time.

I am punctual, polite and friendly. I am accustomed to working well within teams and self-organised to be able to work on my own. I am also always striving to learn new skills and new knowledge which will help improve myself in my career and my personal development.

Education

MSc Advanced Computer Science

The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. 09/2000 – 09/2001

BSc Computer Science with Business & Management – First Class with Honours

The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. 09/1997 – 09/2000

A-Level Information Technology (A), A-Level Economics (B), A-Level Mathematics with Statistics (C)

Ashton 6th Form College, United Kingdom. 09/1995 – 07/1997

Work Experience

International Integrated Systems Inc. Taipei, Taiwan. 11/2005 – Present

http://www.iisi.com.tw, http://www.ibm.com.tw

Title: Test Lead – Contractor To IBM Taiwan

• Contractor to the IBM Taiwan Localisation Service Centre.
• Execution of Globalisation and Translation testing for IBM products.
• Working with project manager to complete projects according to schedule.
• Communicate with testers regarding defect and product related questions.
• Holding status meetings with development team, reporting testing statuses.
• Working development team to resolve technical and schedule issues.
• Organising team members with daily work.
• Managing team members and planning internal team schedules.
• Assessing team members work and appraisal.
• Analysing project status and assessing any risks which may impact project schedule.
• Product knowledge pick-up.
• Writing test cases for product testing and verification.
• Set up the necessary environments for system testing.
• Development of automation scripts using Java to make set-up and testing more efficient.
• Opening, screening and recognising and tracking valid product defects.
• Communicate with development team to solve product defects.
• Supporting and solving tester’s problems during testing execution.
• Full understanding IBM’s in-house testing procedures and processes.
• Training of new people who are to be technical support engineers.
• Writing training materials and holding training courses.
• Supervising new members about the technical issues and knowledges.

Warren James Jewellers Limited. Manchester, United Kingdom. 01/2005 – 06/2005

http://www.warrenjames.co.uk

Title: IT Specialist

• Involved in the selection of software products/IT equipment to use for the head office.
• Day to day maintenance and provide help to users of IT equipment.
• Involved in the design and vendor selection process for the organisation’s Wide Area Network project.
• Negotiating prices on be half of the organization.
• The design and implementation of an organisation wide retail/HR management system using a variety of technologies such as C#, mySQL and Perl.
• Production of electronic reports for top-level managers.
• Design and implementation of the organisation’s Intranet.
• Implementation of the physical Local Area Network infrastructure.
• Provide advice and consultation to the directors of the organisation about IT infrastructure and technologies to move the company forward.

Decisionworks Limited. London, United Kingdom. 06/2003 – 01/2005

http://www.theglcompany.com

Title: Software Developer

• Involved in the development of new features for the organisation’s main financial software product using a high level in-house OO programming language (TRACK),
• Managed and developed a “Lite” version of the organisation’s main financial software product.
• Managed, designed, developed and maintain the organisation’s new internal Intranet using Perl/CGI, mySQL database, WebGUI, PHP and hand coding HTML.
• Implementing feature enhancements to company’s new software (GLI version 6), which included end user dialogs and a new wizard template.
• Designed and implemented new licence key generation and authentication processes and tools using TRACK, InstallScript, C external libraries for encryption, SQL Server for data storage and Internet/CGI functions.
• Worked on a phone home error reporting project which involves the use of an external C library called libcurl and TRACK.
• Exposure to C# and .NET programming through company’s mini-projects.
• Day-to-day management of projects assigned to me.

British Telecom – Major Business. London, United Kingdom. 10/2001 – 06/2003

http://www.bt.com

Title: Account Based System Engineer

• Design and propose network solutions to customers using BT products and services.
• Provide assistance to the account manager in developing proposals and responses to customer’s network requirements.
• Actively developing customer relationships with key customers through presentations, conference calls and meetings.
• Organising meetings with internal departments to develop network solutions to meet customers’ requirements.
• Provide assistance to the account manager in designing and pricing network solutions.
• Answering queries from customers on a day-to-day basis.
• Designed and developed web sites for small businesses.

Wing Yip Limited. Manchester, United Kingdom. 01/1996 – 09/2000

http://www.wingyip.com

Title: Barcode System Administrator

• Organised teams to capture barcode and product information for new system.
• Teaching and training of staff to use new barcode reading tools.
• Updating and maintaining data accuracy of product information.
• Daily reporting to peers and managers on progress through reports and meetings.

Computer Science Dept, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. 07/1999 – 08/1999

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk

Title: Summer Placement – Lecturer’s Aid

• Preparation of teaching materials and content for head of department lecturer.
• Developing and testing of new lab practical exercises for new Java software engineering course.
• Daily reporting of findings, amendments to lab exercises through reports and meetings.
• Developing model answers to lab exercises.
• Developing and producing documentation for lecturer and students.
• Use of UML, and Java programming language to develop lab exercises and model answers.

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages in C# .NET, Java.
• MS SQL Server and mySQL.
• HTML and Web Site Design/Creation in Frontpage, Dreamweaver and WebGUI.
• Microsoft Office Applications – Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access.
• Proficient use of Windows 98/2000/XP and Linux OS.
• Installshield/Installscript.
• Proficient use of tools such as FTP, email, Snag-It, Ghost and Beyond Compare.

Languages

I am a native speaker of English (UK) and I am fluent in speaking Cantonese. I also know some conversational Mandarin.

Hobbies and Interests

I love to listen to music and read. My favourite author is Terry Pratchett as I like to read science fictional comedies. I also love to read the works of Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code) and Vallerio Massimo Manfredi (Alexander). In my spare time I keep myself updated on current affairs and in technology by reading newspapers such as the Taipei Times and reading news from the BBC website. I enjoy playing badminton and American football.

References

Available of request.