• Manager - software and firmware development.
• Architect - software/firmware design and engineering.
• Consultant - information technology, networking and security.

• Manage a team of 20 firmware/software engineers.
• Technical advisor and system administrator.
• Devise and refine firmware development processes/procedures.
• Setup and maintain 5 Linux servers.
• Software configuration management, code organization, backup.
• Develop and implement tools for system administration and backup.
• Improve time and storage efficiency with tools developed.
• Version control with SubVersion
• Firmware Release management system backed by SubVersion and MySQL
• Wiki for documentation and content management
• Mantis Bug Tracker for issue tracking
• Web interface for quick file indexing and searching
• Remote Access Server with DHCP and PPPoE
• Provide training on networking technologies and software tools.
• Devise and implement solutions for firmware issues.
• Plan and allocate resources for projects.
• Monitor project progress and completion.
• Planning of new features for future products.
• Interview and recommend prospective firmware engineers.

• Lead team of 4 software engineers.
• Prioritize and plan bug fixes and feature development.
• Analyze and interpret protocol requirements and customer issues.
• Developed Auto Configuration Server (ACS) test tool for in-house testing.
• Protocols: SOAP, HTTP, SSL
• Languages: C, Python, XML

• Feature implementations - VLAN-to-PVC mapping, Dynamic DNS client, PPPoE relay, IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN, Wake-On-LAN, IP and MAC address filtering, FTP client, DNS server, SNTP client.
  
• Good knowledge of IEEE 802.11 security, encryption, WEP, WPA and 802.1x.
  
• Integrate IEEE 802.11 Wireless Access Point driver for Lucent Orinoco and Intersil PRISM cards.
  
• Contributed to technical evaluation to secure 18k unit order for DSL modem/router deployment.
  
• Embedded webserver development experience - EmWeb (licensed by Cisco), WindRiver WindWeb.
  
• RTOS software development in C and C++ interfacing with hardware.
  E.g. Virata's ATMOS, Quantum, WindRiver's VxWorks and MontaVista Embedded Linux.
  
• Developed firmware for ADSL and SDSL modems/routers; good knowledge of xDSL protocols.
  E.g. Aztech DSL900E(B)/(R) sold widely in Singapore and around the world.
  
• Help team manager interview and evaluate potential firmware engineers.
• Draft job requirements for potential applicants.
  
• Firmware and networking problem resolution and research.
  
• Setup and maintenance of firmware development environment on the Linux.
• Consultation and training of Linux networking and administration to colleagues and working partners.
• Software development planning and implementation.
  
• Provided training to customers on ADSL and ATM concepts.

• Book prize award for Best Student in Applied Parallel Computing (SMA5505)
• Applied Parallel Computing: Parallel Longest Common Subsequence Computation in MPI.
• RFID door controller integration with enterprise identity management system ( Encentuate)
• Artificial Intelligence: Learning and sampling on Bayesian Networks.
• Compiler implementation in Java for Decaf (reduced Java) language.
• Database: Query Processor Implementation in Java.
• Database: DBMS implementation for Music Store.
• Machine Learning: Comparison of techniques for text categorization.
• Pervasive Computing: Mobile Campus Maps.

• GPA: 3.83/4.0 - Graduated with Highest Honors (First Class Honors)
• Graduated among top 5% in College of Engineering
• Minor degree in Computer Science
• Grader - High Speed Parallel Computation (graduate class)
  
• Grader - C Programming for Scientists and Engineers (first year class)
  
• Top student in C Programming (first year class)
  
• Designed pipelined MIPS CPU in Computer Architecture course
• Compiler optimization by implementing Java bytecode in C
  
• Linux Kernel Module Development - Porting SunOS Myrinet driver to Linux
• Elevator Controller with Motorola HC11 Microcontroller
• Sound Blaster programming, playback and stereo mixing in Intel x86 assembly
• PC-104 Evaluation Board.
• Image capture with BrookTree chip.
• SCSI CDROM controller driver in C
• Seven Segment Display driver

• A's for Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Economics
• A1 for 'AO' Chinese, B3 for General Paper
  

• A1 for English, Chinese, Math, Additional Math, Physics, Chemistry.
• A2 for Geography, B3 for English Literature
  

• EDB-PLE (Aztech) Undergraduate Scholarship, 1997
• Singapore-MIT Alliance Graduate Scholarship, 2005
• Book Prize for Best Student in Applied Parallel Computing, 2006

• Web Technologies - HTTP, XML, AJAX, DOM, SOAP, CGI, PHP, LAMP.
• Web Development - HTML, DHTML, CSS.
• Networking - Ethernet (802.3), IEEE 802.11 (WLAN), Homeplug, bridging.
• IP - Addressing, routing, CIDR, subnetting.
• Internet - PPP, DNS, DHCP, firewall, NAT, SNTP, FTP, SCP.
• Security - Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Secure SHell (SSH) + Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• High Performance Computing (HPC) - Clustering, Parallel computation, MPI, OpenMP.
• PC System Architecture - CPU, memory, disks, graphics, sound.
• Storage - partitions, RAID, filesystems (EXT2/3, Reiser, NTFS, FAT16/32).
• Multimedia - MPEG, AVI, video formats, capturing, editing, conversion.
• Operating Systems - Linux/Unix (since 1997), Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP.
• Others - GPS, Bluetooth, RFID.

• C, C++
• Python, Java, Perl
• Unix Network Programming, Socket Programming
• Parallel programming with Pthreads, MPI, OpenMP
• HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Scripting: BASH, TCSH, DOS batch, AutoIT
• SQL, JDBC, ODBC
• Windows and DirectX

• Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, Tomcat
• Concurrent Versions System (CVS), SubVersion (SVN)
• Source Insight IDE, NetBeans IDE, Eclipse IDE
• Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, .NET, WindRiver Tornado, Virata Tools
• KDevelop (KDE, Linux-based IDE)
• Mentor Graphics, Orcad Capture

• Human-Centric Pervasive Computing
• Applied Parallel Computation
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Compilers - Computer Language Engineering
• Database Technology
• Operating systems and concepts
• Computer architecture
• Discrete time signal processing
• Distributed systems, communication networks for computers
• Data structures and combinatorial algorithms
• Electronic Circuits

• Verbal: 710/800
• Math: 790/800

• Writing: 770/800
• Physics: 800/800
• Math IIc: 800/800

• Martial arts, jogging, cycling, bowling, table tennis.
• Chinese chess, singing, movies.
• Multimedia production, video capture and editing.

Updated July 14, 2007