AKH Online, Inc

PEOPLELINK, INC, Los Angeles, CA

http://www.peoplelink.com (defunct)

Leading provider of Internet community services (Message Boards, Mailing Lists, Chat Rooms, Instant Messaging, etc) for high-profile clientele (GE, Oracle, Times-Mirror, CBS, Viacom, MTV, VH1 and more).

New Product Development, Technical Team.            2001 - 2002

• Team leader in product customization for clients.
• Developed ColdFusion web tools to automate & hasten product delivery sequence.
• Provided application training to Quality Assurance team to help them develop sound testing methodology.
• Help Technical Writer break down complex program actions into understandable terms.
• Participated in transfer of product suite from ColdFusion™ to JSP, enabling double-byte character sets (Asian and non-Arabic letters) for product internationalization.

Production Team Leader                        1999 - 2001

• Authored core templates and applications to replace expensive licensed products.
• Developed core methods by which existing PeopleLink products would be integrated into clients’ existing applications, reducing the learning curve for new programmers.
• Directly interviewed new team prospects and authored skills assessment tests to improve the quality of new hires and reduce turnover.

Web Engineer                            1998 - 1999

• Hands-on programming. Team member in authorship of original web application and integration of outsourced application packages to produce an early revenue stream.
• Performed Quality Control functions prior to establishment of dedicated Q.C. team, to insure product performance against a broad range of browsers, systems and platforms.
• Exercised basic network operations and server maintenance tasks to reduce load on system administrators, via Telnet into NT, Sun Solaris™ UNIX and Linux servers.

Sun Solaris, Linux, HTML, ColdFusion 4~5, Oracle, Sybase, JavaScript, PHP, JSP, C++, Perforce, Lotus