Horizons

Spearheading the transformation of Horizons into a technology and product-driven leader in the EOR industry. Leading Engineering Department in building the SaaS platform for borderless teams.
Main achievements:
- Tripled size of the Engineering Team, revamped recruiting and talent management processes bring visibility into the career path. Implemented OKRs and KPIs at Department and Team level to drive performance and foster a culture of Engineering excellence.
- Introduced modern architecture principles including Domain-Driven Design and Service-Oriented Architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability of the platform.
- Rolled out a more efficient and predictable Software Delivery Lifecycle, allowing the teams to continuously achieve their Sprint goals and increase the speed of features delivery without compromises on quality.
- Delivered major implementations such as Payment and Disbursement automation through Airwallex,  Payroll and Billing automation, Roll-out of a new design system on the platform.

Director of Engineering

SYSTEM in MOTION

Implemented agile methodologies to deliver high quality software solutions to customers, ensuring company revenue targets were met and growing a team of motivated result-oriented talents.
Contributed to to company strategy as part of the Leadership Team, planning yearly budget and reporting on results to other stakeholders.
Main achievements:
- Restructured scattered teams into a single Delivery Team, increasing occupancy rate from 60% to 90%
- Reduced overrun on projects under maintenance going from 150% to below 100% of budget utilization
- Implemented a culture of high performance and effective management through coaching, delegation, objective settings and performance tracking at all levels
- Delivered a clienteling mobile APP and a micro-service based CRM in 1 month to a customer in the Luxury industry
- Expanded scope of Pernod Ricard Traceability solution by adapting and rolling it out in Vietnam and Malaysia
- Lead design of a micro-service architecture back-office for Bureau Veritas and built a team of 7 from scratch working on the implementation, replacing a 15 years old legacy system

Delivery Director

Lead a team of 15, responsible for Business Plan redaction, Yearly budgeting and P&L tracking.
Created a new Supply Chain tracking business line and developed the System Integration and Consulting skillset to expand the scope of the Business Unit.
Maintained strong relationships with Fortune 500 key accounts.
Main achievements:
- Doubled the Business Unit revenue in 3 years
- Signed and delivered several 1M+ RMB contracts
- Lead successful deployment of Pernod Ricard Next Generation Traceability solution which
tracks 100 million of bottles with unique codes through the entire supply chain
- Kept employee retention rate high above market and company average

Business Unit Manager

Worked with startup to lead the design and development of a SaaS platform for connected consumer goods with a team of 5 engineers.
Delivered a production ready POC environment for 6 customers in less than 6 months.
Designed and developed the base of the SaaS platform, a micro-services architecture built with Java and Spring Cloud framework.

Acting CTO @ madeforgoods

In charge of 3 development teams working on large scale software development projects. Responsible for high quality of deliveries, solution design for new developments, coaching and training of team members.
Main achievements:
- Maintained strong long-term relationship with 3 key accounts from Finance industry
- Delivered a complete Big Data sub ledger data processing platform for major US housing loan agencies
- Designed and delivered multiple modules of Markit Loan Settlement platform, a financial application for the Loan market.
- Lead the development of a complete back-end insurance platform for BNP Paribas in Vietnam, matching BNP Paribas IT standards and supporting their aggressive growth.
- Implemented software development best practices: continuous integration, automated unit test execution and code quality tracking, code review, agile methodology

Senior Project Manager

Full Stack developer on Markit Clear, a modern Syndicated Loan settlement platform used by Investment Banks and Fund Managers to process real-time Loan Inventory and Trading data. Built a second dev team to work on Active Ledger, a Big Data Sub-ledger application allowing process of high volumes of accounting postings, and high performance in-memory data analytics.
Main achievement :
- Recruited a new dev team and successfully bootstrapped a new outsourcing project

Technical Lead

Responsible for accelerating development of both front-end and back-end of a loan market trading platform (now Markit Loan Settlement) to deliver new features faster to our customer, including GWT based user interface, message processing, rules workflow, state of the art real-time event processing engine, clustering, multi thread concurrent data processing.

Java Engineer

NETK5

Worked on Amplexio, a chat application for large corporate organizations developed in C++ using Qt framework. Developed the core system as well as a plugin system allowing to extend the application with additional features and widgets.

Software Engineer

Dassault Systemes

Joined the 3DVia team to work on the deployment of Virtools MP onto Windows Mobile. Implemented Windows Mobile and Direct3D Mobile support, and successfully completed the deployment of sample 3D animations within 6 months.

Embedded Software Developer

Shaanxi Key Lab for Data Acquisition and Management

Worked in a University lab to develop a data visualization application for 3D laser scanner to display and interact with scanned 3D models.

Software Developer

Software Engineering team leader on a mission to build value generating Enterprise Software Solutions.
15 years of experience in Enterprise Software Development and Team Management for Fortune 500 companies.
Based in Shanghai, China Permanent resident.

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