PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA
  Software Design Engineer 2, Windows Kernel

  Oct 2005 - Present
  • Owner of ACPI driver, internal AML interpreter, and the ASL compiler
  • Developer for power management components in Windows Vista, 2008, and Win7
  • ACPI specification and debugging expert on internal and external triages
  • Architect of the new server power metering architecture in Windows 7
  • Creator and maintainer of the cross-team knowledge sharing wiki
  • Contributor and collaborator of the ACPI 4.0 standard proposal
  • Speaker and technical expert in industry conferences such as WinHEC and Plugfest
  • New employee mentor, college intern interviewer
• Platform Computing Incorporated, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Software Developer, LSF development team

  Aug 2003 - Sept 2005
  • Main developer for Platform License Scheduler, a distributed software used by EDA companies to adaptively manage software licenses in clusters
  • Developer for the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) software, the flagship product that virtualizes and manages heterogeneous server clusters
  • Project coordinator for collaboration project with partner Macrovision
  • Trainer for the technical support team and test team
  • Primary customer contact through beta testing
• IBM Software Lab, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Summer intern, AS/400 Application Development Tools

  July 2002 - Sept 2002
  • Developer for WebSphere AS/400 development tools in Eclipse
  • Researcher and tutorial creator for a legacy tool migration path to Eclipse
  Co-op student, VisualAge for Java Service and Support

  Sept 1998 - July 1999
  • Creator of the internal fix pack upgrade process
  • Creator of an online parser for legacy internal customer survey reports

SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Programming Languages
  • C - Specializes in system-level programming: POSIX (libc), NT, and WIN32
  • C++ / Java - Application-level experiences with COM+, STL, Eclipse SWT
  • x86 / x64 asm - Extensive OS-level debugging experiences
  • ACPI - Extensive ASL experiences, GPE handler, resource descriptors
  • Python, PHP, javascript - Web programming experiences
• Operating Systems
  • Unix - Slackware administrator, Redhat / Solaris developer, GNU dev tools
  • Windows NT family - kernel internals, WDM and WDF, user-mode services, PnP, HAL, WMI
• Networking
  • Distributed programming - Experienced in sockets, TCP/IP, RPC, SOAP, XDR
  • Web programming - servlets, javascript, HTML, CSS, REST methodology

EDUCATION

• University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Bachelor of Applied Science - Computer Engineering

  Sept 1999 - May 2003
  • Design project - Simulation of Application-layer Peer-to-Peer Multicasting
  • Voted as the graduating engineering class valedictorian

LANGUAGES

• English / Mandarin - Native-level fluency
• French - Beginner level
Reference available upon request.