Johnson CHENG                       +33.6.7728.7908 | johnson.cheng@utoronto.ca
                                        134 Rue Saint Maur, Paris, France 75011

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Microsoft Corporation, Paris, France
  Senior Development Lead, Zune (Musiwave)                   Oct 2009 - Present
  * Team lead for the commerce backend and reporting infrastructure
  * Main developer for purchase/download history migration from MediaNet
  * Architect of the back-end billing database topology for Zune in EFIGS
  * Architect of the Zune music reporting data warehouse and pipeline
  * Driver of zero downtime per-user based database upgrade deployment
  * Driver of branching infrastructure, build and deployment automation 

  Software Design Engineer 2, Zune (Musiwave)               Feb 2009 - Sep 2009
  * Developer of BackOffice tools used by the Zune catalog content team
  * Contributor of the build and source control system in the Engineering team

- Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA
  Software Design Engineer 2, Windows Kernel                Oct 2005 - Dec 2008
  * 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 (WinHEC, Plugfest)
  * New employee mentor, college intern interviewer

- Platform Computing Incorporated, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Software Developer, LSF development team                  Aug 2003 - Sep 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       Jul 2002 - Sep 2002
  Co-op student, VisualAge for Java Service and Support     Sep 1998 - Jul 1999

SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Programming Languages
  * ACPI - Extensive ASL experiences, GPE handler, resource descriptors
  * C - Specializes in system-level programming: POSIX, NT, Win32
  * C# - Skilled in .NET, multi-threaded designs, WPF, ASP.NET, LINQ
  * T-SQL - Designed and optimized user-facing distributed DB systems
  * C++ / Java - Application-level experiences, SWT, Swing, COM+, STL
  * x86 / x64 asm - Extensive OS-level debugging experiences
  * Python, PHP, javascript - Some web programming experiences

- Operating Systems
  * Unix - Slackware administrator, Redhat / Solaris developer, GNU dev tools 
  * Windows NT family - kernel internals, WDM / WDF, user-mode services,
      PnP, HAL, WMI

- Networking / Web
  * Distributed programming - Experienced in sockets, TCP/IP, RPC, SOAP, XDR
  * Web programming - RESTful web services, servlets, javascript, HTML, CSS

EDUCATION
- University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Bachelor of Applied Science - Computer Engineering        Sep 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.