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Resident of Taiwan since 1986 |
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Held senior management positions in Internet startup company and own business since 1988 |
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Over ten years of experience building business processes and supporting information technology infrastructure for multicultural corporate environments |
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Experienced project leader for Internet/Intranet strategy development and technology implementation |
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Up-to-date on latest IT product and market trends and technology both domestically and internationally |
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Passionately engaged in Taiwan culture, serving on the board of several NGO's |
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Often invited to make keynote addresses or serve as ad hoc general consul |
| Pristine |
One of the founders of Pristine Communications. Built the enterprise into one of the best known and respected localization and multilingual web development businesses in Asia. Led the company from traditionally non-computerized business into digital documentation and implemented technology to enable telecommuting for both clients and freelancers before the Internet came to Taiwan. |
| PIG |
Launched one of Taiwan's first commercial ISP's to enable Pristine's communications services over the Internet. Founded Pristine Internet Gateway, in 1995, which provided Internet access, web design and hosting services in the greater Taipei area. |
| AsiaOnline |
In May of 1996, Pristine Internet Gateway was acquired by Asia Communications Global (ACG). The Internet company was relaunched as Asia Online in the Taiwan market. Took on responsibility of growing the operation to a staff of 40 in 18 months. Chief areas of contribution included focus on top-quality service, real-time billing system, procurement, staff hiring, network planning and management, systems integration, and cost performance analysis and financial reporting. Integrated customer service, technical support and networking systems, thereby creating an efficient and full-service Internet company. |
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Primary consultant enabling a 100 million USD listed health supplement manufacturer and marketer's entry into the Taiwan market. Worked with top management at US headquarters. Qualified and selected a banking partner to integrate e-commerce system requirements, helped source management staff, led local market analysis and competitor practice survey. The Taiwan entity achieved .8M USD in sales in their first three quarters of operations. |
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Planned and managed the localization of a language teaching artificial intelligence agent into thirteen languages for Asia's largest e-learning corporation. |
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Business Intelligence consulting, virtual sales, local market considerations for a local foreign-owned and managed virtual advertising start-up. |
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Taught data-mining course to research staff of a pioneering consumer data company. Performed background research on competitors, supported management in brokering a 5M USD project with a new service partner. |
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Led top-management in analysis of ERP issues and qualification and selection of solution for a 40-person internationally managed startup tablet PC assembly and brand-owner marketing operation. |
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Served as assistant to GM and temporary CEO to Sino-Japanese startup integrating telecomm and GIS technologies for consumer and commercial services. Led staff of 20 in technical strategy development and problem solving. Helped broker strategies and cooperation with partners and vendors. |
| Fitch |
Project lead for developing the Fitch Ratings Taiwan portal site |
| DOIS |
Responsible for technology strategy and planning for the Invest in Taiwan portal site, a project conducted by Pristine on behalf of Taiwan's Department of Investment Services, Ministry of Economic Affairs (formerly known as Industrial Development and Investment Center). |
| FFTC |
Designed and led implementation of this international NGO site to make available over 30 years of agricultural publications on the Internet. Provided client consultation and planning; designed database, cross-referenced information architecture & interface design. Oversaw client training and web application development, data processing, systems administration. Implemented content publishing (for ongoing content) and management system, threaded discussion, data search interface, installed and configured host server. Content of completed site is entirely managed and maintained by the client. |
| WCIT |
Led a team to develop the conference site for the year 2000 Global information technology conference hosted in Taiwan. The site's information architecture enables dynamically created web content to be automatically served up in the appropriate language -- English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and French -- by detecting the language of the viewer's computer system. Provided project consulting, information architecture & interface design, systems configuration & Administration. Designed web-based news management and publishing system allowing permissions-based editorial control for adding, editing, or deleting articles online, prioritizing headlines or whole articles for display on different sections of the site, composing and distributing an online HTML newsletter, requesting translations and editorial team update notification. This interface allowed the conference organizer, their public relations firm and the localization supplier to work efficiently on-line in real time. |
| Pristine Lexicon |
Designed and led development of on-line tools to support Pristine's localization project managers and freelance translators. This originally in-house system quickly became one of the more popular Chinese/English/Pinyin dictionary sites on the Internet. The site is currently a semi-finalist for the Asian Internet Awards in the category of cross-cultural sites. |
| Integration |
Rich experience integrating networking solutions into organization processes; including: multilingual and heterogeneous platform requirements, integrating legacy data, knowledge management training |
| Localization |
Practical knowledge of broad range of localization issues, especially related to Asian language processing, including software, file formats, platforms and encodings. |
| Systems |
Competence in UNIX and Microsoft systems and network design, installation and administration; practical knowledge of routers, switches, physical networking and telephony. |
| Networking |
Experience in network architecture and network security. Performance, usability and security audits. Host configuration, DNS and e-mail administration, Web and SQL server configuration and operation, data and power backup systems. |
| Languages |
Competent to lead teams in HTML, web scripting languages, SQL, C-syntax procedural languages. Fluent in IT-speak Chinese |
