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James Li-Chung Chen
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| EXPERIENCE |
| Vice President of Technology / CTO |
3/00 - Present |
| Jenzabar, Inc. http://www.jenzabar.net/ |
Cambridge, MA |
2003 - Present
- Continue as the company’s technology visionary and provide leadership in directing and promoting Jenzabar’s product vision, road map.
- Migration of applications on AS400, OpenVMS, UNIX systems to Java
- Migration of existing windows applications to .NET
- New development of .NET portal framework
- New development of Java ERP system
- Expansion of Business Intelligence framework
- Responsible for the management of product managers and product development staff (~100 direct reports)
- Provide strategic direction and identify critical success factors for continual growth in the higher education and related market space.
- Perform analysis of internal operations, cut redundant roles, hardware/software, and streamline the development cycle for both client-server technology and web technology.
- Incorporated off-shore development resources to augment existing development initiatives.
- Manages relationship with key strategic partners (Microsoft, IBM, Cognos, Oracle, SUN, etc…).
- Evaluated and negotiated with vendors on third party product and services to be included with Jenzabar’s line of products.
2002 – 2003 Highlights – Director of New Application Development
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Reports directly to the CEO and president to provide product strategy aligning with the corporate vision.
- Lead the execution of the new product development and migration of existing product lines.
- Simultaneously managed and directed multiple large scale product line development, mainly focused on emerging technologies and new product lines.
- Successfully lead the development the next generation portal product (Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution) ahead of schedule (1 year), under budget (~75%), and higher quality (compared against the first distance learning product). Replicated 3 years worth of development in 6 months with greater functionality, robustness, and reliability.
- Directly involved in the recruiting and hiring of the entire emerging technology group within product development.
2000 - 2001 Highlights – Manager of Portal Development
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Provide project management for all the design, development, and implementation processes for the core technology group.
- Led the successful conversion of the website from ASP, VB/C++ COM, MTS on Oracle 8i to SQL2000. Major duties and accomplishment includes: Led technology projects, including external product-related initiatives and internal system implementation, Performance reviews, Code reviews, Researching new technologies, lead weekly team meetings.
- Interfaced daily with IT and QA to ensure and coordinate the proper development environment and process are in place for efficient development.
- Represented Jenzabar’s technology group in partnership meetings to assess scope and implementation strategies.
- Managed relationships and communications with consulting firms and contracting firms to set the goals and expectation of each project (includes negotiation on pricing).
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| Co-Founder and CEO |
8/99 - 7/00 |
| CampusCraze, Incorporated - Acquired by Jenzabar |
Cambridge, MA |
- Led the acquisition of CampusCraze, Incorporated
by Jenzabar, Inc. in July 2000. Jenzabar, Inc. is
a financed pre-IPO Internet Infrastructure
Company serving the higher education market.
- Founded a web-based portal technology company serving
the 18-24 year old market.
- Organized the management team to devise solutions
and business strategy for the business plan, revenue
model, and marketing plan
- Specified all requirements of a web-based eCommerce
portal, connecting the college student community to
direct marketers in this vertical niche
- Manage the overall development efforts.
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| Project Consultant |
7/99 - 9/99 |
| Pricewaterhouse Coopers - Major League Baseball |
New York, NY |
- Organized the development environment and process for the consulting team.
- Wrote the design specification for the development of the MLB internal management web based system.
- Developed and set the standards for the contract module.
- Web development using ASP front-end, Visual Basic middle-tier business and data access components, SQL 6.5, Access and DB2 databases.
- Designed and implemented a project bug tracking / reporting system to help the management of the development of the website.
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| Technology Leadership Intern |
5/99 - 7/99 |
| Merrill Lynch - Direct Markets |
New York, NY |
- Designed and implemented an FTP solution to facilitate multiple file linkage of investment profiles to an e-commerce website.
- Knowledge management project. Researched the internal information flow infrastructure of Merrill Lynch and created a mock web based "Knowledge and Information Sharing System" to help increase efficiency.
- Web development using ASP front-end, C++ middle-tier business and data access components, Oracle 8i database.
- Database management: design, create, and modify tables in Oracle using SQL/PL store procedures.
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| Software Test Engineer |
5/98 - 9/98 |
| Microsoft Corporation |
Redmond, WA |
- Wrote full test break out automation for Design-Time Controls in Visual InterDev.
- Converted the automation test engine from Visual Basic 5.0 to Visual Basic 6.0.
- Developed sample applications for Visual InterDev 6.0 that integrated VBScript, Java Script, ASP, Dynamic HTML, and Access Databases. (Runner-up in the application building contest).
- Wrote widgets in VBA that helped increase the efficiency of the test team.
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| Software Developer and Researcher |
1996 - 1999 |
| MIT, Media Laboratory |
Cambridge, MA |
- Designed and implemented back-end algorithms for e-commerce website (Market Maker), using JAVA Servlets.
- Developed a 3-D Chess package that integrates with on-line newspapers, with client side written in JAVA and chess server written in PERL.
- Developed and implemented new encryption techniques to encode information in images using C++ and JAVA. (Patchwork, texture mapping, affined invariance).
- Maintained the Media Lab's JAVA DT library, a cross platform library that can directly communicate / transfer data with PERL, C, and C++.
- Designed the user interface for Zwrap, an experimental personalize newspaper project.
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| EDUCATION |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Cambridge, MA |
| Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| Chemistry minor |
| Concentration in Chinese |
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| PROFICIENCIES |
| Technical: |
| Windows OS, Mac OS, Unix/Linux, VISIO, Photoshop, FLASH, Dreamweaver, HTML/CSS, XML, C++/C, JAVA, Java Servlets, J2EE, PERL, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, ASP, COM, MTS, .NET framework, C#/VB.net, SQL Server, Oracle DB, DB2, Access, MySQL , TCL, Scheme. Visual Studio, PHP, AJAX, Internet Technologies |
| Business: |
| Microsoft Office System, Business plans, Knowledge of Higher Education Space, Getting funding, Marketing, Recruiting, Negotiation. Participated in SLOAN executive programs. |
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| INTERESTS / ACTIVITIES |
- MIT Class Officer 2005 to 2010
- MIT’S 50K Business Competition, SUMA Case Competition
- Teacher’s Assistant in Organic chemistry (5.12), SAT Teacher.
- National Collegiate Table Tennis Association http://www.nctta.org/
- National Association of Asian American Professionals http://www.naaap.org/
- Volunteer webmaster for a MIT Sloan class – Finance Theory
- Basketball, volleyball, golf, mathematics, and teaching
- Entrepreneurship, e-commerce, Business Models
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