Professional Experience

Engagement Manager + Technical Director

 Compelite Ltd
Consultant Apr, 2009 - Oct, 2009
Website(s):
Duties: Manage web-related projects
  • engage clients and suppliers
  • manage expectations and resources, including time, cost and human resources
  • guide clients through the process of launching websites
  • assess and analyze client proposals for feasibility
  • document management processes using GAP analyses, SOWs and specifications
  • serve as a developer for projects, if necessary
Maintain and upgrade in-house technical capabilities
  • identify useful technology trends
  • train in-house developers on new technologies
  • simplify existing development strategies using new platforms
  • identify and assess potential suppliers
  • identify and suggest ways of tackling technical weaknesses
Tools: Apache, PHP, MySQL, XHTML, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX
     

Developer

 Asia Entertainment Technology Ltd
Full-time May, 2007 - Feb, 2008
Website(s):
Duties: For the flagship e-commerce website, Play-Asia.com
  • develop new features
  • maintain current feature-set and protect against security threats
  • develop and maintain the administrative back-end for the website
For a game-publishing subsidiary, East Asia Soft Ltd
  • develop and launch the company website
  • develop and launch the game website for a published game, Söldner-X Himmelsstürmer
  • engineer online features for the game, including scoreboards, leaderboards, in-game notices and friends
  • design and engineer the serial key system for the game
Maintain in-house servers and networking equipment, including:
  • a mail server
  • a proxy
  • a DNS server
  • a PBX server
  • a production/development server
  • a Subversion server
  • a gateway
  • several routers
General IT support
Tools: Apache, PHP, MySQL, Asterisk, XHTML, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, XML, XSLT
     

Lead Developer

 A Broader View
Freelance Nov, 2006
Website(s):
Duties: Developed an international competition-based site
Tools: PHP, HTML, Javascript, CSS, MySQL
     

Lead Developer

 Proceeco Enterprises
Freelance Aug, 2006 - Sep, 2006
Website(s):
Duties: Developed a CMS-based e-commerce website
Tools: PHP, HTML, Javascript, CSS, MySQL
     

Lead Developer

 A Broader View
Freelance Aug, 2005 - Oct, 2005
Website(s):
Duties: Developed an international, competition-based website
Tools: PHP, HTML, Javascript, CSS, MySQL
     

Lead Developer

 ACATrend Ltd
Freelance Jan, 2005 - Mar, 2005
Website(s):
Duties: Developed a multi-language e-commerce website
Tools: PHP, HTML, Javascript, CSS, MySQL
     

Game Tester

 Enlight Software Ltd
Part-time Jan, 2003 - Mar, 2003
Duties: Perform French language alpha- and beta-testing for
General IT support
     

Assistant Editor

 SEA Publications Ltd
Full-time Sep, 2001 - Mar, 2002
Duties: Designed HKCEE-level exercises for the English language Syllabus B exam
Proof-reading
General IT support
     

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Engineering (Upper Second Class Honours)
City University of Hong Kong 2004 - 2007
 

Associate of Science in Computer Science (First Class Honours)
City University of Hong Kong 2002 - 2004
 

Publications

Peswani, S. B. (2007). NLP-based Artificially Intelligent Chat-bot. CityU Institutional Repository Web site : http://hdl.handle.net/2031/4821

Honours and Awards

Nominated for the Outstanding Academic Papers by Students (OAPS) programme for NLP-based artificially intelligent chat-bot2008

Skills

Natural Languages: English, Cantonese, French
Programming Languages: AJAX, C, C++, CSS, HTML, XHTML, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, XML, XSLT
Software: Apache, Asterisk, CakePHP, cmsMS, CodeIgniter, CouchDB, Drupal, Joomla, jQuery, Linux, Microsoft Office, MySQL, OpenOffice.org, PostgreSQL, Squid, Subversion, vBulletin, Webmin, Windows