Daniel Yang

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Daniel Yang, a.k.a. d_yang.

Involved now

  • A traditional business.
  • Study on Flex 3D frameworks.
  • Preparing for my NEW Appartment! :-D

Personal particular

  • Passions for products that can improve life. Passions for technology.
  • Good listener.
  • Always willing to learn and learn fast.
  • Fluent both in spoken and written English. (TEM 8, with German as a second foreign language in university.)
  • More than 7 years’ experience in software engineering.
  • Skills in prototyping technologies.
  • Knowledge of usability, interaction design.
  • Experiences in software usability testing( based on TechSmith® Morae).
  • Basketball player, as an assist guide.

Experience

Software Developer/Architect, Anhui iFLYTEK Co.,LTD. 2002-2005

  • Architected and developed common components for every product team. Later focused on software usability issues.
  • Designed & developed a mobile applications that could identify fake product by scanning barcode.(2003)
  • Architected & co-developed a Instant Messaging server based on XMPP protocol.(2003-2004)
  • Designed, architected & co-developed an instant messenger client using Borland® Delphi 7.(2004-2005)
  • Headed a product team, developing “Online Audible Newspaper”.(2005)
  • Created a product “Audible Personal Portal”.(2005-2006) (Part of it has become yaTrack)
  • Created an online “wish-making” service:RuuYee.
  • Created an online English learning service: Chinababel.com

User Experience Team Leader/Product Innovating Team Leader, Hefei MSTC(under iFLYTEK) 2006-2008

  • Headed a User Experience team. Responsible for prototyping, interaction design, UI design and usability testing. Details as follows:
  • Offer design work to all project/product teams of the company.
  • Shape a unified UI style.
  • Prototype using various tools whenever necessary.
  • Research on every presentation technology, including Adobe® Apollo, Microsoft® WPF/E and Ajax.
  • Review the usability status of each product/project team per twi-week.
  • Recruit usability test users, set up testing plans, conduct tests and translate analyzed results to solutions.
  • Headed a team for creating now online applications, using TTS and related technologies.
  • Built an online service to offer free TTS technology, so that developers can do magic.
  • Built a chat bot for commercial use.
  • Proposed a “Let the celebrities talk to you” online service.

Product Manager for International Development Dept. ,Anhui iFLYTEK Co.,LTD. 2008-Oct. 2008

  • Built Ruuyee.com(down).
  • Built ChinaBabel.com(down).

Involved in a Start-up Company Oct. 2008-Now

  • Build 3 web applications including englishcentral.com.
  • and more secret stuffs.

Education

1999-2003

BED in Business English, School of Foreign Language, Anhui University, China.

Recap of Skills

  • Communicating with clients, and learn what they really need.
  • Fast learner.
  • Experienced in programming languages(not in any order): Python, Java, Microsoft® .Net, Delphi, Javascript, Actionscript 2/3, C/C++, PHP, etc.
  • Skilled in: Adobe® Flex 2/3, Adobe® AIR® and Macromedia® Flash platform.
  • Various skills to prototype for
  • Windows applications
  • Web applications
  • RIA applications
  • Experienced with software architect(Especially. for RIA applications).
  • Experienced with graphic tools like Macromedia® Fireworks.
  • Knowledge of usability.
  • Experiences in software usability testing( based on TechSmith® Morae).
  • Knowledge of software globalization and localization.