Chuong Nguyen

11140 Rose Ave #209, Los Angeles, CA 90034 Email : chuong@cs.ucla.edu Phone: 213-820-5537

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EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

· PhD - Computer Science - Specialization: Web Information Systems                                                          Current

· Master of Science - Computer Science - Specialization: Web Information Systems                                       2008

· Bachelor of Science - Computer Science - Minor: Management - Honor: Cum Laude                                    2006

Area of interests

· Web Information Systems

· Software Engineering

· Software Architectures

· Software Development Management

· Business/Entrepreneurship

· Consulting/Teaching/Training

EXPERIENCES

Consultant                                                                                                                                       2007 – Current

Give consulting in the areas of Technology, IT, Software development, and Project Management.

Teaching Assistant, UCLA                                                                                                        09/2006 – Current

Teach many Undergraduate Computer Science courses at UCLA. Give lectures and hold discussion sections.

Producer, Qtask                                                                                                                      11/2008 – 11/2009

Lead the charge in development. Plan and manage the life cycle of Qtask Software as a Service.

Project Manager, Microsoft                                                                                                    06/2006 – 09/2006

Own and manage the complete feature, Antispam-reporting tool, in Microsoft Exchange Server v12. Plan, execute, and deliver a full functional specification for the product. Implement a working prototype to demonstrate the product’s business values.

Software Engineer, Pricegrabber.com                                                                                  01/2006 – 06/2006

Develop applications in the Autos Group that let users search for cars and get quotes from car dealers. Re-write applications to conform to software engineering best practices (for robustness, maintainability, scalability, etc.).

Software Engineer in Test, Microsoft                                                                                   06/2005 – 09/2005

Develop applications to exercise the Filter Canonicalizer Component for the Anti-phishing product. Automate the application testing process. De-couple the test cases and the testing application, making it much easier and faster to add test scenarios and logics.

Developer, Koders Inc.                                                                                                           11/2004 – 03/2006

Be part of a first few employees at a start-up company, which was later acquired by Black Duck Software. Develop applications to extract top-level information (meta data) of open source projects into the database.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Director, EGSATEC, UCLA                                                                                                                2008 - Current

Leadership position in the Technical Entrepreneur Community at UCLA.

Member, Bruin Leader Program, UCLA                                                                                           2007 - Current

Member of UCLA’s nationally renowned campus-sponsored leadership development program.

Speaker, Visual C++ Debugger Demonstration                                                                            2004 - Current

Give regular talks in Undergraduate Computer Science courses at UCLA on using Microsoft Visual C++ Debugger.

Vice President, ACM, UCLA                                                                                                                 2004 – 2005

Leadership position in the UCLA Association for Computing Machinery, a Computer Science club on campus.

REFERENCES – Available upon request