Chuong Nguyen ------------- 11140 Rose Ave #209, Los Angeles, CA 90034 Email : chuong [at] cs [dot] ucla [dot] edu Phone: 213-820-5537 THIS IS A SHORT RESUME VERSION. FULL RESUME IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. EDUCATION --------- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) * Ph.D. - Computer Science (Web Information Systems) - Current * M.S. - Computer Science (Web Information Systems) - 2008 * B.S. - Computer Science (Minor: Management - Honor: Cum Laude) - 2006 Area of interests * Web Information Systems * Software Development Management * Software Engineering * Business/Entrepreneurship * Software Architectures * 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. 11/2004-03/2005 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 ----------