WAIPANG FONG
Ann Arbor
Summary
Highly skilled IT Developer/Architect/Director with 22+ years of experience building applications and platforms that dramatically increase employee productivity, solve market problems, and ultimately drive business growth. Takes complex and time-sensitive projects from initiation through to completion. Proven track record of analyzing complex problems and providing simple, cost-effective business solutions. Fosters extremely strong working relationships and is known as a positive mentor, leading others to success. Expert at merging different companies' technologies and spinning off new technology companies from existing ones.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Enterprise Architect
Mercedes Benz Financial Services
05.2021 - Current
- Provides guidelines, templates, and baseline boiler code for new initiative projects
- Reviews and evaluates any projects that need to be modernized, including moving to the cloud, dockerize, or rewriting to micro-service based single-page applications
- Coordinates with various teams to solve the technology obsolescence issues
Delivery Director
Nexient
11.2020 - 04.2021
- Led a team on a project for modernizing a legacy application for a well-known logistic customer
- Provided training and mentoring for junior developers by maintaining an existing internal application
Director of Application Development
Revecore
08.2019 - 10.2020
- Managed merging technologies of several acquisitions into a common platform and product strategy
- Directing four teams: Product Management, Application Development, QA, and Data Science
- The teams consist of approximately 40 experts across the globe
- Hands-on architecting, designing, and development
- Moved 'Pricing' feature to AWS serverless architecture from legacy system using AWS Lamda, API gateway, CloudFront, Cognito, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, and SQS
- Consolidated data from all various sources and mapped them to a Common Record Format structure
- Key member for creating a front-end framework PowerForm using Angular 7
- Have implemented backend data-tier using MongoDB and ElasticSearch
- Have built an API tier using Loopback
- Established technology roadmap to support business and clients with over 20 projects
- All projects have been delivered before schedule
- Using true agile (not scrum) with Kantan
- Technologies used: AWS Lamda, API gateway, CloudFront, Cognito, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, GraphQL, Angular7, Loopback, MongoDB, Azure, C#, .NET Core, Java, Javascript, TypeScript, React, Bootstrap, Python, Go, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Monstash, Kibana, PowerShell, SQL server
Consultant
IT CADRE
06.2009 - 07.2019
- Led development to add additional functionality such as Timecard and Scheduling for easygrouper.com using an online directory done in Ruby on Rails
- Led the mobile development team to deliver the Timecard native mobile application on IOS and Android platforms
- Developed Cybersecurity architecture analysis for the Department of Homeland Security
- Created portal site for USPS office in less than a year, including online E-commerce store, holdmail, redelivery, PFS, and PSE
- Provided web services interface for locating post offices through the development of PO locator
- Led development for architecture and development of delivering HoldMail, Redelivery components of the second phase of the www.usps.com project
- Managed State Taxation Accounting and Revenue System (STARS) for Ohio Department of Taxation (ODT) - A new tax system project that processes most of ODT's tax forms
- Technologies used: Swift, Android, Ruby on Rails, Java, J2EE, Javascript, Spring (MVC and Data), Struts
Founder
EDI STRATEGIES, LLC
09.2008 - 06.2009
- Started an IT consulting firm in China, working on several enterprise levels projects under Neusoft, the most prominent IT consulting firm in China
- Built a team of 30+ developers to deliver many enterprise projects for Neusoft Customers: UPG, Shanghai Postal, and Astellas
- Led technology for high-level architecture design and Served as PM for Agile project management, milestone demo, customer coordination, and requirement gathering
- Collaborated on UML artifacts, including State Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Class Diagrams for OOA/OOD
- Negotiated contracts and worked on pre-sale activities and project proposals
- Technologies: Java, J2EE, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript
Development Manager
CAREFX
02.2006 - 09.2008
- Developed portal viewer dashboard, which allowed physicians to access data from various systems
- Led project for Portal Enabler Integration which allowed various portal servers to achieve SSO and support CCOW functions
- Managed an offshore team of 20 developers that delivered projects in Agile style
- Involved in pre and post-sales activities, including project proposal, demo, product prototyping, product support, and presentation
- Responsible for code review and final deployment of the project
Principle Software Engineer/Architect
QUADRAMED
11.2004 - 02.2006
- Created a new presentation framework to achieve better MVC control for the front end
- Led technology for high-level architecture design, which generated UML artifacts, including state diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Class Diagrams for OOA/OOD
- Used various design patterns, including Factory, Inverse Of Control
- Cooperated with the offshore development team in China on Web applications and development projects
Education
MASTER OF SCIENCE - COMPUTER ENGINEERING
University of Alabama
AL01.1997
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
University of Alabama
AL01.1995
Skills
- Management
- Technical Management
- International Team Management
- Business Needs Translation
- Software Development Project Management
- HIPAA-compliant Infrastructure Architecture
- AWS
- Azure
- Design Patterns
- MongoDB
- ElasticSearch
- Logstash
- Monstash
- Kibana
- Full Stack Development
- Javascript
- Angular 7
- Python
- Ruby
- Nodejs
- Bootstrap
- React
- C
- Loopback
- GraphQL
- J2EE Standards
- EJB 2
- EJB 3
- JSPs
- JSF
- JDBC
- Struts
- Hibernate
- JavaMail
- XDoclet
- VoiceXML
Websites
Certification
- Java Developer Certification, Sun Corporation, 2000
- Java Programmer Certification, Sun Corporation, 2000
Accomplishments
- Built worldwide teams to tackle the toughest healthcare and business problems by developing products that enhance productivity for practitioners, analysts and other clinical and business users.
- Led a development team that delivered EasyGroup Time, a server-based Mobile application (iOS and Android) for Employee timecard management.
- Key member of the team that implemented Oracle enterprise solution for ODT just within one year.
- Led a development team that delivered Post Office Locator function for USPS.com in just months.
- Led an offshore team that built a portal application using CCOW standard for hospitals.
- Led an offshore team that built multiple enterprise web applications.
- Created a XSLT based MVC framework in 2004.
- Obtained SUN architect certification in 2000.
Personal Information
Title: Director of Application Development
Current Position
Assisting CTO for building a cutting-edge enterprise platform, Revecore, Merging various acquired companies’ technologies into a single platform., Leading the Product Management discipline as a liaison between business and Product Development., Leading and mentoring a department of superb software engineers on multiple complex projects., Finding creative solutions to the opportunities our customers place before us.
Timeline
Enterprise Architect
Mercedes Benz Financial Services
05.2021 - Current
Delivery Director
Nexient
11.2020 - 04.2021
Director of Application Development
Revecore
08.2019 - 10.2020
Consultant
IT CADRE
06.2009 - 07.2019
Founder
EDI STRATEGIES, LLC
09.2008 - 06.2009
Development Manager
CAREFX
02.2006 - 09.2008
Principle Software Engineer/Architect
QUADRAMED
11.2004 - 02.2006
MASTER OF SCIENCE - COMPUTER ENGINEERING
University of Alabama
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
University of Alabama
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