Wu Yinghui, Freddie
- 282 Toh Guan Road, #09-229, Singapore 600282
- +65 9369 8612
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www.flying-w.net
Objective
Eager to contribute my outstanding technical skills, as well as expertise in software architecture and software engineering, to the development of innovative computer systems.
Professional Profile
- Solid background in computer science, with expertise in software development life cycle and applicable knowledge in software design patterns;
- A valued software architect, with exposure to changing environments ranging from life-saving medical software innovations to mission-critical real-time data warehouse systems;
- A leader through changing circumstances, with experience in leading and managing changes in both technical architecture and team structures.
- A dependable trouble-shooter with flexible problem-solving skills, with valuable contributions to the success of project teams as well as the company.
Technical Experience
- Programming languages of various paradigms
- q 2.x/3.0, Java SE 1.3–7 (Spring), Perl 5.x, C++/98 (STL, Boost), C/89, shell script, Groovy, Scheme;
- Client-side web programming
- HTML 4.01/5.0, XHTML 1.0/1.1, CSS level 2.1/3 (cross-platform), JavaScript/jQuery (cross-platform);
- Server-side web programming
- Perl CGI, JSP/Java Servlet, PHP 4/5, TCP/IP socket programming, Apache 1/2 (LAMP setup), Apache Tomcat 4/5/6;
- Databases
- kdb+ 2.5–3.0, Oracle 8i/10g (PL/SQL, query optimization);
- Operating systems
- RHEL 4/5/6, Ubuntu 6.10–12.04, Solaris 8/10, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7;
- Development toolkits
- Eclipse BIRT 2.6/3.7, Maven 2, Apache Ant, Hudson/Jenkins, GNU make.
Language Skills
- Native speaker of both Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese;
- Fluent in English;
- Beginner in Japanese, able to read simple instructions in Japanese.
Work Experience
- 2007 6 –present
- Merrill Lynch Global Services, Singapore
- Vice President
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- Regional Architect of the in-house equity trade data warehouse system, responsible for designing and implementing a brand new real-time data warehouse for all equity trading activities in the region, with sub-second data latency and intra-day ad hoc query capability.
- Details available upon request:
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- Assistant Vice President
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- Architect Lead of the in-house global electronic trading data warehouse system:
- Oversee the design and development of business-as-usual activities on the whole data warehouse system;
- Lead the architectural design and implementation of strategic bridging component between the next generation data warehouse and existing business intelligence reporting systems;
- Well regarded as the go-to person for technical advice among the Singapore development teams, as well as the global development and the business analyst teams.
- Release Manager, responsible for coordinating and gate-keeping production release and maintenance activities.
- Member of the technical interview panel for Electronic Trading Data team, involved in recruitment and interview activities for both permanent staff and campus internship programmes.
- Architect Lead of the in-house global electronic trading data warehouse system:
- Senior Specialist
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- Local lead of the Architect team of the in-house global equity trade data warehouse system, responsible for designing and developing enhancements and new features for the foundation layer of the system.
- Member of the GBT-SG QA Working Group, a cross-departmental task force aimed at reviewing existing QA practices and proposing a common QA service standard for not only regional but also global development teams.
Honours
- Recognition Card—‘Embrace the power of our people,’ February 2011, as part of the CNY Associate Celebration Leadership Team, Global Service Center Singapore, Merrill Lynch Global Services.
- Silver Award, Bank of America Global Recognition, July 2010, for the successful delivery of a comprehensive system (UnityRT) that will support the Bank with regulatory initiatives.
- Bronze Award, Bank of America Global Recognition, May 2010, for continually providing support for Unity application and ensuring the systems continue to run and operate providing regulatory cover to the business.
- Featured in People Spotlight, GBT Singapore Monthly Report, November 2008.
- You Rock! Award, April 2008, for outstanding performance in project deliveries.
- Champions, Merrill Lynch Global Services 3-on-3 Basketball League, 2007.
- 2003 7 – 2007 6
- Volume Interactions, Singapore
- Senior Software Engineer
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- Medical Software Architect of the Advanced Technology department, in charge of the architectural design and oversaw the development of the next generation interactive software toolkit for stereoscopic 3D medical visualization (C++, STLport, Boost, Qt 4, OpenGL, Cg, third-party 3D spatial tracking device drivers).
- Sponsor and team lead of Delta Force, a cross-department task force aimed at promoting good software engineering practices and streamlining SDLC controls under ISO 13485:2003 and US FDA requirements.
- Engineering Representative, responsible for coordinating the Product Review Committee in handling and resolution of regulatory enquiries, customer feedback and bug reports.
- Quality Engineer, representing both Advanced Technology and Product Development departments in the Internal Quality Audit Team for ISO 13485:2003 (Medical devices — Quality management systems — Requirements for regulatory purposes) certification activities.
- System Administrator for software development environment (Visual Studio 6/.NET 2003), SCM system and release build specification (CVS, MS nmake, GNU make), bug tracking system (ASP 3.0), as well as project information intranet portal (MediaWiki on IIS 5).
- Successfully filed two international patents for innovations on visualization techniques for medical imagery and published multiple research papers on the same.
- Software Engineer
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- Led the architectural design of an innovative virtual colonoscopy application prototype in a research and development team (C++, STLport, Qt 3, OpenGL, CT/MR imaging).
- Invented/co-invented novel solutions for advanced stereoscopic 3D visualization and interaction in medical diagnosis and surgical planning.
- Speadheaded efforts to construct customized wrappers to work around bugs known or discovered in Microsoft Visual C++ 6 compiler.
- Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the foundational layer libraries and part of the advanced 3D visualization library of an interactive medical visualization software toolkit (C++, STLport, OpenGL, third-party 3D spatial tracking device drivers).
- Quality Engineer, coordinated with Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs department for ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003 application and certification.
- Technical Trainer, organized and conducted technical trainings as part of the induction programme for newly employed engineers and medical representatives.
- Field Support Engineer, provided on-site technical support to Marketing department and global resale partners during trade shows and luminary site visits.
Honours
- Commendable Employee Award, 2005.
- Silver medal, Volume Interactions Table Soccer Tournament, 2005.
- Star Performer Award, 2004.
- Appreciation Award for efforts in achieving ISO 13485:2003 certification, 2004.
- 2002 12 – 2003 5
- Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
- Postgraduate Intern
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- Responsible for enhancing Cellang, a cellular automata programming language, by adding object-oriented programming features into the compiler; contributed to a key research publication.
- Practical experience on technical communications with researchers who had little or no computer science background.
- 2001 12 – 2003 1
- Cyberarts/Cyberculture Research Initiative, Singapore
- Part-time Webmaster
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- Responsible for developing and managing the CCRI homepage.
- Technical Consultant, assisted in the design, development and deployment of the artist database for the CCRI site (MySQL 4, JSP).
- Collaborated with a resident artist in the cyberarts project Virtual Bodies in Reality, in charge of the development and deployment of the web-based GUI and the user actions statistics engine (Java Applet/RMI); contributed to the final publication of the virtual artwork.
- 1999 11 – 2000 12
- ShiokCircle.com, Singapore
- Project Manager
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- Member of the Management Team, participated in the business plan development process.
- Webmaster, in charge of the development and deployment of a custom-built web-base social network portal (Apache, TruUnix 64, MySQl, Perl CGI).
Team Achievements
- Finalist of the Start-Up@Singapore national entrepreneurship competition, Singapore, 1999/2000.
- First Prize of the Best Business Idea Competition, National University of Singapore, 1999.
- 1999 9 – 1999 10
- Science Computer-Based Learning Centre, National University of Singapore
- Part-time Teaching Assistant
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- Assisted in conducting the teaching experience and laboratory exercises for the JavaScript and Web Page Design course.
- 1999 – 2003
- Huasing.org, Singapore
- Webmaster & Chief Developer
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- Member of the Huasing Team, brought up the first version as a web-based bulletin board system single-handedly (Apache, Perl CGI), and participated in the rewrite and expansion of the system into a web-based social networking portal (Apache, PHP).
- Member of the Senior Advisory Board, guided the junior members of the team in the design and development of subsequent enhancements to the system.
Education & Training
- 2011 3
- Odd-e, Singapore
- Certified ScrumMaster
- 2006 7
- PSB Academy, Singapore
- Internal QMS Auditor Training (IRCA-registered course A17182, based on IRCA/2180)
- 2003
- Singapore-MIT Alliance, Singapore
- Master of Science in Computer Science
Achievements
- Top student in S.M. - Computer Science, 2002/2003, with a full-score GPA (5.00 out of 5).
- Institute of Infocomm Research Award, 2003, book prize for the best student in “Computer Engineering.”
- Accenture Award, 2003, book prize for the best student in “Analysis and Design of Algorithms.”
- Sung Kah Kay Memorial Prize, 2003, book prize for the best student in “Artificial Intelligence.”
- 2002
- National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Bachelor of Computing (First Class Honours) in Computer Science
Achievements
- Graduated with a CAP of 4.83 out of 5.
- Lijen Industrial Development Medal, 2002, for the second top student in B.Comp. (Hons.) - Computer Science.
- Vice-Chancellor’s List, 2002, for successful completion of the Talent Development Programme and the Global Programme.
- School of Computing Dean’s Lists, 1998–2002, for meritorious performance in eight straight semesters.
- Bronze medal, badminton mixed double, Chinese Students’ Committee Sports Festival, 2002.
Publications
Patents
- Y. Wu. System and methods to optimize volumetric rendering of a region of interest (“Tension Vector”). PCT patent WO/2006/095017, 2006.
- L. Serra and Y. Wu. System and methods for screening a luminal organ (“Lumen Viewer”). PCT patent WO/2005/073921, 2005.
Selected Research Papers
- Y. Wu, E. Lee, et al. The Lumen Viewer. International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy. Boston, MA, Oct 2005.
- H. Zhu, Y. Wu, et al. Celluar automata with object-oriented features for parallel molecular network modeling. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, 4(2), 141–148. June 2005.
- E.-C. Chang, M. S. Kankanhalli, et al. Robust image authentication using content based compression. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 9(2), 121–130, August 2003.
- Y. Wu, E.-C. Chang, et al. Feature extraction of volume data based on multi-scale representation. International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and South East Asia. Melbourne, Australia, Feb 2003.
- Y. Wu, X. Guan, et al. Robust invisible watermarking of volume data using the 3D DCT. Computer Graphics International. Hong Kong, China, July 2001.
- X. Guan, Y. Wu, et al. Invisible watermarking of volume data using wavelet transform. International Conference on Multimedia Modeling. Nagano, Japan, November 2000.
Other Publications
- M. Tan, G.H. Yeo, K.H. Wong, M. Wang, and Y. Wu. Virtual Bodies in Reality. The First International Women’s Art Festival in Taiwan, From My Fingers: Living in the technological age. Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May–July 2003.
Other Achievements & Certifications
- Full scholarship for university education in Singapore, 1997–2002. Ministry of Education, Singapore.
- Award for Meritorious Performance in University Entrance Examination, 1997. Guangzhou No.2 Middle School, China.
- National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) Certified Contestant Level 2 (Senior Middle School), 1996. China.
- Award to Students with Distinguished Improvements, 1995–1996. Rotary Club of New Territories, Hong Kong and Guangzhou Education Commission, China.
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