Alan's Career Page

Jian Alan Huang

Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering), University of Melbourne, Carlton Campus, Victoria, Australia. (Apr. 2005 ~ Oct. 2008)
Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (First Class Honours), University of Melbourne, Carlton Campus, Victoria, Australia. (Mar. 2001 ~ Dec. 2004)
Victoria Certificate of Education (VCE) (ENTER 99.85), Taylors College, Melbourne, Australia. (Oct. 1999 ~ Dec. 2000)
Shanghai Foreign Language School (SFLS), Shanghai, China. (Sep. 1993 ~ Jun. 1999)

Professional:
- Sep. 2009: Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, SE 6.
Post-Graduate:
- 2005 ~ 2008: Melbourne Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne.
- 2005 ~ 2008: NICTA Top-Up Scholarship, National ICT Australia Victoria Research Lab.
Under-Graduate:
- Dec. 2004: Summer Research Scholarship, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne.
- 2002 ~ 2004: Dean's Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne.
- 2001 ~ 2004: International Undergraduate Scholarship, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne.
- Apr. 2001: Premier's VCE Award, First Student International Category, Government House, Victoria.

Analyst Programmer, Transaction Technologies Limited, Hong Kong (Nov. 2009 ~ present)
Software Engineer, Iventra Inc., San Francisco, USA (Mar. 2009 ~ Sep. 2009)
Software Engineer, Coaching Agent Project, Catalyst Interactive Ltd. (Jan. 2005 ~ Jun. 2005)
Project Manager, Intelligent Lifestyle Project, University of Melbourne (Feb. 2004 ~ Dec. 2004)
Quality Assurance Manager, Cervical Image Database and Patient History System (CIDPHS) Project, Dr. Judith Fleming, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (Feb. 2003 ~ Dec. 2003)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne (Jul. 2003 ~ Jun. 2008)
Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne (Dec. 2004 ~ Apr. 2005)
Private Tutor, VCE Year 11 and Year 12 Mathematics Methods, Specialist Mathematics and Physics (Aug. 2001 ~ Dec. 2004)

Fire Warden, Information and Communication Technology Building, University of Melbourne (Jan. 2006 ~ Dec. 2008)
Tour Guide, Official Opening of the Terabit Networking Lab, NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, University of Melbourne (Oct. 2006)
Exhibitor, Electrical Engineering Endeavour Day 2004, University of Melbourne (Oct. 2004)
Exhibitor, Software Engineering Industry Night 2004, University of Melbourne (Oct. 2004)
Interviewee, TV documentary "Chinese Immigrants in Australia" (July ~ Sep. 2004)
Organizer, Australian Undergraduate Student Computing Conference (AUSCC), Melbourne (Sep. 24th ~ 26th 2003)
Interviewee and one of the main characters in the TV documentary "Chinese Teenage Students Aboard" (Mar. ~ July 2001)
Brickette and Evaluator, Discovery Day, University of Melbourne Open Day (Aug. 2003, 2004)
Student Host, Orientation Week of University of Melbourne (Feb. 2002, 2003 & 2004)

Fundamental Subjects
- Mathematics A (Advanced)
- Applied Mathematics (Advanced)
- Physics A & B (Advanced)
- Engineering Analysis A & B
- Computing Fundamentals A & B
- Digital Electronics & Microprocessors
- Electrical Circuits
- Digital Systems 2: System Design
- Professional Issues in Computing
- Accounting Concepts
Computer Science Subjects
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Software Design
- Logic and Computation
- Operating Systems
- Networks and Communications
- Interactive System Design
- Theory of Computation
- Database Systems
- Artificial Intelligence
- Programming Language Implementation
- Modelling, Analysis & Visualization
Software Engineering Subjects
- Software Engineering Principles & Tools
- Software Engineering Process & Practice
- Software Engineering Methods
- Software Project Management

Programming Language
- Assembly (basic)
- Lex + Bison + Yacc (basic)
- C / C++ / C# (advanced)
- Java + 2D + 3D (advanced)
- PHP + CakePhp (advanced)
- JavaScript + jQuery (intermediate)
- HTML, CSS, XML, JSON (advanced)
- Visual Basic (intermediate)
- Haskell (intermediate)
- Prolog (advanced)
- Mercury (basic)
- Matlab (basic)
- Python (intermediate)
- IDL (intermediate)
- Batch / Shell scripting (advanced)
Database System
- MySQL (advanced)
- MS-SQL (intermediate)
- MS-Access (intermediate)
- Oracle (basic)
- ODBC, JDBC (intermediate)
Operating System
- MS-DOS (advanced)
- MS-Windows (advanced)
- UNIX / Linux (advanced)
- Mac-OS (intermediate)
Miscellaneous Software
- LaTeX (advanced)
- MS-Office (advanced)
- OpenOffice (intermediate)
- Photoshop (intermediate)
- Dreamweaver, Flash (intermediate)
- Boland JBuilder (advanced)
- Eclipse (advanced)
- Visio, Rational Rose (advanced)
- CVS, Git, SVN, SourceSafe (advanced)
- Ant + JUnit (advanced)
- BugZilla (basic)

Sports: I like soccer, badminton, table tennis, snooker and skiing. I used to be the sports leader of my high school class. I was the best striker in my high school soccer team. Our team won the 4th place in a school tournament in Shanghai in 1999.
Music: I enjoy listening to pop as well as classic music. I have played harmonica, violin, trumpet, drum as well as clarinet during primary and high school. I also love singing and have won a number of school competitions. I have always been the accentor for the class choir. My songs can be found here.
Reading: I read extensively, broadly and sometimes aimlessly, usually 50+ hardcopy books a year. My main interest lies in philosophy, nature science, history, politics, sociology and economy.

Mr. Kevin Chiu
- Position: VP of Engineering, Iventra Inc., San Fancisco, USA;
- Relation: Kevin was the person whom I reported to daily, while I was working for Iventra.
Dr. Adrian Pearce
- Position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne;
- Relation: Dr. Pearce was my supervisor for a summer research project as well as my PhD thesis advisor.
Prof. Leon Sterling
- Position: Director of e-Research, Chair of Software Innovation and Engineering, University of Melbourne;
- Relation: Prof. Sterling was one of the internal stakeholders of the Intelligent Lifestyle project, for which I was the project manager.