Eric Liu

2000 Crystal Springs Rd #26-33
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
Email: "Eric Liu is at hotmail dot com"
Home: (650) 583-3182

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Career Objective

To seek a position in which I can apply and develop my software design and engineering skills, so as to contribute to the success of a viable establishment.

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Key Strengths

• I can learn, improvise, and adapt quickly to the changing needs of an environment to get the job done
• Very strong communication, software design and development skills
• Work well as an individual or as part of a team, taking a leadership role if necessary
• Responsible, professional, reliable, and highly organized

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Special Skills

Extensive Development Experience:

• Java, EJBs, Servlets, JSPs, JUnit, RMI, JavaSpaces, Swing
• JavaCC, JJTree
• Scripting (Unix command line tools, awk, sh, HTML, JavaScript)

 

Design Experience:

• Design Patterns and Refactoring
• UML
• OO Software Metrics
• Software Architectures

 

Other Technical Experience:

• C/C++, Assembly (ADSP 21061, ADSP 2181, 68K), JPython
• Working knowledge of digital communication systems
• Domain analysis
• Basic project management
• Ability to give concise and engaging presentations

 

Secondary Languages: Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), basic Japanese

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Work Experience

ThoughtWorks: Software developer (Feb 2001 - Present)

• Development of a J2EE application for a sales opportunity
  • Worked with jBoss, Tomcat, Ant, Oracle, SQL, and JNI
• Designed and developed a Swing-based reporting tool for internal use

 

University of Calgary: Full-Time Graduate Studies (May 1998 - December 2000)

• Involved in software metrics and modeling projects with industry (Nortel WDC, Veritas Seismic, CDL)
• Design (architecture, OO) and development of research projects
  • WebMetrics: A software metric analysis and collection system experimenting with the idea of software service rental over the web; development of a parser for ANSI/ISO C++
  • Holmes: A distributed system (using JavaSpaces and a blackboard architecture) to intelligently support Sherlock, a domain analysis methodology
• Development of course material and helping undergraduate students with software engineering, processor architecture, project management, and C++ programming
• Performed system administration tasks involving NT, CVS, and Netscape Enterprise

 

Sunterra Marketplace (May - August 1997)

• Set-up and maintained a POS system (NT server, six Win95 workstations)
• Troubleshot workstation problems
• Created queries and reports in MS Access
• Developed modem download scripts
• Created labels from POS database using Insignia Stylus application

 

Sunterra Quality Food Markets (July - Aug 1994, May - Aug 1995, May - Aug 1996)

• Developed awk and sh scripts to format sales data for transmission
• Built 20/20 spreadsheets and programmed complex macros
• Troubleshot SCO Unix terminal and modem problems
• Helped with accounts receivable and other office tasks

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Education

MSc in Software Engineering (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

December 2000 - University of Calgary, Canada
Thesis: "Proposal for a Software Metrics-Based Critiquing System"
Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship

BSc in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Computer Engineering

1998 - University of Calgary, Canada
Graduating Year GPA: 3.71 / 4.00 (with Distinction)

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Publications

J. Yip, Succi, G., E. Liu (2001). "How Do Flexible Processes Relate to Software Product Lines", Extreme Programming Examined, Addison-Wesley

 

Succi, G., J. Yip, E. Liu (2000). "Analysis of the Essential Requirements for a Domain Analysis Tool", Software Product Line Workshop of the 22^nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2000), Limerick, Ireland

 

Succi, G., J. Yip, E. Liu (2000). "Holmes: A System to Support Software Product Lines", Research Exhibition Track of the 22^nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2000), Limerick, Ireland

 

Succi, G., R. Wong, E. Liu, M. Smith (2000). "Supporting Dynamic Composition of Components", Research Exhibition Track of the 22^nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2000), Limerick, Ireland

 

Succi, G. and E. Liu (1999). "A Relations-Based Approach for Simplifying Metrics Extraction", Applied Computing Review 7(3), ACM Press

 

Curry, W., G. Succi, M. Smith, E. Liu, R. Wong (1999). "Empirical Analysis of the Correlation between Amount-of-Reuse Metrics in the C Programming Language", ACM Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR), Los Angeles

 

Succi, G., R. Wong, E. Liu, C. Bonamico, T. Vernazza (1999). "An Architecture for Supporting 'Pay-per-use' Downloadable Systems based on Java 2 and JavaSpaces", Workshop on Software Engineering over the Internet of the 21^st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Los Angeles

 

Spasojevic, R., G. Succi, E. Liu (1999). "Virtual Lab for Software Engineering Education", Technical Report SELabsTR99001, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary

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Interests and Activities

Reading, snowboarding, rock-climbing, table-tennis, rollerblading, badminton, cycling, weight training

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References

• Dr. Giancarlo Succi, Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary, (780) 492-7228
• Dr. Mike Smith, Professor at the University of Calgary, (403) 220-6142
• Mr. Glen Price, President of Sunterra Quality Food Markets, (403) 266-2820

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