Andrew Daniel Och (安德鲁)

Flat 2004 Building 138,
Dong Yuan Yi Cun,
Pudong Nan Lu,
Shanghai 200120
P.R. China
 
Telephone: +86 158 2163 7540
Email: andrew.och@hp.com
Website: www.och.cc

Project Manager and Java Developer

Proven multi-disciplined manager, software developer and system administrator. Having designed, implemented and developed new systems within cost constraints and best available technology. Diplomatic management style, whilst empowering, developing and encouraging a self-development culture. Highly motivated team player with excellent communication and customer facing skills and an aptitude for learning and applying new technologies.

Areas of Expertise

Software Development

Java J2EE solutions on JBoss with Enterprise JavaBeans (stateless and stateful session beans).

Hibernate object/relational persistence and query service for J2EE EJB-3.

Apache MyFaces (similar to Spring and Struts) XML web application framework.

Automated deployment and testing with Ant, Xdoclet, and JUnit with and without Eclipse IDE integration.

Clearcase, VSS and CVS concurrency management tools, within both agile and CMMI rigid processes to enable tracking.

Systems Admin & Networking

Linux and Unix systems administration, including Kernel recompilation and optimisation. Security, monitoring and Intrusion detection. Perl and Bash.

SQL and database administration with experience on Oracle and MySQL.

Disaster prevention and recovery, as well as TCP/IP and sockets experience.

Wireless IN for GSM development of real time software, in CDMA, WCDMA and TDS-CDMA 3G for all Service Access Variants i.e. MOC, TC, SMS & MMS, GPRS and USSD.

Management and Process

Experience in leading an international team of developers to deliver project on time and in budget. Interact with customers while tracking the schedule and integrating change requests.

CMMI process orientation, with experience of developing projects to level 4 assessed standard.

Understanding the job requirements from overseas management to design, implement, test and support projects.

Able to write and analyse business requirements, provide the technical solution, evaluate structure and system while working on multiple projects concurrently.


Education & Professional Development

MSc

SoftwareEngineering, University of Westminster

BA

History, University of London, SOAS

SCJP

Sun Certified Java Programmer

LPIC

Linux Professional Institute Certification

CELTA 5

English Language Teaching Qualification


Professional Experience & Achievements

Software Architect November 2007 to Present
Hewlett Packard, Shanghai
  • Working on OVII and iHP product/project, to develop a quality and testing framework.
  • Providing Software Architectural consultation and development of software roadmap.
  • Working on cross platform native package installers in a CMMI level 5 certified process.
  • Prioritising enhancement and error resolution for multi-architecture native package installers for the entire HP Openview range of products, such as Network Node Manager and Service Desk.
Systems Engineer June 2005 to October 2007
Siemens, Nanjing
  • Based in Siemens R&D center in Nanjing, I worked with Siemens R&D centers all around the world to create charging software used on SCP, utilizing CAMEL and MAP (Wireless IN for GSM) to control MSC/SSP behaviour in a multi-vender and multi-protocol environment on the following projects:

  • China Netcom (CNC) national wide IN trial-PPS
    Mobilink (Pakistan) Prepaid @vantage PPS7.5a
    Newtel (UAE) Charge@Once
    Sonatel (Senegal) PPS Charge@Once
    China Telecom (CTC) PPS Charge@vantage

  • All the above projects included high-level analysis, detailed design, implementation, testing and documentation creation within a Siemens CMMI Level 4 certified process.
Foreign Expert and Teacher August 2003 to June 2005
Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing
  • As an adult ESL instructor for Economics students my responsibilities teaching, examining and included preparation of instructional materials
  • Increased ability and experience in helping others acquire skills and knowledge.
  • Building excellent communication skills and confidence in dealing with large audiences.
  • Lesson, unit and long range planning are regular tasks.
  • As a teacher at NUFE I have had an opportunity to increase my language skills while living in a place of unparalleled economic growth and development.
  • Created an English version of the University's Chinese website.
Technical Director November 1998 to August 2003
The Positive Internet Company Ltd, London
  • All aspects of running a highly successful Internet Service Provider.
  • Managing a team of system administrators for both dedicated and shared web servers.
  • Building, Running and all aspects of Systems administration for our Linux web servers.
  • Development of online Perl accounting system to handle the company's 2,000,000 GBP annual turnover automating all aspects of billing, outgoings and VAT reconciliation.
  • Customer facing project management, technical support and liaisons role.
  • Compliance officer and credit control.
Press Officer August 1997 to September 1998
CXT Media Monitoring, London
  • Writing press reports and press releases on behalf of our clients.
  • Understanding reactive public relations and media crisis management.
  • High degree of understanding current affairs both in Politics and Economics.

Other Skills & Interests

Referees

Mr Richard Stoiser
Division Manager
Siemens SIS
5F Dong Heng Building
1700 Shuang Long Avenue
Nanjing 211100
Tel: +86 25 5212 9888

Mr Zhao Jing
Project Manager
HP GDCC
Building C, 1st Floor
2555 Jin Ke Road
Shanghai 201203
Tel: +86 21 3889 8181

Ms Ping Brennan
Senior Lecturer
University of Westminster
115 New Cavendish Street
London W1W 6UW
Tel: +44 20 7911 5000