Personal Details
- Name: Ian Cheung
- Full Name: Wai Hung Ian Cheung
- Sex: Male
- Age: 35
Contact Details
- Email: ianc@starconcepts.co.uk
- Telephone: 090-3612-2035
- Web site: http://www.theninelives.com
- [Address available on request]
Education
- Queen’s University of Belfast, UK BSc. in Computer Science
- Graduated with Honours in 1997
- First in Year with Group Projects of Multimedia-I (HTML) and Multimedia-II (Combined JavaScript & HTML)
Employment
- messaliberty Oct 2008 – Present
Director of Special Projects
- Freelance Web Developer and Consultant, October 2004 – Present
- Designing, maintaining and analysing sites and consulting work
- Designed and created a tri-lingual web site (Japanese, Chinese and English) for a Japanese Patent Law Firm based in Osaka
- Created a Web 2.0 tool for Japanese web developers (oboeyasui.com)
- Maintained the site of a 5-star International hotel based in Osaka
- Performed consulting work for a Sino-Japanese marketing firm (IMSX-Asia)
- Consultant to a home improvement company based in Malaysia
- Daikan, Aug 2007 – Aug 2008
- Higashi-Osaka City, September 2006 – July 2007
Language and Culture Ambassador
- Export-Japan, April 2004 – September 2004
Director of Usability
- Usability redesigns and site evaluations
- Provided usability studies for the company’s major client sites
- Redesigned the Export-Japan’s official English site using CSS techniques
- Redesigned the newsletter and subscription services. Oversaw a 20% increase in weekly subscribers and a 30% increase in the newsletter section traffic as chief editor
- Created basic usability guidelines for new sites
- Database development
- Created the Postgresql database system for the largest Sino-Japanese procurement site
- Language related editing
- Provided the final stage translation of web site content
- Implemented documentation practices for major projects
- Oversaw the transfer of the company’s servers from managed servers to in-house servers
- Nova Group, October 2002 – October 2003
Full Time English Teacher
- Taught Conversational English to Kids & Adults
- Star Concepts, 1997 – 2001
Self Employed, Project Co-ordinator & Chief Web Designer
- Responsible for client relations
- Created web sites for local councils, television stations and SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises)
- Created successful e-commerce & database driven web sites
- Search Engine Optimisation Research and Application
- Applied User-Centric and Goals Based Web Design Techniques
- Performed Usability Studies on existing web sites
- Provided Internet consultancy and training to SMEs
- Western Connect, 1994-1995
Assistant Programmer & Web Designer
- Created the first GlobalISDN web site for the GlobalISDN’96 conference
- Design of the company web site
- TOTALS database design (ISDN Routing & Price comparison application)
- Part of the Telecom Eireann’s Data-mining Project team. Responsible for amalgamation of diverse data sources
- General Network Management & Co-ordination (Microsoft Windows)
Computer Related Skills
- Experienced at implementing Information Architecture based web design and conducting Usability Studies
- HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript including DOM Scripting and AJAX, Perl/CGI Scripting
- Search Engine placement studies
- E-commerce site design, Database integrated site design
- Linux/Unix System Administration
- Windows, Mac OSX and Linux proficient
Languages
- Native English speaker
- Fluent in Cantonese and Hakka
- Basic-Intermediate understanding of Japanese
Other Skills & Qualifications
- Full Japanese Driving License
- Sales Promotion and Client Relations skills
- Photography and Photo editing skills
Interests
- Travelling, Photography, Juggling, Geo-caching
- Chess, Lateral Puzzle Solving, Learning Japanese
