Jim Yao

SUMMARY

Strong management and hands-on technical experiences in multiple global enterprises; specialized in areas of hardware / software engineering, off-shore R&D team development, product development, business management and customer services supports.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES:

• PMP (Project Management Professional), Project Management Institute
• CMMI (Intermediate), Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon
• CMMI (Introduction), Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon
• Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Sun Microsystem

EXPERIENCES

12/2019-Present: 

Innovatag Solutions, Vlaardingen, Netherlands

Founder, Business Development

Responsibilities:

• Leading business development of consumer electronic products in Europe / AP markets, establish B2B/B2C e-Commerce and off-line distribution channels
• Establishment of functionalities in international import/output, fulfillment, distribution and supply chain channels 

Shinever Technologies, Inc., Shanghai, China

Founder, CEO

Responsibilities:

• Development and manufacturing of branded smart devices, modules and products
• Research & development of smart devices, including MCU based module design, PCB, BOM and SMT processes for the functional boards; development of firmware and Android-based applications for the products
• Establishment of Manufacturing, Supply-chain and Fulfillment functionalities and Intelligent Properties management

Senior Director, Engineering, Asia Pacific

Responsibilities:

• General management of Shanghai Development Center, Diebold, one of the major Diebold-Nixdorf engineering centers worldwide, in new products innovation and existing product portfolio supporting
• Developed Diebold new generation of ATM terminals and Cash Recyclers 
• Supported worldwide customers, especially AP clients for Opteva and Odyssey products with new features, upgrades, issue fixing and performance improvements, etc.
• Developed core modules including cash dispenser, Card Reader, Serial Number Recognition, EPP, and CCR, etc.

Director, Software Development, Asia Pacific

• Managed Shanghai Software Development Center for platform software and core application development
• Achieved significant business profits with new development in SNR (Serial Number Recognition), RTS (Remote Teller System), etc.

Delivery Director & Center Head 

• General management of overall delivery and operations of the delivery center as a full-functional business unit of Dell Services Delivery organization
• Setup delivery capabilities in software design, development, QA, system administration, database management and quality management process by scaling up the center to over 100 employees in 
• Delivered internal and external projects for multiple clients and achieved business / financial targets successfully starting from the 2nd year of the center setup

Delivery Manager / Advisory IT Architect / Web Center of Competence Manager

• Managed a IBM Enterprise Services group to develop and upgrade IBM major Transaction Services System which processes around 50% of IBM world-wide ordering requests in hardware, software and services, and through which, IBM generates over $40B revenue annually (2005)
• Managed “Web Center of Competence” team to coordinate effectively all technical resources in Web Technology area (including over 500 IT Specialists and Architects) to promote GDC capabilities to a higher technology level, especially in SOA technologies, Web Services and Java technologies

Principal Consultant / Project Manager

• Project management for projects in market analysis, business negotiation, proposal creation, business requirements and analysis, etc.
• Led architecture design for Web-based Credit Risk Management application combining the technologies of EJBs with WebSphere server, MS ASPs with IIS server, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Server, and Business Object Framework

Principal Consultant / Software Architect / Lead Developer

• Led development efforts and architecture design of new functionalities in SonyStyle.com application
• Led development of Credit Management System with WebLogic App Server, iPlanet Proxy Server, Oracle Database and Crystal Report Engine

AVP / IT Architect / Project Lead

• Be responsible for corporate development and supporting projects in middleware-based platforms for internal business groups, specialized in database connection, transaction control, component integration, distributed technology, performance, load balancing, fail-over and so on
• Led major corporate architecture efforts in tool standardization, supporting, best practice and implementation and other Web Application Servers
• Led Y2K projects including security inspection, risk warning functionalities, etc.

Advanced System Engineer / Project Lead

• Led GUI and backend development team to support AT&T Customer Care system
• Developed server objects by applying C++ based Distributed Object Oriented Software (OSP) as middleware

Software Development Consultant

• Implementation of C/C++ based software solutions and related DSP device driver libraries and achieved significant performance improvements for core speech recognition functions in AT&T Call Process System

Research Assistant / Electrical Engineer

• Designed and implemented new electronic devices for clinic treatment of dyslexia symptoms and the related research results were awarded and published in major magazines of the area
• Developed new software programs to manage the treatment center’s operation and process data statistics and analysis

• M.S., Computer Science, 1993, City University of New York
• M.E., Electrical Engineering, 1990, City University of New York
• B.S., Electronics Engineering, 1982, Shanghai Jiao Tong University