• internet application front-end and back-end architecture
  • instructor
  • problem solver

Education

Presentations and Publications

ConferencePresentations

“0 to 60 in 45 Minutes: A Down and Dirty Ajax Design Patterns Fire Drill”
  • OSCON, Portland
  • July 2006
“The Underpants Gnomes Strategy Guide: An eCards Case Study”
  • OSCON, Portland
  • July 2006
“Building Liquid Web Applications with Remote Scripting”
  • OSCON, Portland
  • August 2005
“Patterns by Example in PHP Web Applications”
“The Wireless Home Attendant”
“XML in Web Application Development”

Teaching1995-1997

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Engineering Physics, Teaching Awards

Publications&Research

Ceperley D., N. Goldenfeld, T. Chay, G. Bauer, E. Drager. “Prediction of Macroscopic Properties of Liquid Helium from Computer Simulation.” 1999.

Krieger D., R. Simon, T. Chay, and R.J. Sclabassi. “A WAN surgical monitoring application built on PVM.” PVM Conf. Workshop. Pittsburgh, PA. 3/1996.

Chay, T. R., T. Y. Chay. “Effects of Channel Blockers on Reentrant Arrhythmias: Model Study.” IEEE Proc. Comp. Cardiology. Bethesda, MD. 10/1994. pp. 245-248.

Krieger D., R. Simon, T. Chay, and R.J. Sclabassi. “A WAN Surgical Monitoring Application.” Int. Conf. Biomagnetism. Vienna, Austria. 9/1993.

Employment

Tagged, San Francisco

Software Architect, 2007-current

  • Nothing. I just started.

Plaxo, Mountain View

Web Applications Engineer, 2004-2006
Scientist, 2006-2007

  • Created Plaxo eCards website as a revenue product. This sent over one million eCards and generated a quarter of million dollars in sales in the first month of operation. This is an Ajax site written in PHP that seamlessly integrates into a heterogeneous non-PHP back end.
  • Implemented Plaxo web client, including architecture of web-based Calendar, Tasks and Notes (Ajax, Remote Scripting).
  • Implementing next corporate website including g11n support and content management.
  • Designed and implemented survey and reporting engine.

MyCasa Network, Palo Alto

Senior Software Engineer, 2002-2004

  • Developed Server3 Platform core technology and web-based services (SOAP, WSDL, XMLRPC) for remote home control and personal security monitoring.
  • Designed presentation layers (HTML control panel, WAP, VoiceXML, PocketPC, Palm).
  • Security code review; Created billing system.
  • Gave business presentations and wrote engineering white papers for partners and potential investors.

QIXO, San Jose

Director of Engineering, 2000-2001

  • Developed core technologies for the first internet travel comparison search engine (XML, REST, C++, PHP) recognized in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Time, ABC News, Fodor's, and USA Today.
  • Implemented wireless presentation (AvantGo, PQA, WAP, VoiceXML, XSL-T).
  • Wrote a live real-time web front end to the search results using Remote Scripting (PHP, Ajax, Javascript).
  • Monitoring, load balancing, and web statistics for virtual network WAN (Apache, PHP, shell, C, Summary).
  • System (FreeBSD, Linux) and Database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) administration.
  • Supervised six programmers.

ZipAsia, San Jose

Engineering Manager, 1999-2000

  • Responsible for U.S. portal of Asian content provider.
  • Built multi-lingual, mutli-ui extensible website (ASP, IIS, XML, XSL-T).
  • Database administration (MS SQL Server).
  • Managed ten person team of programmers, writers, and designers.

References upon request