A Bit of History About Myself

I was born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam. When the United States dropped the immgration restriction, my mother YLan and I were some of the first people to stand outside the embassy to apply for my student visa. In 1995, I waved goodbye to my mother and relocated to Southern California to live with my aunt, Huong and her husband, Huyen. Both of them are highly educated and they helped me academically and financially throughtout the years I was living with them.

During my adolescence, my hobbies included reading, playing bastketball, and spending time in public library (where I spent my time learning how to write C++ applications on pieces of notebook paper). Although I never had a chance to compile these sheets of code, I knew then and there what my future profession was to be. I graduated from Venice High School in 1998 and received a scholarship to attend California State University of Long Beach, where I majored in Computer Science. My first job was at the university's Computer Lab, where I was responsible for the maintainence of the university's website, the assistance of computer users, and occasionally retrieiving floopy disks from CD slots for fellow absent-minded students.

More Recently

After my graduation, I was employed by Nutechmart Inc., an Internet company specializing in e-commerce and search engine optimization for small- to medium-size businesses.

In 2004, I joined Luminous Studios as a full time web developer. Presented with the opportunity to work with some of the brightest people in the industry, I learned to effectively apply my web programming skills to their fullest potential, providing technological solutions to businesses of all sizes. Within 6 months of employment, I was promoted to Lead Developer and completed the code for a full-scale enterprise CMS (Content Management System) software, implemented and self-managed by many websites. In 2005, I was placed in charge of managing the company's Automation Division where I assisted in the development and implementation of large-scale Intranet and CRM (Customer Relations Management) suites, serving some of the leading companies in various industries such as Real Estate, Insurance/Mortgage, Warehouse/Resale, Engineering, Nightlife/Entertainment, and more.
 
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