Ying Liu 2632 Ellendale Pl., Apt 112 Los Angeles, CA 9007 Tel: 323-733-6292(home) 213-740-6578 (office) Email: yingliu@usc.edu Dear Sir/Madam, My name is Ying Liu. I am a Master student in Computer Science department at university of Southern California (USC) and expect to graduate in December 1998. I have great interest in applying the software development position in your company. As you'll see in my following resume, I have substantial working experience before my current education, including three-year experience as a (senior) technical consultant in Professional Service Organization in Hewlett Packard China, and two-year experience as a project manager in people's Bank of China. Currently, as part of my researching assistantship job, I am the lab administrator of the distributed system and networking lab in Computer Science Dept. USC. I would much appreciate the opportunity to meet with you to discuss your needs, objectives, and my abilities to fulfill them. Please contact me at the above phone number or email address. Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future. Sincerely yours, Ying Liu Enclosure Resume == QUALIFICATION * One year experience as the lab manager in distributed system and networking lab in Computer Science Dept. USC. * Three years working experience as a (Senior) Technical Consultant in Hewlett Packard and 2 years working experience as Project Manager in People's Bank of China. * Solid knowledge / hands-on experience in UNIX (HP-UX, SCO UNIX, SunOS, FreeBSD, Solaris), C programming, high available cluster system (HP MC/Service Guard, EMC storage systems), Computer Networking (TCP/IP, OSI, SNA, Netware, LAN Manager), Network and System management (HP OpenView) * Solid knowledge on Operating systems, DBMS (Oracle and Informix), computer network and system architecture * Strong analyzing, designing and trouble shooting skills * Strong communication ability and professional working discipline == EDUCATION 12/98 Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Southern California * GPA 3.9 * Researching assistantship 04/92 Master of Science in EE, Southern China University of Technology, China * GPA 3.8 * Researching assistantship 07/89 Bachelor of Engineering in EE, Xi'An JiaoTong University, China == EMPLOYMENT Lab Manager in Computer Science Department of University of Southern California (01/98 -- 12/98) * System and networking administration (SunOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, TCP/IP, DNS, NIS, NFS). * Development of network management tools based on Tcl/Tk. * Directed Research in multicast routing protocol for ad hoc network. Senior Technical Consultant in Professional Service Organization, Hewlett Packard China (09/94 - 08/97) * IT architecture, Network and system Management * Project management * High Available computer cluster (HP MC/Service Guard) * System Performance Tuning and Trouble shooting Project Manager in IT Dept. People's Bank of China (04/92 - 03/94) * System analysis and design * Database (Informix, Oracle) application and network communication software development == TECHNICAL EXPERIENCEHP Unix and HP9000 (HP-UX) -- 5 years * System installation, system management, performance tuning, trouble shooting. * Design, implementation of high availability solution: HP MC/Service Guard, EMC remote data mirroring. * Customer application/ DBMS application porting support. * Shell programming, C programming. * Network and System Management (HP OpenView) -- 2 years Networking -- 5 years * Networking design. * Hands-on experiences in TCP/IP, OSI, SNA, Netware and LAN manager, including setup, customization and trouble shooting. * Hands-on experience of setup, customization and trouble shooting on LAN and WAN network products including router, hub, bridge, Ethernet network and X.25. Database and programming Language -- 3 years * Hands-on database experience on Informix, Oracle (4GL, SQL, SQL FORMS). * Programming skills on: C, SQL, 4GL, SQL Forms, UNIX shell, C++, Tcl/Tk and Visual Basic. == ACCOMPLISHMENTS As one of the only five senior technical consultants in HP China, I was a recipient of special stock options which are "given to only a very small number of our management and other professional employees for making significant contributions to the company" -- remark of HP CEO Lewis E. Platt. Following is some of the projects I have involved in the past five years. 1) Project: On-line Billing system of GuangDong Telecom (11/95 - 11/96) Position: System Architecture Technical Consultant Key Technology: * IT architecture designed for huge volume (more than 1.5 Terabyte) data and large online transaction (more than 1 billion calls per month) processing. * Disaster recovering using remote disk mirroring. * High available system involving Networking, Oracle RDBMS and three HP enterprise Server. * Network and system management. Achievement: Huge-volume data processing infrastructure. 2) Project: ShenZhen EDI System (08/95 -- 05/96) Position: IT Architecture Technical Consultant Key Technology: * Data communication using OSI protocol. * High available system implementation involving OSI networking, LAN and EDI applications. * Computer system and networking performance tuning. * System integration. Achievement: A state-of-art EDI system architecture. 3) Project: National Security Trading System (10/92 -- 12/93) Position: Project Manager/Programmer Key technology: * Project Management, Software development. * Client/Server OLTP computing between AS/400 and HP9000. * Informix RDBMS Achievement: It is the first banking C/S OLTP application running over WAN in P.R.China. 4) Others As a senior technical Consultant in HP and with team working, I have involved in providing total solutions and technical consultation to dozens of banking and telecom customers.