Profile
Hi! My name is Kenneth. My origin is Hong Kong and lived for 16 years. I've come to New York City to study since 2001 as a high school student. Although I still love to live in Hong Kong, I am familiar with New York City now. Fun!
Career
In my life time, I've worked on couples different levels of careers and jobs. My first job in New York is handing out flyers for a furniture company. After a while they've hired me as a furniture assembler and deliverer. Thanks to this job, the hot summer, rainy days and icy winter are not the reason for me to stop my activities anymore. As I've grown up and started my college degree, I've joined the federal work-study program and start my first office job as data entry intern. Throughout the college years, I've also worked as surveyor for New York MTA and chinatown private bus services. This reminded me I don't have a great schedule on eating lunch during works... same as I were working in a restaurant for couple days.
Sum up all these years I've hard worked, it is time for me to step up on the career ladder. Through my public relationship, I am a web developer in Lifexpress Incorporation in the Empire State Building. We are the direct consultant of SONY/ATV Music Publishing handling the royalty system, which includes licensing and financial statements processing under SONY catalog. Estimating 10 million USD spent on the project, we've completed the system to live within 2 years and continue to support afterward. The tough tasks pushed my technical skills to next individual enhancement, and led me to considered the boundary issues and team cooperation throughout the project. Communication is a priority of our team work, and my career duty.
Daily, when I am looking at Empire State Building from other spots in NYC, it reminds me the works I've done so far. Really proud of being a programmer!
Pica3
Summer 2008, my friends and I started our freelance business, Pica3 Consulting Group. Of course starting a business is much tougher than just being a programmer. Communication, management and technical knowledge are the keys to success. As we went through all the meetings of creating our first demo project Airway Airline, we've learned the workflow of plannings and the importance of Object Oriented Programming. Besides, I realized the business knowledge and attitude in the industry is as important as any programming skills. Freelance jobs benefits me in both technical and psychological perspectives. It is my life.
Business vs Designer vs Developer
I understand that there are gaps and conflicts between these types of people. As a business guy, I go with the principle "client is always right", although I don't like the final design at all as a designer. SImilarily as a developer, I always blame on those designer why make things so complicated but not functional. As programmer, I don't care about how the design looks like but just whether it is functional. Traits are keep changing back and forth in my mind to meet a balance between them. Things will be come the best as verify the compliance of these areas. However, ya, I am a programmer!