It’s your life, live your way

Yan Ru Che

Freelance Designer and Software Engineer
Actives in Singapore and Malaysia
Attended Monash University
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Education

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Bachelor of Computer Science, Monash University

July 2012 – December 2013

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Diploma in Information Technology, Republic Polytechnic

April 2009 – April 2012

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UEC, High School Certificate, Foon Yew High School

January 2003 – November 2008

Projects

EASYS | Web Application PERSONAL PROJECT

January 2012 – CURRENT

Easys (Formally known as Education Centre Administration System) is an all-in-one Web Application System for education industry. The system is capable of marking student's attendances, payment records, and even produce informative reports based on the daily input data. It features notification centre and reminders to help reduce arrears and daily burdens.

The project is currently based on Simplified Chinese, and English version is under development. The entire project is developed by me and an education partner who provide information from an education industry perspective.

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DESK WEATHER | Mac application personal peoject

October 2013 – CURRENT

Desk weather is my first Mac Application development project. It aims to display simple yet beautiful weather information on the Mac desktop. It acts like the Windows widgets appear in Windows Vista and Windows 7, but user is allow to merged it into the desktop to make it looks elegant on the desktop, at the same time get weather updates by simply showing the desktop. 

Desk weather is purely a hobby application which aims to help people getting the weather information quickly, easily, at the same time, elegantly. I’ve planned to open source it in the near future when it is done and stable.

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tweets trend analytic | web application Monash Uni CS Project

July 2013 – October 2013

A computer science project aim to perform analysis with Twitter's data on specific topics. The application search through all public tweets based on the topic user has selected, and then analyse the data and produce informative result in charts and tables.

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Bottomsup | Android application Freelance project

June 2013 – August 2013

Bottomsup is a freelance Android development project, designed and developed by me for a Malaysian startup company named AdvisoryApps. The main reason for me to join their expedition is purely passion. It is an application use to explore drinking places by consuming RESTful data from the company server. 

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Working Experiences

Freelance Designer & Software Engineer, singapore & Malaysia

January 2012 – CURRENT

Task to design and develop software, applications and systems to my clients, giving advice on implementing IT solutions and ensure the transition goes well. Currently, clients are mostly from education and F&B industry.

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Student developer intern, SIM University

Febuary 2011 – April 2011

Intern in SIM University as Student Developer Intern. Recommended by Microsoft Singapore through Microsoft Student Partner program.

Key achievements during the term of internship:
- Develop Windows Phone 7 apps for E-Learning.
- Develop browser-based version of the phone apps.

3 Windows Phone 7 apps and 3 browser-based apps were developed during the term of internship.

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Flash designer & developer, Centior multimedia

Dec 2008 – March 2009

Part Time developer and designer, my task is to develop a series of e-learning software for Malaysia using Adobe Flash. 

Key tasks and achievements:
- Develop E-Learning Flash Program
- Design UI and perform UX testing
- Program code for Flash Program, Action Script
- Compile the entire program into auto-run disc

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Awards

2012
Diploma with Merit
2011
Spirent Communications (Asia) Ltd Scholarship
Academic Merit Award
2010
Electronic Arts Asia Pacific Scholarship
Academic Merit Award
2008
Cover Design Award, Champion
Computer Quiz, First runner up
2007
Web Design Award, Champion
Computer Quiz, First runner up

Skills

Communication & presentation

Language
Chinese Native proficiency
English Professional working proficiency
Malay Limited working proficiency
Presentation
Have been doing countless presentation privately and publicly in various occasions, including competition presentation, project presentation, and marketing presentation for big event.
Comfortable in public speaking and presentation. Emceed in a public event hosted by Services Learning Club, Republic Polytechnic. 

creativity

Highly developed creativity skill. When I was 13, I started to explore the world of design. I have a great interest in digital design and user experience design. I have self-taught myself photoshop and webdesign skills when I was 13. Over the years, I took up several design tasks in my High School and college, all of these experiences bronght my design skill up to another level.
Won various awards in design field, including Cover Design and Website Design. 
Browse my works and portfolio to understand more.

technical

Advance

Webdesign

Year of experience: 7 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Java

Year of experience: 6 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

PHP & MySQL

Year of experience: 6 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

HTML & CSS

Year of experience: 6 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Web Application Development

Year of experience: 5 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Intermediate

Python

Year of experience: 5 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Android

Year of experience: 4 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

CodeIgniter

Year of experience: 4 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Javascript & JQuery

Year of experience: 4 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Project Management

Year of experience: 3 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Software Engineering

Year of experience: 2 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

C#

Year of experience: 2 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Novice

Windows Phone Development

Year of experience: 2 years   |   Last Used: 2 years ago

ASP.NET

Year of experience: 2 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Google App Engine

Year of experience: 1 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Mac App Development

Year of experience: 1 years   |   Last Used: less than 1 year ago

Activities

2012
Microsoft Student Partners Campus Lead
President of Mobile Devices Interest Group
2011
Microsoft Student Partners Campus Lead
Vice President of Mobile Devices Interest Group
Sub-Committee of Service Learning Club
Participated in InnovateIT 2011 Competition
Participated in Splash Award Competition
2010
Microsoft Student Partners
Participated in CodeXtream App Competition
2009
Microsoft Student Partners
Participated in MOBi-ODAI Competition, Toshiba