Kevin Ren

2 Beragh Place, Dannemora, Auckland, New Zealand, 2016

Tel: +64 21362688 renkevin@gmail.com

PROFILE
• Over four years of extensive experience in designing and Java development.
• Over one year of experience in project management.
• Worked under pressure to meet compressed calendar deadlines.
• Used a variety of languages, development tools, frameworks, and relational database
management systems.

EXPERIENCE
Lead Developer, Kiwiplan Ltd, NZ 2009-Present
• Managed product Supply Chain Simulator (SCS), including: Prioritize the tasks, As-
sign responsibilities, Manage project schedule, Approve technical specifications,
Buddy check developers’ code, Coordinate with other development teams and QA.
• Involved in supporting and maintaining Corrugator Scheduling (CSC) and Production
Control System (PCS).
• Involved in coordinating Kiwiplan Java products with reporting service written in VB
.NET by Kiwiplan .NET team.
Technologies:
• MVC design pattern, Test-driven development,
• Linux, Eclipse, Tomcat, MySQL, XML, UML, DataVision, Stimulsoft report designer, MS
Project, WSDL,
• Java, SQL, Hibernate, JDBC, JINI, JMS, JUnit, NSIS, Shell scripting, Google Apps.

Analyst Programmer, Kiwiplan Ltd, NZ 2006-2009

• Worked under the excellent work flow: functional specification - technical specifica-
tion - coding - QA preview - code buddy check - QA
• Involved in constructing the Java infrastructure System used among all Java products.
• Involved in implementing Transport Scheduling System (TSS) in Java.
• Involved in rewriting (designing and developing) existing Corrugator Scheduling
(CSC) and Production Control System (PCS) from Fortran to Java.
• Involved in designing and implementing COMMS in Java, which sets up communi-
cation between Kiwiplan Java products and exterior products.
• Involved in supporting and maintaining Supply Chain Simulator (SCS) written in Java.
• Provided helping to the new employees.
• Mentored a scholarship student with her project on Windows Application Pre-loader.
Technologies:
• MVC design pattern, Test-driven development,
• Linux, Eclipse, Tomcat, MySQL, XML, UML, DataVision,
• Java, SQL, Hibernate, JDBC, JINI, JMS, JUnit, NSIS, Shell scripting.
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Project Student, Nexus6 Ltd, NZ 2005

Designed and developed a desktop application using C# which communicates with
the smart inhaler (asthma inhaler with embedded digital chip). The application pro-
vides the ability to:
• configure the smart inhaler, e.g. set the reminder.
• view the inhaler’s usage on graphical chart.
• export the inhaler’s usage into Microsoft Excel file with statistical data.
Technologies: .Net Framework 2.0, C#, VB6, ASP .NET, MS Access, NUnit, XML.

Tutor, University of Auckland 2005

• Gave tutorials to classes of around thirty students on Unix and Assembly language.
• Held office hours to help the students with their enquires.
Technologies: Assembly language, Unix scripting.

Scholarship Student, Orion Systems International, Mt Eden, NZ 2004 Summer

Together with another scholarship student, designed and developed a tool using Java
for generating large sets of HL7 (Health Level Seven) messages according to controlla-
ble demographic distributions for selected fields of HL7 segments.
Technologies: Java, MS Access, JUnit, HL7 interface technology.

EDUCATION
The University of Auckland 2006
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology (First Class Honors)

RESEARCH
Co-author of the journal publication entitled “Quantifying fluorescent tracer distribu-
tion in allophanic soils to image solute transport”, published in the
European journal of soil sciences which is the 2nd highest ranked journal in soil
sciences. Feb, 2008

RELEVANT COURSES AND CERTIFICATE

NZIM Managing Small Projects 822 with A grade 2008
Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 2 platform 1.5 2007
ICT Academy Scholarship 2004

REFERENCE
References available upon request.