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YU-AN LAI
Director Of Project Development @ Nidin
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YU-AN LAI

Director Of Project Development @ Nidin
Master's degree with solid professional experience in both computer and electrical engineering.Broad comprehension of miscellaneous well-known programming languages. Eager to contribute technical knowledge and design skills towards getting the best performance for the company.
Nidin
Emory University
Taipei City, Taiwan

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Ready to interview
  • Profession
    Project / Product Management
  • Fields
    Software
  • Work experience
    6-10 years
  • Management
  • Skills
    專案管理
    問題解決能力
    Programming
    Program Management
    Programming Experience
    Management Skills
    React.js
    Node.js
    IOS Development
    JavaScript
    Java
    C++
    HTML5
    CSS
    PHP
    Objective-C
    Swift
    Opencart
    scrum master
    Agile Project Management
    JIRA
    AWS EC2
    AWS S3
    AWS Lambda
    AWS API Gateway
    Solidity
  • Languages
    English
    Professional
  • Highest level of education
    Master

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    產品總監/產品經理/Team leader
  • Desired work locations
    Taipei, Taiwan
    Hsinchu, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
    Hsinchu County, Taiwan
  • Freelance

Work Experience

Director Of Project Development

Nov 2019 - Present
* Nidin is a platform like UberEat and Foodpanda, it has 1.4 million users. * Helped Nidin to integrate POS system and web application and therefore the orders from the web can directly go into the POS system, reducing the wrong orders by staffs entering the orders from web to POS system. * Worked on building the business plan for preA funding. * Succeeded in the 0.4 million US dollars fundraising.
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Engineering Manager

DeepHow
Full-time
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
2 yrs 5 mos
Taipei City, Taiwan

Vice President of Engineering

Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
1 yr 1 mo
* Worked with CTO to find the new business model for the products. * Used React.js and node.js to build up a social platform for people who play badminton to share the badminton courts. * Planned and implemented the badminton social network service to run on AWS. * Trained junior programmers to let them have the ability to work independently. * Led the team to finish the task on time.

Associate Director Of Project Development

Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
4 mos
* Managed the new project for helping the audience growth team to get new members by using the applet and the chatbot in Line and Messenger. * Developed the Customer Data Platform from scratch for the data analysis on AWS. * Planned a lottery widget by using React.js and node.js in advance, it was used in 2020 Chinese New Year for the emergency plan, and gets 30,000 new users in just 6 days.

Vice President of Engineering

Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
10 mos
* Communicated with the CEO to discover the main core of the product and then planned the milestone of the project. * Leveraged the user behaviors circulation to analyze the main core of the product, it led the company to focus on the unique characteristics of the product, increased 33% new users. * Utilized the user experience by using Location Based Service, led more users to love to use the product to find the badminton courts. * Directed to refactor the code of the official website, raised the speed 30% of the website. * Led the front-end team to develop the iOS app and Android app, and delivered in 1 month by using react native. * Led the data team to find out the potential users, increasing 23% users. * Managed new businesses including e-commerce, social community.

Product Director

Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
9 mos
* Established a common vision and strategy, made consensus on the product execution priorities with CEO * Managed design of ERC-20 token, AIFI, and weekly interest-paying system by using React.js and node.js on AWS, that gained 10 thousand users and dealt with more than 2 million dollars in 5 months. * Led the marketing team to identify market trends opportunities, and built the development of long-term strategic product plans. * Won a 4 hundred million dollars contract for an ICO consulting project.

Manager of Software Department

Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
1 yr 10 mos
* Specified, developed, and launched the system of generating the customers' ad spending reports by using Yahoo, Google, and Facebook API for 100 ad account managers, saving 4000 hours for the ad account managers. * Gathered and analyzed the requirements of using the ad report system from three departments, Yahoo ad, Google ad, Facebook ad, and provided strategic planning to the company and suggested a new system features. * Built up the Minimum Viable Product rapidly in three months with one engineer, using tools, React.js, node.js, and AWS. * Developed new ad-matching platform for customers to find their favorite ad sales, recruiting 4 new engineers and 1 marketing partner to grow to an 8,000 registration users ad-matching platform in half year.

iOS engineer

Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
9 mos
* Developed and designed chat function for getting the message quickly and effectively. * Refactored signup and login function with Facebook API. Made register procedure smoothly. * Used iOS framework of Facebook to develop the user interfaces smooth and responsive. * Implemented the tutorial function for first time launching.

Co-Founder & iOS engineer

Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
1 yr 2 mos
* Developed an online platform where interior designers, home cleaners and people working in the utility field can offer services and customers can find services on mobile devices. The application can be downloaded at HouseCare. * Led IT team to construct the application. * Created innovative strategy to provide advertisements to specific groups in the smartphone application. Grew Large Co.’s interior designer membership by 20%.

Project Manager & iOS engineer

Sep 2013 - Sep 2015
2 yrs 1 mo
* Led IT team to develop a Bible game for high school students on iOS and Android devices. * Communicated with a non-technical supervisor, made the project to achieve the supervisor’s goal.

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2011 - Dec 2012
1 yr 5 mos
* Consulted with Executive MBA students to develop iOS and Android apps for the Apology course. The smartphone applications were demoed and praised by investors and managers in the IT industry.

Design Service Department Engineer

Jul 2006 - Mar 2009
2 yrs 9 mos
* Participated the full life cycle development of a chip for H.264 video decoding, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design, in ARM11-based embedded computers with Full HD 1080p video capability. Impact: This ASIC increased the company’s revenues by around 5 millions of New Taiwan Dollars. * Self-studied to leverage Fujitsu 90nm, 65nm standard cell solutions in developing ASIC. Constructed a manual for using Fujitsu 90nm, 65nm standard cell solutions with a team leader. * Mentored junior engineers to grow technical knowledge and provided career advice. Provided efficient ways for junior engineers to leverage Fujitsu solutions. Raised the development rate of ASICs for the company. * Designed and tested the ASIC using electronic design automation (EDA) tools.

Education

Master’s Degree
Computer Science
2010 - 2013
3.5/4 GPA
Bachelor’s Degree
電子系
2000 - 2004
3.7/4 GPA