Ronald
Liao

IT professional with passion for software engineering; driven by real world challenges.

About me

I’m an IT professional with 30+ years of experience. I started my IT career with developing a TCP/IP socket-based process for a defense contractor. I enjoy software developments that aim to solve business and process problems. I like challenging, fast-paced, and inspiring environments. I also enjoy working with users to gather requirements, translate into functional specifications, the develop to end-products. I am people and results oriented.

My Skills

Entrepreneurships

Initiated, designed, and led development and rollout of Feast4u.com and MuffinBasket.com.

Full-life-cycle Projects

• Rewrote the credit card gateway for USPS.

• Developer for Medicare Part D & MSA.

• Rewrote SFAS for a major international fashion company.

• Developed a core "router" for an NYC security firm.

• Developed socket-based IPC for a defense contractor.

Methodologies

• Early advocate of OOA and OOD

• Exercised Extreme Programming

• Developed a company-wide BRD/FSD/DD process

• Experience in SDLC/DevOps

• Experience in Agile

Skillsets

• Unix/C, socket IPC, shell scripts, C++

• Java, J2EE, jms, MDB, SB

• MQ, TopLink, JPA, webservices (SOAP)

• Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server

• OOA/OOD, Design Patterns, MVC

Work Experience

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & ENHANCEMENT

Wells Fargo / June 2010 - February 2023

Enhanced security model using Java, Oracle. Designed & developed FATCA module using jms, webservices, API, MQ, XML, JBoss. Enhanced Workflow for international correspondent banking. Using LDAP for inactivity reporting. Used Python openpyxl, Pandas to generate sql statements. Gather requirements, analysis, to do sizing for Asian Region regulatory reporting; prototyped using microservices architecture (REST API.)

MEDICARE PART D & MSA DEVELOPER (Consultant)

United Health / October 2009 - June 2010

Conducted requirements analysis, authored functional specifications and design document for MSA product. Maintain and enhanced Medicare Part D module. Performed production support.

TEAM LEAD

UBS / Aug 2006- September 2007

Designed, executed, and implemented an end-to-end big data analytics dashboard Led the UBS client-facing account management module. Led the rewrote of email alert system using MDB.

Certificates

LEARNING CHAMPION

Wells Fargo / 2022

RISK MANAGEMENT

UBS / 2006

Education

MASTER OF SCIENCE in Industrial Engineering & Management

Oklahoma State University / 1985

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE in Industrial Engineering

Tunghai University (Taichung Taiwan)

"Multi-talent", "Smart", "Magic", "exceptional talent and leadership"

Managers from Timecruiser, Prudential, & Chanel