ANG LEE
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, MAGICIAN
http://anglee.org
ang.lee[at]gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae

(One-page Resume)

Ang Lee

Technical Summary

Work Experiences

    Jan 06 ~ present    ERDAS Inc. (was Leica Geosystems), Norcross, GA
      Software Engineer, ERDAS IMAGINE Core Development team
      Participated in 3 full product life cycles of ERDAS IMAGINEŽ, industry-leading software and the flagship product of the company, which provides an array of advanced tools to visualize, create, manage and analyze imagery(e.g. satellite images) to increase the value of geospatial info for military, scientific and commercial usages. Worked closely with product management, quality assurance and customer support.

      - Designed, developed and maintained DirectX based rendering libraries for Real-Time raster/vector data using C++ with multithreading and design patterns, which not only resulted in dramatic performance gain but also cut the cost of code maintenance significantly.
      - Maintained an OpenGL based 3D viewer in visualizing terrains and layers of raster, annotation, and vector data, which was intefrated with the 2D viewer as a key feature of IMAGINE 2010
      - Sped up vector rendering 10+ times with various techniques including improved data structure and existing rendering pipeline refactoring. Vector performance improvement was one of the biggest selling points of IMAGINE 9.3
      - Strong troubleshooting skills. Team's 'Ace' in tackling difficult bugs across the system
      - A self-motivated team player. Initiated innovative projects including a new viewing platform and various others that add new functionalities and/or improve user experience. Many were or will be promoted to key features of commercialized products.

    Aug 05 ~ Dec 05   College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
      Teaching Assistant / CS4451 Computer Graphics
      With solid grounding in math and computer graphics principles plus proven outstanding communication and mentoring skills, offered teaching/reviewing/Q&A sessions. Also graded and provided guidance of student projects: 'racing Game' and 'Integrated 3D crowd simulator'

      - Named 'Graphics God' by the academic coordinator.
      - Solid grounding in 2D and 3D graphics principles.
      - Proven outstanding communication and guidance skills.

    Oct 02 ~ May 04   14th Tactical Fighter Squadron, R.O.C. Air Force, Chiayi, Taiwan
      2nd Lieutenant, Political Warfare Officer

    Sep 01 ~ Jun 02   National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
      Research / Teaching Assistant

    Sep 00 ~ Jun 02   Computer & Information Network Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
      Part-time Student Programmer

    Jun 00 ~ Sep 00   Far East Telecom Co., Ltd. (AT&T Taiwan), Taipei, Taiwan
      Intern Engineer

Education

    Aug 04 ~ Dec 06   Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
      M.S., Computer Science, (GPA 3.86)

      Computer Graphics, Advanced Computer Graphics, Digital Video Special Effect(DVFX), Computer Vision, Cognitive Science, High-Performance Computer Architecture

    Oct 98 ~ Jun 02   National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
      B.S., Electrical Engineering, (last 2 yr major GPA 3.94)

    Sep 95 ~ Jun 98   Taipei Municipal Chien-Kuo Senior High School, Taipei, Taiwan

Membership

    ACM/SIGGRAPH (since 2002)

    IBM(International Brotherhood of Magicians)

Extra Curricular Activities

    Student Representative (represented College of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
      Student Congress, National Taiwan University., Sep 2000 ~ Jun 2001

    Captain
      Delegate team of Taekwondo, National Taiwan Univ., Sep 2000 ~ Jun 2001

    Delegate of Taiwan Delegation
      Future Leader Summit, Washington DC, USA., Jun 1999

Certificates

    Taekwondo Black belt 3rd don (international certificated)

    Certificated water-saving lifeguard
Ang Lee 4371 Winters Chapel Rd., Apt#3226 Atlanta, GA 30360, USA
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