Résumé

Qixing Zheng

Vancouver, BC
Phone: 778.386.9338
Email: me at qixingzheng dot com
Web: http://www.qixingzheng.com

Profile

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, specializing in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Experienced in interaction design and usability testing (3 years) as well as software development (5 years)
  • Demonstrated proficient communication and organization skills and the ability to excel in teams
  • Strong sense of responsibility, commitment, and self-motivation

Work Experience

User Experience Specialist
Magnetar Games Corporation, Vancouver		 February 2006 – December 2006
  • Principle UI Designer for FedGrid project ($2.6 million collaboration project with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. and 3 Canadian universities)
  • Software developed under FedGrid project includes: the Emergency Management Training Simulator (EMTS), the Quest game authoring environment, and several FedGrid related websites
  • Responsible for defining functional requirements, developing low to high fidelity design prototypes, and documenting user interface specifications
  • Met all project milestones and successfully demoed EMTS to the RCMP team in charge of security at the 2010 Olympic Games
Technologies used: Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, MS Visio, MS Expression suite (Beta), Flash 8, Dreamweaver 8, Flex Builder, DHTML, XAML, ActionScript, JavaScript

HCI Research Assistant
CS Department, University of British Columbia		 May 2004 – December 2005
  • Research projects included: Windows Adaptive Desktop, Document Visualization Tool, and Collaborative Annotation System (Master's thesis project)
  • Responsible for user research, design, and implementation of innovative user interfaces
  • Planned, executed, and analyzed the results of formal and informal user studies
  • Thesis project published in SIGCHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (prestigious international conference on HCI with only a 15% acceptance rate)
Technologies used: MS Visio, Java/Java 2D, Camtasia Studio, IMovie, SPSS

Teaching Assistant
CS Department, University of British Columbia		 January 2005 – April 2005
  • Assisted and instructed undergraduate students enrolled in a 4th year HCI course
  • Managed 4 team projects (each with 5 members) concurrently, providing planning, deadlines, design suggestions and evaluating their project deliverables

Education and Honours

   
Master of Science
Computer Science		 University of British Columbia (UBC)
Vancouver, BC, Canada 		December 2005
 
  • International Student Scholarship, Aug. 2003 – Dec. 2005
Bachelor of Science
Computer Science, Math		 University of Georgia (UGA)
Athens, GA, USA 		May 2003
 
  • Presidential Scholar (top 5% in class), Aug. 2001 – May. 2003
  • Cumulative GPA: 3.91/4.0
Associate of Science
Computer Science		 Gainesville College
Gainesville, GA, USA 		May 2001
 
  • Outstanding Computer Science and Math Student Award, 2001
  • National Dean's List (2 students nominated each year campus wide), 2001

Skills

Design to Implementation
  • Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, Visio, MS Graphics Designer
  • Flash 8, Dreamweaver 8, Flex Builder, MS Interactive Designer, MS Web Designer
  • DHTML, XAML, ActionScript, JavaScript
  • Java, C/C++
Statistical Analysis
  • SPSS, MS Excel

Activities

  • Presenter, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006
  • Speaker, Vancouver User Experience Group, March 2006
  • Reviewer, CHI 07, UIST 04
  • Organizer, UBC CS Grad Orientation 2004
  • Activity leader, GirlSmart Workshop, sponsored by IBM, Jun. 2004