Ang Shi Ya

Email: shiya.asy@gmail.com

Experience

National University of Singapore (Aug 2016 - Present)

Teaching Assistant

• Tutored students in Data Structures and Algorithms module through conducting lessons and providing guidance for their assignments and tests
• Prepared instructional materials and assessed student performance

Nanyang Polytechnic (Mar - Jul 2015)

Temporary Development Technologist

• Liaised with clients to gather project requirements and demonstrated application prototypes
• Developed a digital feedback system prototype on the iOS platform and a Content Management System to mange the system using RESTful web services
• Guided Final Year Project students by providing advice on Software Engineering practices and facilitated the hand over of project from one batch of students to another

SAS (Jun - Aug 2014)

Presales Consultant and IT Support Intern

• Manipulated and prepared big data for analysis
• Implemented Proof-Of-Concepts for a public transport service provider with SAS solutions
• Maintained SAS infrastructure and supported daily functions in the office

Education

National University of Singapore (2015 - Present)

• Bachelor of Computing (Honours) in Computer Science
• Awarded NUS Undergraduate Scholarship

Nanyang Polytechnic (2012 - 2015)

• Diploma in Financial Informatics with Merit (Gold Medalist)
• SAS Scholar
• Awarded OCBC Bank Gold Medal, OCBC Bank award for Outstanding Performance and SCS award for Outstanding Project
• Director’s List (all semesters)
• Final Grade Point Average (GPA): 4.00/4.00

OSS-Contributions

PowerPointLabs

PowerPointLabs is a PowerPoint plugin to help users create engaging PowerPoint presentations with ease.

Wrote a major feature, TimerLab, as well as bug fixes and documentation over the duration of 12 weeks. The project received an Honourable Mention award at the biannual term project showcase, STePS.

• Contributions to code base.
• Contributions to website

freeCodeCamp

freeCodeCamp is an online platform that teaches people how to code for free.

• Contributions to code base
• Observations

process

The OSS-Generic Reference Process repo documents the common practices among several OSS project on github.

• Contribution to documentation

Expert Area

C#

• Established a C# coding standard
• Contributed to PowerPointLabs

UI/UX

• UI/UX lead for PowerPointLabs
• Gave a talk on UX is not UI
• Wrote a Book Chapter on UI and UX
• Gave a talk on CRAP design principles
• Read a book on design principles, The non-designer’s design book

Analytics

• SAS Certified Visual Business Analyst: Exploration and Design Using SAS Visual Analytics
• Gave a talk on Web Analytics

Skills

Programming

• Proficient in Java and C#
• Also able to do HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Objective-C

Language

• Fluent in spoken and written English and Mandarin