About Me: I was born at the end of the year 1981, in Jiading, a suburb of Shanghai. I was brought up in a small village as both my grandparents and my parents were farmers at that time. I really enjoyed my childhood in the wild with my fellows. I spent most of my time living and studying there. In the 1990's, we moved to a small town and lived there for a long time. Because of a massive government project, we had to move. Fortunately we were given a piece of land to rebuild our house near where it was. We moved to the new house in 2003, it's my HQ in Shanghai. Hopefully the government won't crack it down and force us to move again;-) I finished my Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science) in Shanghai University. I was happily married to TAOTAO (nickname) on May 6th, 2007 in our hometown, Jiading. Our lovely twin daughters were born on October 23, 2008 which was a great plus to us, a instant family. OMG!
I
started my IT career back in 1994 when I was in junior high school. I
started with Microsoft DOS 6.22. I fell in love with GNU/Linux in 2001, my first distribution is Mandrake Linux 8.1, a French desktop distribution. In fact I still have that 3 CD box-set in my study room. I bought it from a local software distributor for 38 CNY as far as I remember. Now it has been renamed to Mandriva and seems to be fading out the mainstream Linux distributions with the rise of Ubuntu.  Later on I switched to Red Hat Linux 7.3 as there were more technical resources available on the Internet . I can still remember KDE was pretty
unstable and the Chinese Language Support was bad at that time.
That probably push me to work hard on English, maybe:)
However, this turned out to be a right decision and it did help me a
lot in a long run, not only as a key strength and surviving ability,
but also not to be stuck at Microsoft Windows platform only. Open source is really the future. I joined BEA Systems China Ltd in
2006. After working hard for almost 2 years, fortunately I caught a chance
to internally transfer to Australia, doing the same job (APAC role) but
probably get much better pay and life style. And Australia is also famous for its beautiful beaches, unique Kangaroos and Koalas all sort of nature resources, as well as its freedom, generosity and democracy. It's always good for me to learn
and to do something different. Now that BEA Systems has been taken over
by Oracle Corporation - World's largest Enterprise Software company and 2nd largest Software company, obviously
I work for the new overlord in Sydney. My key field is Linux, Virtualization and Middleware, specialized in troubleshooting and performance tuning. In fact I am a passionate guy for new IT tech/stuff,
I don't know if I will be able to have the ability to sell products in the future. If I do, I think that will be a turning point and
I will enjoy a different role, actually enjoy showing others how to
make use of latest IT tech to be more productive and efficient, that's
the reason why we are here. For example, I have successfully influenced two colleagues to switch to GNU/Linux this year. I think I am looking for new opportunities focusing on improving customer experience, advocate for Open Source and GNU/Linux, FOSS related roles which is probably my biggest interest at the moment. Also I am learning business as a new key competency, for example Web Analytics and knowledge management using Wiki. For more info, check skill set page: Skill Set Matrix I really enjoy the life style, multi-culture, beautiful environment and people here in Australia. People are free to talk, everyone can stand up and disagree. I like the freedom here. In fact it's totally different style of living. I guess it's pretty much the same as my principle: KISS (Keep It Simple and Stupid). Except the bloody sunlight and the ozone hole above the head, so always remember to protect yourself in 5 ways: hat, clothes, shade, sungalss, sun scream. I am grateful to BEA (Alfred Chuang?) as well as my managers for giving me this great opportunity. But of course, it's not only just luck but also invisible hardworking. Life is like a box of chocolate, you never
know what you're going to get. We live in a changing world, work and
live with changes. Well, remember: When God closes one door he opens
another. Believe yourself, you can make it. Impossible is nothing. |