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                             Brian Guan Tak Hong

                           Blk 27 Telok Blangah Way
                           #14-1006, Singapore 0409

                             tel: (+65) 271-8369

OBJECTIVE

To seek position as Software Engineer, participating in the development
of exciting products, preferably in a R&D environment.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1987 - 1990 :   Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
                University of London.
                BSc (Eng) 1st Class Honors, Computer Science

SKILL SET

OS/Platform   : Unix, Macintosh, DOS/Windows, MPE
Arch/Assembly : 680x0, 80x86, Z80, 6502, PDP-11
Prog Langs    : K&R C, ANSI C, C++, Pascal, Modular 2, Eiffel,
                Ingres 4GL, Ingres Windows 4GL, ANSI SQL 2, PowerHouse,
                PostScript, Prolog, Hope, Mint, BASIC.
Methodologies : Yourdon DeMarco SASD, Chen's ER, Jackson's JSD/JSP,
                OOA/OOD (Coad & Yourdon, Grady Booch, Rambaugh OMT)
Dev Tool (Mac): MPW C/Pascal/Asm/SADY, MacProlog, 4th Dimension,
                MacsBug, ResEdit
          (PC): Turbo/Borland C/C++, MS C/C++, Quick C, Windows SDK,
                QBASIC, Logitech's Modula-2, Realizer, Pilot Lightship.
        (Unix): cc, CC, make, xdb, prof, gprof, monitor, RCS,
                SoftBench, Ingres ABF/VISION/Windows4GL, ALLBASE SQL.
         (MPE): PowerHouse, TurboImage.

WORK EXPERIENCE

May 91-Now:     Software Application Specialist II
                Information Technology Department,
                Hewlett Packard Singapore.
Job Desc.:      Design, develop, document and maintain in house production,
                and EIS applications on unix, MPE and PC, using languages like
                ANSI C, PowerHouse, DBMS like Turbo Image, AllBase SQL,
                and Ingres, and tools like NewWave Access, PowerPlay.
                Evaluate and recommend new tools, methodologies, process,
                to improve productivity of knowledge workers company wide.
                I have designed and developed systems for operator training
                tracking, machine maintenance monitoring, regional sales EIS,
                production control and tracking, shipping data-warehouse,
                and is part of the unix task force, development tools task
                force, and responsible for drafting the internal audit
                checklist and practices for unix machines as well as the
                actual auditing.  I was also the internal product champion for
                Ingres RDBMS and development tools, and have conducted several
                internal courses about the RDBMS.

Aug 90-Feb 91:  Contract Developer
                Application Division,
                Microsoft Corp. Redmond, WA.
                Recruited and hired by Quidnunc Ltd. London
Job Desc.:      Design, and develop about 50% of the code for a Mac LAN based
                time/meeting scheduling application call MS Schedule + v1.0.
                Implemented as a DeskAccessory (DA) as the design objective
                is to be able to run on a 1 Meg Mac SE with MS Word, Excel,
                MS Mail both active.
                Using MPW C, Pascal, Asm, debugging with SADY, calling Mac
                Toolbox, QuickDraw, Memory Manager and other internal routines,
                and Microsoft Mail v3.0 application programming interface, MAPI.

Jun 90-Jul 90:  Research Assistant
                William Penny Laboratory,
                Imperial College of London.
Job Desc.:      Implement algorithms to enhance natural speech recognition
                accuracy based on statistical results derived from analysis
                of large text corpus. Using MS C, Watcom C, and Concurrent C
                for PC and Transputer Co-Processor cards.

Dec 89-Apr 90:  Contract Programmer
                Global Communication.  London.
Job Desc.:      Design, develop and document tele-messaging application based
                on proprietary language ADL and Dialogic call processing
                products for PC.

Jun 88-Sep 88:  Research Assistant
                William Penny Laboratory,
                Imperial College of London.
Job Desc.:      Develop new compiler for a stack based research language MINT.
                Using MINT to develop a high speed PostScript interpretor.

Aug 88-Sep 88:  Contract Programmer
                Eidolon Ltd. London.
Job Desc.:      Develop several high speed Transputer based PCL Laser Printer
                controller testing tools with MINT.


REFERENCES      Available on request.