I am a Software Engineer with a growth mindset and an entrepreneurial bent. I have a passion for developing innovative, highly usable, and effective software solutions to help businesses solve painful problems and improve their performance, efficiency, and profitability. I'm well-versed in the modern JavaScript web stack, having built applications using a range of cutting-edge technologies. I'm a ReactJS contributor: https://facebook.github.io/react/acknowledgements.html
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Workflow: Git, Agile
• Testing: Selenium
• Languages: JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS
• Frontend build: HAML, Jade, SASS
• Frameworks/Libraries: AngularJS, ReactJS/Flux, Node.js/Express, jQuery, Backbone.js
• Database: MongoDB, MySQL
• Tools: Grunt, Gulp.js, webpack
As a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), I have over 4,500 hours of experience managing and coordinating projects, so I'm skilled at working across business functions to define and develop solutions and features on time and under budget.
Personal Website: www.houchia.com
Github: www.github.com/kchia
Email: kchia87@gmail.com
Software Engineer @ TATCHA is a rapidly growing luxury beauty company with a focus on e-commerce excellence combined with a global retail presence at select stores. In 2015, TATCHA was ranked #21 on Inc's list of 5000 fastest growing companies in America (http://www.inc.com/profile/tatcha).
• Develop TATCHA’s e-commerce infrastructure, including customizing the Magento Enterprise platform, and developing and maintaining website features to drive business performance, efficiency, and profitability; programmed an autoresponder using a third party API, which increased customer product reviews by at least five-fold each month
• Drive improvements to the AngularJS-based checkout page, including adding mobile-responsive functionality
• Convert mockups into dynamic, mobile-responsive, and aesthetically-pleasing web pages using HTML/CSS, Twitter Bootstrap, AngularJS, jQuery, SASS, Jade, and HAML
• Perform regular debugging to enhance a complex legacy codebase, which relies on a LAMP-based operational stack, using Magento as the eCommerce/cart platform and ExpressionEngine as the content CMS
• Review colleagues’ code to ensure code quality prior to deployment to production, and tests new features for cross-browser compatibility using BrowserStack
• Collaborate with a designer and product managers to ideate and create usable and revenue-generating features From May 2015 to Present (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaMember @ Hive is a global network of leaders and entrepreneurs who are working to create a better world. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Data & Policy Analyst Level III @ Acumen, LLC provides government agencies with high-quality, impartial research and analytical tools to inform decision-making. The activities that we perform reflect the general principle that healthcare providers, policy makers, and public citizens should have the best available evidence upon which to base their choices.
• Performed QA of federal websites and datasets
• Oversaw prioritization of programmers’ daily tasks to ensure timely completion of deliverables
• Conducted health policy research to improve the Medicare program; drafted research analysis plans, performed literature reviews, managed stakeholder engagement, and communicated research findings to policymakers and the general public
• Provided project management support; drafted Project Charter and Project Management Plans, generated status reports, and coordinated, monitored, and controlled project tasks across team members
• Guided federal clients through standardized processes for developing and maintaining quality measures used in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quality measurement and reporting programs, including processes for responding to public comments, convening a Technical Expert Panel (TEP), and acquiring and maintaining National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsement status for quality measures
• Collaborated with senior staff and subject matter experts to develop proposals and grants, and provided training to junior members of the proposals team From August 2011 to August 2014 (3 years 1 month) Summer Institute Intern @ Co-drafted a research paper that analyzed data collected from a series of hour-long interviews with minority patients and synthesized findings from a literature review (30+ research articles) to increase the hospital’s understanding of the economic and sociocultural barriers facing minority patients who were considering a kidney transplant. From May 2010 to July 2010 (3 months) Global Health Leadership Intern @ Created a series of online courses for Unite For Sight’s Global Health University to develop and nurture current and future global health leaders, including courses in health communication strategies, principles of social entrepreneurship, best practices in public health programming, and the challenges of healthcare delivery in a developing world context.
http://www.uniteforsight.org/global-health-university/social-entrepreneurship-certificate From June 2009 to August 2009 (3 months)
Bachelor of Arts, Religion, Certificate in Global Health & Health Policy, Honors @ Princeton University From 2007 to 2011 Web Programming/Computer Science @ Hack Reactor From 2014 to 2015 Fifth-Year Modern Chinese(Most Advanced Level Offered), Princeton-in-Beijing Summer Study Abroad @ Beijing Normal University From 2008 to 2008 Hou Chia is skilled in: Programming, JavaScript, Reactjs, AngularJS, Node.js/Express,, Git, Software Testing, Socket.io, Backbone.js, Twilio API, Travis CI, Gulp.js, Passport.js, MySQL, MongoDB
Websites:
http://www.github.com/kchia,
http://kchia87@gmail.com