My name is Vu Tran & I use technology to help people with their learning and life style. I have a strong passion for scalable architect, UX, eCommerce, Agile, Lean, Continuous Deployment/Development and Operational Excellence. SOFTWARE ENGINEER ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ Majority of my daily work is to create new services that enhance people life-style. I have built the service/app for different industries including legal tech, daily deal, travel, health & beauty, wedding registry. My work spans across back-end, front-end, mobile. AUTHOR ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ I am also the author of the book, Effortless Reading: The Simple Way to Read and Guarantee Remarkable Results. Check it out on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1NVHKO7

Software Development Engineer II @ ★ Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Home Innovation, Wedding Registry Nov 2015 - Present ★ Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Travel July 2015 - Nov 2015 ★ Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Health & Beauty Nov 2014 - June 2015 ★ Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Local Oct 2013 - Oct 2014 From October 2013 to Present (2 years 3 months) Greater Seattle AreaBook Author @ I am the author of the book Effortless Reading: The Simple Way to Read and Guarantee Remarkable Results. Effortless Reading demystifies the problems of traditional Reading Psychology and Speed Reading techniques. It then provides a new and effective approach to reading non-fiction books. By applying this simple method, the readers will, one again, gain control of their self-development. 4X reading speed, 2X impact with half the efforts. Get a copy: http://amzn.to/1NVGNFy From November 2015 to Present (2 months) Software Development Engineer @ SDE of AmazonLocal Merchant Team Implement Automate Disbursement and Payment system to cut estimated 3.4MM/year cost of operation. Lead multiple integration projects of Web Analytics and variety of Amazon Platform (Tax, Payment, Access Control) to Business Portal to achieve customer insight and enhance merchant experience. Successfully integrating with Tax Platform alone cuts 3 months worth of Tax's team operation each year. Payment platform enables auto disbursement and horizontal scaling, allowing AmazonLocal to handle a different level of scale in number of merchants. Primarily responsible for building and maintaining high availability (99.99%) web application. Building Availability framework to better monitoring the performance and continuous improving the availability. Optimize performance of existing features, either by redesigning the architecture or max out performance of individual components with analyzing tools. Lead the team toward Operational Excellence goal. On-board tools (code coverage, error analytics, code inspectors) and process to improve the team's code quality and continuous deployment process. From April 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 7 months) Greater Seattle AreaJava/J2EE Software Engineer @ • Develop new product functionalities for all Exterro Fusion’s modules including Legal Hold, Discovery, Genome, Interview, Custodian Portal, Reporting using different frameworks: jPBM4, JMS (ActiveMQ), Quartz, Hibernate, EJB3, Jasper, FRUIT (Exterro’s HTTP Ajax framework) and various Apache’s frameworks. • Adapt Fusion’s application to support different environments, including OS (Window, Linux) browsers (Internet Explorer, FireFox), DBMS (MS SQL & Oracle) and application servers (JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic). • Analyze and develop integration hub/connections with Exterro’s partner software using Rest Web Service (Jersey & JSON). • Analyze, validate new requirement with BA team and design the database/class architecture for the solution with high extensibility. • Collaborate with Exterro’s engineering team in India to achieve the product releases. • Research, apply and enhance the software development kit for engineer team. • Manage, maintain and build script to automate nightly-builds and deployments of different module combinations using Maven2, Ant, CruiseControl, and Jenkins. • Enhance Fusion’s performance by migrating applications from JSF 2.0 framework to servlet components and Http Ajax. From March 2011 to April 2012 (1 year 2 months) Research Assistant @ • Port Guava project (http://guava.codeplex.com/) from C# to Java platform. • Build SQL Provider for Channel to connect to different DBMS such as MS SQL, MySQL, PostGre, Oracle, and Access. • Document Guava and Channel related application architecture (http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~tvu/index.html) • Enhance Guava and Channel applications' functions and UI with Swing (Channel) and WPF (Guava). • Assist PhD students of Dr. Lois Delcambre with programming to extract data, analyze phases and optimize database schema with existing data to support her students’ researches. • Adapt Nutch (http://nutch.apache.org/) to crawl data from cancer.org and simplyrecipes.com and transform them into statistic information for JCDL paper. From January 2011 to September 2011 (9 months) CS Grader, CS Department @ • Work with Dr. Lois Delcambre to develop the term programming assignments in Python. • Cooperate with TA to develop automatic grading system using Python. • Interact with students towards their comments and grades. • Assist Dr. Lois Delcambre to grade the exam and summarize the grades report. From March 2010 to June 2010 (4 months) Java Developer, Volunteer @ • Perform software testing and bug reporting. • Design and develop quality software to meet requirements specified. • Detailed plan of Software components and task allocation by seeking clarity and consulting with others. • Follow development standards and use software experience to ensure high quality code. • Consider implementation issues, test and review software design to minimize problems and find defects prior to implementation. From October 2009 to January 2010 (4 months) Java Developer, Intern @ • Cooperate with other developers to develop window software to analysis VS SourceSafe. • Work in team to learn Struts, Hibernate and Spring. • Perform reporting and fixing bugs while testing. • Analyze the documents provided by designer. From March 2009 to June 2009 (4 months)

Bachelor, Computer Science @ Portland State University From 2009 to 2011 Higher Diploma, Software Engineering @ FPT Aptech From 2007 to 2009 Bachelor, Computer Science @ University of Science From 2006 to 2009 Vu Tran is skilled in: Java, C#, Python, Android, PHP, XML, HTML/CSS/Javascript, J2SE, J2EE, Struts, Hibernate 3.x, EJB 3.x, ZK, JSF 2.0, JPA