My son think in front of the big sushi boat. So cute.
Thanks God. Things for moving back to BC have been going very smooth as planned. My family arrived in Vancouver in the afternoon of 25 Sept. It was a heavy rainy day but the weather has veen very good after that day. I have also worked for a week and here is the first family picture which we celebrate my wife’s mom birthday. My wife said she hasn’t had chance to celebrate in last 10 years.
One more night, ~ 18 hours, my family and I are moving back to Vancouver. While I’m typing in hotel room in Salmon Arm, BC, I still not sure this is going to be real. My wife and I did enjoy living in Saskatoon and had a lot good memory. It was very hard for us driving the last time across the city and heading to highway. We do believe goal as well as dream which are powerful thing to make your life meaningful, I guess. Anyway, I have prepared to set my next dreams after I arrive Vancouver tomorrow afternoon. See you, SK.    Â
Learn MoreYesterday (Sept 14, 2006)Â was my last day of work in Saskatoon office, was my last day sleeping over my current townhome, was my last day driving my 1988 Corolla which I bought in Vancouver 10 years ago. What was my feelings, not much! Sometime I feel you are too tied, you don’t have much feelings. Yes, after packing for over a month for the moving, I just realize that how much money I have spent…. Â
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I’m already in the WESTern country, what I mean is moving to west of Canada, Vancouver. Here is the message I describe the reason and my feeling for this decision to my teammates at work:Â
Family
           For many times, my wife and I would like to live closer to her family. I said many time, because sometime we want and sometime we don’t want. :> Also, if you didn’t know, we are also expecting another baby at the end of Nov. Yes, will be another cchan, I promise. Actually, I have registered a domain called, http://cchanfamily.com . We don’t know the sex yet, will find out at the end of this month. In Chinese culture, having a senior people at home is like a valuable thing, so we want to try to take this advantage to live with our parents. In particular, I grew up with my grandma and I hope my 2 kids will like that kind of childhood.
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Dream
           In the past 10 years living in Saskatoon, my wife and I had achieved a lot of dreams (education, job, own family, house), but there is one dream left, living in Vancouver. It is nothing about the big city; it is because we feel like Vancouver is our home town. It was the first place when I arrived Canada and I lived there for 4 years before I came to Saskatoon. Also, my wife and I met there in a college. It is just a lot memory. In the future, may be one day while I’m in Vancouver, I will remember all the good time and good people in Saskatoon and will set a dream coming back to live. :>
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Career
           I have been working in several types of job in the past, restaurant, sales and software development in few cities. At the end you still need to work with good or bad people. I never actually went through a tough time to find a job, even my current job in Point2. I got this job because my friend had an interview with Point2 in June 2001 but he decided to move to Ontario, so he passed this opportunity to me. Yes, in Point2, there is always a great opportunity for everyone to growth. Initially, one of the reasons I accepted this job is because I want to develop in JAVA programming language, I even had a BC license plate, JAVA, and SK license pate, JAVA SK. I was actually mad someone already took the JAVA in Saskatchewan. So, in early 2002, I had a chance to try VS.Net and that was how I have been working in Microsoft technologies for 4 years. I’m also lucky that I have been leading the talent and hard working people as technical team leader. I have been widening my skills in past 5 years. In the nearest future, I will still work in .Net. In addition, because I strongly believe the potential of current project with LendingTree which is different than other projects in the past, I will continue purse my excellence in Point2 and the great work environment and people.
Thank you for all the support and good work in the past and I wish we will have good working relationship in the future.
Chris C.
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Recently, I have been enjoying to read job posting related to my career. It is not that I want to find a new job, I actually do like my current company. However, once a while, you just want to self evaluate yourself, either for your career or personal life. I guess is part of the process of self and continue learning. I’m currently working as Group Program Manager and here is one of the job posting which I recently find is very good to describe this job requirement. How much am I qualified? :>
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Program Manager
Role:
A Program Manager is responsible for helping to define new Ticketmaster.com products by working with the Product Management, Engineering and Operations teams to define, develop, test and launch these products across the organization. Specific tasks on each project will include authoring functional requirements, developing project plans and schedules, managing tasks and teams, defining and testing usability, and identifying and resolving issues. It is essential that the Program Manager understands the scope and effect of all new or upgraded products, solicits input from all constituents, and involves all appropriate teams. Program Management works closely with every facet of the product and with every part of the organization.
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Responsibilities:
·      Primarily responsible for multi-cycle projects, or groups of single-cycle projects as part of a larger program designed to release a large product.Â
·      Responsible for scope control with stakeholders, task execution with the development team and relevant upward communication to managers.
·      Primarily operates within existing product and technology offerings, working new products into an existing code base through integration management.
·      Helps define process improvements and feedback for large, multi-part projects that need creative project management strategies required for timely execution.
·      Gathers necessary assets required for development of each project, including but not limited to: specifications, HTML, images, project tool workflow entries, test data and any additional technical documentation required.
·      Provide necessary feedback to project stakeholders. Examples include specification feedback, issue escalation to managers or scope changes/clarifications to project resources.
·      Manage handoffs at each of the 5 stages in the project life cycle according to guidelines specified in Ticketmaster’s development policies.
·      Update relevant project information in the project information database, in real time, when things are happening.       Â
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Requirements:
General
·      BS or equivalent degree required. PMP Certification a plus.
·      Demonstrated ability to manage software development projects in the 5 stages of the project life cycle.
·      Successful track record in working with business and technology teams to define, develop, test and launch new products. Must be able to present specific examples where your role required the ability work between technical and management teams.
·      Experience in authoring business and technical requirements. Strong writing and documentation skills are a necessity. Must have some experience writing formal technical specifications (i.e., data dictionary, process flows, architectural diagrams, etc.).
·      3-5 years experience in a software development environment, preferably with consumer orientated projects with a regular release cycle. Experience working with Open Source applications a plus.
·      Applicant should be a functional web technology generalist without a strong adherence to a specific platform.
Intellectual
·      Innate capability to create order out of chaos. Proven problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to think out of the box and generate creative solutions.
·      Proven ability to communicate effectively with both business people and software engineers.
·      Desire to work in fast-paced, multi-task, fluid environment capable of reacting instantly to changes in a competitive business environment.
·      Ability to plan, organize and proctor efficient meetings through preparation, stakeholder subscription and an innate ability to guide a group towards agreed upon objectives.
Technical
·      Proven experience with UNIX/Linux-based software development. The ideal candidate will have some actual coding experience and abilities, but prefers to see the larger picture and pull together projects.
·      A working knowledge of SQL and relational databases is required. Must be able to read a schema diagram and reconcile it with product requirements flawlessly and instantly. Must be able to extract, manipulate, insert and troubleshoot data using SQL without GUI-based tools.
·      Solid experience with HTML and other web technologies. Must understand common issues with HTML, XHTML and CSS interaction. Must understand how to read these technologies and provide feedback. Actual development experience in any web technology a plus.
 WordPress Gallery2 Integration project is such a great idea. At the beginning, I was trying to find a way to put them together. Now, I have gone through most installation and configuration and I can start to enjoy the beauty of photo gallery and blogging applications.
 14657See, my lovely son picture, I can even link a Gallery2 photo inside a post, so neat!
Here are the useful links for anyone wants to build this kind of site:Â
 Wordpress Galley2 Plug-in Installation
http://wpg2.galleryembedded.com/wiki/index.php/WPG2:Plug-in_Installation
 Wordpress Galley2 Plug-in Configuration
http://wpg2.galleryembedded.com/wiki/index.php/WPG2:Plug-in_Configuration
Gallery2 wordpress theme installation and configuration.
http://wpg2.ozgreg.com/index.phptitle=Wordpress_Theme_Configuration
Learn MoreYou can also access this site through these domains http://www.cchanfamily.info and http://www.carolhung.com.
 Cheers!
Learn MoreYeah! Colton doesn’t need to be nursed any more! The weaning process started when he was 10 months old. I substituted one feeding by formula and it took me a whole month to wean him from me completely. I didn’t get engorged and everything went so smoothly. Now he only takes 3 bottles a day and sleep thru the night from 9pm to 7am. Another new acheivement is that he started to clap on April 21, 06. Oh! On April 17, his nose bleed 3 times that day. I was not too worry about that since I have the same problem when I was a baby too. I noticed the way he plays is a bit different now. He loves pressing buttons. When he couldn’t get something that he wants, he would squeeze some tears out of his eyes. I called that fake tears. But he is a lot more fun to play with now.
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