Tien Dong Le

Profile

Experience working in short and tight-deadline projects and presentations within a fast team-based environment
Knowledge and experience within a number interactive media and graphic design programs such as Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Director, Macromedia Flex, Adobe Illustrator
Ability to quickly learn and to adapt while working on projects to suit the needs of the task and/or to solve problems that occur

Tech & Multimedia Skills

Beginner
- 3D Studio Max 5.1 and 6
- Alias Maya 6.5
- Adobe Photoshop 5.5, 6, CS, CS2
- Macromedia Flex 1.0
- Perl and CGI scripting
- XML, XSLT and DOM parsing in Perl

Intermediate
- Adobe Illustrator 9, 10, CS. CS2
- Macromedia Director 8.5, MX with Lingo
- Macromedia Flash with Actionscript 1.0 & 2.0
- HTML, xHTML, CSS

Beginner/Intermediate
- Max/MSP
- Java

Work Experience

Blast Radius
Quality Assurance Tester – Contract - Jan 2007 – Present (Contract)
- Performing tests and analysis on a flash based e-commerce system
- Logging and resolving bugs using JIRA and debugging tools. ie. Fiddler
- Following guidelines and test scenarios to meet clients specifications

SFU Surrey – Recreation
Recreation Official / Recreation Coordinator - Sept 2005 – April 2006
- Coordinated and supervised basketball and dodgeball intramurals

Pacific National Exhibition (PNE)
Concession Assistant / Games Attendant (2001) - June 2004 - Present (Part time), August 2003, 2002, 2001 & 2000 (Seasonal)
- 4.5 years of experience as a concession assistant.
- Roles included dealing with customers, cash handling, food handling, serving, preparation
- 2.5 years of experience as a grill cook. Preparing grilled food
- 1 year experience as a Games attendant for Carnival employers at the Pacific National Exhibition
- Marketing, direct customer relations

Dairy Queen
Server / Grill Cook - May 2003 – August 2005
- Roles includes cleaning, serving customers, cash handling, food preparation

SFU – Philosophy Department
Web Master / Research Assistant - July – August 2002
- Worked on 2 website for Dr. Steven Davis. One personal and one for the Centre of Values and Ethics
- Usage of Flash MX and advanced Actionscript, DHTML/Javascript menu, CSS, HTML
- Webmaster status. Maintained website and making modifications

BluePhase
Flash Designer / Art Lead - January – July 2002
- Member of a new media design group specializing in multimedia, user-interface, and interactivity
- Key-roles included doing flash design and Actionscript, taking a project co-coordinator role, and layout design

SFU – Philosophy Department
Web Master / Research Assistant - July – August 2002
- Designed, produced, mantained webstie for the Centre of Values and Ethics
- Used Flash MX with Actionscript, CSS, HTML

Youth Visions Project - Surrey, BC
Animation / Flash Designer - January – March 2002
- Part of a multi-team project that consisted of over 2 dozen members
- Animation and flash designer for a multimedia introduction movie animation
- Worked in a small team of three

Education

Simon Fraser University Surrey (SFU Surrey): Sept 2001 – Present
Bachelors of Science in Interactive Arts (IA)
Courses taken in:
User Experience & Interaction Design
Communication & Graphic Design

Awards and Achievements

- Teaching Flash tutorials for MISA at SFU
- Skills Canada 3d animation competition 2001
- Placed 2nd in Skills Canada Website competition 2000