James Jacob Yu

addr: 1714 Cabrillo St Apt B / San Francisco, CA 94121 | tel: 650.321.7525 | email: jamesjacobyu@gmail.com

Goal
Obtain a position at a consumer web company where I can utilize my skills in technical development, design, and
product development while strengthening my skills and knowledge in business and marketing.

Education
Stanford University June 2005
Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering, GPA = 3.6
Cornell University May 2004
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Magna Cum Laude
Cumulative GPA = 3.87, Technical Courses GPA = 3.95

Experience
Swidget Labs – Co-founder – http://www.swidgetlabs.com March 2007 – Present
• Design a portfolio of eCommerce related Google gadgets.
• Have attained monthly revenue of $200 with a growing forecast.
• Strategize ways to effectively market and design widgets using a portfolio-based approach.

SocialQuirk – Creator – http://www.socialquirk.com February 2007 – Present

• Conceived and designed blog about social media and its quirky impact on society.
• Produced short videos in a commentary show format.

BuzzShout – Founder, Editor – http://www.buzzshout.com March 2006 – Present

• Conceived, designed, and implemented site that allows people to submit web startup companies and rate
them.
• Built independently from the ground up using PHP and MySQL.
• Have attained 34,000 monthly pageviews, an Alexa rank of 60,000, a user base of 3000, and 11,000 RSS
readers.
• Wrote and edited blog posts about new web startup company strategies and features.
• Directed and edited video blog posts focused on interviews with web startup founders.

Cloudee – Creator – http://www.cloudee.com December 2005 – Present

• Conceived, designed, and implemented site that tracked and clustered conversations in the blogosphere.
• Coded using Perl, PHP, and MySQL in one month while learning PHP along the way.

Dolby Laboratories – Audio Design Engineer July 2005 – Present

• Design audio codec software in C for HDDVD, Bluray, and Broadcast surround sound applications.
• Rigorously design, implement, and maintain test infrastructures for audio software.
• Serve as a mentor and technical lead in multiple areas of software development and audio technologies.
• Interface with codec customers by troubleshooting, releasing software, and providing demo audio streams.

Audience, Inc. – Audio Signal Processing Intern June 2004 – September 2004
• Developed, created, and maintained a recording test suite to facilitate testing of noise reduction algorithms.
• Created marketing prototype demonstrations of audio noise reduction which boosted client confidence.
• Programmed scripts that supported the algorithm team in areas of voice quality, audio processing, and test.

Skills
Design High level design for websites with an eye towards simplicity of use and feel
Languages C, C++, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, Matlab, Perl, Javascript, HTML, CSS
Software Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Audition
Social Media Viral marketing, Building participatory user communities, Garnering social media traffic
Engineering Software development, Software Test, Revision control systems, Digital signal processing, Image
processing, Audio processing, Perceptual audio coders, Image and audio compression
Interests Photography (http://www.outsightful.com), Food, Breakdancing, Blogging, Vlogging