CURRICULUM VITAE

HUYNH CONG THINH

Address: 200/10 Le Van Viet – Ho Chi Minh city
Email: congthinhdp2003@gmail.com
Mobile: +(84) 985552314

I. PERSONAL INFORMATION

Full name: Huynh Cong Thinh

Gender: Male
Date of birth: April 18th, 1987
Nationality: Vietnamese
Home Address: 200/10 – Le Van Viet – District 9 – Ho Chi Minh city - Vietnam
Email: congthinhdp2003@gmail.com
Tel: +(84) 985552314

II. ACADEMIC DEGREE OBTAINED

Year Degree University Subject

2009 Bachelors of Information Post and Telecommunication Information Technology
Technology Institute of Technology
(11 Nguyen Dinh Chieu – District
1 – Ho Chi Minh city – Vietnam)

III. EARNED CERTIFICATIONS

Year Certifications Awarding body

2001 Certificate of the Honor prize in National Mathematics & Vietnam Ministry of
(Grade 8th) Calculator competition Education and Training
2004 Certificate of the First prize (highest scrore) – 12th grade in Quang Ngai Province of
(Grade 11th) Mathematics & Calculator competition at province level Education and Traning
2004 Certificate of the Honor prize – 12th grade in Mathematics Quang Ngai Province of
(Grade 11th) competition at province level Education and Traning
2004 Certificate of the Honor prize in National Mathematics & Vietnam Ministry of
(Grade 11th) Calculator competition Education and Training
2004 First prize in Week Round, third prize in month round of Vietnam Television
(Grade 11th) "Duong Len Dinh Olympia" fifth year contest VTV3
(Vietnam Television)
2005 Certificate of the Second prize - 12th grade in Mathematics & Quang Ngai Province of
(Grade 12th) Calculator competition at province level Education and Traning
 2006 Certificate of participating in Mathematics Olympic Vietnam Ministry of
Competition on Mathematics for Students Education and Training &
The Vietnam Association
of Mathematics
2007 Certificate of Communist Youth Union Contribution Ho Chi Minh Communist
Youth Union - Post and
Telecommunication
Institute of Technology
2009 Microsoft MVP - Most Valuable Professional Microsoft Corporation
2010 Certificate of Microsoft Vietnam Contribution Microsoft Vietnam

IV. STAGE OF EDUCATION AND WORK

Year Occupation University/Company Location

2005 - 2009 Student Post and 11 Nguyen Dinh Chieu
Telecommunication street – District 1 – Ho Chi
Institute of Technology Minh city – Vietnam
2007 – 2008 IT Developer Vietnam Industry 121 Le Loi Ward – District
Securities 1 – Ho Chi Minh city –
Vietnam

V. LANGUAGE SKILS

Vietnamese: Mother tongue

English: Fluently

VI. SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

My scientific interests are concerned with many directions of Information Technology. In

particular these are Programming, Windows Desktop Experience (my Microsoft MVP
Expertise), Linux, Graphics and Social Network.

I am founder, administrator at WindowsVn Forums (http://windowsvn.net) that I am very

proud to be a part of. Starting from scratch, the number of members has been growing to
15.000 in 2008 and over 60.000 in 2009, with more than 120.000 technical posts at this
moment. My main interest and specialty is to help, support people with issues that they are
having with the Hardware, Operating System such as Windows Vista, Window 7 and other
Microsoft Technologies.

On the other side, I do a lot of web projects using PHP and .NET opensource like
Wordpress, Joomla, Mojo… Especially, I am very fond of Web 2.0 blogging, Opensource
customizing and Social network analyzing.
VII. TECHNICAL SKILLS
Level Knowledge/Skills
Professional Windows Desktop, Hardware, Software, Web 2.0, Internet, Social
Network, Community Management
Good * Language: PHP, .NET, Javascript (jQuery), HTML/CSS
* IDE/Sofware: Visual Studio, Eclipse, Photoshop, MS Office

VIII. HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES

I am a responsible person and work creatively. I usually play football, listen to pop,
country music and relax with the open air in my leisure time. I always open a scientific
working environment, where the innovation and working speed always placed in the highest
position.

Working with the Society of the Tuoi Tre newspaper to help children with cancer at the
Cancer Hospital of Ho Chi Minh, and manage of the organization website "Thuy's Dream
Program," the Tuoi Tre newspaper.

IX. WORK EXPERIENCE

- 2007: I worked for Vietnam Industry Securities Company for 1 year as an IT Developer,
managing online trading system.
- June 2007: Build and manage http://windowsvn.net, largest Windows forum for
Vietnamese with more than 60.000 members and over 100.000 technical posts, spend a lot of
time for community management in both technical and content aspects.
- September 2008: Contribute to complete an ebook and distribute freely to IT community –
named: “Windows Vista handbook, ver. 8.0”. It has been published by Lao Dong
publisher.
- June 2009: Complete “Windows 7 Feature Reference Guide” for Microsoft Vietnam.

- September 2009: Contribute and manage “Windows 7 Vietnam Fanpage”, which is in

Microsoft’s “Developing and helping people using Windows 7 in Vietnam” project.

- October 2009:

o Got Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award.

 o The 9th person in Vietnam has got Microsoft MVP, the youngest MVP in Vietnam
and the first Windows Desktop Experience MVP in Vietnam.
o Appear on the first page of “The Gioi @” magazine (belong to Nguoi Lao Dong
magazine).
o Has been interviewed and posted on a few major newspapers such as Tuoi tre,
Thanh Nien, Viet Nam Net, Dat Viet, Hoa Hoc Tro, Quang Ngai and some others
newspaper.
o My name was listed on Microsoft’s website in “Worldwide Technology Experts”
list.

- November 2009: Finished “Windows 7 - The NEW Efficiency Keynote” project and
“Programming in Windows 7” article for Microsoft.

- December, 2009: Finished “Windows 7 Quiz” software for Microsoft Vietnam.

- December, 2009:

o Participated in MVP Asia – Pacific Conference which was held in Hyderabad,

India.
o Speeches and discussions at the Conferences about Windows 7, SharePoint Server
2010, Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2010, BizSpark.

X. REFERRERS

Mrs. Lilian Quek

MVP Lead, Southeast Asia, Community and Online Support, Microsoft Singapore
Mobile: +(65) 6888 8951
Email: lilianq@microsoft.com

Mr. Trinh Minh Cuong

Manager of Developer and Platform Evangelist, Microsoft Vietnam
Address: 2 Ngo Quyen, Ha Noi, Vietnam.
Mobile: +(84) 902209011
Email: cuong@microsoft.com