Andrew Zhao

Software and Application Developer graduated from AUT, had certain background on and possess bachelor level knowledge on accounting. I am a certified bar manager with a strong interpersonal skill based on my past working experience and my own characteristic. I am also a fast learner with strong work ethic and dedicated to be quality assurance, hard working and responsible. Adept at working with teams or independently in fast-paced settings. Passionate on learning new stuff and becoming a licensed immigration advisor to bring my values to other people.

Customized Karaoke Bar Member System 

I proposed and established a member system that intends to increase customer royalty and attract new customer to become regular member with following policies:

• Deposit money can gets extra credit on accounts which can spend as money under specified conditions.
• Credits mechanism - turn money spend into credits that can exchange to merchandise and discount.
• Fill surveys to win credits in order to encourage customer giving feedbacks.
• Waiters can earn extra dollar on a new recruiting member to better promote the system.

Bathroom Planner App - Made in Android Studio with Java

The project is aimed to develop an offline bathroom planner App for a local bathroom accessories brand that will be deployed on Android tablets in a kiosk to be used by customers in stores.

There are two part of this project, the first part is done as a university Research and Development course. The aim was to learn how to plan and develop a project to fulfill client needs simulating industry working environment. My role in the team was scrum master and developer. During this part of the project, i have developed a bathroom planner app in Android Studio using Java. It enables users to generate a background planner area with digital inputs and plan their bathroom with drag, drop and click. Products will snap to the boarder of the planner area as a part of the user experience design. This project helped me to gain an overall understanding of processes in a software development project, participated in each processes gave me the best practices to improve my ability to work as a software engineer, i become more skilled with java and more familiar with Scrum framework, i realized version control is . Also, i understand how important it is to stick with roles and plans. 

After the university course ended, the client (the local bathroom accessories brand) seems happy with the result. They proposed to hire us keep working on this project to build the App with some other additional requirements, in the mean time it is still under negotiation. 

3D Snake Game - Made in Unity 

This project is a team project that aims to build a 3D snake game. The team size is set to 5. The development uses Unity. My personal role in the project was to mainly focus on the UX and UI part, design and developing different in game menus, sound effect, health bar etc. 

Software Practice Empirical Evidence Database  (SPEED) 

This project is a team project with a team size of 3. The aim is to develop a web app, a searchable database of evidence about different claims about different SE practices. Any practitioner, researcher or student will be able to look for evidence related to claims about software
engineering practices by searching this database and they will be shown a summary of the published relevant research evidence for and against the claims.

The project is using MERN stack, i developed 1/3 of the functionalities and helped set up React and database etc.