About Albert

Schools:
Wilson (Glen A.) High in Hacienda Heights, CA
Mesa Robles Elementary in Hacienda Heights, CA
Andrews (Wallen L.) N.W. Elementary in Hacienda Heights, CA

College/University:
University of California – Irvine, Attended 1996 – 2001, Class of 2001, Bachelor’s Degree, Information and Computer Science

Occupation:
Technical Consultant for Open Source, Linux, Grid and Virtualization Services

Companies:
IBM

Affiliations:
International Business Machines (IBM), University of California Irvine (UCI), University of California Irvine Alumni Association Information and Computer Science Chapter, University of California Irvine Residential Computing / Residential Network, University of California Irvine Netgroup Research, Asian Business Association of Southern California, Organization of Chinese Americans, Taiwan Overseas Youth Program (Loveboat), Youth Leadership Medical Conference, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC)

Hobbies and Interests:
My hobbies include road biking, epee fencing, skeet shooting, wei-chi (go) and golf. My free time is spent on traveling all over the world, experiencing the best low/high end food, practicing the art of shopping, constantly educating myself through reading/seminars/mentors, catching a theater show, donating my time to worthy causes and helping my family’s business.

Favorite Books:
Poor Dad Rich Dad, E-myth, Optimal Thinking, Good to Great, Built to Last, Who Moved My Cheese, The Present, 10 day MBA, The Art of Profitability, The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers, Art of War, Home Depot Home Improvement 1-2-3, Dress Smart – Men, Good Luck Life

Favorite Movies:
American: Matrix, movies with Indiana Jones, 12 Monkeys, American Pie, The Shawshank Redemption, Hotel Rwanda, Se7en, Memento, The Incredibles, Saving Private Ryan, Finding Nemo, Forrest Gump, Shrek, Monsters Inc., Lilo and Stitch, Lost in Translation, Garden State. Hong Kong: Young and Dangerous, Hero, Hard Boiled, God Of Gamblers, movies with Stephen Chow. Korean: My Sassy Girl, My wife is a gangster, Taegukgi, 2009 Lost Memories.

Favorite Music:
English: Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette, Robbie Williams, Matchbox Twenty, Mariah Carey, Enya. Chinese: Valen Hsu, Stepfanie Sun. Japanese: Utada Hikaru, Ayumi Hamasaki, Mika Nakashima, Aya. Korean: FiNKL

Favorite TV Shows:
Iron Chef, Any show on History Channel

Favorite Hot Spots:
Of the places I’ve been to (my passport ran out of empty pages), Vienna and Seoul top my list. Runner ups are New York, Rome, and Paris. Locally, I’m a big foodie and shopper. You’ll find me at mom and pop resturants and boutique stores.

Favorite Things:
I love exploring and learning about things. To truly understand it and asking the why and how. I also love experiencing things. I love the feeling of being inspired and feel that you’re living life to the fullest. Carpe Diem!!!

Last Read:
Currently reading “Good Luck Life”, the essential guide to chinese american celebrations and culture. I also have a huge backlog of books that range from my hobbies, philosophy and personal development books.

About Me:
People would tend to say that passionate, ambitious, fun/thrill seeking, adventurous, high energy, positive, genuine, good conversationalist, very proud of who I am and what I’ve accomplished and loyal to my family and friends. I’m a strong believer on doing what you really love to do. I love exploring, experiencing, and learning about things/ideas/places. To truly understand it and asking the why/how/history. Among my friends, I’m the one that is very active and looking for ways to have fun and experience life. Morally, I believe in doing the right thing and not the easy or convenient thing, living an honorable life and that to get respect, you have to give respect. My life long goal is to bring pride and prestige to my family (and hopefully to have a great time and fun along the way).

My hobbies include road biking, epee fencing, skeet shooting, wei-chi (go) and golf. My free time is spent on traveling all over the world, experiencing the best low/high end food, practicing the art of shopping, constantly educating myself through reading/seminars/mentors, catching a theater show, donating my time to worthy causes and helping my family’s business. As for travelling, Vienna and Seoul top my list. Runner ups are New York, Rome, and Paris.

My Myers & Briggs personality profile is ENTP/ESTP.

I’m very proud of my family’s accomplishments. Congrats to my parents who have had their business for over 20 years (run by mom), my dad’s appointment as the Taiwan National Chengchi University (NCCU) Southern California Alumni President and my brother who has served as IEEE and ACM President at UCSC. As for myself, I’m proud to have served as a former UCI Computer Science Alumni President and be an active asian american civil rights advocate through the Organization of Chinese Americans and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center.

Highlights:
* Started with IBM as a technical consulting intern working up from developer, developer lead to his current position as world wide Open Source / Linux Community of Practice co-leader for IBM Global Services (IGS) reporting to IGS Global Strategy and Operations Organization
* Founded and President of University of Calfornia, Irvine Information and Computer Science Alumni Chapter from 2002 to 2004
* 2 patents submitted to United States Patent Office dealing with Voice over IP technology
* Actively involved with Organization of Chinese Americas, an asian civil rights organization with an office in Washington DC and 40 chapters around United States
* Founded and managed a department responsible for providing network support and services for a large University (8,000 network connections)
* Two years of undergraduate research dealing with automous mobile agents in a peer-to-peer architecture and edge server architecture and design.
* Received my Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) License but unfortunately I didn’t renew it
* Member of 1998 Taiwan Overseas Youth Program (Loveboat)
* Attended 1995 Youth Leadership Medical Conference in Boston
* High School: 4 years of Track, 3 years of Cross Country, 2 years of Concert Choir, 1 year of Drama
* Languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarian, French