Alfred, Cheng-Tai Kang, a.k.a Alfred Kang, was born at Taipei, Taiwan. Now server as lead developer for Syrup at New York. Got an M.F.A degree at Digital Arts from Pratt Institute. Created an visual instrument www.squaremusicstation.com by interacting with users' mouse gestures as thesis work. Was inspired mainly by Prof. Peter Mackey and Prof Amit Pitaru during Pratt. Current Interest including various Ajax library and Flash technology. Site and Group leader of www.jquery.com.tw and jQuery Taiwan google user group.

ANALYTICAL/TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY

Standards & Processes:
Web 2.0, Agile Development Methodology, User Interface (UI) Design, Model-View-Controller Design Patterns, Content Management System(CMS), Shopping Cart Layout, Database (Backend) Integration, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Framework Development, Email Campaign Creation, Quality Assurance/UAT, Web Community Leader & Host

Programming Languages, Tools & Databases:
Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript & XML), Ajax Library (jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, YUI), Adobe - Flash, Director, Photoshop, Illustrator; ActionScript, JavaScript, PHP, CakePHP, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Eclipse with FDT & Aptana, Trac/Bugzilla, XHTML/HTML, Lingo, CSS (BluePrint, 960 Grid, Emastic), CMS (SilverStripe, Drupal)