I’ve been toying with the web since 1994 after visiting my friend’s web site. But the actual story started in June 1997, less than a month before the Hong Kong Handover to China. I joined one of the few web agency in Hong Kong by chances just after the final examination in my university. By then my once hobby turned in my career and daily life.
Many projects and many roles were performed over the years. Now my main areas are interactive design and programming for web sites, CDROMs and kiosks. Sometimes I will share part of the work load off the project manager’s shoulders. And sometimes I gave training sessions to my colleagues.
Great time (and not so great time) has been spent over the years with Lemon (HK) Ltd, South China Finance and Management Ltd, One Studio (HK) Ltd, marchFIRST Ltd, MediaNet Development Ltd, GoWithYou Technology Ltd, Isobar Hong Kong Limited, previously known as Wwwins Consulting Hong Kong Limited which has acquired Ion Global‘s Hong Kong office in 2008, over the past years. Lately I found myself still hanging on the edge of the after effects of the bubble burst of the late Internet boom. Now I’ve become the Head of Development at Tekcent Limited.
Of all those interesting web projects I’ve worked on, here’s some outstanding one: South China Morning Post’s Classified Post (acquired CareerNext), SCMP Racing Post, 1997 Hong Kong Handover series, British Airways, Cushman & Wakefields, Hong Kong Land, and Kerry Properties, Hong Kong Arts Festival (WebAward), Galaxy Entertainment, Xinhua Finance, Star Street (WebAward), Seagate Technology (WebAward), Emirates Hotels & Resorts, Sino Group of Hotels, The Peninsula Hotels, The Mira Hotel. Also spent a year working in content development in digital signage in one of the chain store in Hong Kong and mobile platform.
Oddly I’ve also worked on some projects that don’t seem to see the day light ever as they’ve never been launched or located deeply within their gigantic parent web site with zillion other mini-websites just like many projects for the Education Department of the Hong Kong Government and a bunch of financial institutions.
Despite the ups and downs in my career, there’s one important thing that I’m still seeking. It’s the delivered work and process that I can be proud of as a developer, a manager, a team player and a negotiator who doesn’t shoot oneself in the head. So I’m really looking forward to producing some real good works that can make me proud.