Jimmy Thong Tran


Supportive, Manager, Creative

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Nationality: American

jimmytranman [at] gmail

Objective

An organized and persevering problem-solver seeking a position that rewards with challenge and growth. Position should require solving a variety of investigations, from beginner troubleshooting to intricate HTML, CSS and Javascript complications.

Software

  • Trello
  • Final Cut Pro X
  • WordPress
  • Pixelmator
  • Google apps
  • Powtoon
  • Prezi
  • Excel
  • Bugzilla

Learning

Frontend Web Dev

Jon Duckett's books
Thinkful's course

iOS Design & Xcode

Meng To's Design+Code

Web App Dev

Alex P. Coleman's course

Skills

Support / Service / Guidance ability

• Trained, analyzed, and improved students, educators, stage performers, community organizers, administrators (since 2000) ranging from 5 to 55 years old
• Resolved team and client issues by first, to understand, and then, to be understood, in English and Vietnamese
• Guided hundreds of people through Southeast Asia living and travels
• Accelerated building cambodianson.com
• Presented cow eyeball & flower dissections, card tricks and museum orientations to hundreds of students daily at the Exploratorium in San Francisco
• Served hundreds of Jamba Juice smoothie customers during high school

Management / Planning / Organizational ability

• Directly supervised over 300 people (since 2000)
• Developed E-commerce data totaling over 57,000 product additions in over 8,000 categories/attributes and controlled E-commerce data inventory totaling over 300,000 products for a client (whose 2011 annual revenue was $30.4 million)
• Coordinated 67 teachers at 40 schools serving over 14,000 students in Hanoi
• Recruited 110 ESL teachers to Hanoi from around the world for the 2013-2015 academic years (6 months ahead of previous years)
• Implemented and improved standard operating procedures in commercial, creative and educational organizations
• Negotiated partnerships with local businesses in Hanoi

Communications / Language / Creative ability

• Created/designed intralink.llv.edu.vn (internal intranet communication platform across all Language Link - Hanoi departments)
• Built schoolslinkhanoi.com
• Co-built parentlinkhanoi.com
• Co-built myschoolslink.com
• Co-created the Swiss Army Knife [S.A.K.] (Schools Link’s ESL Teacher Handbook)
• Co-created Language Link’s ESL promotional and training videos
• Co-created assessment, speaking and placement tests for primary and secondary students
• Performed theatre, improv and poetry slam shows with 3,000 attendees bi-annually in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Performed 26 school-wide assemblies for 10,000+ students in Hanoi
• Co Editor-in-Chief of the writing collection On Vietnam and Being Vietnamese
• Commissioned visual artist for YO! Youth Outlook during high school
• Cast member of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam – Season 5

Personal activities

• Active member of Hanoi’s WordPress Meetup group
• Active writer (current readership stats, past)
• Active videographer & photographer since 2011 (Camera: Canon 60D)
• Active at the VietFighter gym (1st place Team Fitness Challenge 2013)
• Travelled to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Taiwan
• Top 3 art contest winner 1998-2000 (Growing Up Asian in America contest)
• 1st place in competitive online Fantasy NBA Basketball league 2010
• Cooking
• Poetry Slam performance artist (2004 National College Unions Poetry Slam Champions, University of California – Berkeley & 2004 San Francisco National Poetry Slam team member)

Education

University of California — Berkeley, California

Bachelor of Arts, Ethnic Studies, 2004


International House (Apollo) — Hanoi, Vietnam

CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), 2008

“For the first thirty years of your life, you make your habits. For the last thirty years of your life, your habits make you.” - Old Hindu Proverb

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