Edmund Chang

Edmund Chang

I am a hard-working technical software engineer and architect with lots of industry experience, and am now attempting to start a company of my own and follow my entrepreneurial dreams.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14583202&trk=tab_pro
Irvine, California, United States
Member since October 01, 2012
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I believe that due to my unique and rewarding career path that I am in a great position to finally pursue my dreams and I already am confident I have met the greatest team by plucking the best from each part of any company I've worked at. Quote_down
  • About
Education
2008 USC , MS , Computer Science
I am a(n):

First-time entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
Newquire
Companies I work or worked for:
SignNow, Amazon
If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I want to change the world.

My favorite startups:

Tango, GroupMe, Square

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

What's most rewarding is that I am able to learn and pursue and really make an impact in the way I want to. What is most frustrating would be if I had to manage a certain amount of conflicting egos but I have not run into that situation yet.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Not listening to the market and the Venture Capitalists.

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. Getting the first seed money is the hardest.
2. Doing things for yourself is incredibly rewarding and fun.
3. This is something I want to pursue for the next 10 years before settling for a desk job that I retire with.

Full bio

With solid experience developing object-oriented (C++/Java/CORBA) and real-time (INTEGRITY) systems, I am a proven individual contributor and team lead/mentor. I am always keen on learning cutting edge technologies and frameworks. I have an ability to learn and adapt very quickly.

Specialties

Java, C++, Android

Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Qualcomm

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; QCOM; Telecommunications industry

March 2012 – Present  (8 months) San Diego, CA

DASH, Android service layer programming, C/C++, JNI, Android NDK, Android SDK, Reference UI, SDK Development, Simulation tools

http://www.qualcomm.com/media/releases/2012/02/27/qualcomm-demonstrate-lte-broadcast-mobile-world-congress

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/03/samsung-demos-its-take-on-lte-broadcast/

Principal Sole Android Developer

SignNow

October 2011 – April 2012  (7 months) Newport Beach, CA

SignNow.com is a company that allows people to sign contracts online and get client signatures for free.

- Creating the first version of the Android App which allows users to sign, invite and send documents from anywhere.
- Designing the mock-ups, logic, backend-API requirements, development and implementation up to submission to Google Play. 
- Working on extending many open-source projects and frameworks, and implementing them into the project.
- Minor web-development and debugging involving Javascript, PHP, and html.

Technologies: SVN, Maven, Git, Java, JQuery, JSON, Javascript, HTML, PHP