Jarrold Ong

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Jarrold Ong

http://twitter.com/jarrold

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SKILLS

Ruby, Objective-C, Java, C#, C

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EDUCATION

National University of Singapore
Ba. Eng in Computer Engineering, Second Class Honors (Upper) and Minor in Technopreneurship

July 2002 - April 2007
Singapore

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Stanford University
Minor in Technoprenuership

August 2004 - July 2005
CA, US

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National Junior College
Graduated with 4 distinctions at 'A' levels in Physics, Economics, Math C, Further Math and also obtained a distinction and merit for S-papers, Math C and Physics respectively

January 1998 - December 1999
Singapore

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St. Joseph's Institution
Graduated with 8 distinctions at 'O' levels

January 1994 - December 1997
Singapore

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Appyzoo Inc (Stickery)
Co-founder (CTO)

July 2010 - Present
San Francisco, CA

- Mobile learning games for preschool kids and parents.
- Stickery is a mobile learning game platform for parents to manage kids' playtime. Our goal is to converge "play-time" with "learn-time".
- Many parents use their iPhones as a "babysitter" because kids (3-5 yrs old) love it vs traditional toys. However, most apps don't help parents to prepare kids for school because of the Goldilocks problem: apps are either too fun (games) or boring (education apps).
- Stickery is a story-based suite of apps built by 2 ex-Stanford entrepreneurs & an award-winning kids' media producer. All our game content is based on preschool curriculum standards & approved by educators. Our apps collect usage data to generate progress reports for parents. These reports help them track the learning value of playtime on the iPhone.

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Jabfishing Pte Ltd
Co-founder (CTO)

September 2009 - March 2011
Singapore

- We help to match ad agencies with web/ mobile developers for digital production work.
- Jabfish is a web-based marketplace, customized for ad agencies. Agencies can search for developers to work on short-term production projects such as Facebook applications, iPhone applications, microsites, banner ads etc.
- Jabfish is funded by a government grant for promising tech-startups in Singapore. We were profitable in the 1st year. Clients include Yahoo SEA, Mastercard, Lexus.

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Creative Technology Ltd
Software Engineer

November 2008 - September 2009
Singapore

- Sole front end developer implementing Creative Technologies US ecommerce site base on Amazon Webstore product.
- Sole developer of product comparison engine used in all Asian Creative Technologies product websites.

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The Real Group
Co-founder (CTO)

May 2007 - October 2008
Singapore

- Build 3rd largest online real estate search engine based in Singapore.
- Some cool features was our proprietary geocode postal lookup (integrated with GMaps), 2 factor authentication (using SMS) and smart price trends based on location and housing type (public real estate transactions for the last 15 years).

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Find it. Find Out.
Co-founder (CTO)

December 2006 - September 2008
Singapore

Build and launched Theatre and Food focused lifestyle portal based in Singapore. Ran flash sales campaigns to thousands of our active members for top 5 major Theatre production companies.

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TuVox Incorporated
Software Engineer

August 2004 - January 2006
Cupertino, CA

- Worked on a desktop applications to create, manage and deploy speech applications based on VXML.
- Worked on web-based reports for the call centers clients such as OTC and Amerimark.

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Singapore Armed Forces
National Service

January 2000 - May 2002
Singapore

Served as a Section Commander at the 2nd Infantry Regiment.

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CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC)
August 2004 - August 2005
Selected to attend NOC program which was a one year full-time internship at a Silicon Valley startup, Tuvox Inc. and part-time studies at Stanford University where I took courses to complete my Minor in Technoprenuership and also technical courses that worked towards my Engineering Degree.

Soccer
January 1998 - December 1999
Represented School (National Junior College) at nationals and played in winger and forward positions.

Cross Country and Track and Field
January 1995 - December 1997
Represented School (St. Joseph's Institution) at the nationals and winning Bronze in Nationals C Division in the Overall Team Category.

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INTERESTS

- Music
- Photography
- Cooking
- Hacking
- Apple stuff
- Startups

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