Resume -- Niniane Wang

Niniane Wang

12/2008 - present.

Unannounced software projects.

9/2003 - 11/2008, Google Inc.

Founder, Lively by Google

Created vision, got project chartered.
Built and led a team through technical design and implementation. Launched as lively.com.
Co-inventor on 5 pending patents.

Tech lead, Gmail Ads

Led a team of engineers to improve Gmail revenue. Launched 15 experiments, with a cumulative revenue increase of 140%.
Implemented in C++ and Java various techniques of text processing and information retrieval.
Oversaw features, technical direction, scheduling.
Co-inventor on 3 pending patents.

Software engineer, Google Desktop Search

Served as one of the original engineers on the project, from initial design through public launch.
Contributed leadership experience toward scheduling, feature prioritization, staffing.
Implemented key components including the search query system, instant messenger capture, snippets, server pings, the sidebar.
Co-inventor on 19 pending patents.
Won a Google Founder's Award.

Software engineer (concurrent "20% project"), Movie Showtimes Onebox

Throughout Google experience

Served on the Hiring Committee which makes offer approval or rejection on interview candidates.
Screened 10 - 20 engineering resumes per week for phone screen approval.
Participated in various marketing campaigns for Google PR, including New York Times, monster.com, CNN, FastCompany, Fortune.

7/1998 - 9/2003, Microsoft

Software Design Engineer Lead, Microsoft Flight Simulator

Managed a sub-team of developers through the shipping of Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight.
Developed a service that supplies streaming real-time weather information for users to download and simulate current weather conditions.
Did performance analysis and optimization for Flight Simulator 2002. Reduced stutters from hundreds per minute to virtually nil, and dramatically increased framerates.
Created the dynamic weather system, the main selling point of Flight Simulator 2004. Press reviewers describe it as "breathtaking", "amazing", "a breakthrough".
Developed an innovative technology for rendering clouds. Presented at SIGGRAPH, GDC.
Improved multiplayer system, lobby system. Wrote flight instructor application.

Software Engineer, Microsoft Sports and Racing Games

Implemented various areas of a racing game for PC and Xbox, including UI, art pipeline, input system.

M.S., Computer Science, University of Washington, 2001. GPA 3.9. (While working fulltime at Microsoft.)
B.S., Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, 1998. GPA 3.8. (Graduated at age 18.)

Wang, N., Wade, B. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (and Rain). Game Programming Gems 5, Charles River Media. 2005.
Wang, N. Realistic and Fast Cloud Rendering, Journal of Graphics Tools. 2004.
Wang, N. Let There Be Clouds, Game Developers Magazine. January 2004.
Ishii, H., Page, S., Wang, N. 1999. A Day at the Beach: Human Agents Self-Organizing on the Sand Pile. Advances in Complex Systems. Vol 2, Issue 1. p 37 - 64.

Native Mandarin speaker.