About Nam

iPhone Application for using the Maps Application without requiring active internet connection

iPhone application for remote controlling a PC/Mac by using modern technologies like multitouch screen or accelerometer for providing an experience like the Wii

journalist for neuerdings.com, the gadget blog of the biggest German-speaking blog company

Prototyping and developing iPhone Application for the online fundraising organization betterplace.org, with easy access to thousands of social projects all over the world. Betterplace.org raised 2.5 million € in 2010.

Nightlife photographer covering events at the most important locations in Berlin

I was a finalist for the prestigious and controversial Thiel Fellowship. Peter Thiel, serial entrepreneur and tech investor, grants 20 under 20 year old people 100,000 $ for dropping out of college and pursue their entrepreneurial ideas.

Internship in San Francisco offices, working on both Javascript-frontend and Python-backend. Main contribution was to the location features of Apture's results by improving the UX and backend processing.

Scholarship for talented young migrants, providing material (finances and pc) and non-material support ( Counseling, skills-training workshops ...)

German higher education entrance certificate, GPA: 1.3

Boston University’s most prestigious merit-based award recognizes students who show outstanding academic and leadership abilities. Also admitted to the brand-new University Honors College for transdisciplinary education of creativity and innovation. Current GPA: 3.9 with a 4.0 Computer Science Major GPA.

• Varsity Basketball Team
• Yearbook Organization
• Project Week Organization
• Class President
• Pupils representative (head boy)
• Community Work for the Vietnamese Association of Berlin

I have extensive experience in the field, both entrepreneurial with Maps Offline and Nam's Remote and cooperative with tech-blog neuerdings.com and innovative startup Apture.com

Major:

• Objective-C / iOS SDK
• Ruby / Ruby On Rails
• HTML5, CSS3, Javascript / jQuery, Google Closure
• Python / Django

Minor:

• Java
• C++, C#, PHP

I am currently highly interested in Rich Web Application Development with open standards and frameworks like HTML5 and Rails/jQuery/Backbone and have an ongoing interest in native mobile applications. I highly believe in the importance of well crafted user experiences and I like to do Rapid Prototyping and create new stuff. My most recent one is a Facebook photo browser.

I had many years of Computer Science Instruction in High School, participated in many projects including the summer camp at the School of Design at HPI, the sister school of Stanford University. I have always been working on my own projects in unknown territory to broaden my horizon (see above). At BU, I am pursuing the BA/MA program in Computer Science.

Photography has been one of my longest and dearest hobbies. It began simple Family Photography over to HDR Photography and evolving to Event/Nightlife Photography and Fashion/Portrait. Multiple of my photographs have been shown in the underground of Berlin.

With the purchase of my first Canon DSLR, I became interested in the video capabilities of the camera. Soon, my friends and I started making short movies, eventually reaching a second place in a YouTube Contest by the German Parliament.