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Yu-Peng (Alan) Yu
Mobile:886-9-88-538-247 Email:supreme727@gmail.com
Address: No.22-1, Aly. 9, Ln. 309, Minghu Rd., East Dist., Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan
Education
 National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City, Taiwan
M.B.A., Human Resource Development │ Sep., 2011-Jan., 2014
 Radford University, Virginia, United States
Exchange Student Program │ Aug., 2013-Dec., 2013
 National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung County, Taiwan
B.A., Modern Languages │ Sep., 2007-June, 2011
Academic Performance
 Radford University Dean’s List
 Master Thesis (Collaboration with Chun Hsin Ltd.)
-「The Relationship Between Language Anxiety and Employability: The Moderating
Effect of English Proficiency」
 Monographic Study in college
-「The Translation and Analysis of Divination lots in Lungshan Temple」
Working Experience
 Corporal, Counseling Center, National Conscription Agency, Ministry of the Interior
 Counselled with draftees having problem adjusting in troops
 Coped with administrative work and contacted with officers in National Conscription Agency.
 Facilitator, 2012 Intercultural Competence Development Workshop, National Academy of Civil Service
 Prepared academic materials related to intercultural communication.
 Guided civil servants to proceed group discussion in English.
 Played as a main character in a intercultural-issued drama.
 Proctor, General Scholastic Ability Test, College Entrance Examination Center │2012-2013
 Intern in Human Resource Department, Pou Chen Group (PCG) │July, 2012-Aug., 2012
 Executed training project to improve Vietnamese internal lecturers’ teaching method and media.
 Coped with film-editing when it came to sport events such as race.
 Examined sneakers quality and decorated the factories when there were inspection from customers.
 Teaching Assistant, Dr. Chih-Chien Steven Lai│Sep., 2011-June, 2012
 Teaching Assistant, Dr. Yi-Chun Jane Lin│Jan., 2013-Jan., 2014
 Staff, 2011 & 2012 International Conference on HRD, IHRD, NTNU │ Oct., 2011 & Nov., 2012
 Took charge of A/V equipment and made slides of agenda.
 Made a video for closing ceremony .
 Recording a press release.
 Staff, International Conference on HRD in the Public Sector, Civil Service Protection & Training
Commission │Oct., 2011
 Dealt with the setup of conference hall and emergency .
 Project Translator, Pingtung County Government │May, 2011-Nov., 2011
 Translated menu from local restaurants and shops and filmed English tutoring into twenty clips.
 Private English Tutor │June, 2011-Nov., 2011
 Proctor, English 101 Final Exam, NPUST │Jan, 2011
 Teaching Assistant, NPUST │2010- 2011
 Taught non-English-major college students English writing, listening, and grammar.
 Proceeded TOEIC training program with professors.
Contest
 Impromptu Speech in 2010 Wenzao Cup, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung.
Activities
 Coordinator, Human Resource Association, IHRD, NTNU (March, 2012-Jan., 2013)
 Distributed all the tasks to proceed each speech
 Contacted with senior managers or HR specialists to be the speaker in companies
 Invited Chris Su (HR Head from Standard Chartered Bank) as the speaker in May, 2012
 Secretary, Association of Cross-cultural Training, IHRD, NTNU (Sep., 2012-Jan., 2013)
 Dealt with member recruiting, holding important meetings, meeting recording.
 Coordinator, Alumni Association, DML, NPUST (Nov., 2012-Nov., 2014)
 Contacted with alumni and promoted annual alumni gathering, and divided the tasks to hold the
gathering meeting.
 Captain, Volleyball Team of DML, NPUST (Jan., 2008-June, 2010)
 Suffered the problem of team dismissing due to the number of team member, solve it by gathering
other classmates by promoting, resulted in increasing the number from six to twelve people.
 Joint the 2009 Annual Volley Ball Contest for English-Related Collegiate Departments in Shih-Shin
University in February, 2009.
 Joint the 2009 Annual Volley Ball Contest for English-Related Collegiate Departments in Southern
Taiwan in NKFUST in May, 2010, and won the fourth prize.
 Deputy of Activity Planning, DML, NPUST (Dec., 2008-Dec, 2009)
 Sponsored by PCA Life Taiwan, Gseven, and Pintung County Public health Bureau, Cooperated with
Hotel and Restaurant Management Department, Vehicle Engineering Department, and Biological
Science and Technology Department to hold a beach party, aimed to promote “no drug abuse in party”
due to there were lots of drug-abuse cases in Kenting for Spring Scream Concert.
 Took a charge of director, screenwriter, and sounds effect in a situational drama in front of more than
400 audiences.
 Activity Planning Group, Cross-departmental Welcome Camp, NPUST (July, 2008-Oct., 2009)
 Cooperated with Mechanical Engineering Department, Business Administration Department, and Soil
and Water Conservation Department to hold a two-day welcome camp with more than 500
participants.
 Participated in dancing and acting performance, discussed the design with junior classmates and
classmates.
Certificate
 TOEIC: 855
 TOEFL iBT: 88
 GEPT High-Intermediate Level
 EMT-1
Biography
Every one eager to be successful is possessed with a unique story, and the following part goes mine. I
am Yu-Peng Yu from Hsinchu City, the satellite town located between Taipei and Taichung with a well-known
science park in it. One thing makes me different from others is not the city I live in but my family. My parents
educate my little sister and I with the freedom that we should not achieve a hundred-percent success on
academic but leave twenty percent for our interests and whatever that makes us fun in childhood. Thus, I am so
grateful my parents do not want me become a bookworm that strive for good grades by staring at those
textbooks without a blink. I got more times hanging out with my friends, taking exercises, playing hoops and
enjoying movies. Thanks for their education with freedom, I got more time dealing with networking, health,
and explore what our hobbies are, which I think one of the most important things in childhood, or even in
adulthood in the future.
For my education, I would like to skip into the phase I attended college because my years in college are
the most colorful and brilliant in my whole student careers. I would say there are many “first time” during these
four years, including presentation, conducting group work, acting and debating in the class. Furthermore,
during the career in college, I was the deputy of activity planning in the department of college, member of
activity planning in cross-departmental welcome camp for freshmen, captain of departmental volleyball team,
and teaching assistant in English classes for those who are not English-majored students. Not only has the
experience in formal association but also the one in dynamic association enriched my college career to gain my
experience in dealing with administration stuff and help my networking to be more plentiful. After the
graduation from the college, I chose International Human Resource Department in National Taiwan Normal
University because all the classes were proceeded in English. I thought I could still discipline English and
absorb knowledge about Business Administration and Human Resource. On the second semester of graduate
school, I was privileged to have an internship in a Nike sneaker manufactory owned by Pou Chen Group. I got a
project to improve interior lecturer’s teaching quality and teaching material. Besides, in my career of graduate
school, there are many seminars I’ve attended as a staff, for example, assisting Civil Service Protection &
Training Commission to hold the Seminar of Human Resource Development for Civil Service in 2011, and
being a lecturer for culture issue on International Vision Workshop from National Academy of Civil Service.
The experience I have been through as a staff in those seminars mentioned above makes me realize a proverb
states, “one minute of performance on stage, ten years of hard work off stage.” With every division and task
that staff takes charge of beforehand, the only purpose is to present the seminar successfully and perfectly.
Before the graduation of graduate school, I made up my mind to attend the exchange program in our
school to Radford University in Virginia, United States to be an exchange student since studying and traveling
abroad in U.S. are one of my dreams, and it really came true! I still remember the night I got the journey started.
Arriving at the airport, grabbing my luggage, and geared up my backpack with some bags on my hands, I saw
more ten of my friends have already arrived at the lobby of airport. I would say that was the most surprised
moment in my life, ever! Because I was told that they were all busy individually that couldn’t make it to see me
until next year. Anyway, they got me though. To say goodbye with your family and friends and travel alone
take some courage, really. The loneliness soon went over my whole body as soon as I stepped into customs. I
knew that passing through this entrance means the lone journey has already begun, which also means I got one
more step closer to my dream. When I arrived in Virginia, I would say it was a typical countryside in the U.S.
There were rare Asian people around Virginia but Americans from West Virginia, Fairfax, or. What is more
interesting, some of students never leave Virginia or never take a train to go somewhere else. Since I was in a
place that Asian people were minority, I had to force myself to speak English all the time and all the places.
That was the major purpose that I was here, to sharpen speaking and listening in English. During these nearly
six months, I quite learned what the differences were between American students and Taiwanese students. First,
Taiwanese students merely ask questions on classes or interact with professors and lecturers, while students in
the U.S. do the other way around, they ask questions and answer what professors and lecturers ask even in the
early-morning classes. Second, they tend to crack jokes on others, not malicious ones. You could also crack
kind ones on them, they will smile on it. Third, working out seems to be one of their essential daily routines.
Those customs quite differ from we have in Taiwan.
After coming back from the U.S., I was about to go into army. However, I did not choose to join the real
military service as my obligation, I chose Substitute Military Services (SMS) instead. It is commonly thought
that SMS is much easier than the ordinary military service; however, they do not know there is an unit on SMS
called the Carde Training Company (幹訓隊). According to my commissioner who is a professional soldier, he
said that the Carde Training Company on SMS was tougher than the one on military service, not physically but
mentally. That’s because we had so many rules to follow during the training session, including not making any
noise on dinning, being careful on learning and drilling the Carde-relevant skills. If you fail to follow, there are
possibilities that you could take late day-offs. After being trained on the Carde Training Company for two
months, I was chosen to be the carde in the Counseling Center in Cheng Kung Camp for the rest of my military
service career. There were always challenges there in the Counseling Center since every man serving the SMS
was from the freedom world outside. To be “physically prisoned”, it always a difficulty for them since couple
days ago they were whole free man. Most of draftees had problems such as unable to cope with being scolded
from those cardes in their units, or failing to get adjusted in team-building life, or either some physical or
mental traumas. Our main task as a member in the Counseling Center is to assure every draftee’s safe from
hurting themselves or doing something wrong. Basically, in the daytime we had professional counseling
psychologists or social workers from Teacher Chang Foundation to comfort the draftees who needed help and
psychological consultation. If draftees occurred to be emotionally unstable at night when there were no
counseling psychologists or social workers on the camp, we needed to step on the frontline to comfort them and
understand the reason why causing this. I met couple cases during these nine months in the Counseling Center,
and fortunately got their calmed and did not do something that hurt themselves or others. It was the time that I
began to have conversations with people I did not know but needed immediate and sincere comfort or just
needed somebody to talk in order to let things out. That was quite an experience I would not have had if I did
not serve my obligated military service as a SMS carde in Counseling Center in Cheng Kung Camp.

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  • 1. Yu-Peng (Alan) Yu Mobile:886-9-88-538-247 Email:supreme727@gmail.com Address: No.22-1, Aly. 9, Ln. 309, Minghu Rd., East Dist., Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan Education  National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City, Taiwan M.B.A., Human Resource Development │ Sep., 2011-Jan., 2014  Radford University, Virginia, United States Exchange Student Program │ Aug., 2013-Dec., 2013  National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung County, Taiwan B.A., Modern Languages │ Sep., 2007-June, 2011 Academic Performance  Radford University Dean’s List  Master Thesis (Collaboration with Chun Hsin Ltd.) -「The Relationship Between Language Anxiety and Employability: The Moderating Effect of English Proficiency」  Monographic Study in college -「The Translation and Analysis of Divination lots in Lungshan Temple」 Working Experience  Corporal, Counseling Center, National Conscription Agency, Ministry of the Interior  Counselled with draftees having problem adjusting in troops  Coped with administrative work and contacted with officers in National Conscription Agency.  Facilitator, 2012 Intercultural Competence Development Workshop, National Academy of Civil Service  Prepared academic materials related to intercultural communication.  Guided civil servants to proceed group discussion in English.  Played as a main character in a intercultural-issued drama.  Proctor, General Scholastic Ability Test, College Entrance Examination Center │2012-2013  Intern in Human Resource Department, Pou Chen Group (PCG) │July, 2012-Aug., 2012  Executed training project to improve Vietnamese internal lecturers’ teaching method and media.  Coped with film-editing when it came to sport events such as race.  Examined sneakers quality and decorated the factories when there were inspection from customers.  Teaching Assistant, Dr. Chih-Chien Steven Lai│Sep., 2011-June, 2012  Teaching Assistant, Dr. Yi-Chun Jane Lin│Jan., 2013-Jan., 2014  Staff, 2011 & 2012 International Conference on HRD, IHRD, NTNU │ Oct., 2011 & Nov., 2012  Took charge of A/V equipment and made slides of agenda.  Made a video for closing ceremony .  Recording a press release.  Staff, International Conference on HRD in the Public Sector, Civil Service Protection & Training Commission │Oct., 2011  Dealt with the setup of conference hall and emergency .  Project Translator, Pingtung County Government │May, 2011-Nov., 2011  Translated menu from local restaurants and shops and filmed English tutoring into twenty clips.  Private English Tutor │June, 2011-Nov., 2011  Proctor, English 101 Final Exam, NPUST │Jan, 2011  Teaching Assistant, NPUST │2010- 2011  Taught non-English-major college students English writing, listening, and grammar.  Proceeded TOEIC training program with professors.
  • 2. Contest  Impromptu Speech in 2010 Wenzao Cup, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung. Activities  Coordinator, Human Resource Association, IHRD, NTNU (March, 2012-Jan., 2013)  Distributed all the tasks to proceed each speech  Contacted with senior managers or HR specialists to be the speaker in companies  Invited Chris Su (HR Head from Standard Chartered Bank) as the speaker in May, 2012  Secretary, Association of Cross-cultural Training, IHRD, NTNU (Sep., 2012-Jan., 2013)  Dealt with member recruiting, holding important meetings, meeting recording.  Coordinator, Alumni Association, DML, NPUST (Nov., 2012-Nov., 2014)  Contacted with alumni and promoted annual alumni gathering, and divided the tasks to hold the gathering meeting.  Captain, Volleyball Team of DML, NPUST (Jan., 2008-June, 2010)  Suffered the problem of team dismissing due to the number of team member, solve it by gathering other classmates by promoting, resulted in increasing the number from six to twelve people.  Joint the 2009 Annual Volley Ball Contest for English-Related Collegiate Departments in Shih-Shin University in February, 2009.  Joint the 2009 Annual Volley Ball Contest for English-Related Collegiate Departments in Southern Taiwan in NKFUST in May, 2010, and won the fourth prize.  Deputy of Activity Planning, DML, NPUST (Dec., 2008-Dec, 2009)  Sponsored by PCA Life Taiwan, Gseven, and Pintung County Public health Bureau, Cooperated with Hotel and Restaurant Management Department, Vehicle Engineering Department, and Biological Science and Technology Department to hold a beach party, aimed to promote “no drug abuse in party” due to there were lots of drug-abuse cases in Kenting for Spring Scream Concert.  Took a charge of director, screenwriter, and sounds effect in a situational drama in front of more than 400 audiences.  Activity Planning Group, Cross-departmental Welcome Camp, NPUST (July, 2008-Oct., 2009)  Cooperated with Mechanical Engineering Department, Business Administration Department, and Soil and Water Conservation Department to hold a two-day welcome camp with more than 500 participants.  Participated in dancing and acting performance, discussed the design with junior classmates and classmates. Certificate  TOEIC: 855  TOEFL iBT: 88  GEPT High-Intermediate Level  EMT-1
  • 3. Biography Every one eager to be successful is possessed with a unique story, and the following part goes mine. I am Yu-Peng Yu from Hsinchu City, the satellite town located between Taipei and Taichung with a well-known science park in it. One thing makes me different from others is not the city I live in but my family. My parents educate my little sister and I with the freedom that we should not achieve a hundred-percent success on academic but leave twenty percent for our interests and whatever that makes us fun in childhood. Thus, I am so grateful my parents do not want me become a bookworm that strive for good grades by staring at those textbooks without a blink. I got more times hanging out with my friends, taking exercises, playing hoops and enjoying movies. Thanks for their education with freedom, I got more time dealing with networking, health, and explore what our hobbies are, which I think one of the most important things in childhood, or even in adulthood in the future. For my education, I would like to skip into the phase I attended college because my years in college are the most colorful and brilliant in my whole student careers. I would say there are many “first time” during these four years, including presentation, conducting group work, acting and debating in the class. Furthermore, during the career in college, I was the deputy of activity planning in the department of college, member of activity planning in cross-departmental welcome camp for freshmen, captain of departmental volleyball team, and teaching assistant in English classes for those who are not English-majored students. Not only has the experience in formal association but also the one in dynamic association enriched my college career to gain my experience in dealing with administration stuff and help my networking to be more plentiful. After the graduation from the college, I chose International Human Resource Department in National Taiwan Normal University because all the classes were proceeded in English. I thought I could still discipline English and absorb knowledge about Business Administration and Human Resource. On the second semester of graduate school, I was privileged to have an internship in a Nike sneaker manufactory owned by Pou Chen Group. I got a project to improve interior lecturer’s teaching quality and teaching material. Besides, in my career of graduate school, there are many seminars I’ve attended as a staff, for example, assisting Civil Service Protection & Training Commission to hold the Seminar of Human Resource Development for Civil Service in 2011, and being a lecturer for culture issue on International Vision Workshop from National Academy of Civil Service. The experience I have been through as a staff in those seminars mentioned above makes me realize a proverb states, “one minute of performance on stage, ten years of hard work off stage.” With every division and task that staff takes charge of beforehand, the only purpose is to present the seminar successfully and perfectly. Before the graduation of graduate school, I made up my mind to attend the exchange program in our school to Radford University in Virginia, United States to be an exchange student since studying and traveling abroad in U.S. are one of my dreams, and it really came true! I still remember the night I got the journey started. Arriving at the airport, grabbing my luggage, and geared up my backpack with some bags on my hands, I saw more ten of my friends have already arrived at the lobby of airport. I would say that was the most surprised moment in my life, ever! Because I was told that they were all busy individually that couldn’t make it to see me until next year. Anyway, they got me though. To say goodbye with your family and friends and travel alone take some courage, really. The loneliness soon went over my whole body as soon as I stepped into customs. I knew that passing through this entrance means the lone journey has already begun, which also means I got one more step closer to my dream. When I arrived in Virginia, I would say it was a typical countryside in the U.S. There were rare Asian people around Virginia but Americans from West Virginia, Fairfax, or. What is more interesting, some of students never leave Virginia or never take a train to go somewhere else. Since I was in a place that Asian people were minority, I had to force myself to speak English all the time and all the places. That was the major purpose that I was here, to sharpen speaking and listening in English. During these nearly
  • 4. six months, I quite learned what the differences were between American students and Taiwanese students. First, Taiwanese students merely ask questions on classes or interact with professors and lecturers, while students in the U.S. do the other way around, they ask questions and answer what professors and lecturers ask even in the early-morning classes. Second, they tend to crack jokes on others, not malicious ones. You could also crack kind ones on them, they will smile on it. Third, working out seems to be one of their essential daily routines. Those customs quite differ from we have in Taiwan. After coming back from the U.S., I was about to go into army. However, I did not choose to join the real military service as my obligation, I chose Substitute Military Services (SMS) instead. It is commonly thought that SMS is much easier than the ordinary military service; however, they do not know there is an unit on SMS called the Carde Training Company (幹訓隊). According to my commissioner who is a professional soldier, he said that the Carde Training Company on SMS was tougher than the one on military service, not physically but mentally. That’s because we had so many rules to follow during the training session, including not making any noise on dinning, being careful on learning and drilling the Carde-relevant skills. If you fail to follow, there are possibilities that you could take late day-offs. After being trained on the Carde Training Company for two months, I was chosen to be the carde in the Counseling Center in Cheng Kung Camp for the rest of my military service career. There were always challenges there in the Counseling Center since every man serving the SMS was from the freedom world outside. To be “physically prisoned”, it always a difficulty for them since couple days ago they were whole free man. Most of draftees had problems such as unable to cope with being scolded from those cardes in their units, or failing to get adjusted in team-building life, or either some physical or mental traumas. Our main task as a member in the Counseling Center is to assure every draftee’s safe from hurting themselves or doing something wrong. Basically, in the daytime we had professional counseling psychologists or social workers from Teacher Chang Foundation to comfort the draftees who needed help and psychological consultation. If draftees occurred to be emotionally unstable at night when there were no counseling psychologists or social workers on the camp, we needed to step on the frontline to comfort them and understand the reason why causing this. I met couple cases during these nine months in the Counseling Center, and fortunately got their calmed and did not do something that hurt themselves or others. It was the time that I began to have conversations with people I did not know but needed immediate and sincere comfort or just needed somebody to talk in order to let things out. That was quite an experience I would not have had if I did not serve my obligated military service as a SMS carde in Counseling Center in Cheng Kung Camp.