John Chang is a Taiwanese engineer born in 1978 who currently works for NovaTek in Taiwan. He has over 15 years of experience in multimedia, video compression, and mobile device engineering. He holds 9 patents related to video streaming and multimedia frameworks. At NovaTek, his responsibilities include maintaining Android and Linux multimedia functionality for smart TV projects.

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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: John Chang Gender: Male
Year of Birth: 1978/01/04 Marital Status: Married
Nationality: Taiwan Residence: Taipei
CAREER SUMMARY
A result-driven engineer with solid multimedia knowledge. Eager to study
state-of-art technology. A highly stress resistant worker able to meet urgent
deadline in short time (only spent 1.5 year to get master degree). With good skills to
write technical documents and make presentation. With a personality of being glad
to share knowledge with colleagues.
SKILLS SUMMARY
 Language
 Chinese: good
 English: good in reading/writing, intermediate in listening/speaking
 TOEIC score 835
 Skills:
 X86/ MIPS/ARM architecture
 Linux/Android system
 C/C++/Assembly
 Video compression
 Multimedia framework
 Nuplayer, Stagefright, DirectShow, EXOplayer, GStreamer
 UEFI BIOS
 List of Patents:
 US, 14/616,742 : Storing method and Processing Device Thereof - February 8,
2015
 Taiwan, 103134311: Storing method and Processing Device Thereof - October
1, 2014
 China, 2014105555562.2: Storing method and Processing Device Thereof -
December 17, 2014

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 14/555,720: File search method and image processing device thereof -
November 28, 2014
 Taiwan, 103140628: File search method and image processing device thereof
- October 1, 2014
 China, 201410717924.3: File search method and image processing device
thereof - December 2, 2014
 To be filed soon: Taiwan, China and US: Title - Video Streaming sharing
framework for mobile device, NovaTek
 Other Two patents under preparation.
EMPLOYMENT PERIOD
NovaTek TW 2014/04 – present
Advanced Engineer
 Division: SP (System Platform)
 Report to: Manager
 Handle products :
 TCL smart TV project
 VESTEL smart TV project
 Android Turn Key Solution project
 Responsibilities:
 Maintain Android Turn Key solution Multimedia functionality.
 Streaming: Nuplayer, EXO player, Media Codec.
 Local playback: Stagefright Player
 Feature development: Text search; Tricky playback;
 System performance analysis and improvement.
 Linux Turn Key solution Multimedia functionality
 GStreamer streaming flow
 DASH
 Smooth streaming
 HLS
 DLNA
 MIRACAST

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 Project handling:
 Investigate and survey technologies, high level design and detail level design of
the implementing features, early defeat detection, design review and code
review of other features.
 Customer: TCL & Hisense (China), Vestel(Turkey), TPV(TW), SONY(Japan).
 Sales target : Smart TV product line end users
 Achievement :
 Nine patents (3 individual for US, China and Taiwan each) contributions within
1.5 year (the other two are in preparation); Top one of the SP team among 200
employers.
 Contribution to Android performance improvement for streaming.
 Top one contributor in company’s technical forum of Multimedia domain.
 Android MM lecturer for China Xi-An branch.
 Participated in and brought up the first Turn key Android TV project of
NovaTek for MM functions.
Cambridge Silicon Radio (Merged with Qualcomm) 2012/11 – 2014/4
Application Engineer
 Division: Taiwan Image division
 Report to: Manager
 Handle products:
Nikon Camera product line
Sony Camera product line
Samsung Camera product line
Olympus Camera product line
Fujifilm Camera product line
 Responsibilities:
 Various customers’ projects.
 Video flow owner (including all the functions of record, playback, editor, trick
play, container)
 Project handling:
 Investigate and survey technologies, high level design and detail level design of
the implementing features, early defeat detection, design review and code
review of other features.

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 Sales target:
 Consumer Camera vendors
 Achievement:
 Annual top one issue resolver (2013).
 Assigned to bring up the state of art dual sensor platform at US headquarter
(2013/02)
Ambarella 2011/3 – 2012/10
Multimedia researcher
 Division: Taiwan System Software - Middleware team
 Report to: Manager
 Handle products:
 GoPro Hero series product line
 Kodak DV product line
 Fujifilm product line
 Responsibilities:
 Capture related Middleware functions development
 State of art technology survey
 Project handling:
 Investigate and survey technologies, high level design and detail level design of
the implementing features, early defeat detection, design review and code
review of other features.
 Sales target:
 Consumer Camera vendors
 Achievement:
 Ambarella had great success as a public traded company during my tenure
 GoPro series had become the most popular sport DV product
 Created record related functions
Insyde 2008/9 – 2009/9
BIOS engineer
 Division: Chipset Team

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 Report to: Manager
 Handle products:
AMD notebook chipset functions
Intel notebook chipset functions
 Responsibilities:
 X86 CPU related BIOS functions
 Power saving (ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface )
 EFI BIOS programming
 Project handling:
 Investigate and survey technologies, high level design and detail level design of
the implementing features, early defeat detection, design review and code
review of other features.
 Sales target:
 laptop ODM manufacturers
EDUCATION
 B.S. in Computer Science, National Tsing Hwa University, Taiwan
1998/9 – 2003/6
 M.S. in Computer Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Major in
Multimedia)
2009/9 – 2011/3
 M.S. in Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (Major in
Network; In-service Master's Program)
2014/9 – present