Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award Winner Joins Company-X
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award Winner Joins Company-X
HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND: An award-winning
expert in Microsoft and Unity 3D, 2D, augmented and virtual
reality technologies has joined New Zealand Agile software
specialist Company-X.
Five-time winner of the
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Developer Technologies
award, Jiadong Chen, recently joined Company-X.
Chen
is one of 3,000 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award
winners internationally, recognised by Microsoft as one of
the technology industry’s best and brightest five years in
a row.
Nominations for the award are made by Microsoft
executives and existing winners.
Chen’s awards
recognise his passion for technology, willingness to help
others, and commitment to the international technology
community.
Award recipients have the opportunity to
meet Microsoft executives, network with peers, and position
themselves as technical community leaders through speaking
engagements, one on one customer event participation and
technical content development.
MVPs also receive early
access to Microsoft technology.
“It helps other
people recognise your value,” Chen said of the award.
“It’s recognition from Microsoft.”
Chen is adept
in the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service for building,
testing, deploying and managing applications through
Microsoft data centres.
He is also a Microsoft
Certified Azure Developer Associate and holds a Microsoft
Azure Fundamentals certificate.
Chen joined Company-X
from Unity, the creator of the world’s most widely-used
2D, 3D, augmented and virtual reality development platform,
where he worked as a field engineer.
“I was based in
Beijing before I moved to New Zealand,” Chen said. “In
this job we provided support to all of our
customers.”
Chen’s clients included the world’s
largest video game vendor Tencent, based in Shenzhen,
China.
“I would do project reviews to weed out
problems they encountered. Sometimes we needed to customise
the Unity engine to meet their
requirements.
“Originally Unity was a game
engine.
“It is a general purpose development
platform so you can do whatever you want. Currently Unity is
focussing on architecture, engineering and
construction.
“The architecture industry is using
Unity to develop their virtual reality (VR) application or
augmented reality (AR) application to help them design
buildings. There are some other industries, such as the
automotive industry, using Unity to design car prototypes
and render a 3D model.”
Chen, who graduated from
Dalian Maritime University in Liaoning, China, with a
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Information Science
and Technology in 2012, is also the author of the 2016 book
Unity 3D which has sold 15,000 copies in print and
eBook editions.
Chen has presented at both the
Microsoft Ignite and Unite conferences.
“I want to
share knowledge,” Chen said.
He is also a regular
technology blogger, posting at http://www.jiadongchen.com/
“On
the other hand writing a blog and writing books can improve
my own capabilities, so I like to write blogs to share
knowledge with the community.
“I like to do personal
projects in my own time,” Chen said.
“Sometimes I
may look for new ideas and I want to implement the idea, so
I will research documents and knowledge and implement it
myself and write something to record it and share the
knowledge with the community.
“I believe technology
creators can make the world a better place, and Company-X
has the same ethos that aligns perfectly with my personal
mission, which is why I am so excited to be a part of the
team,” Chen said.
Company-X augmented and virtual
reality specialist Lance Bauerfeind said Chen was already
making a difference at Company-X
“We are extremely
excited to have Jiadong on the team. He has already had a
positive impact on the projects he is working
on.”
About Company-X
Company-X offers
Silicon Valley level software savvy delivered with a Kiwi
can-do attitude.
Founded in 2012 by software
specialists David Hallett and Jeremy Hughes, Company-X
immediately won contracts with New Zealand government
departments and a Silicon Valley multinational.
The
team has grown to nearly 60 New Zealand-based software
specialists, with only the best and brightest passing the
Company-X interview and assessment process.
The
Company-X team prides itself with experience in a wide range
of technologies and languages and loves challenging
problems.
Company-X is the first Australasian reseller
of RealWear head-mounted tablets.
Company-X ranked on
the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ Asia Pacific, a list of
the fastest-growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific
region, in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Company-X has won
many awards:
- The Independent Software Vendor
Award at the Reseller News Innovation Awards 2020 for
state-of-the-art software that turns text into human-like
audio files at a fraction of the cost of booking a voice
artist, recording studio and sound engineer. - The
Independent Software Vendor Award at the Reseller News
Innovation Awards 2019 for a hands-free auditing application
developed for AsureQuality. - The Service Excellence
and Global Operator awards at the Westpac Waikato Business
Awards in 2018. - The Services Exporter of the Year
category at the Air New Zealand Cargo ExportNZ Awards
2017. - The Homegrown Innovators Independent Software
Vendors Award at the Reseller News ICT Industry Awards
2017. - The Roading Asset Management Innovation Award
at the Road Infrastructure Management Forum in 2017 for the
One Network Road Classification Performance Measures
Reporting Tool built for the New Zealand transport
sector.
Published at Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:03:45 +0000
