Our People

Chris is an expert on XML and J2EE. Before founding XML Asia in the year of 2000, he had worked as a professor in electrical & electronic engineering at the University of Hong Kong for over 13 years. During that time, he had established a unique Java Centre with Sun Microsystems of California and created two landmark master degree programmes – eCommerce, and Internet Computing. He left the University to take up industry challenges in the design and development of business-critical enterprise application systems. In the past years, Chris has been engaging in numerous consultancy works, offering many IT trainings, and conducting various public seminars.

William is an experienced Java project manager who has worked in the software industry for twenty years. As a founding staff of XMLAsia, he has been taking major roles in establishing and managing the company’s software development and consulting business. In the past years, he has engaged in numerous commercial sectors in investment banking, transportation, telecommunication, media, and government, with all customers at international corporate level. He also runs the company’s development center in ZhuHai, China, and builds the center with high Java caliber specializing in all latest technologies with in depth financial domain knowledge. William has also founded the Hong Kong Java User Group in Y2K and he got a MBA degree from Fudan-Washington Olin EMBA program.

Daisy is responsible for architectural design and software engineering for backend systems, and specialized in enterprise framework development. Having over 7 years of professional experience in system development and IT consultancy, she works closely with our clients to ensure the highest level of program design and technical integrity, and the delivery of quality solutions. Before joining XML-Asia, Daisy has participated in developing large-scale banking system and information security products, and providing security assessment services. Daisy holds a Master of Philosophy degree from the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems of the University of Hong Kong.

Sunny is a recognized Java veteran in Hong Kong. He has over 13 years of experience in consultation, architecture design, development and project management on Java related technologies. Prior to working in XMLAsia, Sunny was a Senior Java Architect in Sun Microsystems, he led global projects in Banking, Finance, Insurance, Government, Telecom and Logistics industries, played key roles in evangelizing new technologies and driving technologies direction, enforcing process and quality, and mentoring technical staff. His specialties include architecture design, development management, performance tuning, Web 2.0 enabling, JavaEE 5.0 migration, EAI, RPG to JavaEE migration, Web Services, SOA, architecture and process assessment & governance. Sunny holds a BSc. in Computer Science from Monash University.

Kenneth is an experienced manager with many years experience in managing projects in financial sector. He received a B.Sc degree from the University of British Columbia and a Master degree in the University of Waterloo. He had experience in leading a CRM project and a lottery-ticketing project during his stay in United States and Canada. His consulting experience in financial services started with implementing a treasury system for Hong Kong Monetary Authority. And he also spent 2 years in Beijing leading another treasury project for HuaXia Bank. Prior joining XMLAsia, Kenneth was a project manager in UBS.

Parker Cheung is an architect with areas of expertise in database technologies, Java, XML, security, digital asset management, capacity planning and financial modeling. Parker received his B.Eng. with First Class Honours and M.Phil. degrees from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining XML Asia, Parker has over 7 years of consulting experiences to banking/finance and government industries during past employment as Consultant in Global Financial Services in Unisys China/Hong Kong Limited and Versitech Limited of the University of Hong Kong respectively.

Frankie Yu becomes our latest elite pool of senior architects with his top expertise in Rich Client architecture and framework design. He received the B.Eng. (Hons) degree in Electronics Engineering at the University of Hong Kong and a M.Sc. from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has devoted in IT development for many industries, with recent emphasis on high-performance front office design for JP Morgan. In spare time, Frankie also contributes to the “NatTable” open-source project to create the most advanced data table model specially catered for securities trading.