From what I've understood, reenforced leather, with rings or with studs, is a much later invention, probably invented somewhere in the height of the heavy metal era (1970-1980 or so). Most likely, this myth comes from old illustrations with shirts with large rings, but there are no preserved examples or archeological evidence, so the current theory is that the artist has just drawn a symbolical chain mail, somewhat like how the people in Dilbert are symbolical representations of people rather than accurate depictions of them.
To continue the theme of medieval armour and symbolical depictions of them creating myths, we have two more such myths:
* Helmet cleaving.
* Longbows piercing plate.
Both of these simple do not happen. The helmets where too strong to be cut by a sword or even an axe, and a longbow arrow will not pierce a plate armour.
Once again, this probably comes from artistic depictions from artists who were not there when the event happened. So, they get a description like "Our arrows rained down over the French and pierced them like roast pigs!" or "We cut their heads open with our swords!", the artist, who was likely getting paid for making it look impressive, painted what they told him.
Tests, however, has shown that evan an axe will only dent a helmet, although the hit might cause a concussion, hemorrage or a crushed spine. Tests have also shown that even under the best of conditions, the arrow from a long bow will not pierce plate armour. Even if it hits straight on, it will just splinter. Not even a modern compound bow with composite arrows will pierce plate, not even at practically point blank range. At the height of its popularity, the plate armour had around 5 mm thick chest plates and helmets, of high quality tempered steel, and it was rounded and sloped so that hits would glance off it. That's enough to stop many modern bullets.
So, how come that the longbow is such a devastating weapon, as shown at Agincourt? Well, for fighting army against army, formation is everything. Hold the line and the enemy will have problems attacking you effectively, while a disordered charged will be ground down against a well formed formation. So, while the sides are setting up their formations, preparing for battle, the arrows rain down over the troops. They are not devastating, as the troops can hide behind shields (one must also remember that most of the foot soldiers had little or no armour), but every now and then, someone (soldier or horse) gets hit. The troops see this and become restless. They don't want to just stand around and die, and they don't know that the rest of the army may not be ready. Once they get nervous enough, they will charge prematurely. Even worse, every arrow that missed is now a thin skewer sticking out of the ground, which will injure feet and hooves of anyone who steps on it as it breaks off, creating further confusion and disruptions. So instead of getting an ordered advance against the enemy, we get a disordered charge where the troops arrive a few at the time at the enemy lines, instead of all at once, and quickly get cut down.
I even have a friend who speculates that full body armour might be coming back, as more powerful weapons are becoming less practical and new materials make such armour viable. He imagined something not unlike a medieval armour, but made out of modern materials like composites, kevlar and ceramics. Think about something like a downhill skiing boot, but full body and tougher materials. It would protect the wearer not only from small arms fire, but would also give an excellent protection against shrapnel and even incendaries. Add to this the possibilities to add such modern things as communications, navigation, night vision, monitoring, breath masks and so on, and you'll soon have a modern knight.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Adaptation
Overview
Eleven years Information Technology experience. Eight years in project manager roles. Four years of business system analysis, solutions architecture and development experience.
Thorough understanding of project management knowledge areas.
Extensive experience in development and delivery of small, medium and large projects across all phases of the project life cycle.
Excellent leadership, communication, technical writing and product development skills.
Effective analysis and multiple project management skills.
Capable technology translator, proficient in appropriate adaptation of existing and emerging technologies.
Experience in Banking, e-Commerce, e-Marketing, Licensing industries.
Education University of Kent, UK (September 2003 to September 2004)
Major: MBA in E-Business
LiXin Accounting Institute, Shanghai, China (September 1996 to July 1999)
Major: Westen Accounting
Working Experience
10/2005 – Present The Walt Disney Company (Shanghai) Ltd.
Sr. Business System Analyst (Key Account Manager in e-Business of Asia Pacific)
* As a role of Key Account Manager to manage the relationship of key accounts, other stakeholders in Asia Pacific.
* Work with all lines of business to identify the perspectives and new demands of key accounts and provide meaningful qualitative and quantitative analysis.
*Manage all aspects of client engagement issues, project initiation and planning, project management and tracking, risk controlling and monitoring, issue escalation and resolution, and project closeout.
*To define and manage the training processes/programs, and conduct system training regularly.
*Improved information visibility and stakeholders’ communication through business intelligence system and/or regular reports.
8.2001 – 7. 2003 AdXplorer Multimedia Co., Ltd., Shanghai Branch
Project Manager
Responsibilities: * As a role of Project Manager to help clients to fulfill e-commerce/e-marketing strategy development, industry analysis and appropriate full-scope solutions integration.
* Analyzing clients requirement and translating to team members, completing developing reports
* Focusing on online brand building, on/offline resources strategic integration, and website performance optimization.
* Helping clients to do marketing/customer behaviors research with website tracking and statistic reports, and fulfilling further strategic consultation.
* Managing processes of the layout infrastructures of online business with offline development
* Managing the processes of e-commerce implementation, and consult the business process and layout front/back-end systems for various clients with different requirements.
* Coordinating with other departments to implement projects.
* Managing multi-project at the same time.
* Keeping/developing good relationship with external alliances, suppliers, clients and internal individual departments.
Achievement:
D-Room File sharing System
OPA Online Product Approval System
Artwork Style Guide Sharing System
Portal of B2B DisneyConsumerProducts.com (portal of B2B)
E-direct Email List Deliver System
E-coupon Digital Coupon Deliver System
CMS Content Management System
CTS Customer Tracking System
ESMS Enterprise Short Message System
AMS Administration Management System
Web Dynamic Web Content Inquiry System
TMS Tracking Management System
http://www.polocars.com
for SAIC-Volkswagen sales Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
http://www.1757.com.cn
for Unilever Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
http://www.5170.com.cn
for F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. Shanghai Branch
http://www.wyethbb.com.cn
http://www.qoo.com.cn/
for CocoCola
http://babycgi.sina.com.cn/j.html
for Joanson & Joanson
http://mobile.eastcom.com
In above projects, I was in charge of client consulting, requirement analysis, on/offline business processes integration design, project detail planning, resources allocation, project implementation, quality management/control, multi-department coordination and performance evaluation, analysis reporting.
4.2000 - 8.2001 Edgemont Solution Asia Co., Ltd., Shanghai Branch (Shanghai.com + Beijing.com)
Project Manager
Responsibilities: Play a role as a project manager, to lead and supervise my team coding web applications based on Linux Platform
* Analysis project requirements
* Layout the flowchart, schedule, and details of projects.
* Manage and participate the works of coding, testing and installation projects with my team.
* Consulting for the clients to optimize website programs, online processes and databases.
Achievement:
CMS WEB Site Content Management & Back-End System ( Linux + PHP + MySql + Apache ), which is a background management system, that provides features such as homepage content, data input and management, images, URL layout, web channel management. It also has the feature to produce web sites in batch by this system.
Web Calendar ( Linux + JAVA Servlet + MySql + Jserver + JSDK + Apache ) provides personal and group schedule settings, ICQ and email reminders, calendar events sharing between group members, and calendar events chart displays
3.1997 - 4.2000 The Industrial Bank of Japan Ltd., Shanghai Branch
System Administrator
* Establishment of the branch Intranet, development of web based internal foreign currency exchange rate historical inquiry. (Reduce cost of RMB 0.2 Million)
* Develop accounting reporting systems. (Enhanced time-reduce 80%)
* New finance and banking application software installations and maintenance, Internal staff IT training.
* Daily, monthly/annual accounting report backups, settlement and related program coding.
3.1997 - 3.1998 Accountant (Accounting Department)
* Programming accounting reporting system
* Preparing foreign currency overnight exchange, calculating foreign exchange reserve interest
* Reporting financial information to China central bank.
6.1994 - 3.1997 Trust Investment Co., Ltd. of Shen Yang Province, Shanghai Branch
Accountant
* Daily remittance transaction handling, data processing, clients’ reception, etc
Personal Profiles: Excellent in web based application program development and integration. Good communication skills and organization management experience. Strong understands skills of business strategy and marketing development. Fast learning capability and motivation spirit.
IT Skill
OS WinNT; Linux
Web Server IIS; Apache; Tomcat; Weblogic
Database SQL Server; MySQL; SQL Language
Interface HTML; XML; Flash; JavaScript; VBScript; Action Script; CSS
Programming Language ASP; PHP; JSP; Java Servlet; OOP; JavaBean; JDBC; ODBC
Tools Jbuilder; WebSphere Studio; Interdev; Dreamweaver; Flash; Firework
Language Fluent English, Native speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese
Eleven years Information Technology experience. Eight years in project manager roles. Four years of business system analysis, solutions architecture and development experience.
Thorough understanding of project management knowledge areas.
Extensive experience in development and delivery of small, medium and large projects across all phases of the project life cycle.
Excellent leadership, communication, technical writing and product development skills.
Effective analysis and multiple project management skills.
Capable technology translator, proficient in appropriate adaptation of existing and emerging technologies.
Experience in Banking, e-Commerce, e-Marketing, Licensing industries.
Education University of Kent, UK (September 2003 to September 2004)
Major: MBA in E-Business
LiXin Accounting Institute, Shanghai, China (September 1996 to July 1999)
Major: Westen Accounting
Working Experience
10/2005 – Present The Walt Disney Company (Shanghai) Ltd.
Sr. Business System Analyst (Key Account Manager in e-Business of Asia Pacific)
* As a role of Key Account Manager to manage the relationship of key accounts, other stakeholders in Asia Pacific.
* Work with all lines of business to identify the perspectives and new demands of key accounts and provide meaningful qualitative and quantitative analysis.
*Manage all aspects of client engagement issues, project initiation and planning, project management and tracking, risk controlling and monitoring, issue escalation and resolution, and project closeout.
*To define and manage the training processes/programs, and conduct system training regularly.
*Improved information visibility and stakeholders’ communication through business intelligence system and/or regular reports.
8.2001 – 7. 2003 AdXplorer Multimedia Co., Ltd., Shanghai Branch
Project Manager
Responsibilities: * As a role of Project Manager to help clients to fulfill e-commerce/e-marketing strategy development, industry analysis and appropriate full-scope solutions integration.
* Analyzing clients requirement and translating to team members, completing developing reports
* Focusing on online brand building, on/offline resources strategic integration, and website performance optimization.
* Helping clients to do marketing/customer behaviors research with website tracking and statistic reports, and fulfilling further strategic consultation.
* Managing processes of the layout infrastructures of online business with offline development
* Managing the processes of e-commerce implementation, and consult the business process and layout front/back-end systems for various clients with different requirements.
* Coordinating with other departments to implement projects.
* Managing multi-project at the same time.
* Keeping/developing good relationship with external alliances, suppliers, clients and internal individual departments.
Achievement:
D-Room File sharing System
OPA Online Product Approval System
Artwork Style Guide Sharing System
Portal of B2B DisneyConsumerProducts.com (portal of B2B)
E-direct Email List Deliver System
E-coupon Digital Coupon Deliver System
CMS Content Management System
CTS Customer Tracking System
ESMS Enterprise Short Message System
AMS Administration Management System
Web Dynamic Web Content Inquiry System
TMS Tracking Management System
http://www.polocars.com
for SAIC-Volkswagen sales Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
http://www.1757.com.cn
for Unilever Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
http://www.5170.com.cn
for F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. Shanghai Branch
http://www.wyethbb.com.cn
http://www.qoo.com.cn/
for CocoCola
http://babycgi.sina.com.cn/j.html
for Joanson & Joanson
http://mobile.eastcom.com
In above projects, I was in charge of client consulting, requirement analysis, on/offline business processes integration design, project detail planning, resources allocation, project implementation, quality management/control, multi-department coordination and performance evaluation, analysis reporting.
4.2000 - 8.2001 Edgemont Solution Asia Co., Ltd., Shanghai Branch (Shanghai.com + Beijing.com)
Project Manager
Responsibilities: Play a role as a project manager, to lead and supervise my team coding web applications based on Linux Platform
* Analysis project requirements
* Layout the flowchart, schedule, and details of projects.
* Manage and participate the works of coding, testing and installation projects with my team.
* Consulting for the clients to optimize website programs, online processes and databases.
Achievement:
CMS WEB Site Content Management & Back-End System ( Linux + PHP + MySql + Apache ), which is a background management system, that provides features such as homepage content, data input and management, images, URL layout, web channel management. It also has the feature to produce web sites in batch by this system.
Web Calendar ( Linux + JAVA Servlet + MySql + Jserver + JSDK + Apache ) provides personal and group schedule settings, ICQ and email reminders, calendar events sharing between group members, and calendar events chart displays
3.1997 - 4.2000 The Industrial Bank of Japan Ltd., Shanghai Branch
System Administrator
* Establishment of the branch Intranet, development of web based internal foreign currency exchange rate historical inquiry. (Reduce cost of RMB 0.2 Million)
* Develop accounting reporting systems. (Enhanced time-reduce 80%)
* New finance and banking application software installations and maintenance, Internal staff IT training.
* Daily, monthly/annual accounting report backups, settlement and related program coding.
3.1997 - 3.1998 Accountant (Accounting Department)
* Programming accounting reporting system
* Preparing foreign currency overnight exchange, calculating foreign exchange reserve interest
* Reporting financial information to China central bank.
6.1994 - 3.1997 Trust Investment Co., Ltd. of Shen Yang Province, Shanghai Branch
Accountant
* Daily remittance transaction handling, data processing, clients’ reception, etc
Personal Profiles: Excellent in web based application program development and integration. Good communication skills and organization management experience. Strong understands skills of business strategy and marketing development. Fast learning capability and motivation spirit.
IT Skill
OS WinNT; Linux
Web Server IIS; Apache; Tomcat; Weblogic
Database SQL Server; MySQL; SQL Language
Interface HTML; XML; Flash; JavaScript; VBScript; Action Script; CSS
Programming Language ASP; PHP; JSP; Java Servlet; OOP; JavaBean; JDBC; ODBC
Tools Jbuilder; WebSphere Studio; Interdev; Dreamweaver; Flash; Firework
Language Fluent English, Native speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese
Knights and armor
part of the reason I got into the SCA was because of a facination with medival weapons and armor.
In a nutshell, plate armor meant for 'normal' warfare was custom fitted and offered the bearer almost full range of movement while only being mildly encumbered. I've seen a demonstration where a man wearing an accurate recreation could drop, roll, and spring back to his feet without any difficulty.
That said, jousting armor was another thing entirely. Designed to protect the rider against the specific dangers of jousting, it was extra thick and gave the rider just enough movement to function during each run. The armor was very thick, and offered very little visibilty (due to trying to avoid a lance getting into it). In some cases, the helmet was rigidly mounted to the torso. In these cases, the knight was assisted by his squires/men-at-arms and was not expected to go into combat beyond the joust.
Another thing to note is that what most of us think as 'plate armor' is very late period, only existing for a couple of centuries before being discarded during the late renisance. Before that, most well to do warriors wore a combination of maile and assorted plates or scales over a heavily padded garmet. Even at the height of the plate era, only the top tier wore it, with the quality of armor for those below rapidly declining with the ranks.
So, when you see things like King Arthur running around in full shiny plate, that is simply Hollywood History.
One more thing, the suits you see in most museums never saw a battlefield. They, like the more extreme examples of great swords, were meant for show and normally only used in things like court functions and such.
In a nutshell, plate armor meant for 'normal' warfare was custom fitted and offered the bearer almost full range of movement while only being mildly encumbered. I've seen a demonstration where a man wearing an accurate recreation could drop, roll, and spring back to his feet without any difficulty.
That said, jousting armor was another thing entirely. Designed to protect the rider against the specific dangers of jousting, it was extra thick and gave the rider just enough movement to function during each run. The armor was very thick, and offered very little visibilty (due to trying to avoid a lance getting into it). In some cases, the helmet was rigidly mounted to the torso. In these cases, the knight was assisted by his squires/men-at-arms and was not expected to go into combat beyond the joust.
Another thing to note is that what most of us think as 'plate armor' is very late period, only existing for a couple of centuries before being discarded during the late renisance. Before that, most well to do warriors wore a combination of maile and assorted plates or scales over a heavily padded garmet. Even at the height of the plate era, only the top tier wore it, with the quality of armor for those below rapidly declining with the ranks.
So, when you see things like King Arthur running around in full shiny plate, that is simply Hollywood History.
One more thing, the suits you see in most museums never saw a battlefield. They, like the more extreme examples of great swords, were meant for show and normally only used in things like court functions and such.
Redhat
Guosen Securities
Fund/Stock/Futures/Investment2009-11 - Now Consultant of ETF Arbitrage
Foshan | Full-time | Foshan Tiyu Road Trading Branch
Investment Management/Research and Analysis/Consulting
Mid Career(2+ years experience)
Do research of ETF arbitrage among seven ETFs which are listed on stock market of China, to discover the daily trading chance or event-oriented arbitrage chance;Provide courses on ETF arbitrage for customers and branches of Banks;
2007-11 - Now Securites Analyst
Foshan | Full-time | Foshan Tiyu Road Trading Branch | Asistant Manager
Investment Management/Research and Analysis/Consulting
Mid Career(2+ years experience)
take charge in research on IT industry chains, follow the industrial development trend in the near term and long term;seek firms on China stock as investment targets;study the investment behavior of thousands of customers, especially hundreds of millionaire, dig potential value of customer in different classification standards;
2007-11 - 2009-12 Securites Consultant
Foshan | Full-time
Teller/Financial Consultant/Banking Account
Mid Career(2+ years experience)
provide investment advice and give distribution proposal for hundreds of millionaire on China financial market, especially on stock market;classify and manage 3 thousand of investment account in different categories and dig customer‘s potential value;
HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School
Education/Training/Science/Institute2007-7 - 2007-9 Assistant Engineer
Guangzhou | Full-time
R&D Engineer
Entry Level(less than 2 years experience)
software development of a real-time control system based on RTLinux and Redhat Linux platform.
Portfolio
Apr., 2006-May, 2007, work for Morningstar Inc. as Performance Data Analyst,
Job Description:
◇ Maintain daily update of about 2000 open end funds’ performance data on UK, Luxemburg and Ireland market; and then switch to take care fund performance on Hong Kong and Singapore market;
◇ Communicate and cooperate with fund management companies and fund custody banks, such as JP Morgan、Credit Suisse Group、Fidelity、Mellon Bank、HSBC etc., to ensure performance data transferred smoothly from these business partners to Morningstar;
◇ Do quality audit for the received performance data; analyze reasons that resulted in inaccurateness and then confirm with fund companies or custody banks;
◇ Collect month end prices and distributions of each fund for Morningstar rating calculation.
◇ Complete projects assigned by leaders, main completed projects as follows:
a. Under guidance of US headquarters experts, devised the QA model for Total Net Assets data collection, which now has been applied to the Morningstar Europe Database;
b. Organized and implemented the Total Net Assets Coverage Improvement Project; succeeding in enhancing the TNA coverage of Europe Database by 6%, around 3600 funds increased.
c. Took part in the Standard & Poor’s fund data integration project after S&P fund data business acquired by Morningstar.
May, 2007-Present, work for Morningstar Inc. as Data Quality Assurance Analyst,
Job Description:
◇ QA ‘Morningstar Direct’, a database based software for institutional investors to do investment research and analysis, to find out data relevant issues and propose improvements for the product.
◇ Provide after sales services for the product to clients in assisting them to solve data issues.
Computer Skills
◇ Proficient in Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
◇ Skilled in using SPSS, Excel for data analysis and chart making;
Interest and Hobbies
◇ Playing football;
◇ Reading, esp. those on History, Geography, Science and Economics.
Language Proficiency
◇ Good command of English ( daily working language); CET-6;
◇ Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.
Main Experience in School
1、Aug., 2005-Dec., 2005, work for Guangzhou Academe of China Telecom as Assistant Researcher of Market Research Dep.,
◇ Sorted documents and data of the projects of recent years to present into quantitative ones and qualitative ones;
◇ Used SPSS to make chats and tables to reflect the quantitative data;
◇ Summarized the qualitative documents; uploaded the chats and tables to the database as well as the summarized documents.
2、May, 2005
Power Marketing Planning Office,
Project team member of “Marketing Planning for Xiangxue Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd”,
◇ Dealt with survey, data analysis, consumers’ behavior analysis and plans of public relations.
3、Nov., 2004
Led a team to attend the ‘Marketing Planning Contest for Guangzhou Universities’,
◇ Be responsible for the Environment Analysis; maintained good communication among the teammates.
Awards in School
◇ 2004,2005 Twice awarded SCUT Title of ‘Three-Goods’ Student and Scholarship;
Main Courses
◇ Higher Mathematics(92); Statistics(82); Economics(82); Investment(85); Economic Law(87);
◇ Financial Management(89); Business English(88); Accounting(83); Taxation(81);
◇ Project Management(81); Probability Theory and Statistics(88);.
Job Description:
◇ Maintain daily update of about 2000 open end funds’ performance data on UK, Luxemburg and Ireland market; and then switch to take care fund performance on Hong Kong and Singapore market;
◇ Communicate and cooperate with fund management companies and fund custody banks, such as JP Morgan、Credit Suisse Group、Fidelity、Mellon Bank、HSBC etc., to ensure performance data transferred smoothly from these business partners to Morningstar;
◇ Do quality audit for the received performance data; analyze reasons that resulted in inaccurateness and then confirm with fund companies or custody banks;
◇ Collect month end prices and distributions of each fund for Morningstar rating calculation.
◇ Complete projects assigned by leaders, main completed projects as follows:
a. Under guidance of US headquarters experts, devised the QA model for Total Net Assets data collection, which now has been applied to the Morningstar Europe Database;
b. Organized and implemented the Total Net Assets Coverage Improvement Project; succeeding in enhancing the TNA coverage of Europe Database by 6%, around 3600 funds increased.
c. Took part in the Standard & Poor’s fund data integration project after S&P fund data business acquired by Morningstar.
May, 2007-Present, work for Morningstar Inc. as Data Quality Assurance Analyst,
Job Description:
◇ QA ‘Morningstar Direct’, a database based software for institutional investors to do investment research and analysis, to find out data relevant issues and propose improvements for the product.
◇ Provide after sales services for the product to clients in assisting them to solve data issues.
Computer Skills
◇ Proficient in Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
◇ Skilled in using SPSS, Excel for data analysis and chart making;
Interest and Hobbies
◇ Playing football;
◇ Reading, esp. those on History, Geography, Science and Economics.
Language Proficiency
◇ Good command of English ( daily working language); CET-6;
◇ Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.
Main Experience in School
1、Aug., 2005-Dec., 2005, work for Guangzhou Academe of China Telecom as Assistant Researcher of Market Research Dep.,
◇ Sorted documents and data of the projects of recent years to present into quantitative ones and qualitative ones;
◇ Used SPSS to make chats and tables to reflect the quantitative data;
◇ Summarized the qualitative documents; uploaded the chats and tables to the database as well as the summarized documents.
2、May, 2005
Power Marketing Planning Office,
Project team member of “Marketing Planning for Xiangxue Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd”,
◇ Dealt with survey, data analysis, consumers’ behavior analysis and plans of public relations.
3、Nov., 2004
Led a team to attend the ‘Marketing Planning Contest for Guangzhou Universities’,
◇ Be responsible for the Environment Analysis; maintained good communication among the teammates.
Awards in School
◇ 2004,2005 Twice awarded SCUT Title of ‘Three-Goods’ Student and Scholarship;
Main Courses
◇ Higher Mathematics(92); Statistics(82); Economics(82); Investment(85); Economic Law(87);
◇ Financial Management(89); Business English(88); Accounting(83); Taxation(81);
◇ Project Management(81); Probability Theory and Statistics(88);.
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