Jeffrey Huang is Founder and CEO of the ARISING Group, Inc.
When other technology companies were failing during the dot com economic slump, Jeff led the ARISING Group to success in creating and implementing powerful, practical and cost-efficient technology solutions for both Fortune 1000 and entrepreneurial companies. He has proven to be a visionary business leader, building a company reputation for reliability, honesty and hard work. World Journal, the premier Chinese language newspaper in the United States, has called Jeff Huang “the next technology star” and the “kung fu master of computer technology.”

His combination of the critical and the creative has proven to be successful for the ARISING Group. Although educated in Electrical Engineering at the State University of Stony Brook, Jeff’s real talent is the kind of blending of left and right brain thinking that led to the birth of innovative technology products and services.

Jeff also has a knack for investment and fundraising in the capital markets and has helped to fund several start-ups this way. His acquisition of foreign investment has, in its own discrete way, been a positive contributor to the U.S. balance of trade!

All new projects and client innovations entail specialized packaging and presentation to every stakeholder and constituent at the client so as to assure that the innovation is fully understood and utilized across the entire enterprise.

This challenge entails internal corporate communications as well as external consumer marketing, public relations and even investor relations. The look, feel, utility and user friendliness of a new project requires keen creative skills as well as a sensitivity to cultural, language or even political nuances which may exist for the client.

Joan Wong joined our Group in 2005 to lead the marketing and design team. Her initiatives established a quality assurance program for all web design projects, including UI/UX usability, search engine optimization, web standards compliance, testing and debugging. Ms. Wong also developed marketing and web positioning strategies for internal and external clients to improve user experience and customer loyalty over the Internet.

Ms. Wong uses her expertise in art and communications to produce the right combination of images, colors and text to focus clients’ message and brand, and reach their targeted audience. Ms. Wong oversees the design and development of project development, content management systems and user interfaces (UI/UX). Her excellent writing skills and command of several languages gives Joan the ability to craft just the right message to attract the attention of search engines and customers.

Mr. Liang is our senior technology integrator whose primary function is to match the internal systems and capabilities of our group to the custom needs of the new project as interpreted by the planning and design leaders.

At ARISING, Wen has managed the design and launch of several large, high profile projects in the Financial Industry including an Original Issue Discount (OID) analytical engine for bonds and CMOs. Mr Liang also designed and built the Transfer Pricing Analytical Toolkit (TPAT), an engine that pulls data from four financial databases, cross-analyzes multiple companies on scores of business ratios and produces 14 reports for the auditors. TPAT reduced CPA manpower requirements from 5 days, to 7 seconds per company analyzed. A Canadian economist who viewed TPAT in action called it “a powerful and elegant tool”.

Wen Liang has broad experience in information technology including database design, analysis and data mining. His early work includes the Mitre Corporation where he developed a visual data reduction and analysis tool for the FAA Technical Center’s data system. Later, at the Advanced Telecommunication Institute, Mr. Liang simulated and analyzed a Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) network using an Optical Network simulation package for the US Navy. Mr. Liang is also an expert in networking design and system administration and has managed global networks for Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) and multiple online security brokerage firms.

Christine Ku joined the Group in 1998 as Director of Finance.
Ms. Ku began her professional career on Wall Street assisting with financial quantitative analysis and research at Kidder Peabody and Jacobs Levy Equity Management. She also worked at Bloomberg Financial where her programming skills were used for creating a new platform to trade financial instruments as well as electronic trading ticket design and optimization of trading system outputs.

Ms. Ku brings her personal skills and experiences to her work. She is native-born Taiwanese, trained in the disciplines of Western finance, active as an entrepreneurial investor and manager. Her understanding of complex financial instruments and deal structures has enabled the ARISING Group to prosper through the fluctuations in markets and the economy. Throughout the recent upheavals in the financial industry and the resulting disruptions in the IT practice, Ms. Ku’s consistent optimism has reinforced the buoyant energy of the Innovation team.

Davy is an expert in both design and hands-on in large scale modern infrastructure deployment. He has worked extensively on Amazon AWS infrastructure and traditional hosting facilities. From high availability system to high performance website, he has launched these critical platform and has achieved the highest uptime that’s above the industry standard. Davy also lead the launch of service platforms for 24×7 corporate service platform such as CRM system.

Justin has more than 15 years in handson software development. He has lead the development of many software development and successfully complete all the projects. His works are featured daily as customers are interacting with software he has built. He has spent extensive hands-on development is modern software architecture, from large data storage design to high speed web application.