A Professor and Ceo - Richard T. Cheng

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Résumé :
In the darkness of night, he escaped the Japanese invasion of Nanjing, and this was the first move of the following numerous moves. He had suffered a lot and yet having a lot of fun in the rural China until the war with Japan was ended. He returned to the ruins of his old home in Nanjing and lived there for nearly two years of peace time. When communists took over the mainland, he moved to Taiwan, where he graduated from college and married. During his time in Taiwan, he ventured into many things that almost took his life. He then decided to go to the USA for graduate studies. On the ship to USA, the ship was hit by a typhoon. They were lost in the high seas for days. He went to a college in Wisconsin, where he met many nice people and later decided to stay in the USA. Upon obtaining advanced degree in Wisconsin, he started his teaching career. He then obtained his doctorate degree and was engaged in many universities to establish computer science programs. When he was appointed the eminent professorship. He started to think of becoming a businessman. There are lot stories about sweat and tears in building a business. He led the small company to win the USIA contract and continue to win contract with Navy, Pentagon, and Education Department. In one unusual opportunity, he led the company to win the IRS contract, which was dollars240 million for the life of the contract. He had won all sorts of awards. The most important was given by President Bush in the White House.

Biographie:
Richard Tien-Ren Cheng was born in June 1934. Since the age of three, he had been suffering from the war between China and Japan and the Chinese civil war between the nationalists and the communists. He moved frequently to escape the war and suffered immensely from losing his close relatives. At the age of fifteen, he escaped the mainland China to Taiwan, where he grew up and completed his undergraduate education. He was married in Taiwan. When he decided to go to the States for his master's degree, he left his wife, a son, and another son. When he arrived at the school, he had thirty dollars to his name. He struggled for ten years in between studying and working. When he finally finished his doctoral degree, he became an educator in the effort to develop computer science programs for various institutions of higher education. He was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor to full professorship in six years and to eminent professorship in another three years. In 1985, he decided to give up his position as an eminent professor and chairman of computer science at Old Dominion University to establish a small company. Through less than five years of struggle, he achieved the goal of making it a multimillion-dollar company. In 1991, he received the largest contract the IRS awarded to a small company, which was for dollars240 million over six years. He has been active in the Organization of Chinese Americans, the Committee of 100, and the Chinese-American Foundation for Americans. He also has done a lot of philanthropic work that benefit to several universities.