Draft:Jack Chen

Draft article not currently submitted for review.

This is a draft Articles for creation (AfC) submission. It is not currently pending review. While there are no deadlines, abandoned drafts may be deleted after six months. To edit the draft click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.

To be accepted, a draft should:

Show the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article by using multiple sources that meet four criteria. The sources should be (1) reliable (2) secondary (3) independent of the subject (4) talk about the subject in some depth. For some topics, there are alternative criteria.
Be written from a neutral point of view
Respect copyright and do not plagiarize. Do not copy-paste.

It is strongly discouraged to write about yourself, your business or employer. If you do so, you must declare it.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Last edited by 00niamh00 (talk | contribs) 43 days ago. (Update)

Submit the draft for review!

Jack Chen is an in-house lawyer at the Google office in New York. He was born to immigrant parents in Texas, USA.

Education + Professional Background

Jack has two degrees in computer science from Harvard and Berkley. He received early entrance to Harvard during his senior year of high school.
He graduated college in 1997.^[1]
In 2001, Chen started his Law degree at Fordham University.
Before joining the legal department at Google in 2010, Chen worked as a systems engineer at Xanboo Inc., a startup that produced internet-based home automation and security systems.
He also spent two years as a patent and trademark attorney at Kenyon & Kenyon in New York, and three years as an associate at Baker Botts LLP.
At Google, Chen works as Product Counsel for Chrome products.

Visual Impairment

Jack was not born blind. During his early years, he did have a limited sense of shapes, light and colour. At the age of sixteen, Jack lost all of his vision as a result of complications during an eye surgery. At work, Chen uses a screen reader as well as the Text-To-Speech (TTS) function on his iPhone. To improve efficiency, he listens to 620 words a minute, a speed at which words are incomprehensible to untrained ears. He also uses OCR software to help him to convert print and graphical documents into text.
He also has an assistant at work.
Jack believes that he has developed his blindness has helped him to develop lawyer because he is used to problem solving
Jack uses a cane.
Used a magnifying machine at school.
Had an office of his own at Google - now wears headset to listen )^[2]

Achievements

In 2012, Chen climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
He has run 9 marathons and completed multiple triathlons, including 2 Ironmans.
While training for a triathlon, Jack regularly got up at 3:00am before going into the office.
^[3]https://futrlaw.org/inspiration-jack-chen-story/

References

^ Passion Talks International (2019-11-23). The Daily Battle Of I Can't - Jack Chen. Retrieved 2024-09-26 – via YouTube.
^ Team, Engagement (2016-10-07). "Diversity and Accessibility at Work: Meet Jack Chen". ResponsiveVoice.JS AI Text to Speech. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
^ "Inspiration: The story of blind Google lawyer Jack Chen - FutureLaw". 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

[1] Passion Talks International (2019-11-23). The Daily Battle Of I Can't - Jack Chen. Retrieved 2024-09-26 – via YouTube.

[2] Team, Engagement (2016-10-07). "Diversity and Accessibility at Work: Meet Jack Chen". ResponsiveVoice.JS AI Text to Speech. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

[3] "Inspiration: The story of blind Google lawyer Jack Chen - FutureLaw". 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

[1]

[2]

[3]