Bohong Brenda Zhang, MD
**** *********** *******, #*, ****:859-***-****, Phone: 859-***-****
Lexington, KY 40517 Email: abid08@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
University of Kentucky, Doctor of Medicine, May 2009
University of Iowa, M.S. in Computer Science, Aug. 2002
Zhejiang University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Feb. 1999
Xi'an Jiaotong University, B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, July 1996
Graduated with highest distinction
EXPERIENCES
Owner, Intellectual Business Resolutions LLC, Fort Collins, CO, Feb 2010-
Present
- Opened the start-up company Intellectual Business Resolutions LLC.
- Building practical and profitable business plans for the company.
- Establishing strong relationship with large industry clients.
- Producing satisfactory IT products and services to the clients.
Responsibilities include:
Initiate, analyze, and revise software design documents in
Unified Modeling Language.
Participate in scrum meetings and actively involved in Agile
Software Development Life Cycle.
Research and implement new features using boost C++ library and
advanced design patterns.
Improve multi-language interoperability among C++, Java and C#.
Write code to interact with Xerces C++ library to parse and build
XML files at run-time.
Carry out unit tests and investigate local/server build errors.
Cooperate with test team to generate, debug and resolve defects
for audio/video applications.
User interface development using C++/C#.
Resident Physician, Unity Hospital, Rochester, NY, July 2009 - November
2009
- Satisfactorily completed various rotations in General Inpatient
Wards and Ambulatory / Evening float.
- Made a tough decision to voluntarily resign from the residency
program and pursue a non-clinical career.
Software Engineer, Lexmark International, Lexington, KY, Aug. 2004 - June
2009
- Host Print Engine/Host formatter development on color inkjet
printer drivers.
- Actively participated new inkjet printer products development,
problem troubleshooting and final shutdown and delivery since Fall
2004.
- Cooperating with firmware team, actively participated new print
heads formatter code development.
- Worked for various projects on print quality improvement and print
speed optimization.
- Customized host formatter code per requests from clients.
- Microsoft XPS driver development and troubleshooting on both
Lexmark laser and inkjet printers.
- Experience in C/C++/C# programming.
- Experience in IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest, Subversion.
- Experience in Driver Validation/Certification Test Manager Studio
(DTM) and kernel mode debugging.
- Filed invention disclosure and patent application (#200********):
"Method for reducing banding in an imaging apparatus". US Patent
#7431522 issued Oct. 7, 2008.
Quality Assurance Engineer, Bristol Techonology Inc., Danbury, CT, April
2004 - July 2004
- Worked for the project on TransactionVision, a non-intrusive
transaction tracking product that provides real-time monitoring to
pinpoint failures and ensure service levels in financial and
insurance companies. Experience in developing, testing, debugging,
defect fixing, performance tuning of software tools and web
applications for TransactionVision.
- Quality assurance and documentation, technical specification, team-
oriented code reviews, formal release procedures
- Experience in J2EE, Java Servlet, WebSphere MQ, JMS, EJB, CICS,
BEA WebLogic, JavaScript, RDBMS.
Intelligent Vision and Reasoning Department, Siemens Corporate Research,
Princeton, NJ, 2002-2003
- Worked on Magnetic Resonance Composer project.
- GUI design, implementation and testing for the project on Ground
Glass Opacity Nodules Segmentation in HRCT.
- Worked on the project of Automatic Detection and Segmentation of
Pulmonary Nodules in HRCT.
- Experience in C/C++ programming.
- Experience in digital signal processing and digital image
processing.
- Filed invention disclosure and patent application (#200********):
"Method and system for focus-adaptive reconstruction of spine
images". US patent #7298923 issued on Nov. 20, 2007.
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, IA, 2002
- Relational database management.
- Designed JSP pages running on Tomcat server, using JDBC to connect
and operate MS Access database on the server.
- Wrote SAS programs to perform medical data analysis for VAMC.
- Maintained medical data security for VAMC.
- Created documentation for databases.
- Database-driven web design and development.
Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa
City, IA, 2002
- Worked on Real-time Bicycle Simulator project, using Visual C++
and MultiGen Creator.
Tutor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA,
2001-2002
- Tutored undergraduate and graduate students on various subjects
including Calculus, Trigonometry, Digital Signal Processing, Digital
Image Processing, Computer Science Basics.
Instructor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City,
IA, 2001
- Worked as the course instructor and took full responsibility for
the undergraduate and graduate course "Programming with Java
(22C:013/113)" in the Dept. of Computer Science.
- Independently organized and presenting all the lectures for 2
different sections.
- Independently designed homework assignments, projects, quizzes
and exams for 40 students.
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa
City, IA, 2001-2002
- Worked as the teaching assistant for the graduate-level course
"Computer Graphics (22C:151)" .
- Graded all the assignments and projects for 40 students
- Answered questions and helped students solve programming problems
in C, C++ and OpenGL.
Research Assistant, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa,
Iowa City, IA, 1999-2000
- Worked as Research Assistant in Medical Imaging Lab.
- Collaborated with Northwestern University Medical School in
Chicago on various projects.
- Combined Visual C++ and OpenGL to develop an real-time 3D
echocardiogram image processing tool to help reveal left ventricle
dynamics in systole and diastole and aid cardiologists in semi-
automatic left ventricle modeling.
- Research on developing indices of normal and abnormal heart
ventricle shapes from multidimensional echocardiogram. Processed
large volumetric cardiac ultrasound datasets from Northwestern
University Medical School. Gave a presentation on this topic at Mayo
Clinic in 2000. The research "Quantitation Of Left Ventricular Shape
Using Transthoracic Real Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography:
Implications For Ventricular Remodeling" was presented at American
Heart Assoc. 73rd Scientific Sessions in 2000.
- Taken various courses such as biostatistics, SAS programming,
bioinformatics, biochemistry, signal processing and medical image
processing.
Office Assistant, College of Nursing, University of Iowa, 2000
- Developed an Online Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) database
retrieving system.
- Designed ASP pages running on Microsoft IIS/ PWS server.
- Assisted the grant application process for College of Nursing.
Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University,
China, 1996-1999
- Research on FACTS technology (Flexible AC Transmission System)
application in power systems.
- Worked on the simulation and development of 3-Level Static Var
Compensator, using the simulation software package NETOMAC from
Siemens Co. in Germany and power electronic simulation package
PSPICE.
- As one of the major members in the conference committee, hosted
'99 International Seminar on Electrical Power System & New
Technology at Zhejiang University, China.
Software Developer, Sci-tech Computer Science and Technology Co.,
Zhejiang, China, 1998-1999
- As one of the major team members, developed a user-friendly
software package for the mathematics education for elementary school
and junior high school students.
English Interpreter for General Manager, Sci-tech Computer Science and
Technology Co., Zhejiang, China, 1998-1999
- Assisted Sci-tech Company in the successful cooperation with
international corporations.
PATENTS/PUBLICATIONS / PRESENTATIONS
Linville, Kenneth Wayne; Mayo, Randall David; Zhang, Bohong, Lexmark
International, Inc., "Method for reducing banding in an imaging apparatus",
United States Patent 7431522, issued Oct. 7, 2008.
Zhang, Bohong; Zhang, Li; Fang, Ming, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.,
"Method and system for focus-adaptive reconstruction of spine images",
United States Patent 7298923, issued Nov. 20, 2007
Bohong Zhang, Silvia Di Luzio, Timothy L. Irwin, Ashwin Nagaraj, David
McPherson, Vera Rigolin, Edwin Dove. "Quantitation Of Left Ventricular
Shape Using Transthoracic Real Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography:
Implications For Ventricular Remodeling", presented at The American Heart
Association 73rd Scientific Sessions, 2000.
Zhang, Bohong; Xu, Zheng; Han, Zhenxiang, "Study on the transformer
connection modes of three-level STATCOM for eliminating harmonics",
Automation of Electric Power Systems, Vol. 23, No. 20, 1999
HONORS AND AWARDS
2006: - Promoted with distinction at University of Kentucky College of
Medicine.
2002: - Graduated with GPA 4.0/4.0 in Computer Science Department,
University of Iowa.
2001: - Recipient of Gerard P. Weeg Scholarship for 2001-02 academic
year at University of Iowa.
- As one of the team member, achieved 1st place in Hawkeye
Challenge Programming Contest sponsored by Microsoft and
Computer Science Department, ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery) at University of Iowa.
1998: - President's List.
- Recipient of Wang Guosong Scholarship for Academic Excellence
in Zhejiang University.
1996: - President's List .
- Graduated with highest distinction (GPA 3.95/4.0) in
Department of Biomedical Engineering.
- Recipient of "Best Senior Project Thesis" award.
- Recipient of "Excellent Graduate" honor.
- Achieved highest score in Mathematics in National Graduate
School Entrance Examination.
1995: - President's List.
- Recipient of Baogang Education Scholarship for Academic
Excellence (awarded to 12 students each year in Xi'an Jiaotong
University).
- Recipient of Special scholarship for Academic Excellence and
the honor of 'Model Student' (the highest honor in Xi'an
Jiaotong University and awarded to 7 students each year).
1994: - President's List.
- Recipient of Li Fushan Scholarship for Academic Excellence
(awarded to 20 students every year in Xi'an Jiaotong
University).
- Recipient of First scholarship for Academic Excellence and the
honor of 'Excellent Student' in Xi'an Jiaotong University.
- Third prize in CAIT Cup Computer Programming Contest in Xi'an
Jiaotong University.
1993: - President's List.
- Recipient of First scholarship for Academic Excellence and
the honor of 'Excellent Student' in Xi'an Jiaotong University.
- Second prize in the Advanced Mathematics Contest in Xi'an
Jiaotong University.
1992: - President's List.
- Recipient of Scholarship for Excellent Performance in National
College Entrance Exam.
- Scored 622/710 in 1992 National College Entrance Exam (top 50
in Sichuan Province which is the most densely populated province
in China with a population of around 100 million).
1991: - First prize in 1991 Chinese National Mathematics Olympics.