Ying Zhang

**** ***** **** *** ** Raleigh, NC ***06 213-***-**** acg58m@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a full time position as Analyst Availa

EDUCATION

University of Southern California -

Los Angeles, CA

Master of Science Industrial& Systems GPA: 3.82/4.0 Aug

Engineering

Certificate Program Optimization and GPA:4.0/4.0 Aug

Supply Chain Management

Beijing Institute of Technology -

Beijing, China

Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Au

Engineering GPA: 3.8/4.0

HIGHLIGHTS

4 years business or data analysis; 4 years project management; 3 years supply chain analysis experience

Strong logical, analytic, reasoning skills, self- motivated in a fast pace environment

In depth knowledge of Statistics, Ad hoc, Business Intelligence, SQL, Excel, SAP, Tableau, Lean, Six-Sigma

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ju

Lenovo - Research Triangle Park, NC

Business Analyst-Global Business Intelligence

Executed Ad hoc analysis for Lenovo.com by collecting data from SAP, SiteCatalyst and other departments. i.e. products cate

demand generation and web traffic

Did root cause analysis for anomaly patterns by designing flow chart and validating assumptions, provided investigat

suggestions

Produced reports using Access SQL and Excel, created dashboards in Tableau and presented to stakeholders

Forecasted sales and traffic trend using seasonal and trend model

Engineered purchase segments with customer’s grouping methodology to do targeting and re-targeting

Utilized Agile tools to do project management in a fast moving, multi-tasking environment

Jan

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles - Los

Angeles, CA

Process Improvement Analyst Intern

Mapped swim lane flow chart and conducted a time study of impatient CT scan processing in the Radiology Dept

Investigated practical scenarios on each stakeholders’ perspective by interviewing staffs including Nurse Practitioner, CT T

Registered Nurse, Pharmacy staff and patients

Used Six-Sigma to improve data quality, analyzed data statistically and summarized critical procedures

Applied Lean tools like Value Stream Mapping, suggested methods on reducing time delays, such as elimination or combinat

procedures, change of groups in charge for a certain procedure

Jul

Regency Shop - Los Angeles, CA

Supply Chain Analyst

Built the financial model, designed algorithms through a furniture company’s supply chain and embedded in SAP, calculated

considering cash flows in supply, distribution phase and real scenarios

Executed MRP according to BOM and production plan, prioritized replenishment, optimized shipping pallets combination fro

daily work order and Just-In-Time method

Managed information and did transactions in SAP R/3 MM, PP, SD module

Identified cost saving opportunities through supply chain

Conducted sourcing - RFQ, negotiated and agreed on FOB terms, made purchase order and followed up

Tracked raw material inventories, set up purchasing plan from vendors according to forecasted demand

Provided reports with supply chain metrics using Vlookup, Pivot Table in Excel to all levels of the company

Set products price, allocated selling amounts in wholesaler and retailer distribution channels using quantitative method acco

rules and seasonal demand

Ying Zhang

Ju

GE General Electric Company -

Beijing, China

Project Management Intern

Wrote scope of “Maoming Power Plant” project and planned by drawing Gantt Chart with MS project

Coordinated with financial, manufacturing, distribution dept. for a smooth run of “Pakistan Hydropower” project

Investigated the human-computer interface control system of its thermal power plant, provided optimization suggestion from e

cognitive perspective to enhance safety

Utilized Customer Relation Management system (CRM) linking customers with information in database

Ju

First Tractor Co Ltd - Luoyang, China

Manufacturing Intern

Optimized equipment’s lay out& transfer path in 3 workshops, increasing speed by 5% via cutting intersection

Improved manufacturing process of arm axis for higher precision and less variation

PROJECT& RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

DOE-response surface study project Mar

University of Southern California - LA, CA

Identified the best group settings for the six given factors, to optimize response by designing and conducting proper experimen

Designed the Fractional Factorial Experiment and conducted Analysis of Variance, Curvature Test for the first-order model

Central Composite Design, Ridge analysis and Canonical analysis to achieve the best factor settings for a second-order model

Optimization of trajectory planning and June

visual detecting of a quadruped-robot

Research Assistant, Institute of Automation,

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Designed transmission plan and finished assembling after detail and assembly drawing by AutoCAD

Published Trajectory Planning and Posture Adjustment of a Quadruped Robot for Obstacle Striding,IEEE

Zero inventory job-shop dispatching system Fe

Institute of Industrial Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology - Beijing, China

Analyzed necessity of zero inventory, Just- In- Time strategy for a manufacturing company through research

Built the system using VC++ and simulated with defined rules under Genetic Algorithm, generating tools dispatching schedule

goals like earliest due date, shortest remain time to realize zero inventory

AWARDS&HONORS

“Excellent Graduating Student” Award,

Beijing Institute of Technology

HORIBA ATS Co.Ltd Scholarship (Top 1%)

Honorary Visiting Scholar, University of

Sydney (Top 5 in China)

LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES

Teaching Assistant in senior level course: Aug

Statistics and Quality Control-USC

Member of Operation Management Aug

Association, Trojan Parliamentary Debate

Club-USC

Volunteer of Intl Grad Scholarship Fair,

100 world-class top universities and 3000

people showed up

CERTIFICATE

Certified in Production and Inventory Ex

Management (CPIM) – issued by APICS

SKILLS

Business: Big Data, Business Intelligence, Web Analytics, Data Analytics, Statistics, SAP, Project Management, Decision-Maki

Lean, Six Sigma, CRM, Inventory Management, MRP

Software:, MySQL, SAP, Tableau, Access, Adobe SiteCatalyst, Google Analytics, Adobe Insight, R, Minitab, MS Project, Exce

AutoCAD, Pro/E

Languages: English (Fluent);Mandarin Chinese (Native)

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