Shawn Zhao
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EDUCATION
Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business Jun 2015
Master of Information Technology
Track Representative: Computer-Based Decision Modeling, Database Management, Statistical Method
Liaoning Technical University Jul 2012
Bachelor of Management in Information System
Track Representative: Advanced Mathematics, Database and Data Mining
WORK EXPERIENCE
MVP.help, LLC Winter, 2015
Big data Analyst
Utilized Python to build a web crawler to crawl data from Chinese real estate website
Cleaned data with Tableau and Excel and stored in server side PostgreSQL database
Utilized Python statistical packages and Tableau to virtualize the Chinese real estate data
Laoqian Technology Company, Beijing, China Summer, 2014
Data Analyst
Designed, developed and built “Design Your Beauty” App to win the “Top10 of Audi Innovation Lab”
in China.
Utilized MySQL and Python statistical packages such as Pandas to conduct data analysis of target audiences and their location to help company accurately and rapidly reach its target customers, leading to a 10% increase in downloads.
Microsoft China, Beijing China Spring, 2013
Search Engine Optimization Analyst
Led a ten-member team to optimize video search algorithm leading to a 10% higher accuracy in Chinese
character-based search.
Conducted computer-based Bing Search Engine analysis using primary data out of questionnaires;
Contributed to 20% increased efficiency of Bing Search Engine.
Evaluated designs, identified potential problems related to Chinese Policy and proposed feasible
Improvements; discovered a major debug violating China’s pornography regulation policy during
Optimization process and solved it by eliminating video samples existent in test file.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Yelp Review Data Modeling and Analysis Winter, 2014
Used Import IO to build a crawler and crawled the data from Amazon website; utilized “Catnet”
Package to test some models using Amazon review data.
Utilized Python packages and MySQL to retrieve and clean Yelp review data; Specified the behavior and text mining Features to detect fraud reviews in review data using machine learning;
Built and applied the model involving Maximum Expectation algorithm to cluster fraud and non-fraud
Data in DataRapidMiner
Advanced Ion Exchanged Service (AIS) Fall, 2014
Used Linear Regression, Capacity and utilization consumption model with the leverage of EXCEL
to detect problems of AIS system Plant operation;
Conducted comprehensive metrics analysis of Capacity, Efficiency and Profitability of the plant operation;
made recommendations to improve profitability.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
General Technical: MySQL, SQL Server, Tableau, R, Visio, Import IO, Microsoft Visual Studio,
Computer Language: Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, CSS, PHP