Software Engineer

Yi Zhang, PhD

**** ****** *****, *******, ** ****4, USA

(Phone/cell)503-***-****/971-***-****

e-mail:*********@*****.***

Major Skills

Categories Skills

Engineering Software engineering groups, system engineering

Management groups, ASIC/SoC development and verification

International/Do groups, instrumentation groups, power systems,

mestic Video/audio digital signal processing R&D, General

engineering R&D.

Chinese R&D center set up, security protocol and

organization, local staff recruiting and training,

relations with local government and universities,

Asian customer relations, coordination of China R&D

center and Northern America design centers.

Computer Software architecture and R&D in Windows/Linux/Unix

Science/ environments. Stand alone, Intranet and internet

Computer applications, real time/embedded and DSP based

Engineering software. Microsoft and other development

environments and tools. UML and CMMI principles and

practices.

Electrical SoC R&D related aspects - including algorithm R&D,

Engineering SoC design and related software architecture and

R&D, specialized in display technology (projectors,

monitors and TVs).

Electronic and focused ion beam microscopic

machines' software developments.

Commercial audio system design and development. DSP

applications. Real time control and its

communications, adaptive filter theory application

to acoustic echo cancellation.

Electric Power Smart Grid software architecture, specification and

System development. Power system analysis, renewable energy

Engineering impacts on power systems, conceptual design, power

flow, OPF, unit commitment, economic dispatch, short

circuit, transient stability, mid-term and long-term

stabilities, contingency analysis and ranking,

system reliability, harmonics analysis, relay

coordination, modeling ranging from load, motor,

generator and its controls (governor, exciter other

auxiliary devices), transmission(sequential

networks) and distribution(3 phase network)

systems, expert of sparse matrix technology

applications.

Image Processing Expert on image processing algorithm development,

SoC design concepts, verification, software

developments, HW systems developments.

Professional Organizations: Senior Member of IEEE/CS, IEEE/PES and

IEEE/IAS.

Awards:

First grade Chinese national scientific and technology award and second

grade scientific and technology award of Ministry of Electric Power and

Water Resources of China.

First ever Ph D granted by EPRI China graduate school.

Work Experience

Periods Titles and affiliations

September Chief Power Engine Architect, Power Analytics

2010 - Corporation, 9208 Falss of Neuse Rd, Suite 215, Raleigh,

present NC 27615. Power system software development and power

systems engineering, specialized on power system analytic

engine software architecture and development, and

micro/smart grid technologies.

June 2009 - Chief Software Architect, Gridiant Corporation, 801 Jones

present Franklin Rd, Suite 210, Raleigh, NC 27606. Power system

software development and power system engineering,

specialized on smart grid software architecture and

development:

Cloud computing based software architecture for smart

grid.

Transmission level OPF, including unit commitment and

economic dispatch.

Distribution level 3 phase unbalanced power flow and OPF.

Integration of existing AMI, MDMS, OMS and other data

bases, and existing EMS and DMS software for better

business decision.

Visualization of results.

January Director of SW Engineering, Director DSP Engineering,

2001 - Senior Manager of DSP/Software. Pixelworks Inc. 8100 SW

February Nyberg Road, Tualatin, OR 97062, USA.

2009 Chinese (Shanghai) R&D center set ups, including security

protocol, lock down procedures and organization,

recruiting and training of local staff, relations with

Chinese local governments and Chinese universities, Asian

customer visits. As bridge of Chinese R&D center and the

Northern America design centers. Involved in engineering

all aspects of image processing R&D in display technology

(Projectors, Monitors, TVs), SoC R&D, architecture and

R&D of SoC software. CMMI and Agile principle practices.

The following areas are I have been working:

To work with tie 1 customers to understand their

requirements and help marketing and sales for win-win of

both the company and customers.

To work with DSP group to develop state of the art

algorithms for image processing.

To co-work with the IC design department to co-verify

chips before taped-out.

To prepare for evaluation/reference design board part

selection, design and manufacture.

To prepare for embedded/PC software SDK with related

boards.

To release SDK and boards to customers with management,

and support the sales and marketing for NPI and customer

support and application engineers.

To manage budgets of personnel, outsourcing, software and

equipments, to negotiate with outsourcing partners for

resource compensations.

To manage and coordinate multiple sites activities in

above areas to achieve the company engineering and

financial goals.

To be ambassador to all parts of the company to

facilitate cooperation.

March 2000 Lead Software Engineer, FEI Company, 7451 NW Evergreen

- Parkway, Hillsboro, OR 97214, USA

January Specialized in modern electron and ion beam microscopy

2001 machinery control software development and architecture.

Major working areas are: motion control, image

processing, system coordination and CAN network

application. Directing mechanical engineers to prepare

moving parts. UML instructor for the software group.

March 1999 Lead Software Design Engineer. Biamp Systems, 10074 SW

- Arctic Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005, USA

March 2000 Specialized in commercial acoustic equipment software

system development. Major working areas are: virtual

editing acoustic system configuration software

development, adaptive acoustic echo canceller algorithm

development and general software architecture.

March 1998 Lead Software Developer, Advanced Systems for Power

- Engineering, Inc. 34 N. San Mateo Drive, San Mateo, CA

Febuary 94401, USA

1999 Specialized in general power system software architecture

and software developments. Working areas are:

Relay database

Distribution simulation software of short circuit and

power flow for 3 phase,

Capacitor bank allocation optimization and automation,

Transmission system relay coordination.

October Chief Engineer. Electrical Systems Analysis, Inc. PO Box

1990 2110, Clackamas, OR 97015, USA

-January Specialized in power system software architecture and

1998 R&D, conceptual power system design, large-scale power

system analysis and simulation. Architect, design,

research and development of industrial power system

simulation software. Consulting to numerous power system

utilities, industrial installations for their technical

and engineering needs, the software are:

Short circuit and power flow for low voltage systems.

Harmonics analysis.

Transient and dynamic stabilities.

Visualization of the computational results.

April 1988 Post Doctoral Research Associate / Instructor, Department

- of Electrical Engineering, Howard University, 2300 6th

October, Street, NW Washington DC, 20059, USA.

1990 Specialized in software development, expert system

development, DOE, NFS, BPA and EPRI projects.

Concentrated on the following areas:

Voltage stability.

Expert system assistance to power flow solutions.

Introduction of Interior method to OPF.

New transient stability method investigations.

EPRI project on NW voltage stability.

August 1982 Engineer / Graduate School Instructor, Electric Power

- Research Institute, Qinghe, Beijing, P.R. China.

March 1988 Specialized in power system software development, system

planning and design. Major working areas are:

Northwest and East China power systems loss of excitation

simulation and on-site testing. This covers the

asynchronous behavior of generators and is very useful

for current wind generator impact to power systems.

Three Gorge power transmission planning.

Introduction of BPA software to China, in charge of

transient stability part.

Lang-term and mid-term dynamics simulation initialization

and software development

Operator training simulation development.

Instructor of graduate school of EPRI.

1 Education

Ph.D. January 1988, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Research

Institute (EPRI.C), Beijing, China

MSEE August 1982, Electrical Engineering, EPRI.C, Beijing, China

BS (Equivalent) September 1979, Applied Math, Hunan University, Changsha,

China.

Publications: More than 10 papers in IEEE Transactions/Proceedings and

Professional Journals.

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