Summary of Qualifications

With ** years of experience on database design, data warehousing, data analytics and visualization, and data management and governance.

With banking experience developing investment models and trading software.

With over 10 years of IT development including working in Microsoft Corporation for 8 years and over 5 years of work experiences in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, machine learning, big data, internet search, intelligent user interest-based advertisements, and web technologies.

With quantitative analyst banking experience

Immigrated into USA as an international outstanding young scientist and joined in Microsoft Corporation.

Professional experience

6/2012 – Present, Data Analyst/Architect, University of Washington/UW Medicine, Seattle, Washington

Leading efforts to apply latest artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to improve UW Medicine health care solutions. Applied binary classification for sentiment analysis on patient comments and feedback. Experimented with multiclass classification, regression, clustering, transfer learning, time series and other AI and ML methods in various health care case studies.

Designed the architecture of data lake and warehouse architecture and solutions to transform customer and patients’ feedback and comments data into information and KPIs, and then into intelligence for executive decision making on budget and resources allocation and improvement

Worked as various roles of architect, data analyst, solution provider, and business intelligence developer to create cancer and other disease data models and medical reports for doctors and medical providers integrating data sources from Epic, Cerner, Amalga/Caradigm, and performance manager clinical systems.

Coded extensively in C#, SQL, SSIS, XML, and other tools like R, Python. Implemented data visualization in SSRS and Tableau.

Completed cloud platform training on Azure SQL database, CosmosDB, blob containers, storage, application service, access control, etc.

Feb. 2008 to May 2012, Software Engineer Manager, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington

Led the work to design and implement Amalga and Health Vault product for the key APIs and features including number of users and response time to meet service level agreement.

Managed overseas resources. Achieved 5% budget/cost cutting result while improving productivity by 10% annually over four years through better process definition, more automation, and better-quality control.

Coded extensively in C#, SQL, ASP.NET, XML, etc.

Nov. 2005 to Feb. 2008, Principal Manager of Software Design Engineering, Infospace Corporation, Bellevue, Washington

Gathered user requirements, scenarios, and business rules for internet search products of Dogpile, Metacrawler, Local Search, and Infospace Cobranding Engine. Created release criteria for product launch. Designed and developed product strategies and architecture.

Managed the day-to-day production the ‘code complete’ phase to successful build and deployment for the release of four products: A/B testing platform, Cobranding platform, Local search, and Merchant platform. Achievements included 20% improvements in number of online searches and search results accuracy.

Coded extensively in C#, SQL, XML, Javascript, Dynamic HTML, etc.

April 2004 to Oct. 2005, Senior Architect for Audience Science Ltd, Bellevue, Washington

I played a major role in designing and measuring the web based behavior targeting product’s performance and scalability and achieved the goal of processing one billion transactions per day. My work received CEO’s technology innovation recognition.

My secondary responsibilities included writing tools to automate testing of web data collection, database, and decision-making engine. I also conducted intelligent modeling and testing research and applied the latest research and methods in automating the end to end processes and tasks of all components in the Internet Search product.

Coded in C#, SQL, HTML, etc. Wrote scripts to run on Linux platform.

Oct. 1999 to April 2004, Software Engineer Manager, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington

•Developed and tested a range of server, client, and middleware products including Small Business Accounting, a reliability and scalability operation and management system, Internet Explorer 6, English Query/OLAP & SQL Server 2000, and XML View Mapper.

•Coded in C#, SQL, MDX, DHTML document, JavaScript, and ADO.Net.

Jan. 1998 to Sept. 1999, for Citibank in London, Credit Swiss/First Boston, British Broadcast Corporation, Saba Corporation, Consultant (Contract)

•Tested option pricing and risk management systems for traders in Citibank including writing test plans, testing various formulas/algorithms for trading, and verifying trading profit and loss for Citibank.

•Implemented quantitative investment models in C and tested simulation results for my reporting bankers for Credit Swiss/First Boston.

•Technical pre-sales consultant for Saba. Demo’ed an enterprise training and human resource management solution to prospective customers. The solution is a huge client server product with a web client and SQL Server or Oracle database back end.

Education

PhD in Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

BSc in Computer Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, China. Ranked third best place among more than 1000 graduates

Published Author in technical journals, manuals, and numerous white papers.

Was recognized by USA and Microsoft Corporation as an outstanding young scientist.

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