Sugar Refining Research Assistant

Dehua Zhao

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Objective: Look for an opportunity to apply and expand my expertise on automatic control systems and process optimization, and to succeed as a team. Skill Summary:

Proficient in PLC (Rockwell Automation Allen Brandley ControlLogix, CompactLogix, SLC500 and PLC5) and APACS programming, digital/analog control, PID and advanced control strategies, PanelView, PanelView Plus, PlantPAx, PowerFlex, SmartMCC etc. Proficient in AVEVA system platform and Wonderware InTouch design and programming, Wonderware historian and historian clients, report generations. Solid design, quick development, strong problem solving and RCA capabilities.

Broad education and technology background on electrical, controls, computer science, VFD and instrumentation, be capable of looking at all aspects of electrical control systems, quickly learning new technologies. Work independently and/or as a team player, collaborate with contractors, site and corporate control engineers, train peer controls and electricians/instrument technicians to escalate their responsibilities. Closely work with supervisors/engineers learning process, understand and satisfy business needs. Education:

May 2003 M.S in Computer Science, University of Wyoming (GPA 3.913) April 1992 M.S in Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University July 1989 B.S in Electrical Engineering, National University of Defense Technology Experience:

11.2006~02.2023

Control Systems Engineer, Sr. Control Systems Engineer, American Sugar Refining, Chalmette Refinery Design and maintain control systems of sugar refinery at Chalmette, Louisiana. My duties include developing and maintaining control systems of the whole plant, and managing the process side networking and servers; automating and optimizing process control, and engaging in daily continuous improvements; migrating and upgrading legacy control systems; supporting and working on capital projects. Maintain and enhance control system through continuous improvement, working to industry standards, strategically upgrading control systems, managing changes and system backup, to ensure optimum, reliable and stable control system.

01.2004~08.2016

Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of New Orleans Conduct research on the area of data mining, pattern recognition, machine learning, computer vision. Design and implement a system on categorization of human histological images on Sun Fire V800, Solaris, written in C with GTK+ for GUI development. Web Master for UNO Chinese Students and Scholars Association. 07.2001~12.2002

Research Assistant/Software Developer, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Wyoming Design and implement a relational geographic information system, which has a client/server architecture. The Arcview was customized as the client side; the server side is relational database system residing in a Linux machine. The client code was written in Avenue script calling DLL functions that implement socket networking with server. The sever side code was written in C with ESQL communicating with the Database.

01.2001~06.2001

Software Engineer, SoftRay Inc., Laramie, Wyoming Worked on the bio-detected project. I developed C++ multi-thread code in a Windows workstation, which captures and counts moving bacteria in the solution, communicates with a handheld PC through a series port (RS232). I wrote Embedded C++ program of Windows CE for the hand-held PC, to control operations of the main computer and display the counting results.

Publication:

Dehua Zhao, Yixin Chen, and Hernan Correa, “Automated Classification of Human Histological Images, A Multiple-Instance Learning Approach,” IEEE/NLM Life Science Systems & Applications Workshop. NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD, July 2006 Dehua Zhao, Yixin Chen, and Hernan Correa,

“Statistical Categorization of Human Histological Images,” Proc. International Conference on Image Processing, vol. III, pp. 628~631, Genova, Italy, 2005 Dehua Zhao, Byunggu Yu, Dan Randolph, Bong Hee Hong, "Relational Geographic Databases," In: Proc. of IIIS SCI 2003: Systematics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, Vol. VI, pp. 95-100, Orlando, 2003 (selected as the best paper from the session) .

Certificate:

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) on SQL Server 2005 (pass exam 70- 441: PRO- Design Database Solution by Using SQL Server 2005) Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2005, 05/25/2005 Novel certified network engineer (CNE), 1998.

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