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OBJECTIVE

Experienced and highly motivated engineer seeking a challenging position with a dynamic organization in one of the following arenas:

* Mechanical component/system

* Automation control system

* Thermal spray process control

* Optical sensors development

* Engineering design test & validation

* Engineering project Management

* Java/C/C++/C#/SQL

* PLC & HMI & SCADA

* LABVIEW/MATLAB/SIMULINK

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

* Experienced engineer with Ph.D. degrees and 8+ years of broad experience spanning multiple industries with recent specialization in automotive pressure components design and validation

* Proven ability to develop automated validation system for different industrial applications using PLC & HMI

* Superior organizational management abilities demonstrated through leading an engineering team in developing four sensors and a real-time control system

* Excellent communication skills, easily interacts with executives, clients, vendors, and staff

* “Certified Manufacturing Technologist” certification from Society of Manufacturing Engineers (June, 2003)

* Fluent NI data/image acquisition skills, including software design and hardware setup

* Fluent MATLAB coding skills for model based design, process modeling/simulation, experimental data analysis

* Author of the book: Plasma Spray Advanced Control System Design, ISBN: 978-3-639-11017-3, VDM-PUBLISHING, Germany, 2008

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy – Manufacturing Engineering 7/2005

Boston University – Boston, Massachusetts

Master of Science– Mechanical Engineering 3/2000

Zhejiang University – Hangzhou, China

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

THE QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES INC. 11/2007 – 3/2009

Irvine, California

Senior Project Engineer

* Provides concepts and develops ideas to improve current automobile component products, including PHEV battery control system, fuel injectors, valves, regulators, tubing structure, pressure/temperature sensors for OEM customers such as GM, Ford, and Suzuki.

* Design and set up automation system to test and validate new R&D product designs and RCA failures with the whole product R&D team.

* Broadens the functional scope/general application of automobile component products line, and improves products reliability.

* Drafts/designs/approves drawings to ensure automobile components conforming to our drawings will conform to customer specifications.

* Contributes to the preparation of specific cost estimates or proposals, as requested. Researches and implements new products, reliability and test methodologies. Conceives and writes patent disclosures to substantiate patent applications and accumulates the necessary documentation.

* Represents Quantum to the customer by providing guidance, as needed, for program direction. Negotiates specifications with the customer to ensure conformance with product performance requirements.

* Creates and presents product/application information, as appropriate, to customers. Authorizes, supervises and coordinates prototype product builds.

* Provides expertise to upper management on customer, competitor and technology activities. ? Evaluates and approves/rejects specific deviations for production based upon its merits and liabilities. Advises upper management of the relative merit of each program.

* Lead teams and interfaces with customers, vendors and plant personnel in coordinating product changes. Prepares and defines test procedures for product validation and analyzes results. Develops and performs/supervises system simulation testing.

* Compiles/analyzes data and recommends further action to all customers (internal and external). Provides system and/or process expertise and diagnosis/troubleshooting as required by customer.

ZHEJIANG CHENGXIN MEDICAL EQUIPMENT INC 1/2007 – 11/2008

Taizhou, Zhejiang, China

Medical Equipment R&D Engineer (part-time)

* Lead Chinese engineers to apply ceramic coatings to pharmaceutical reactors to withstand corrosion from acid solutions

* Outsource and set up medical coating equipments from US to China, and optimize the production process

* Apply lean manufacturing and six sigma strategies to medical equipments manufacturing process

THE MATHWORKS INC. 7/2005 – 10/2007

Natick, Massachusetts

Software Engineer

* MATLAB Data Acquisition, Image Acquisition, Instrument Control toolboxes new functionality source code, test code development and multi-OS compatibility troubleshooting and maintenance

* MATLAB Data Acquisition, Image Acquisition, Instrument Control toolboxes graphic user interface (GUI) new features design and usability design

* Mathworks Test & Measurement Lab hardware troubleshooting, daily maintenance and development schedule coordination

* MATLAB Test & Measurement toolboxes code coverage team lead

BOSTON UNIVERSITY PROCESS CONTROL LABORATORY 8/2000 – 7/2005

Boston, Massachusetts

Research Assistant / Manufacturing Engineer

* Lead team of undergraduates in set-up of academic plasma spray laboratory

* Plasma spray process sensors development and applications

o Plasma intensity sensor system

o Torch voltage bifurcation detection system

o Torch nozzle acoustics monitoring sensor

o Individual particle states sensor

* Design and implement plasma spray real-time control system, including:

o Controller/sensor/simulation software for feedback control, utilizing LABVIEW & MATLAB

o Automatic motion systems to improve measurement accuracy by motion control systems

o Real-time control system implementation (software & hardware)

Project: ENGELHARD CORPORATION 3/2002 – 6/2004

East Windsor, Connecticut

Technical Consultant

* Provide technical expertise in process control system design, with particular emphasis on thermal spray coating, including improvement of accuracy of thermal spray sensors

Project: SIEMENS WESTINGHOUSE POWER GENERATION 11/2001 – 11/2004

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Technical Consultant

* Provide technical expertise in process control system design and plasma spray for U.S. Department of Energy advanced fuel cell research program

* Played instrumental role in reduction in variation of SOFC production process and 7% reduction of manufacturing costs

Intern: OSRAM SYLVANIA (SIEMENS) AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING 2/2001 – 5/ 2001

Hillsboro, New Hampshire

Manufacturing Engineer

* Participated in design, layout and implementation of High Intensity Discharge Lamp (HID) production system

* Identified operational bottlenecks and applied such manufacturing methodologies as continuous improvement and kanban system design to increase process throughput by 12%

NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION 9/1997 – 3/2000

Hangzhou, China

Mechanical Engineer/Technical Consultant

* Served as technical consultant in process control projects for Fujian Qingzhou Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd., using Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) techniques

* Designed and implemented control system for pulp and paper process, including PID controller tuning and process model simulation

* Developed relational database with SQL Server and Delphi to record and analyze paper and pulp industrial data

HANZHOU YONGZON MEDICAL ELEC. CO. LTD (Part-Time) 2/1998 – 10/1999

Hangzhou, China

Software Engineer/Webmaster

* Designed and maintained website at www.load-cell.com

* Used AutoCAD techniques to design medical load cell sensors

Intern: SHANGHAI OIL REFINERY CO. LTD 1/1997 – 7/1997

Shanghai, China

Application Engineer

* Designed and implemented control systems for large-scale oil distillation column

* Used neural network to research ways to optimize distillation process

* Performed PLC design and programming

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