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Contact Information

Name Oliver Zhang
Professional Title Mechanical Engineer
Email oliverzhang1@yahoo.com
Website https://oliverzzhang.com/

Summary

I’m a versatile mechanical engineer with extensive experience designing and building complex electro-mechanical systems. I thrive in highly collaborative interdisciplinary teams, and I love finding elegant solutions that bring innovative ideas to life.

I’m an Australian citizen.

Experience

  • 2019 - present

    San Francisco, USA

    Senior Mechanical Engineer
    PA Consulting
    Collaborating with diverse engineers and designers to find the path through complex challenges and turn inventive ideas into innovative products.
    • Delivering projects across many different industries, from medical robotics to industrial food production.
    • Working through the entire product development process, from concept to manufacturing.
    • Collaborating with a wide range of clients from agile tech startups to established global leaders.
    • Brainstorming ideas and developing concepts to find the best path forward.
    • Building prototypes at the right fidelity to rapidly drive to the optimal design.
    • Architecting complex systems by breaking them down into key interactions and applying first principles analysis and modelling.
    • Coordinating highly interdisciplinary teams spread across multiple geographies, with electrical engineers, software engineers, and industrial designers.
    • Growing the team’s capabilities through weekly forums and training sessions, covering topics like analysis, sketching, or programming.
  • 2017 - 2017

    Pittsburgh, USA

    Project Engineer Intern
    Autel Robotics
    Worked in a team of three to implement tracking and gesture recognition systems for a quadrotor. Developed programs using MATLAB and cross compiled using C/C++ for embedded execution.

Education

  • 2015 - 2019

    Pittsburgh, USA

    Bachelor of Science
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Mechanical Engineering with an additional major in Robotics with University Honors
    • Completed a wide range of course work from mechanical engineering fundamentals to computer vision, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering.
    • Worked with cross-disciplinary teams on multiple projects, including building an amphibious vehicle, a self-navigating drone, and an autonomous delivery robot.

Skills

Programming: Python, C/C++, MATLAB, ROS, Unity
Mechanical Engineering: Technology development and prototyping, Analysis of complex systems, Electromechanical systems, Design for manufacture, SolidWorks, GD&T, Tolerance stack analysis
Systems Engineering: Requirements development, System architecture design, Risk management
Languages: English (native speaker), Mandarin (native speaker)

Patents

US11058204B2 - Automated total nail care systems, devices, and methods

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