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Contact Information
| Name | Oliver Zhang |
| Professional Title | Mechanical Engineer |
| 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
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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.
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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
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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