William Lu Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

Shanghai, China

- Worked in the copper concentrates, gold concentrates and blisters team focusing on importing concentrates from mines in Mongolia, South America, Africa and some other regions to major smelters in China.- Assessing logistical, credit, hedging, and performance risk and proactively working to reduce - if not eliminate entirely - risks on each of these levels.

Geneva, Switzerland

- Worked in refined metals trade finance team focusing on bilateral financing, repos and borrowing base facilities.- Manage financing of copper cathodes from Africa.- Overseeing analysis, monitoring, mitigation and awareness of the Company's financial risks.- Making appropriate finance decisions, including overseeing cost effectiveness, diversity of financing sources, and minimum use of the Company's own liquidity.- Carrying responsibility for the maintenance of the regional bank lines as well as serving as the Company's main liaison with our Banking partners.- Working with Deals Desk personnel to ensure any incurred costs agreed by Trade Finance are allocated correctly to the separately maintained deal Profit & Loss accounts.

Geneva, Switzerland

- Worked in lead and zinc concentrates deals desk team focusing on providing market and risk analysis on a real time basis.- Providing traders with risk assessments and analysis which highlight their exposure, optionality and PnL.- Manage LME and SHFE night sessions hotline pricing (copper, lead, zinc, nickel, gold, silver) for Chinese clients.

Berkeley, California

• Design and fabricate a 3D scanner prototype (Argus) using RGB-D camera for rapid prototyping application• Develop depth data processing pipeline to reconstruct 3D object

Department Of Materials, Imperial College London

MEng Thesis: Novel Meta-crystal Lattice Design by Additive Manufacturing• Designed novel meta-crystal lattice structures by additive manufacturing as part of the Novel Manufacturing of Metals and Alloys Research Group led by Dr. Minh Son Pham• Used Solidworks and nTopology Element Pro softwares for structure design and optimization• Performed rapid prototyping using Form 2 printer and conducted post-processing work• Evaluated mechanical properties and developed Python algorithms for analysis

Department Of Materials, Imperial College London

• UROP project supervised by Prof. Andrew Horsfield• Developed a Monte Carlo algorithm using Python to optimize the density functional tight binding pair potentials for studying corrosion• The algorithm is implemented in the Package for Linear-combination of Atomic Orbitals (PLATO), a suite of programs performing calculations of electronic structure written by Prof. S.D. Kenny and Prof. A.P. Horsfield

London, United Kingdom

Worked with young people and inspired them to take science and maths based subjects at A-level and beyond.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Operations Research

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Materials Science And Engineering, 1St Class Honors Degree And The Associateship Of The Royal School Of Mines

Finance, General

• Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions • Introduction to Finance