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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Built and delivered customized polyolefins management results presentation to both the management team and engineering team in English and Chinese when needed.
• Developed and utilized data visualization with TIBCO Spotfire for polyolefins presentation.
• Trained new employees including analysts and managers in the polyolefins program.
• Tailored a marketing strategy to potential new Chinese customers.
• Lead Europe Polyolefin and Europe Polyolefin Quarterly Revenue Program.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Managed and executed global and regional cost and performance benchmarks for more than 20 major polymer producers in the world.
• Developed/revised 6 different benchmarking programs including manufacturing, distribution, sales & marketing, research & development and business management, quarterly revenue, and quarterly Key Performance Indicator.
• Leveraged language and business communication skills to cultivate relationships with Chinese-speaking clients.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Accelerated more efficient handling of data validation by implementing a systematic approach that was widely used in PTAI.
• Identified and quantified actionable margin gaps to best-in-class participants.
• Provided special association analysis along with the customized benchmarking results in the deliverable presentations to the business director.
• Conducted effective PTAI polyolefins data definition training.

Houston

• Industry benchmarking data collection and verification.
• Industry benchmarking production under the supervision of my leaders.
• Preparation of result presentation slides based on the request.
• Regional and global polyolefin business research.

Beaumont, TX

• Lamar University Beaumont, TX Mar. 2013 - present
• Accomplished assigned research work related to the chemical process industry.
• Assisted other team members in conducting the simulation research work.

Beaumont/Port Arthur, Texas Area

• Graduate student
• Maximized profit of a ketene plant using Aspen Plus and Pro-II.
• Analyzed, modified and evaluated the chemical process.
• Improved raw material yields, reduced utilities/chemical usage and increased production rates.
• Separated hydrocarbon mixtures)using Aspen HYSYS.
• Tuned controllers, performed step test, configured controllers and simulated controllers.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Research Assistant
• Synthesized polymers with controlled morphology.
• Characterized polymers with different methods such as NMR, FTIR, and UV-Vis.
• Developed kinetic models to characterize growth mechanism of polymers.
• Synthesized and purified chemical compounds such as RAFT agent.
• Analyzed data using commercial statistical software.

Socorro, NM

• Research Assistant
• Collected, reviewed, organized and summarized the relevant scientific literature.
• Prepared chemical solutions for products following standardized formulas.
• Synthesized luminescent nanoparticles (NP) as magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents.
• Prepared silicon NP with amine group and coated with gold.
• Synthesized the photon upconverting NP with sol-gel method.

Wuhan, Hubei, China

• Received Triple-Excellence Student at the Central China Agricultural University.
• Received First-place award of “Challenge Cup” College Students’ Competition at Hubei Province..
• Served as president of the Table-tennis Association at the Central China Agricultural University.
• Worked as a reporter for Central China Agricultural University Press.
• Participated the science college art troupe at Central China Agricultural University.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.53

Computational And Applied Mathematics, 3.8

Applied Mathematics (Project :Mathematical model of CO2 Emission of China) Principle of Analytics 1

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Chemical Engineering, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Orientation Leader• Administered a successful new students Orientation and Welcome Week for incoming Chemical.

Master Of Science, General Chemistry

Tang, S., Zhang, P. Luminescent Nano-particle as Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agent, Master Thesis, NMT, Socorro, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Bachelor Of Science, Applied Chemistry

• President of the Table-tennis Association. • Member of the table-tennis team. • Vice director of news section in the student union of.

Education record

Triple-excellent student throughout the senior high school and junior high school