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School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds |
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Yongji Zhou |
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Industrial Engineer |
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Embedded Software Engineer at Dyson Technology Limited, UK Period: 01/2010 - Present Location: Malmesbury, UK ● PIC Microcontroller programming for high-speed motor control by using C and ASM ● PIC Microcontroller peripheral circuit design ● Interfacing between software and hardware ● Generation of software specification, documentation of developed technologies and test results (full software development lifecycle) ● Code debug, change and management with version control software ‘StarTeam’ ● Completion of software FMEAs carried out in conjunction with the hardware and system FMEA ● Low-voltage bench and high-voltage rig testing ● Collaborating with the power electronic engineers, motor design engineers and mechanical engineers |
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R&D Engineer in the residential air conditioner sector of the Midea Group, one of the largest white household appliance production base and export base in China Period: 04/2005 - 10/2005 Location: Guang Dong, China ● PCB design in residential air conditioners ● Motorola 68HC11 Microcontroller programming for the control of air conditioners ● Selection of cost sensitive components ● Team working and loyalty in the group ● Air conditioners manufacturing process (including component sample testing, PCB soldering assembly line, air conditioner assembly line, product test) ● Arranging seminars by component suppliers, eg. SENSIRION ● Six Sigma business management strategy |
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Contest Project Leader |
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Leader of project ‘Greenhouse Wireless Programmable Fuzzy Control System’, for provincial and national undergraduate scientific contest CHALLENGE CUP. The work was granted top-rank prize in the provincial contest and 2nd-rank prize in the national one. Period: 11/2001 - 09/2003 Location: Xi’an, China ● Team leading and organization skills ● Host board and branch board design using 8051 Microcontroller ● Programming under Keil C51 development tools ● Communication design by wireless communication modules ● Temperature and humidity sensing using SENSIRION sensors ● Fuzzy control techniques for constant temperature ● PC interfacing by VC ● Visiting greenhouse plants at Yangling District, China |
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Lab Demonstrator |
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Lab demonstrator for module ‘ELEC5563 Digital Design for System on Chip’ Period: 11/2008 - 01/2009 Location: Leeds, UK ● Tutoring postgraduate students in embedded system labs ● The use of contemporary EDA design tools, such as Altera Quartus, ModelSim and Mentor Graphics ● Soft Processors ● VLSI Synthesis of DSP kernels |
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Lab demonstrator for module ‘ELEC2630 Embedded Systems and Control Engineering’ Period: 11/2008-01/2009, 11/2007-01/2008 Location: Leeds, UK ● Tutoring undergraduate students in servo motor control labs ● Controlling servo motor using motor position feedback and tacho feedback; measuring and validating performance |
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Lab demonstrator for module ‘Digital Design using microcontroller and FPGA’ Period: 02/2008-03/2008 Location: Leeds, UK ● Tutoring undergraduate students in digital design labs ● Designing digital answering machine by using both MCU approach (Microchip PIC18x MCU) and FPGA approach (Altera Cyclone FPGA) |
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Lab demonstrator for module ‘Control Design Using Matlab’ Period: 02/2004-03/2004, 02/2006-03/2006 Location: Leeds, UK ● Tutoring undergraduate students in Matlab for control labs ● Tuning vehicle suspension system’s parameter in Matlab |
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High School Mentor |
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Mentor for Lawnswood High School’s students for ‘FIRST LEGO LEAGUE 2006’ contest Period: 09/2006-12/2006 Location: Leeds, UK ● Mentoring and organizing high school students, in close coordination with the teacher of the students ● Help students to exploit their own ideas instead of doing actual work for them. ● Building robot with LEGO’s programmable RCX brick ● Programming in the LabVIEWTM based ROBOLAB Software environment ● Scheduling the missions for the robot to finish |
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Translator and Transcriptor |
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Translator and Transcriptor for the ‘Sheffield Chinese Community Memory Book’, in the ‘China in Yorkshire’ project, employed by Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust Period: 01/2007 - 04/2007 Location: Leeds, UK ● Translation for English-to-Chinese, and Chinese-to-English ● Transcription of recorded interview voices which are in English, Mandarin or Cantonese into text ● Responsible for about 50% of the book text content ● Reporting to the book designer
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Commercial Seller |
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eBay.co.uk Power Seller, online selling Period: 06/2006 - 12/2008 Location: Leeds, UK ● Power Seller at eBay for over one and a half year ● Understanding of the trends of the UK and European markets ● Promoting and advertising products ● Strategies of running business efficiently ● Skills of treating new customers and encouraging old customers ● Contact customers by phones, emails and letters. ● 100% positive customer feedback, feedback score over 1500 |
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Website Administrator |
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www.GIGIROY.com website administrator Period: 01/2005 - 12/2008 Location: vary ● Website functions: personal homepage, photo gallery, online shop, video playback platform, email account, etc. ● Website design languages: HTML, XML, PHP, etc. ● Website design tools: Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Publisher, etc |
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PC and Network Expert (amateurish) |
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Amateurish expert for installing and repairing PC and network. From harddisk data recovery to network faulty detecting, from hardware assembling to software debugging Period: since 2003 Location: vary For details, please see PC Repair History |
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Volunteer |
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Volunteering marshal in ‘Race for Life 2007’, Cancer Research UK, Leeds Date: 06/2007 Location: Leeds, UK ● Join the marshal team for the long-distance running race ● Cheering and assisting the runners ● Experience of using walkie-talkie |
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Volunteering marshal in ‘Leeds 2008’ marathon, Leeds City Council, Leeds Date: 07/09/2008 Location: Leeds, UK ● Join the marshal team for the long-distance running race ● Cheering and assisting the runners |
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