Dong Zeng

7600 Kirby Drive, #314 Houston, TX 77030
Phone: (713) 667-6862
Email:

Objective: Obtain a challenging position in a scientific computing environment fully utilizing my skills in computer software development and my knowledge in both Computer Sciences and Biological Sciences.

Education

3/2001

Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center: SQL Server 7.0 Implementing Database Design.

8/1997-12/2000

University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

MS in Computer Science, December 2000. GPA 3.61.

9/1987-3/1991

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

MS in Molecular Biology, March 1991. GPA 3.2.

9/1983-7/1987

Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

BS in Genetics, July 1987. GPA 3.5.

Employment History

6/2000-present

System Engineer, Compaq Computer Corp.: Server Support Software Development.

  • Database driven web applications development.
  1. As a member developer of a project (using Java, J2EE with JSP and JDBC, and SQL Server) that manages internal software/hardware data and publishes Compaq support information on the Web.
  2. Designed and developed a web application (using ASP) that manages data and retrieves information of test plans, test cases and test results.
  • Database application development. Full life cycle development of the following applications and databases (using VB, VBA, MS Access, and MS SQL Server 7.0), and managed the databases: an application manages outsourcing data, an application manages inventories, an application manages budgets, an application manages software and hardware test data, and a client generates Compaq software/hardware data reports.

2/1999-6/2000

Test Engineer, Compaq Computer Corp. - Technology Labs Corp.

Compaq Server/Software/Hardware testing, including test plan making and test data management.

  • Testing of software: SmartStart, a platform delivery and configuration software product. Compaq drivers for SCO UNIX.

Employment History Continued

  • Testing of hardware: Troubleshoot assisted and manual installations of Compaq servers with SmartStart. Includes installation, testing, and configuration of SCO UnixWare7, UnixWare2, OpenServer5, and NT 4.0. Compaq controllers and NICs.
  • MS Access programming and Access database administration.
  • UNIX shell programming for test tools.

3/1991-7/1996

Research Associate, State Key Lab of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Genetics, Fudan University. Shanghai, China.

  • Transgenic potatoes, Recombinant human growth factors.
  • Computer software development (in C language) for DNA, protein analysis.
  • Computer aided structural analysis of interesting DNA/RNA, Computer aided design of proteins and DNAs.

Technical Skills and Strength

  • Highly motivated, team worker, quick learning. Strong analytical abilities with various science research experiences. Eager on exploring new technologies.
  • Proficient in the following technologies:
  1. 3 years experience: Database driven web application development using ASP (Active Server Pages 2.0/3.0), J2EE (JDBC, JSP, Servlets) and XML.
  2. 4 years experience: Database programming using VB, VBA, ADO, and ODBC.
  3. 4 years experience: Relational database design and development.
  4. 4 years experience: MS Access, Excel programming.
  5. 1 year experience: CGI programming with Perl.
  6. 1 year experience: Parallel processing for scientific computation using MPI (message passing interface) and Fortran 77.
  • Certificate from Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center: SQL Server 7.0 Implementing Database Design.
  • Strong knowledge and ability in OOA and OOD.
  • Understand the J2EE architecture with experience on JDBC, Servlets, and JSP. Understand EJB technology/architecture. N-tier architecture knowledge and experience.
  • Familiar with the following programming languages/technologies: Java (3+ years), J2EE (1+ years), C (8 years), C++ (3 years), Active Server Pages (3 years), Visual Basic (4 years, VB5 to VB6), XML (1 year), HTML (5 years), Http (4 years), Perl (1 year), Assembly, Fortran, OpenGL, SQL (especially MS T-SQL, 3 years), UML, VBScript, Jscript, and UNIX Shell scripts.
  • Proficient in using the following operating systems: UNIX (SCO UnixWare7.x, SCO OpenServer5, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX), MS Windows NT/98/2000 Professional/2000 Server, and MS DOS. Familiar with installation/configuration of various MS Windows and SCO UNIX operating systems.
  • Strong ability in system/database administration: SCO UnixWare7.x, SCO OpenServer5, SQL Server 7.0 administration (1 year), MS Access database administration (3 years).

Technical Skills and Strength Continued

  • Proficient in using application software: MS Office Suite (including Word, Access, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, FrontPage), MS IIS 5, Allair JRun servers, Apache Tomcat server, MS Visual Interdev, and Boland JBuilder.
  • Familiar with Compaq server installation and configuration with SCO UNIX (UnixWare7.x and OpenServer5.x), MS Windows NT Server.
  • Abilities in certain computer science researches: Design and implementation of processor simulators, software prefetching, and instruction scheduling; Parallel multigrid methods in solving nonlinear partial differential equations.

References: References available upon request.