1. Xuezhu (Joy) Sun
Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder)
New York City | (315) 560 6907 | xsun40@syr.edu| www.linkedin.com/in/sunxuezhu
EDUCATION
Master of Science, Information Management
Syracuse University (GPA 3.7/4.0) 05/2016
Bachelor of Management (issued by BUPT)
Bachelor of Engineering (issued by Queen Mary, University of London)
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 05/2014
Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science
Syracuse University 05/2016
WORK EXPERIENCE
IT Business Analyst, Gridology Education & Technology Inc., New York City 06/2016-Present
• Conducted market research on SEO, graduate school marketing practices, and trends in applications.
• Communicated clients’ business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.
• Performed analysis of complex functional and business requirements to verify the clients’ needs were met.
• Liaised between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.
• Revised the website design and also gave professional advice following DFD, ER, and UML by using Visio.
• Designed and created digital and marketing materials by Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop, etc.
IT Architect & IT Consultant, General Electric Healthcare 06/2015-09/2015
• Designed workflow rules and email trigger functions on Salesforce.com platform.
• Drafted and maintained business requirements and aligned them with functional and technical requirements.
• Worked closely with cross functional groups like developers to deliver quality deliverables on time under Agile environment.
• Facilitated weekly meetings with clients to document requirements and explored potential solutions.
• Experienced in using WordPress and website management work.
Business Analyst, Tech Garden, Syracuse, NY 04/2015-08/2015
• Worked with entrepreneurs, technologists, subject matter experts, attorneys and accountants to start up a tea store.
• Interviewed tea culture field relevant organizations including Chinese tea investors, Syracuse Communities about their
requirements and Syracuse downtown business situation.
• Collected information needs about what’s the operation problems and interaction with customers.
• Initiated and designed the crowdfunding project raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, including
customers, investors, and banks. Completed a business plan to achieve the entrepreneurial goals.
Business Analyst, Start-up Travel Agency Company, Syracuse, NY 10/2014-01/2015
• Analyzed, isolated and documented requirements, defined scope and objectives.
• Revised the website design and also gave professional advice like DFD, ER, and UML by using Visio.
• Designed and developed 3k+ lines of SQL code. Converted MS Access application code to SQL Server Stored Procedures.
IT PROJECTS
Data Mining Project: Predict the Author of the Article 10/2015-12/2015
• Pre-processed 3000+ data by using R and Excel.
• Built models with J-48 decision tree, Naïve Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbors and SVMs algorithms in Weka.
• Evaluated the models and utilized the best model to predict the author of the article.
Information Visualization Project: Cancer Situation in USA 03/2015-05/2015
• Designed and conducted analysis about cancer dataset.
• Cleaned and analyzed 50,000+ data from web source by using Excel.
• Developed 300+ lines of R code to create data visualizations. Evaluated models to predict the future cancer rate in USA.
• Used Adobe Illustrator to polish the visualization plots and designed a poster to show the final results.
IT Project Management: Institutional Intranet System of Brockport Central School 02/2015-05/2015
• Planned to build an institutional intranet system for the purpose of sharing information internally among faculty and staff
of Brockport Central School District, and to make certain administrative tasks more efficient and more accurate.
• Created project charter and scope document by using MS Project tools, WBS, budget, schedules, and status reports.
• Ran queries and reported from the data in Excel in order to quickly search needed information by using VLOOKUP, VBA, etc.
• Launched security measures to prevent people from seeing information which was not on their authority level.
KEY SKILLS
Excel; Salesforce.com; R; HTML; XML; SQL Server; MS Access; Visio; MS Project; WordPress; PowerBI; SEO; Tableau; Agile,
Adobe Illustrator; etc.