1. MARIE (YINGPING) ZHANG
1140 E Hawken Way,
Chandler, AZ 85286
smileping78@gmail.com; Cell: 480-254-7272
System and Software Engineer
Enterprise and Big Data / Scale-out / System and Software Performance & Testing
 Versatile software and performance engineer with over 10 years of experience
 Skilled in analysis and optimization of complex software stacks, native/virtualized
 Experienced in Business intelligence, Databases, Big Data analytics, large scale distributed and multi-tiered
storage clusters
 Contributed team player with strategies for developing successful collaboration
 Background across multiple market segments in client and server spaces
Technical Expertise
 Programming Languages : C, C++, JAVA, SHELL, Python, Perl, SQL
 Operating Systems : All major Linux distributions, Windows Servers, VMware
 Platforms : Xeon servers, SAS/SATA/PCI-e linked SSD storage, Network
 Distributed Environments : Hadoop, Lustre, OpenStack, AWS
 Performance tools : VTune, Perfmon, IOMeter, Sysstat family, JMeter, and more
Professional Experience
o Intel Cooperation, (Chandler, AZ) 2005 – 2016
Senior Software Performance & Application Engineer
A leader of testing, characterization and optimization of big data software stacks (e.g. IBM DB2, SAS Base & High
Performance Analytics, IBM Lotus Domino, and AWS) with automation scripts to maximize their performance on
Intel asset mixes (processors, solid state disks and network adapters). The work provided solid support on product
launch events, software and system tuning recommendations, proof-of-concept deliverables, and forward
guidance for Intel storage, CPU, and networking architectures.
 Accelerated transition of major enterprise solutions to Intel CPUs and storage products through workload
analysis and Intel-ISV (Individual Software Vendor) collaborative software tuning
 Delivered, each year, leadership performance results co-optimized for Intel and software partner products on
latest generation Linux and Windows clusters. In 2015 alone, delivered 10 technical reports on co-optimization
 Managed huge amount testing projects and study cases with various enterprise software stacks in different
combination of environments (Windows / Linux, native / virtual, native / cluster, and etc). Each has delivered
solid and quality results on time to support product launch events, Intel / customer conference presentations,
and product design wins. For example, in the SAS, SATA and RAID storage testing, named Sunrise Lake project
alone, more than thousand tests for 54 different versions of FW and 12 versions of RAID stacks had been
executed in less than 6 months to support the product launch.
 Contributed on the release of an Open Source XML Database Benchmark - "Transaction Processing over XML
(TPoX)", on sourceforge (http://tpox.sourceforge.net/)
 Developed exceptional creative problem solving and debugging skills through collaboration projects with
different ISVs, such as IBM & SAS to determine causes and solutions for the performance issues of their
applications.
 Engineered large scale of testing cases in different stages, such as Smoking Testing, Functional Testing,
Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and Performance Testing, for diversity products with
different new technologies. It enhanced the multitasking skill, fast learning ability, new tool master skill and
more.

2. smileping78@gmail.com Cell: 480-254-7272
 Demonstrated strong leadership and communication skills through prompt customers / ISVs supporting,
successfully driving collaborations cross team, geo and companies, continued Intern supervising, activate team
player, publishing papers, reports and presentations in conferences, and by-weekly ISVs’ meetings as well as
served as a current president of one local Chinese society group CASPA-AZ and a former president of one Intel
Employee group ACI-AZ.
o University of Delaware, Newark, DE 2003 – 2005
Research Assistant
Performed research in Computer Architecture, Performance analysis and Optimization to developed software and
automation used in the University's Computer Architecture & Parallel System Laboratory (CAPSL).
 Within machine architecture and parallelization, the focused area was the IBM Cyclops-64 160-core
architecture and the interconnection network among the cores.
 Implemented embedded performance analysis and comparison with emulation systems based XSCALE and
ARM architectures.
 Designed and maintained the website for CAPSL.
Education
 M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering 2005 University of Delaware
 M.S. in Computer Science National University of Defense Technology, PRC
 B.S. in Electrical Engineering Harbin University of Science and Technology, PRC
Selected Publications
All publications are shared in Research Gate with 101 reads and 35 cites there in last two years:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yingping_Zhang/stats/reads?ref_hfsw=1
 Ying-ping (Marie) Zhang, Margaret Carver, Gabriele Paciucci, Steve Paper, Suleyman Sair, “A Shared File
System on SAS® Grid Manger in a Cloud Environment”, WUSS 2015, Sept. 9-11, San Diego, 2015
 Ying-ping (Marie) Zhang, Jeff Curry, Frank Roxas, Benjamin Donie, “Accomplish Optimal I/O Performance on
SAS® 9.3® with Intel® Cache Acceleration Software and Intel® DC S3700 Solid State Drive”, WUSS 2013, Nov.
13-15, Las Vegas, 2013
 Ying-ping (Marie) Zhang, “SAS ® 9.3 ® BI Case Study: Performance Scalability and Tuning on Servers with Intel
® Xeon ® Processor E7 Family”, WUSS 2012, Sept. 5 – 7, Long Beach, 2012 (Best Contribution Award)
 Ying Ping Zhang, Taikyeong Jeong , Fei Chen, Haiping Wu, Ronny Nitzsche, Guang R. Gao , “A study of the on-
chip interconnection network for the IBM Cyclops64 multi-core architecture”, 20th IEEE IPDPS 2006, April 25 –
29, Rhodes Island, Greece, 2006
 Suleyman Sair, Brett Lee, Ying M Zhang, “A Case Study” Performance Analysis and Optimization of SAS® Grid
Computing Scaling on a Shared Storage”, SAS Global Forum 2014, Washington DC, March 23 – 26, 2014