Ran Zhang has a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology. He has technical skills in languages like C++, C#, Android, ASP.NET, SQL, and JavaScript. Some of his academic projects include building a news reader application for Android, developing custom keyboard drivers for Android, creating an order takeaway system using Node.js and Express, designing a remote document vault using WCF and Windows Presentation Foundation, and developing a distributed social platform application using ASP.NET and a dispatcher server with WebSocket.

1. Ran Zhang
965 E El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 | 315-944-7876 | ranzhang.su@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Master of Engineering | Syracuse University | May 2014
Major: Computer Engineering
Master of Engineering | Beijing Institute of Technology | July 2012
Major: Electronics and Communication Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering | Beijing Institute of Technology | July 2010
Major: Information Engineering
TECHNICAL SKILLS
C++, C#, Android, ASP.NET, SQL, JavaScript, Node.JS, WebAPI, HTML, CSS, git
RELATED COURSEWORK
Advanced Data Structures, Object Oriented Design, Software Modeling & Analysis, Distributed Objects, Internet Programming,
Android Mobile Technology, Embedded System Design, Computer Org. & Kernel Program
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
NewsReaderApplication
 Built the news reader application on Android, which provides browse and comment features.
 Communicate with server using Jsoup and convert the HTML content to Java objects
 Created a sliding menu, on which different categories of news are displayed, using list fragment to display the news item
 Using ViewPager and FragmentPagerAdapter for switching these different fragment on article view
 Support customized font size and take effect immediately using EventBus, and using UniversalImageLoader to load the
images asynchronously.
CustomkeyboardbasedonAndroidGadgetDriver
 Built the drivers which make the android devices recognized as peripherals (keyboard, mouse, gamepad, digitizer, etc.) by
computer based on the gadget driver
 Developed a keyboard app provides custom keyboard layouts and shortcut keys by using KeyboardView class and the built
driver, built C programs to test and verify the other drivers’ functions
Order TakeawaySystem
 Built an order takeaway website supports account management, order food, and payment using Node.JS and Express
 Stored user accounts, restaurants and orders using MongoDB
 Implemented the RESTful APIs which provide open and well-defined interfaces for application in mobile devices
 Built an Android application which has the same features as the website using the provided RESTful APIs
RemoteDocumentVault
 Designed and implemented the Remote Document Vault , which supports insertion and extraction of files to and from, as
well as check-in and query functions
 Obtained the properties and the relationship of other files determined by their metadata (XML)
 Implemented the vault client GUI using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, C#), and the communication between
client and the vault server used Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Blocking Queue and Multi-threads
DistributedAppforSocial Platform
 Designed and implemented a social website (ASP.NET) having basic services including registration, user profile, post
activities, friends, file repository and chatting room
 Implemented the project as distributed system, the dispatcher server (C#) exchange messages from clients ,sub servers and
database (MySQL) using WebSocket
 Responsible for dispatcher server using multithreading and the file repository which has three levels – memory, hard disk
and network storage