Yanming Zhang

About Yanming Zhang

Over 8 years of experience in data science, big data, cloud computing and data analytics…

Experience

1. Data Scientist Data Analyst

   3M

   Jan 2020 — Present

   Used machine learning techniques to build a mixture of analytics solutions including predictive modeling, forecasting and visualization for multiple business verticals and functions. Participated in the development of a new cleaning solution Scotch-Brite, utilizing statistical and large data modeling methods. Recognized the price trends and delivered recommendation that would assist in the growth and development of the existing market by delivering products that would satisfy the needs of the clients. Roles and Responsibilities: Worked on new product development and assisted experiments using statistical methods such as hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. Managed large amounts of data to measure product performances and helped improve performances by up to 15%. Extracted Customer Individual Information from multiple tables in the Relational Database and converted Big Data and findings into understandable tables, graphs, and written reports using SQL, R Studio, and Python Notebook. Built and deployed machine learning models with cloud computing (AWS & Azure) that combines manufacturing, sales, and customer feedback data to predict production cost vs. Performance ratio, keeping products high quality and low cost. Utilized dimensionality reduction techniques such as PCA, Clustering to reduce the feature space and improve model performance to bring the error rates under acceptable limits. Deployed a recommendation engine to production to conditionally recommend the products according to the user\'s preference based on the user\'s history and increased the system\'s efficiency. Created dashboards and interactive charts using Tableau to provide insights for managers and stakeholders and enabled decision-making for market development. Used statistical models to correlate various data sets which assisted in the improvement of business actions.

Education

• St. Cloud State University

  BS, Mechanical Engineering and International Business

  2009 — 2012

Skills

• Design of Experiments
• Fluent
• Autocad
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word)
• Computational Modeling
• Structural Analysis
• C++
• Finite Element Analysis
• Solidworks
• Mathcad
• Matlab
• Minitab
• Ansys