Independent Technical Consultant - Self/Startup - Remote, CA
(2017-08 - 2026-05)
Conducted full-time, self-directed technical research, advanced skill acquisition, and hands-on experimentation with emerging artificial intelligence architectures, model evaluation methodologies, and localized infrastructure deployment.
- LLM Evaluation & AI Alignment (2024–2026): Engineered local, end-to-end evaluation frameworks utilizing Python to benchmark large language model alignment, adversarial robustness (red-teaming), and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) compliance. Built automated text-parsing regex workflows to clean, validate, and structure unstructured model outputs.
- Containerized ML Infrastructure (2021–2024): Architected isolated, multi-container sandbox environments using Docker and Linux to securely execute and test open-source machine learning pipelines (TensorFlow, Keras), optimizing local hardware compute efficiency and maintaining rigorous codebase integrity via Git.
- Security Isolation & Risk Mitigation: Enforced strict security protocols within Docker containerized environments, establishing isolated network bridges, volume mounts, and compute resource quotas to safely execute and analyze unverified open-source code dependencies and large datasets.
- Configuration Management & Regression Testing: Implemented automated local regression testing suites to verify code stability across software iterations; managed local codebase version forks and dependency trees utilizing Git configuration management workflows to prevent environment drift.
Software Developer - Analytik Jena US - Upland, CA
(2011-11 - 2017-07)
- Technical Leadership & Strategy - Cross-Functional Oversight: Executed full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) management for company-wide analytical instrument software products, directing a cross-functional team of 4–6 technical members and reporting directly to the VP and CTO.
- Global Project Management: Led software globalization and localization for 8 languages (Chinese, Spanish, German, etc.), coordinating across multinational, cross-cultural teams.
- Operational Planning: Directed division-level annual R&D budgeting, financial forecasting, and resource allocation; implemented technical risk mitigation strategies for external software contractors to ensure on-time, within-budget deployment.
- Algorithm Development: Designed and optimized image processing algorithms (binning and interpolation) for life science instrumentation.
- System Integrity: Evaluated software stability and coherence across the product suite; analyzed performance metrics and implemented corrective measures based on end-user feedback.
- Regulatory & Compliance: Authored comprehensive technical documentation for validation and verification (V&V) protocols, ensuring strict system integrity and corporate compliance with international medical and life science regulatory standards (ISO quality management frameworks and data integrity guidelines).
- Code Maintenance & Quality Governance: Instituted standardized peer code review processes and modular unit testing frameworks within the 4–6 member technical team, improving overall codebase maintainability and reducing post-deployment runtime errors across legacy product lines.
- Root-Cause Troubleshooting: Diagnosed and resolved critical, intermittent software execution anomalies in complex hardware-software interfacing modules through systematic thread analysis and log profiling, minimizing analytical instrument downtime.
Graduate Consultant / Capstone Researcher (Thermo Fisher Project) - Keck Graduate Institute - Claremont, CA
(2009-09 - 2010-05)
- Market Intelligence & Strategic Valuation: Conducted comprehensive value chain and market opportunity analyses of pre-clinical discovery activities, developing data-driven frameworks to inform corporate outsourcing and capital allocation decisions.
- Stakeholder Research & Hypothesis Testing: Designed and executed structured technical interviews with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) across 14 premier pharmaceutical corporations; synthesized qualitative market feedback into objective data to validate strategic corporate hypotheses.
Associate - PwC - Shanghai, China
(2007-07 - 2007-12)
- Deployed quantitative evaluation models and data analytics to audit large-scale corporate financial datasets, verifying system integrity, data validation pathways, and adherence to regulatory compliance frameworks.
- Evaluated corporate internal control environments, identifying operational risks and executing substantive testing methodologies to ensure complete accuracy and alignment with statutory reporting requirements.
Field Research Assistant – Quantitative Ecology - Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University (IBSFU) - Shanghai, China
(2007-01 - 2007-07)
- Quantitative Field Research: Executed systematic behavioral ecology field research, environmental sampling, and standardized data collection protocols on avian migration strategies at the Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve to support predictive modeling and thesis development.
- Data Logging & Analysis: Maintained rigorous field logs and structural database inputs to ensure high-fidelity data integrity for subsequent statistical analysis.
Research Assistant – Computational/Bioinformatics - National Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering - Shanghai, China
(2004-07 - 2007-01)
- Algorithm Optimization: Analyzed and optimized sequence alignment algorithms, improving execution efficiency and computational throughput for large-scale genomic datasets.
- Data Pipeline Automation: Engineered automated data-mining macros and parsing scripts to systematically extract, clean, and format high-throughput biological data from distributed public and proprietary databases.
