Use my knowledge and skills to develop world class high speed digital systems. Specialties: High speed board design, bring up, debugging. High speed SERDES IO test development Hardware Test automation with C/C++ and Python scripting.

Hardware Engineer @ Design, develop, debug and bring up Nexus high speed switches. From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Hardware Engineer @ Research and development server mother board, add on card PCB. High speed SERDES IO test and signal characterization. CPU Voltage regulator validation and tuning. System optimization and tuning for High Frequency Trading application. From July 2014 to August 2015 (1 year 2 months) Electronics Design and test engineer @ Design, Bring up and test network equipments, such as Network interface card (NIC), Smart NIC, and 10Gb+ network switches. I do schematic capture, review layout, bring up prototypes, and perform the tests. From May 2011 to July 2014 (3 years 3 months)

Master of Science, Computer Engineering @ University of Louisiana at Lafayette From 2008 to 2010 Ran Zhang is skilled in: Embedded Systems, Schematic Capture, Microcontrollers, Perl Script, C language, Microprocessors, VHDL, Verilog, Python, FPGA, Hardware Architecture, ARM, PCB Design, Testing, Linux