Software Engineer @ • Engineer in the search team, which designs and develops the search functionality of the Capital IQ platform. • Worked on Elasticsearch. Indexed documents and supported queries. • Designed and implemented RESTful API between the UI and Elasticsearch. • Worked on entity recognition and linking to recognize mentions in user queries and link to the entities. • Wrote scripts for automatic configuration setup and deployment in dev and production environments. From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) Software Engineer @ Embedded Coding using C, C++, Developing and Maintaining Embedded Software required for calibrating and testing the i-STAT Handheld Blood Analyzer during the manufacturing process. From September 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 5 months) Teaching Assistant @ Graded homework and exams, taught in lab, held office hours and assisted students for homework and projects From August 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 5 months) Research Intern @ Built a warehouse of malicious code samples, which allows users to insert and retrieve malicious code via a web portal. Languages and tools used include Oracle, Tomcat, Servlet/JSP, HTML, and CSS. From September 2009 to May 2010 (9 months) Intern @ Developed an office automation system using HTML/CSS/Servlet/JSP/SQL with features of mailing, calendar management, and employee information management. From August 2009 to September 2009 (2 months) Research Assistant @ Worked on an education application based on virtual reality Built models in MAYA, designed background database, and did script programming From October 2008 to September 2009 (1 year) Teaching Assistant @ Assisted students for homework and projects From September 2008 to January 2009 (5 months)

Master of Science, Computer Science @ Southern Illinois UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science @ Beijing Normal University, College of Information Science and Technology Irene Zhang is skilled in: C++, Java, HTML, JSP, C#, Databases, C