Billy Zhang (张自力)
Billy Zhang博士目前为德满(青岛)智能信息能源设备有限公司董事长,2019年起任西安邮电大学的特聘教授。
张博士早先任职于美国财富500强公司,在通讯和电子信息领域的供应链管理、产品管理、销售管理、市场管理、企业管理等各部门担任重要职位,领导了全球采购、技术转化、产品开发、市场开拓及产品的全生命周期管理,亲身参与全球化过程。职业一直处于当时世界技术发展的最前沿,从卫星通讯和移动通讯以及卫星数字电视到数据存储和光通讯,并参与国际电讯联盟的光通讯标准制定。 先后在Hughes Network Systems 任材料工程师,负责全球供应商管理,足迹遍布亚洲、欧洲和北美各个角落。在LeCroy任产品经理,负责数据存储器件(计算机硬盘)精密测试设备的开发和全球营销。在Tektronix 任产品营销经理,负责光通讯精密测试设备的开发和全球营销。
21世纪后张博士回到中国并进入电力、新能源、安全、照明、工具等领域,担任全球500强企业中国销售和市场总监、事业部亚太总经理、大中华区副总裁等职位,通过与国企的合资引进美国技术,为发展中国经济包括机场建设、飞机制造、石化煤矿、电力能源、汽车装配、电子代工、建筑安全、城市发展等都做出了重要贡献。远在物联网成为熟知的词汇之前就把应急安全的物联网解决方案引入了中国(安装于北京奥林匹克水立方游泳馆内),又率先在中国传播基于大数据和人工智能的数字能源物联网技术(能源互联网)。职业贯穿数据(Data)、信息(Information)、知识(Knowledge)和决策(Decision)的智能链。先后在Cooper任中国市场和销售总监,负责库柏工业公司在中国的品牌建设。在Cooper Menvier任亚太区总经理,从零开始首先在中国打造库柏工业公司的安全事业部。在Alstom任中国销售运营总监,建立高效的销售流程和业绩评估系统。Demand Energy 任大中华区副总裁,在亚洲引入先进的智能电网理念。
2013以后回到美国,创立自己的咨询公司,在人工智能(AI)、物联网(IoT)、智能制造(工业4.0)、智慧城市、数字能源、智慧医疗、无人驾驶、无线通讯、先进教育、水处理、新旧动能转换PPP、创新管理、技术孵化等领域为政府、投资公司、企业和创业者提供战略、融资、运营和国际市场开拓咨询。
Billy是原山东大学物理学士,压电铁电专业。考取CUSPEA赴美留学,获约翰霍普金斯大学材料科学和工程系博士。研究方向为电化学,即电池的基础技术。读博期间在美国国家标准局(现美国国家标准和技术研究院)及美国布鲁克海文国家实验室担任客座科学家。博士论文即使用了梯度搜索方法从大数据中拟合计算材料分子结构,梯度搜索是人工智能的核心算法。后又在马里兰大学工商获管理硕士(MBA),主修市场营销。并受过哈佛大学商学院企业营销战略的高管教育培训。
Dr. Billy Zhang is currently the Chairman of Deman (Qingdao) Intelligent Information Energy Equipment Co., Ltd., and has been a Distinguished Professor of Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications since 2019.
Dr. Zhang previously worked for Fortune 500 companies in the United States, where he held key positions in supply chain management, product management, sales management, market management, and corporate management in communications and electronic information, leading global sourcing, technology transfer, and product development. , market development and product life cycle management, personally participate in the participation process. Career has been at the forefront of the world's technological development at that time, from satellite communications and mobile communications and satellite digital television to data storage and optical communications, and participated in the International Telecommunications Union as a material engineer at Hughes Network Systems, responsible for global supplier management, The footprints are distributed throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. He is a product manager at LeCroy, responsible for the development of precision test equipment for data storage devices (computer hard drives) and product marketing manager at Tektronix, responsible for the development and global marketing of optical communication precision test equipment.
After the 21st century, Dr. Zhang returned to China and entered the fields of power, new energy, safety, lighting, tools, etc., served as China Sales and Marketing Director of Global Top 500 Enterprises, Asia Pacific General Manager of Business Department, Vice President of Greater China, etc. The joint venture of state-owned enterprises introduces American technology and has made important contributions to the development of China's economy, including airport construction, aircraft manufacturing, petrochemical coal mines, electric energy, automobile assembly, electronic foundry, construction safety, and urban development. The vocabulary used to meet the emergency and secure IoT solution in China (installed in the Beijing Olympic Water Cube Swimming Pool) and the first to spread the digital energy IoT technology (Energy Internet) of big data and artificial intelligence in China. After Cooper Menvier was the pioneer in the Asia Pacific region, he was the China Marketing and Sales Director at Cooper, where he was responsible for the brand building of Cooper Industries in China. The general manager of the district, from scratch, first built the safety division of Cooper Industrial in China. Established the Director of Sales and Operations in China at Alstom to establish an efficient sales process and performance evaluation system. Demand Energy is the Vice President of Greater China and introduces the advanced smart grid concept in Asia.
After 2013, I returned to the United States to create my own consulting firm in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Manufacturing (Industry 4.0), Smart City, Digital Energy, Smart Healthcare, Driverless, Wireless Communications, Advanced Education, water treatment, new and old kinetic energy conversion PPP, innovation management, technology incubation and other fields provide strategic, financing, operations and international market development consulting for governments, investment companies, companies and entrepreneurs.
Billy is a former BS in Physics from Shandong University and a major in polycarbonate iron. I took CUSPEA to study in the United States and received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. The research direction is electrochemistry, which is the basic technology of batteries. During the reading period, he was a visiting scientist at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) and the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The doctoral thesis uses a gradient search method to fit the calculated molecular structure of the material from the big data. The gradient search is artificial intelligence and then an MBA at the University of Maryland, majoring in marketing. He has received executive education training from Harvard Business School's corporate marketing strategy.