Damon (Chengchao) Hong

Senior Data Engineer at Fortescue

Postgraduate from Master of Information Technology, currently working as a senior data engineer for Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. Strong data skills and business analysis in mining operations planning, Power System Electrical Engineering background and visualization, programming experience in AWS data pipelines, Snowflake, SQL and Python. Excellent communication with stakeholders, critical engineering thinking, multi-tasking, focused working well, and accurate under pressure, with attention to detail. Willing to obtain new knowledge and skills quickly. Enjoyed assisting and resolving data issues and strive to develop my career as an excellent data professional.

Featured Projects

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CSS Profolio Project

CSS Profolio Project

Creating a Profolio page hosted in Github with HTML and CSS. It applies most of the essential funtionalities in CSS, including basic web designs and responsive functionalities for various display screens.

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Typing Speed Tester Project

Typing Speed Tester Project

A Javascript web page used to record the time of right typing a certain passage. It applies Javascript to design the notification of the typing correctness and initiate the timer.

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Analog Clock Project

Analog Clock Project

A Javascript analog clock that will display the current time with each arm moving accordingly.

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Map-based Social Network Data Visualization

Map-based Social Network Data Visualization

Visualizing a given twitter dataset on a map and allowing analysis on the Twitter social network that the given dataset illustrates with Django framework and Google Map API. The visualization is based on the data given and will show the locations and relationships of Twitter users as nodes or markers and lines on the world map.

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Work Experience

Senior Data Engineer

Fortescue (East Perth)

MAR 2023 – Present

  • Provide data engineering expertise to build and maintain operational data pipeline using AWS cloud and Snowflake. Specially, designing, developing, and supporting time-critical data products that are consumed throughout the FMG supply chain.
  • Developing and maintaining automatic Tableau, Power BI visualization dashboards for monitoring data ingestion processes.
  • Analyze and organize raw data and build data system and pipelines.
  • Evaluate mining planning business needs and objectives
  • Prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modelling.
  • Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability
  • dentify opportunities for data acquisition

Data Engineer

Fortescue (Christmas Creek Mine, Pilbara)

MAR 2022 – MAR 2023

  • Providing data analytics solutions, including short-term, mid-term, drill & blast and geology team for Christmas Creek operation planning team.
  • Developing and maintaining automatic Tableau, Power BI, Excel reports and dashboards
  • Using multiple approaches to retrieve data for business requirements, including SQL, Snowflake etc.
  • Managing owned on-prem SQL server database and user access management
  • Data transformations and cleaning by reviewing reports and performance indicators to identify and correct code problems

Technology Support Analyst

Fortescue (East Perth)

MAR 2021 – MAR 2022

IT Analyst

ConocoPhillips Australia

MAR 2019 – MAR 2021

Electrical Engineer

Xiaoshan Power Plant

AUG 2012 – NOV 2016

  • Collaborated with team members to diagnose and troubleshot electrical equipment. Arranged team members in major overhauls in other remote projects.
  • Performed maintenance for all electrical equipment, including control systems, low voltage circuit, telecommunication, telephones, to avoid any influence of shutdown to maintain the grid stability.
  • Finalized equipment updates and new device installations with scheduled plans collaborating with stakeholders and team members
  • Plotted electrical diagrams using AutoCAD for new technical transformations and modify after validation.
  • Conduct testing experiments on control systems of electrical equipment, including generators, transformers, circuit breakers during overhauls,

Education & Certifications

Amazon Web Services

Certified Solution Architect Associate, Nov 2023

Amazon Web Services

Certified Cloud Pratitioner, Sep 2023

University of Western Australia - Perth, WA

Master of Information Technology, 2017-2018

Relevant Coursework: Python, rational database, data warehouse, data mining, open source tools, Risk, Responsibility & Safety, project management, High Performance Computing, Internet of Things, Geography Information System, Cloud Computing.

Nanjing Institute of Technology - Nanjing, China

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 2008-2012

• Relevant Coursework: Advanced Mathematics, Analog/ Digital Electronic Technology, C Language Programming, Circuit, Complex Function, Control Technique of Electrical Machinery, Electrical Engineering Protection and Control, Electromagnetic Field of Engineering, Electro mechanics, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Modern Control Theory, Mono-chip Computer and Interface Technique, Power Electronic Technology, Principle of Automatic Control.