Viola Yi-Jia Zhu

Sr. Trade analyst @ Sunoco LP

About

Senior trade analyst supporting energy trading with differentiated expertise and proprietary models in RINs, ethanol, and downstream market analytics, translating policy, physical flows, and pricing dislocations into actionable trading insight.

Country

Canada

City

Burnaby

Industry

Oil & Energy

Skill

Project Development, Low carbon fuel regulation, Research and Development (R&D), Low carbon analytics, Renewable Fuels, Refineries, Energy Regulatory, Sustainability Consulting, Strategy, Project Management, Business Strategy, Pricing Strategy, Low Carbon Economy, Low Carbon Technologies, Multivariable Control, Foxboro I/A, Soft Sensor Development, Model Predictive Control, Dynamic Matrix Control (DMCplus), Gasoline Blending and Schedueling

Experience

Sr. Trade analyst

Sunoco LP

2025-11 - Present · 11 mos

Trade idea generation from physical and policy-driven market dislocations Relative-value analysis across refined products, biofuels, and ag-linked inputs Market structure and speculative positioning analysis Downstream and refining economics Fundamental supply-demand and price forecasting Risk framing, scenario analysis, and thesis validation

Sr Market Fundamental Analyst

Parkland Corporation

2024-12 - 2025-11 · 1 yr

Market fundamental analytics and pricing forecast; data ingestion, analysis, and visualization in R; refineries economics, crude slate, refinery margin; refined products (gasoline/diesel/jet) S&D; biofuel and environmental commodities (RIN/LCFS) S&D

Principal Low Carbon Strategist

Parkland Corporation

2024-3 - 2025-1 · 11 mos

Senior Program Manager - Low Carbon

Parkland Corporation

2020-2 - 2024-3 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Low carbon analytics: LCFR (California/Canada CFR/Washington/BC) and volumetric regulations (RIN/Ontario/Quebec) modelling and credit price forecasting to identify arbitrage opportunities Program lead: co-processing bio-feed in fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) at refinery • We produce the highest percentage of renewable gasoline in a refinery in the world Provided pricing strategy in contract negotiation, enabling fuel supply contract Created the organization’s first stochastic renewable margin forecast model

Senior Process Engineer

Parkland Corporation

2017-8 - 2020-2 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Burnaby, British Columbia

(Parkland Refinery was formerly Chevron Burnaby Refinery) - Provide technical support and guidance to junior engineers, operations and maintenance activities - Co-developed in-house catalyst performance monitoring and forecasting tool

Process Engineer & Process Control Engineer

Chevron

2013-12 - 2017-8 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Burnaby, British Columbia

- Provide refinery process troubleshooting and operational strategies to ensure safety and reliability - Increased gross margin by boosting 40% of diesel production; margin generated was accounted for half of the refinery’s gross margin improvement target

Advanced Process Control Engineer

Shell

2012-4 - 2013-12 · 1 yr 9 mos

Fort Saskatchewan, AB

• Identified margin improvement opportunities and developed process control solutions; Received award from Shell manufacturing as reorganization for margin improving

Instrumentation & Control Engineer

Jacobs

2011-4 - 2012-4 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Designed and supported control systems for capital projects

Advanced Process Control Consultant

NSERC

2010-10 - 2011-4 · 7 mos

- Led a R&D team to provide Advanced Process Control Strategies for petrochemical companies

Research Assistant (See publication)

University of Alberta

2008-9 - 2010-9 · 2 yrs 1 mo

- Developing Advanced Process Control (APC) strategies utilized in Syncrude Canada. - Published a paper on AIChE Journal about a practical method developed for a common problem with nonlinear system identification which proved effective by both dynamic simulation and mathematical theorems derivation