Mark A. Potts Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Noaa National Center For Environmental Prediction, College Park, Md

Arlington, Va

Developed a Matlab/Octave coupling interface to the ICEPIC radiation simulator used extensively by the High Performance Microwave Institute (HPMI) based out of Kirtland, AFB. Built a conversion tool to read and rotate far field E&M data to facilitate automated optimizations incorporating both the Joint RF Effects Model (JREM) and the Scalable Engineering Tools for RF Integration (SENTRi) tools used by the HPMI. Principle Investigator for a High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) pre-planned project to couple the Galaxy Simulation Builder and Galaxy server architecture developed by Stellar Science to the FEFLO/FEMAP CFD/structural dynamics code developed by Applied Simulations Inc. and George Mason University.

Naval Research Laboratory, Washington Dc

Provided user support for the advanced computational environment of the DoD’s HPC modernization program as an on-site staff scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. Converted a large MPI-based computational fluid dynamics code to run in a hybrid OpenMP/MPI format, improving its memory scalability and computational efficiency.Ported an Arctic ice forecasting program written in IDL (interactive data language) to python. The newly ported program utilizes both MPI (mpi4py) and nVidia's CUDA GPU acceleration (pyCUDA) to reduce run times from over 12 hours to less than 3.5 minutes.

Army Research Laboratory, Adelph, Md

Implemented independent asynchronous time stepping algorithm in a massively parallel finite element structural dynamics code in collaboration with Dr. Adrian Lew at Stanford University. The code was successfully scaled to over 2000 processor cores and 750 million elements.Developed an iOS application capable of predicting light instability in the transonic dip region in order to demonstrate the power of reduced order models using such lightweight computing devices as iPhones or iPads.Created an automated regression testing suite for a large structural dynamics code. The suite implemented python scripts, the cmake build system and the Hudson automated build system and included dozens of test cases, hundreds of parameters and automatically generated plots of any discrepancies found during testing.Provided user support on Cray XT3 and X1E platforms with AHPCRC (Army High Performance Research Center) Consortium, including assisting users with code debugging, optimization and parallelization.

Alexandria, Va And Columbia, Md

Applied the random forest machine learning algorithm to prototype an international passenger screening system designed to identify potential terrorists based solely on their passenger flight data. Designed a fingerprint classification method using the NIST Bozorth3 and NFIQ algorithms in combination with the Random Forest machine learning algorithm and a data clustering approach.Parallelized the NIST Bozorth3 fingerprint matching algorithm to efficiently utilize a Unisys ES7000 server. Designed and implemented a parallelized solution to a large scale multi-modal biometric matching system.Performed research on multi-modal biometric fusion techniques focused on optimizing system accuracy.Technical lead on NASA/SIVO contract proposal team where responsibilities included development of technical content, identification and recruitment of qualified personnel, and presentation of the final bid.Developed access control software (MS Visual C++) using the Identix Facial recognition SDK and Apache SOAP/Axis web services for use in a biometrically based system for secure environments.

Rockville, Md

One of two senior scientists responsible for code development (C/C++/Fortran), testing and validation of a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package designed to run on parallel supercomputers. The software development involved the innovative use of a Lagrangian solution based on the vorticity formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations. Wrote proposals in response to RFP's and acted as co-PI for various contract awards. Designed and implemented two-phase flow algorithms to study particulate flows using the VorCat solver and extended the code to the solution of buoyancy driven flows.

New York, Ny

Programmer responsible for the full life-cycle development (C/Fortran/perl/SQL/threading) of real time equity and fixed income trading tools on the Bloomberg Professional System. Software projects included real time and historical pricing of customizable indices, a realtime (24x7) price alert system, and market order depth monitoring tools. Successfully transformed a complex and unreliable custom index system to a reliable tool used by more than 80,000 clients, encompassing more than 1.5 million individual indices. The software was utilized extensively by bond traders, futures traders, portfolio managers and arbitrage specialists to trace their historical and intraday positions and make trades accordingly.

Rockville, Md

Part of a team responsible for developing, validating and debugging a large mixed C++/FORTRAN code designed to solve the Navier-Stokes system of differential equations on massively parallel supercomputers. Performed multi-phase simulations of bomb blast fallout using axi-symmetric and three dimensional models spanning both compressible and incompressible fluid regimes with a mixed C++/FORTRAN research code.

Boulder, Co

Performed extensive computer simulations of deep water formation in the coastal regions of Antarctica. Developed, validated and implemented a new method of simulating topography in non-hydrostatic computational ocean modeling by adapting the virtual boundary method utilized in CFD to simulate solid bodies in external flow. Model results found surprisingly strong upwelling and downwelling occurring in episodic events as deep water produced on coastal shelves spilled over the shelf break. Other research areas included: Ice modeling and ice-ocean coupled models, Heat transfer and ocean dynamics associated with polynyas and leads, Hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic ocean modeling, Climate modeling, and monte-carlo simulation techniques.

Boulder, Co

Sole developer responsible for coding (in C), implementing, testing and documenting all mathematical functions in a commercial software package designed to compete with MATLAB and IDL. Also responsible for creating the product tutorial and numerous examples demonstrating the mathematical capabilities of the software package.

Various Locations (Gs-11, 1Lt, 2Lt)

Responsible for developing a budget of over 14 million dollars while acting as the Chief of Financial Management for the civil engineering squadron at Lowry Air Force base. The budget development process included extensive strategic planning and interaction with various units of the squadron, including those responsible for operations, new building projects, utility forecasting, and personnel staffing requirements. Also acted as officer responsible for basewide utilities systems, liaison to Saudi Arabian Air Force during Operation Desert Calm and Director of Operations on Swan Island for Support Sovereignty drug interdiction program.

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: PAOS--Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

B.S.E./B.S., Mechanical Engineering/Physics

Activities and Societies: Air Force ROTC Chi Psi Fraternity

Education record

Education record