Supporting ASA(ALT)

Supporting C5ISR S&TCD (formerly CERDEC S&TCD)

● Manage application engineering team as head of application engineering department.● Department responsibilities include○ Technical sales ○ Technical support ○ Development and delivery of training materials for all software products ○ Development of technical marketing materials● Perform research and development tasks to facilitate the introduction of novel software features and workflows.● Rapidly prototype new features and algorithms using QtScript (JavaScript), C++, MFC and Qt.○ Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)○ Golden Section Search○ Automatic gridding for FDTD○ Antenna array synthesis○ ODB++ Import.● Conceived and implemented a novel memory storage technique for GPU accelerated FDTD.○ Can reduce memory usage on GPU by up to 33% (22% on average).○ Can reduce total simulation time by up to 30% (20% on average).● Designed and implemented new MR birdcage tool.○ http://www.remcom.com/press-releases/remcom-announces-update-to-xfdtd-em-simulation-software-with.html● Secured commercial funding for numerous product enhancements, including MPI-GPU feature.● Author whitepapers, articles, research papers and other technical content for journals, conferences and Remcom's website in order to promote Remcom research and capabilities.● Mentor less experienced engineers in customer relations, technical writing, EM propagation, software development and project management. ● Perform consulting work on behalf of Remcom in the areas of antenna design, FCC/FDA certification of implantable medical devices, bio-electromagnetic safety analysis, and custom software development.● Develop partnerships and collaborations with customers, universities and other industry players.● Current research topics:○ SSE/AVX vectorization○ NUMA-aware optimization techniques○ On-chip cache optimization○ New GPU acceleration techniques○ Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)○ Novel radio frequency (RF) structures (antennas and MRI coils)○ Automatic FDTD grid/mesh generation

● Product and project manager for XFDTD, Remcom's flagship product.○ Manage the daily work of the XF development team.○ Lead on requirements elicitation - collaborating closely with clients to understand their problem domain and engineer cost-effective and timely solutions to meet their needs.○ Establish product roadmap.○ Manage schedule and feature tradeoffs.● Established development procedures such as design reviews, code reviews, requirements elicitation/documentation and project management processes.● Designed and implemented a GPU accelerated FDTD library using CUDA. ○ Speeds up simulations by hundreds of times when compared to a traditional CPU.○ Uses an API approach to facilitate integration into multiple products.○ Supports an unlimited number of GPUs with excellent scalability.○ Independently secured commercial funding for development.● Design and implementation of a time-varying material the GUI and calculation engine.● Designed and implemented a DXF translation library.● Researched and designed a conformal dielectric averaging algorithm.● Designed and implemented a system for reading/writing binary files ○ Automatic Endian detection of host and file.○ Automatic correction for reading file from system with different Endian type from host.● Extended Laplace solver to work in threaded and MPI environments.● Extended far zone transformation to work in threaded and MPI environments.● Contributed a novel approach to the design of a new SAR algorithm which significantly improved processing times.● Rewrote FFT algorithm to achieve a 50% speed improvement.● Oversee 4-8 customer training courses per year globally for our flagship product● Develop innovative algorithms and feature concepts for use in 2-3 SBIR/contract proposals each year● Provide critical pre and post-sales support to key customers● Developed best practices for FDTD gridding.● Designed and implemented a proof-of-concept GPU-accelerated FDTD implementation using OpenGL.

● Lead on requirements elicitation - collaborating closely with clients to understand their problem domain and engineer cost-effective and timely solutions to meet their needs.● Designed and implemented variable grid structures and routines then integrated these into the XFDTD field updates. This modification eliminated the requirement of using a constant cell size throughout the simulation space and permitted the cell size to vary continuously in order to better accommodate varying geometric detail throughout the space.● Designed and implemented the Hierarchy feature. This is a time-saving capability that could automatically prepare a new project based on a CAD file and an old project using a similar set of CAD objects.● Designed and implemented a set of OpenGL utilities that assists in trouble shooting OpenGL problems, rendering of large data sets and creates watertight objects from faceted data.● Completed the implementation of an OpenGL based ray tracing mesher. This mesher converts the CAD representation of a solid object to the rectangular mesh representation required by the FDTD technique.● Extended the design of the OpenGL mesher to improve robustness, handle new object types and improve speed.● Assisted in the design and implementation of automatic convergence metrics. The convergence metrics determine when the fields in the space have reached steady-state and automatically terminates the simulation.● Helped identify and develop coding practices to improve software efficiency which led to an immediate 10% speed improvement in XFDTD's calculation engine● Designed and implemented a series of MOTIF-based GUI classes for use in Linux version to match available features from MFC.● Create ACIS entities for a series of geometric shapes.● Added hands-on component to training courses by developing practical, real-world examples that could be used in a classroom setting.● Provide application level support to key customers● Perform customer training

● Implement new features, test software and repair bugs● Wrote an MPEG export tool that allows users to create portable videos of animated electromagnetic fields.● Wrote the company’s first bug tracking database – allowing many simultaneous users to reportissues for multiple products via a web interface. The database was used for over five years before being replaced by an off the shelf application.● Provide basic technical support, including instructing customers in hands-on sessions during training courses