James Stack Email & Phone Number

Forest Hill, US

Supporting ASA(ALT)

Forest Hill, US

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

State College, PA, US

• 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

State College, PA, US

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

State College, PA, US

• 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.
• 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.

State College, PA, US

• 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.
• Provide basic technical support, including instructing customers in hands-on sessions during training courses

Me, Systems Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering