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Denver, Co, Us

Golden, Co

- Working on exascale applications for wind and combustion energy- Using performance portability libraries for programming scientific applications for GPU architectures across all vendors

Zürich, Switzerland

- Assisted in development of a tool to increase performance portability of climate and weather models across CPU, GPU, and MIC supercomputer architectures by using source-to-source compiler code transformation techniques and domain-specific abstractions- Ported physical parameterization kernels of climate models to run on GPUs using OpenACC

Berkeley, Ca

- Increased the performance by 5x of a bioinformatics application written in Java named BBMap by implementing MPI to allow for distributed processing on a high performance cluster and also ported certain computationally intensive kernels in C- Researched techniques for preparing massively parallel applications for many-core architectures focused on the Intel Xeon Phi platform- Assisted users of NERSC's supercomputers both in-person and remotely in all aspects of high performance computing issues and capabilities at the facility- Implemented a software package manager developed at Lawrence Livermore National Lab called Spack on a large cluster at NERSC

Boulder, Co

- Accelerated Fortran code by 24x for NASA's SAGE III mission with CUDA and OpenMP- Ported Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Chombo AMR library to Microsoft Windows- Assisted in the development, deployment, and support of three of the company's software products: GPULib (GPU accelerated library for IDL), Chompst (AMR with PETSc solver), and GELUS (GPU accelerated LU sparse matrix solver)- Developed and optimized C/C++ code using CUDA and OpenMP, automated building across platforms using CMake, Bash, and Cygwin, and automated testing using Python

Sioux Falls, Sd

- Taught two College Algebra classes of forty students each, covering concepts such as polynomials, linear equations, quadratic equations, systems of equations, inequalities, and applied problems- Taught an introductory Computer Science class to forty students on Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and programming skills by use of the Context Free programming software

Sioux Falls, Sd

- Administered the hardware, software and network for the company of about eighty employees consisting of a SQL server, Windows 2003 server, Windows XP environment for forty PCs, and twelve Macs- Generated automated reports using Crystal Reports software to extract data from a SQL server- Supported custom printing management software that interfaced with a SQL server

Brookings, Sd

- Taught four classes of fifty students each in College and Intermediate Algebra, covering concepts such as polynomials, linear equations, quadratic equations, inequalities, applied problems, functions, systems of equations, sequences, and summations

Brookings, Sd

- Researched the usefulness of the Processing language for scientific visualization- Investigated physically-based numerical fire simulation methods- Parallelized real-time fire simulation code including its visualization

Chicago, Il

- Ported Java simulation code from Windows to a Linux cluster to initiate its parallelization- Authored a visualization tool using Argonne's Active Mural Display by synchronizing multiple computers with multiple displays to create a single ultra-high resolution display- Analyzed processor temperature data for visualization of heat distribution in the Blue Gene/P supercomputer

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Science

Studied high performance computing, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, numerical analysis, computing paradigms.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Computer Science

Studied compiler construction, programming science, software design, software development, distributed systems, human-computer.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Computer Club Studied programming languages, computer graphics, operating systems, computer networking, data.