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/ t e x / Precision Automatic All-Hex Meshing for Ultra-thin 3D Aero Structures, Automotive & Electronics.Topology optimization and advanced manufacturing promote increasingly thinner solids that are hard to mesh with hexa and costly to simulate with tetra or abstracted shell elements. / t e x / is an auto-meshing engine based on SIW's proprietary evolution of the mid-surface spatial decomposition algorithm which partitions complex volumes into blocks solely composed of prisms./ t e x / automatically builds precision all-hex meshes that are orders of magnitudes less expensive to use than comparable non-linear FEA using tetra or 2-D-abstracted shell elements.

Developing CompasVR, a haptic Virtual/Augmented Reality companion device that conveys acceleration, range, bearing and situational awareness through tactile semaphores and vestibular-tactile substitution. Applications include navigation & loss of horizon mitigation, Brain-Computer Interface, healthcare, and acceleration feedback for videogames and simulations. H/W & S/W Kits and Artificial Horizon App (Android) now available. Check us out @ IEEE Haptics '2016 in Philly demo # 1 (http://2016.hapticssymposium.org/demosessions)

As Principal Consultant I was the manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and materials market segment manager. I developed a sales and marketing plan for PFC, a discrete-element analysis S/W product, and led various aspects of its implementation, including but not limited to, pricing, bundling, partnerships and channels development.After its acquisition by Itasca, as the KUBRIX® product manager, led product definition, development, product management, channel development, commercial partnerships and integration within other commercial CAE systems

Simulation Works' flagship software product, KUBRIX®, was acquired by Itasca Consulting Group, Inc. in 2012. KUBRIX® is an automatic all-hexahedral grid generator based on fuzzy-logic block decomposition and used by hundreds of engineers at leading automotive, biomedical, electronics, aerospace, mining, energy and manufacturing companies to build computational grids for a wide range of non-linear applications

- Developed TurboKiva with Los Alamos National Laboratory (Group T3), a commercial CFD, Spray, chemistry, combustion & emissions modeling software for IC engines.- Developed HEXAR, the first commercial automatic and parallel all-hex grid generator for FEA and CFD.- Developed DIAMOND, a custom interactive and parametric grid generator for direct-injection diesel combustion chamber design.

Diesel & SI engine CFD, turbulence, spray, combustion & emissions modeling

Graduate research on turbulence-induced cavitation & underwater noise

CFD modeling of heat exchange in the secondary circuit of a 900 MW wet nuclear power plant refrigeration tower

CFD modeling of salt water intrusion in the North Sea