Education
BSME Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia
1972
MSME Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Blacksburg, Virginia
1973
PhD Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Blacksburg, Virginia
1978
Computer Aided Design and Engineering Software
FLOTRAN, PATRAN, CFDesign, ANSYS, ACE, SolidWorks, FloWorks, STAR-CD, FLUENT, CosmosWorks.
Software Development Languages and Tools
Visual Studio.NET, C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, ASP, HTML, Java Script, Visual Basic Script, SQL , FORTRAN
Application Software, Servers, and Operating Systems
Access, Excel, Powerpoint, Word, SQL Server, PhotoShop, SoftPlan, Exchange Server, IIS 5.0, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, NT, NT Server, 2000, 2000 Server
Professional Employment History
2001 - The Blue Ridge Group
President
Consulting and contract engineering activities in the areas of engineering analysis and design, patent litigation, patent development, and software development for both engineering and business applications.
2000-2001 Synetech Group. Charlottesville, VA
Vice President and Chief Technical Officer
Information technology company. Developed presidential campaign financial software including web based reporting for the Gore 2000 presidential campaign. The company handled all of Gores campaign contributions nation-wide. Extensive data base development for both desk top and web based applications.
1998-2000 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor
Teaching undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, computational methods, thermal systems design, computer aided engineering, and computer programming. Instrumental in acquisition of CAE and CAD software for use in the development of the undergraduate program.
1995-1998 Altair Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan
Engineering Manager
Responsible for overall management of engineering service activities involving computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Responsibilities included business development as well as the technical management of projects.
1992 1995 Neural Research, Inc., Charlottesville, VA.
President and Founder
Company was involved in the development and application of neural networks, wavelet based methods, and multi-resolution analysis methods. Applications of these methods were in both engineering and financial analysis.
1987-1992 Compuflo, Inc. Charlottesville, VA
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, and Chief Technical Officer
Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of the company as well as developer of the FLOTRAN finite element based computational fluid dynamics analysis software. Primary responsibilities included directing the engineering consulting and service activities, providing technical support to marketing and sales operations, and the overall technical direction for the company.
1981-1987 University of Virginia, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Charlottesville, VA.
Assistant Professor
Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses primarily in the areas of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and combustion. Also taught courses in computer programming, computational methods, and computer aided engineering. Active participant in the Center for Computer Aided Engineering and taught extensively in the graduate extension program for industry.
1977-1981 Babcock & Wilcox Company
Alliance Research Center, Alliance, Ohio.
Group Supervisor, 1979-1981
Senior Research Engineer, 1977-1979.
Group Supervisor for a software development group. The group developed computational methods for a variety of applications involving computational methods for fluid flow, heat transfer, and combustion in both the fossil and nuclear power industries.
1974-1977 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Mechanical Engineering Department, Blacksburg, VA
Instructor
Primary responsibilities involved teaching undergraduate courses in the thermal sciences; fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. Also taught the Mechanical Engineering Instrumentation and Measurements Laboratory.
Professional Societies and Activities
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Vice-chairman, Regional Section, 1984-1985
Chairman, Regional Section, 1985-1987
Pi Tau Sigma
Sigma Xi
Awards
Best Paper: Fifth IEEE Semi-Conductor Thermal and Temperature Measurement Symposium, February 1989
Industrial Consulting and Contract Services
Advanced Micro Devices Hundai Motor Company
Altair Engineering Kaestner & Associates
AMP, Inc. Kirkland & Ellis
Babcock & Wilcox Company Kobe Steel
Black and Decker Korean Inst. of Science and Tech.
Boeing Vertol Macrosonics
CFD Research Corp. NASA Langley Research Center
Cray Research NASA Lewis Research Center
Daimler Benz Nissan
Delphi Pelerin Milnor
U.S. Department of Energy Seagate Storage Technology
Electric Power Research Inst. Siemens Automotive
Federal Mogul Toyota
Ford Motor Company Westinghouse
Fujitsu Wilkie, Farr, & Gallagher
General Motors Whirlpool/KitchenAid
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