* Cross-team C++ developer for multiphysics simulation package Star-CCM+ * Initiated, organized, and completed a 2 year effort involving 5 developers across 3 teams to integrate finite element technology into post processing pipeline * Daily use of C++ on a distributed memory parallel client-server architecture * Work within an international 5-member team as the numerical heat transfer specialist * Lead biweekly meetings with members of Finite Element, Post Processing, and Discretization Framework teams to coordinate efforts across groups * Collaborate with 200+ developers using Git and peer reviewed pull requests * Facilitate a constant learning environment by hosting a biweekly “Code Talk” with the entire office

* 1 of 5 developers that worked on the company’s flagship simulation product * Regularly used C++ and Python in a distributed memory parallel environment * Implemented and maintained the compressible flow solver with minimal supervision * Created validation test code for added functionality * Assumed the role of application specialist, tester, and developer * Produced quality work in a highly unstructured, startup environment

* Conducted independent research toward completing my dissertation * Dissertation titled "An Efficient Solution Procedure for Simulating Phonon Transport in Multiscale Multimaterial Systems" Key Contributions * Reformulated numerical computation for simulating phonon transport which resulted in orders of magnitude speed up for practical problems * Demonstrated strong parallel scalability on modern computer architectures * Applied this new procedure to analyse a before unreachable simulation configuration-- a nano-particle composite An Efficient Solution Procedure for Simulating Phonon Transport in Multiscale Multimaterial Systems

* Conducting independent research toward completion of Master's thesis * Thesis titled "An Acceleration Technique for the Solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation" Key Contributions * Formulated an approximation to the phonon Boltzmann transport equation which reduces simulation time by orders of magnitude * Applied this new formulation to a simulation of a real metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) to demonstrate solution speed up and compare accuracy An Acceleration Technique for the Solution of the Phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation

* Worked with ~20 graduate students from around the world at the National Ignition Facility * Improved performance of a Monte Carlo code (ADEPT) simulating atomistic kinetics in chemical vapor deposition * Incorporated shared memory parallelism into a legacy FORTRAN code using OpenMP * Attended weekly seminars on cutting edge materials science research * Awarded “Outstanding Summer Project” for the National Ignition Facility

* Worked with Raybestos to analyze fluid flow and heat transfer during automobile clutch engagement. * Used FLUENT to perform virtual experiments on varying geometries for clutch pad oil channels. * Presented biweekly reports to the Raybestos PI about modeling progress. * Wrote final report summarizing six months of research.