My Resume

David R. Witman
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http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~dw11d
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OBJECTIVE

Not actively seeking employment opportunities. Interests include but not limited to: computational science and engineering specifically focused on all areas of development for computational modeling and simulation tools.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Computational Science
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, May 2016
GPA: 3.81/4.00

Master of Science, Computational Science
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, December 2013
GPA: 3.77/4.00

Bachelor of Science with Distinction, Mechanical Engineering
Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, May 2011
GPA: 3.71/4.00

EXPERIENCE

Department of Scientific Computing, under the advisement of Dr. Max Gunzburger and Dr. Janet Peterson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Graduate Research Assistant
January 2014 - Present

  • Applying Reduced Order Modeling techniques to a wide variety of nonlocal problems including:
    • Solutions with discontinuities in space
    • Anomalous Diffusion problems
    • Burgers equation
    • Multiple dimensions
  • Reduced Order Modeling for the Wavelet-Galerkin Approximation to Differential Equations

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the advisement of Neil Thompson and Kishore Sreenivasan
Freelance programmer
August 2014 - May 2015

  • Wrote parsing application to locate and categorize newsletter text into a database
  • Collaborated with stakeholders across continents and disciplines

Pratt & Whitney Hot Section Engineering, Advanced Methods, East Hartford,CT
Part-time Methods Engineer
May 2011 - December 2013

  • Constructed and maintained internal Methods development tools suite including automated compilation and testing
  • Developed new functionality for collaborative computing environment
  • Designed and built Graphical User Interface for use of collaborative computing environment in conjunction with load sharing facilities

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Graduate Teaching Assistant
August 2011 - December 2013

  • Course focuses have included: Microsoft excel, computational methods for continuous problems and the statistical package, R
  • Held lab sessions and office hours to address any questions students had
  • Gave occasional lectures on subject material

Clarkson University, under the advisement of: Dr. Brian Helenbrook, Dr. Ken Wilmert, Steve Finley and Matt Devore, Potsdam, NY
Pratt & Whitney Senior Design Project
August 2010 - May 2011

  • Attempted to validate the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics tools in an impinging flow case
  • Designed and executed design of experiments Computationally and Simulated flow experiment
  • Presented findings to Pratt & Whitney at the conclusion of the project

Clarkson University, under the advisement of Dr. Brian Helenbrook. Potsdam, NY
Undergraduate Research Assistant
December 2009 - May 2011

  • Explored the use of a recursive eigenvalue decomposition method to form a reduced order model
  • Implemented and used data-extraction scripts to gather results
  • Presented findings at SIAM conference as well as Clarkson Symposium for Undergraduate Research
CONFERENCES
AND
PUBLICATIONS

  • Publication: Using Reduced Order Modeling to Solve Nonlocal Diffusion Problems with Discontinuities (in Progress)
  • Publication: Reduced Order Modeling using the Wavelet-Galerkin Approximation of Differential Equations (Proquest)
  • Presented work at SIAM Thousand Islands meeting
  • Presented work at SURE conference
  • Attended Clemson SIAM student conference
COMPUTER
SKILLS

Languages & Software: MATLAB, FORTRAN, Perl, Java, OpenMP, MPI, Python, C++, C, R (Statistical Package), LaTeX, HTML/CSS, Simulink, Labview, Tecplot, ANSYS, COMSOL
Operating Systems: Unix, Windows.

LEADERSHIP

  • Vice-President SIAM at FSU
  • Clarkson University President of Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical Engineering Honor Society)
ADDITIONAL
ACTIVITIES
AND AWARDS

  • Passed FE/EIT exam (April 2011)
  • Presidential bronze award for service
  • Deans list (Aug. 2008- May 2011)
  • Presidential scholar (Dec 2009)
  • Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)
  • Clarkson University men’s cross country team
  • and Florida State Ultimate team