David Ortley
Education
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM - Graduated May 2003
Graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering on the signal processing and communications track with some Masters-level course work taken in Signal Processing and also Linear Systems.
Accomplishments
- Achieved Technical Achievement Award for work done on an advanced energetics model for the Second-order Hydrodynamic Automatic Mesh Refinement Code (SHAMRC) hydrocode.
- Developed a digitizing system to aid in calculation of model for a hypothetical blast event on Tower 7 of the WTC complex (calculation featured in NIST technical briefing titled, NIST Response to the World Trade Center Disaster.)
- Aided humanitarian efforts being carried out in Southern Lebanon by analyzing sarin-filled cluster bomblets and recommending safety margins for bomb disposal work.
- Analyzed algorithms for signal conditioning project in high impact environment.
- Wrote multiple inventory tracking tools in PHP for manufacturing environment.
Technical Summary
- Developed using the following programming/descriptive languages:
C/C++, Python, Matlab, Tcl/Tk, FORTRAN, Scheme, MCore Assembly, HTML, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, VHDL, Pascal, BASH scripting, TCSH scripting - Linux/Unix experience:
- System administrator of turnkey Beowulf cluster.
- Administrator of production systems for commercial clients.
- Experience as a user across a variety of Unices in supercomputing environments. This includes AIX, IRIX, Linux and HP-UX on a variety of 4000 to 8000 processor systems.
- Microsoft Visual Studio experience in C/C++ and Visual FORTRAN
- Website Design
- Building Plone sites from buildout.
- Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP (LAMP) stack
- Wordpress
- CherryPy, Mako, Elixer experience
Recent Work Experience
Alcatel-Lucent
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, Longview, TX, June 2008 - May 2010
Built inventory tracking systems as well as other general purpose web-based tools in support of final testing for the CDMA product line. Predominantly developed sites using a LAMP software stack. Duties included testing and troubleshooting CDMA/UMTS cell tower cabinets.
Independent Plone Developer, Edgewood, NM, November 2007 - May 2008
Made custom modifications to already existing products as well as created custom content types for Plone, a web-based open-source Content Management System (CMS) built on top of Zope. Additionally, acted as system administrator on production sites.
Applied Research Associates
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Albuquerque, NM, June 2001 - August 2007
Developed applications for scientific and military projects across a wide variety of environments. Supported projects by extending the capabilities of existing codes, writing software from scratch to implement various physical breakage models, and designing an equipment fragility database.
While in the Computational Physics Group worked with with SHAMRC in high performance computing (HPC) centers to model nuclear and conventional blast effects for projects ranging from commercial- to military-related projects.
Professional Societies:
- Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
- Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society