Scientific Computing Expert
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Scientific Computing Expert
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
I enjoy figuring out how systems work and bending them to my will (and/or the desired application). This has led me to explore a variety of interests from building, running, and tinkering with personal computers through earning a doctorate in biomedical engineering.
I have been a Linux and Unix user since the summer of 2000, and am therefore well-suited to computational science. I have been responsible not only for cardiac electrophysiology research, but development of research software and administration of Linux workstations, file servers, and two high-performance clusters. I know enough about Linux to know that there's also quite a bit I still don't know, but I do usually know where to find the answers to my questions.
I have the following levels of experience with the listed operating systems:
Linux - extensive
Debian - extensive (mostly Sarge and Lenny)
Fedora - extensive
Gentoo - extensive
OpenSuSE - moderate
RHEL/CentOS - moderate
Ubuntu - moderate to extensive (server and desktop)
Yellow Dog - minimal
Mandrake - extensive but years ago
AIX - moderate
IRIX - minimal
Solaris (SPARC) - minimal to moderate
BSD (various flavors) - minimal to moderate
Mac OS X - extensive
Windows XP - moderate
DOS, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98/98SE - I wish I had none but I can't say that. Do you really care?
Programming Languages:
C - moderate
C++ - moderate
Java - moderate
Perl - extensive
Python - minimal
Bash - extensive
PHP - moderate to extensive
BASIC - ages ago, again, do you really care?
Technologies:
Warewulf - moderate
OpenPBS/Torque - moderate
Scyld Beowulf - moderate
KohanaPHP - moderate
Prototype JS - moderate
Android - minimal to moderate
HTML/CSS - moderate
gdb/ddd - moderate
SSH - moderate to extensive
Apache - moderate to extensive
I'll risk saying I prefer Emacs.
If you want to know more, just Google me. I use my real name online (brocktice, brock.tice, brock tice).
high-performance computing, scientific computing, programming, parallel programming, mesh generation, regional ischemia phase 1A, cardiac microstructure, medical imaging, image acquisition, image processing
(Privately Held; Research industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Management of day-to-day operations, lead generation, and product development.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
C, C++, Python, PERL and PHP programming to add features to and maintain cardiac simulation software.
(Research industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2006 — August 2009 (3 years 1 month)
Graduate student working toward my Ph.D. by performing computational cardiac electrophysiology research.
(Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — August 2009 (7 years )
Installation and maintenance of Linux and Mac computers, network set-up, network security reviews, various types of technical advice regarding hardware and software set-up and integration.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 4 months)
Ph.D. student studying computational cardiac electrophysiology.
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)
Assisted Dr.David Rice in the Team Design capstone course for the full 2004-2005 school year. Duties included communication with student teams, arranging meetings with clients, grading of assignments.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2001 — May 2004 (3 years 1 month)
Part-time attendant to business school computer lab. Duties included troubleshooting problems on computers used by students, staff, and faculty, maintenance of computers in two labs, maintenance of network printers, writing of "TechNote" how-to guides, making network cables, and various others.
Ph.D. , Biomedical Engineering , 2006 — 2009
Dissertation Topic: The Role of Electrophysiological and Anatomical Heterogeneities
in Arrhythmogenesis and Arrhythmia Termination
Ph.D. (partial) , Biomedical Engineering , 2004 — 2006
I attended Tulane as a graduate student from 2004 to 2006, then moved with my advisor and lab to Johns Hopkins University.
BSE , Biomedical Engineering , 2000 — 2004
Founding father of the new Beta Xi chapter of Delta Tau Delta at Tulane. I began my undergraduate thesis research in cardiac electrophysiology with Dr.Natalia Trayanova in the winter of 2002.
Senior Thesis Title: Modeling Propagation in the Diseased Heart
Virtual Research Environments, collaboration, e-science, cardiac electrophysiology, high-performance computing, scientific computing, biology, computational modeling, electrophysiology, GTD, macosx
Delta Tau Delta, IEEE, Toastmasters
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship #0615280B American Heart Association Southeast Affiliate July 2006 - July 2008
2006 Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University