PHILIP WESLEY FACKLER

Contact: 2213 Maplewood Drive, Knoxville, TN 37920 • (270) 871-4091 • [email protected]

EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computational Engineering December 2017

The University of Tennessee at Chaanooga, Chaanooga, TN

Thesis: A P hysics- B ased A daptive P oint D istribution M ethod for C omputational D omain

D iscretization

Advisor: Dr. Christopher Bruce Hilbert

Cumulative GPA: 4.0

Asbury College, Wilmore, KY

Advisor: Dr. David Coulliee

Cumulative GPA: 3.73

EXPERIENCE Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN April, 2019 – present

Position: Research Soware Engineer

Branch Technology, Chaanooga, TN July, 2017 – March, 2019

Position: Algorithms Engineering

Primary developer of the company soware framework. This includes a data/operator

hierarchy which blends object-oriented and generic programming styles; structured and

unstructured meshing data structures, including a generic multi-block mesh data set; a

plans for Branch’s large-scale free-form 3D printing method. This has involved extending

the Grasshopper API with specialized base classes which provide our components a

consistent means of access to our custom data sets.

Established a CMake build system for all of our projects. Established soware quality

assurance practices including integrated soware evaluation targets (using CTest and our

own C++ testing framework) and detailed documentation using Doxygen. Established

consistent version control practice using Git. Authored company coding guidelines for both

style and quality standards (i.e., best practice) and Git commit and branching guidelines.

Administer issue-tracking projects in Jira and continuous integration in Bamboo. Make use

of open-source libraries such as VTK, Eigen, and boost.

Worked on several algorithms for locating anatomical landmarks on 3D models of faces and

teeth. Began work on generating vertical support structures for 3D printed geometries. This

involved writing custom VTK pipeline algorithms. Worked with customer support team to

prioritize soware requirements issues based on customer feedback.

Pointwise, Inc., Fort Worth, TX May – July, 2015

Position: Product Development Intern

Wrote code for reading and writing meshes in various file formats. Researched methods for

propagating curvature in higher-order meshes, namely radial basis functions and mean

value coordinates.

generic programming styles,

RAII, template

metaprogramming

Libraries (in order of experience level):

• C++17 (advanced)

• K okkos (intermediate)

• VTK (intermediate)

• Eigen (intermediate)

• OpenMP (intermediate)

• MPI (intermediate)

• RhinoCommon

• Grasshopper

 C M ake (advanced, 4 yr)

 C (intermediate)

 Tcl/Tk (intermediate)

• Glyph

 Julia (elementary)

 Python (elementary)

 bash

OTHER

TECHNICAL

SKILLS

Operating Systems

 Linux

 Windows

Development Tools

 Gitlab

 Microso Visual Studio

 Atlassian :

• Bitbucket (repository management, wiki)

• Jira (bug tracking and kanban)

• Bamboo (continuous integration)

 L eanKit

 V im

 gdb , valgrind

 m ake

Compilers

 MSVC

 gcc

Meshing and Geometry

 Pointwise

 Rhino

Visualization and Mathematics

 VisIt

 ParaView

 Gnuplot

 Matlab/Octave

 Maple

PROFESSIONAL

INTERESTS

 Modern C++ programming

 C++ standardization

 Soware architecture

 Open source soware

 Spatial subdivision and meshing data structures

GRADUATE

COURSES

 Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory

 Partial Dierential Equations

 Numerical Analysis (I, II)

 Techniques of Applied Mathematics

 Computational Fluid Dynamics (I, II)

 Computational Design

 Introduction to the Finite Element Method

 Advanced Topics in the Finite Element Method