s a n t i a g o v. l o m b e y d a
slombey caltech.edu - http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~slombey
cacr-caltech, mc 158-79, 1200 e california blvd, pasadena, ca 91125
office: 626.395.3547 fax: 626.584.5917
Objective Seeking a position that challenges me technically as well as creatively
Skills - Ability to fundamentally combine a rich scientific knowledge with
a strong visual design doctrine into unique solutions and experiences
- Ability to approach tasks, develop strategy plans, collaborate
in work groups, and formulate and deploy solutions
- Experience creating tools, interfaces, portals, and experiences
designed to empower users to explore, analyze, and understand
vast and complex data spaces
- Experience in visualization of large scientific data sets through
the use of existing software and through development and/or
implementation of new approaches and algorithms
- Experiece in UI/UX design, development, and ultimate deployment
of web solutions; including requirement collection, concept
development, design, and validation; all driven with fundamental
balancing of functionality, efficiency, and easthetic considerations
- Experience developing software and working in immersive and semi-
immersive enviroments (including the Responsive WorkBench and
then ImmersaDesk, as well as custom cOIn based solutions)
- Software development and implementation in C/C++, Python, Java,
Processing, JavaScript, Perl, Visual Basic, Pascal, Fortran
- Software and framework development for web based solutions
(JavaScript, jQuery, jQueryUI, WebSockets, Canvas/HTML5/SVG, d3,
Three.js) to create visually rich portals
- Familiar with Java Beans, AutoLISP, LISP, Visual C++, Borland
C++, PROLOG, SQL, Ruby
- Experience with Graphic Languages such as OpenGL, VRML POVRay
(plus some RenderMan), Open Inventor, Three.js, and CAVE libraries
- Basic experince developing iOS applications using XCode/objectiveC
- Experience with Graphic Software such as Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
- Experience working in Macintosh (MacOS X PPC/x386, MacOS 9),
Intel (MS-DOS, Windows 7, XP, 2000, 95, NT), Linux; as well
as classic environments including VAX (VMS), SUN SPARC stations
(UNIX), SGI Graphic Stations (IRIX), HP systems (HPUX)
- Knowledge in ParaView, VisIT!, VTK, NAG's Iris Explorer, AutoCAD,
SES Workbench; various word processing, database, spreadsheet, raster
and vector graphics software packages
- Network maintenance and troubleshooting (Novell and DECNet)
- Experience working in software development in teams (as a
member and as a leader)
- Spanish and English bilingual speaker and writer
Publications
Cover of Enginnering & Science Magazine
Gene Expression Maps
Fall 2013
Cover of Nature Magazine
Impact Factors
June 2008
Cover of ScienceMagazine
The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake
May 2005
An Investigation of Scalar Dispersion in Grid Turbulence
(with Paul Dimotakis, Dan Lang, Jan Lindheim)
New Trends in Fluid Mechanis Research
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Fluid Mechanics
Book Chapter 7
Shanghai, 2007
Laser scanning of three-dimensional time-varying fluid phenomena
(with Daniel Lang, Jan Lindheim, and Paul Dimotakis)
ACM Siggraph 2006 Sketches
July 2006
Vector Field Analysis and Visualization
through Variational Clustering
(with Alex McKenzie and Mathieu Desbrun)
Proceedings of EuroVis 2005
April 2005
A Visual Stack Based Paradigm for Visualization
and Visual Programming Environments
(with Matt Gilbert)
CACR Technical Report CACR-2005-
January 2005, CALTECH
TetSplat Real-Time Rendering and Volume Clipping of
Large Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes
(with Ken Museth)
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004
October 2004
Interactive Extraction of High-Frequency
Aesthetically-Coherent Colormaps
(with Mathieu Desbrun)
(lead author)
CACR Technical Report CACR-2003-196
August 2003, CALTECH
Discrete multiscale vector field decomposition
(with Yiying Tong, Anil N. Hirani, Mathieu Desbrun)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
ACM Siggraph 2003
July 2003, Volume 22 Issue 3
The VolumePro Volume Rendering Cluster:
A Vital Component of Parallel End-to-End Solution
(with John McCorquodale)
CACR Technical Report CACR-2003-198
January 2003, CALTECH
Specialized architectures for structured volume rendering:
Scalable interactive volume rendering using off-the-shelf
components
(with Laurent Moll, Mark Shand, David Breen, Alan Heirich)
(lead author)
Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-
data visualization and graphics
October 2001
An Approach to Capturing Structure, Behavior, and Function of
Artifacts in CAD
(with Lisa P. Anthony, Jon E. John, William Regli)
Journal of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
ASME Transactions
ASME Technical Publishing, 2001
TechTALK: A Web Based System for Mathematical Collaboration
(with Lakshman Y N, Michael R Miller)
in "Enabling Technologies for Computational Science
-Frameworks, Middleware and Environments"
edited by E. Houstis, J. Rice, E. Gallopoulos, and R. Bramley
Book Chapter 22
Springer, 2001
Making Remote Tools Available for Visualization of Large Data Sets
(with Michael Aivazis and Mahesh Rajan) (lead author)
Proceedings of the Visualization Development Environments
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Princeton Physics Laboratory, 2000
Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Studies from Direct Numerical Simulations
(with Paul E. Dimotakis, Andrew W. Cook, Stefan B. Deusch, James M. Patton)
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's
Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD99)
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
American Physics Society, 1999
Simple Parallel Isosurface calculation and Rendering of Large Datasets
(with Mahesh Rajan) (lead author)
Proceedings of the Hewlett Packard Users Group Conference 1999
Sunnyvale, California, USA,
Interex,1999
Conceptual Design for Mechanotronic Assemblies
(with William Regli)
Proceedings of the Fifth
Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications
Ann Arbour, Michigan, USA
ACM Press, 1999
Conceptual Design for Assembly
(with William Regli) (lead author)
Proceedings for the Fourth Design for Manufacturing
ASME Technical Conferences
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 1998
ASME Technical Publishing, 1999
The Soliton Explorer: a Problem Solving Environment for
Soliton Geometry
(with Raji Venkatesan, Bruce Char, Tom Hewett, Lakshman Y N,
Jeremy Johnson, Ron Perline)
Sigma Xi Research Symposium & University Research Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Drexel University Press, 1998
Design see design resume
Visualization Internation Journal of Fracture, International Journal for Numerical
Aknowledgements Methods in Engineering, International Conference of Fluid Mechanics
Education January 2001 - Present
ART CENTER AT NIGHT Pasadena, California
- Courses: Letterform Design I & II, Design I: Elements and Processes,
Intro to Graphic Design, Designing the Digital Space, Packaging
Design Workshop I, Intro to Drawing, Intro to Photography, Graphic
Design I, Logo and Icon Design, Typesetting Priting and Book Binding
Workshop (Menage A Trois at the TypePress), Illustration Techniques
June 1998
DREXEL UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Masters in Science
- Major in Computer Science (concentration in Computer Graphics,)
- GPA 4.0/4.0
December 1995
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY Fort Worth, Texas
- Bachelor of Science
- Magna Cum Laude
- Majors in Computer Science and Math
- GPA 3.76/4.0; 3.9/4.0 in Computer Science Major
Educational MASTERS THESIS Fall-Winter 1998
Achievements Study and prototyping of web based collaborative enviroment for
conceptual design. Implemented for web use with VRML browser
interfacing with JAVA applet through VRML External Authoring
interface (EAI).
INDEPENDENT STUDY IN COMPUTER ANIMATION Fall-Winter 1997
One on one independent study with professor covering topics in
Computer Animation, including a survey of Animation Languages
and motion control strategies; final project: sGL, object
oriented (C++) wrapper for OpenGL
SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT Spring-Summer 1995
Six month long team project, designed, developed, and implemented
3D Graphic Computer Aided Design package for Windows, interfacing
with a final rendering application (POVRay)
Relevant - Computer Graphics I,II - Software Design
Graduate - Graphic User Interfaces - Artificial Intelligence
Courses - Cryptography
Honors - 1996 Senior Math Scholar
- Phi Beta Delta, National Honor Society
- Pi Mu Epsilon, International Math Honor Society
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Computer Science Honor Society
- Golden Key National Honor Society
- 1995 Ghandi Award (Awarded annually to one person only)
- seven times in Dean's Honor List
- twice in Chancellor's Honor List
Work 1998 - present
Experience CENTER FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING RESEARCH, CALTECH Pasadena,
Scientist California
- Work on Gene Expression visualization
- Work on biology simulation viewer resulting from MCell simulations
as configured by mdlWiz as part of Caltech's Cell Center
- Work on portal and on-the-fly visualization system for seismic
events in Southern California as part of ShakeMovie Portal
- Envolved in visualization effort as part of the Center for
Predictive Modeling and Simulation of High-Energy Density
Dynamic Respoins of Materials, a PSAAP/NNSA Center of Excellence
- Envolved in visualization effort as part of the Center for
Simulation of Dynamic Response of Materials, an ASCI/ASAP
DOE center of Excellence
- 3D visualization and development of algorithms and systems for
scientific data in solid and fluid dynamics
- visualization of Sumatra-Andman earthquake
- Artistic Space development collaboration in CACR Atelier with
Jim Barry
- Logo design for various projects
- Design of CACR Web Portals (+ logo redesign), LDVIZ Web Pages, TeraVoxel
Web Pages, HP-HPCUG, HP-HPCUG2000, and HP-HPCUG2001 Web Pages;
design of Posters, Flyiers, Totebags, Cake, and Web Pages for
Honoring John Todd Conference
2008 - present
ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE, CALTECH Pasadena,
Lecturer in Engineering California
- Co-Lecturer for E120: Visulization Projects; guest Lecturer Ay/Bi199
2001 - present
SELF (sporadic contracting for mostly Satellite Persona) Pasadena,
Graphic Design California
- Logo design for mid-size businesses
- Web page design for mid-size businesses
- Portrait photography (exterior and studio)
1997 - 1998
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT, DREXEL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Research Assistant
- Research Assistant for Problem Solving Environments for Science
and Engineering
- Work in graphic rendering and analysis of differential equations
deriving from soliton geometry,
- Work in web based application TechTALK (common working math
session environment available through the internet, developed in
Java)
1996 - 1997
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT, DREXEL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Teacher Assistant
- Aided in Systems Architecture II, Computer Programming II, Data
Structures (C++)
- Taught recitations for Calculus I (MFE I,) Calculus II (MFE II,)
and Calculus III (MFE III;)
- Held regular tutoring hours, aiding students with help in subjects
ranging from Intro to College Algebra, to Numerical Analysis and
C++
- Was offered opportunity to teach Calculus II and Data Structures
Spring and Summer 1996
BUSINESS AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES Fort Worth, Texas
Mac Software Development
- Development of Artist booking software for the Macintosh
environment (based on existing software for MSDOS systems)
- Programming in Symantec C++
- Graphic and visual designs
- Mac Resource creation and editing
- Data management schemes
Summer 1994
COMPARTOMUNDO SA. Quito, Ecuador
Network manager assistant
- Novell network maintenance and trouble-shooting
- Network cable laying and connecting
- PC Board testing and replacement
- Software installation, maintenance, and trouble shooting
- AutoLISP programming (software maintenance, updating, and
development)
- Printer installation and configuration
- Software instruction and assistance
Summer 1993
PHILLIP MORRIS CO. Quito, Ecuador
Software Drafting using AutoCAD
- Training in AutoCAD, including three dimension design, layering,
plotting (view point/cut,) and beginnings of AutoLisp
- Transposition of two dimensional design (blue prints) of new
factory into three dimensions through the use of AutoCAD in a team
of three people
Summer 1992
J. W. THOMPSON CO. Quito, Ecuador
Advertising trainee
- Aided with product design and launching
- Aided with marketing and communications mediums allocation using
specialized software
Summer 1990
AZUCA Quito, Ecuador
Graphic Design trainee
- Designed line of Bakery Plastic Bags
- Training and use of publishing, graphic aided design software
Teaching
Experience - CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011
Co-Lecturer Ay99, Introduction to visualization for eScience
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 2010, 2011
Co-Lecturer Bi199, Introduction to visualization for Mathematica
- DREXEL UNVERSITY 1996-1998
Teaching Assistant for Calculus I, II, III
Extra-
Curricular - Team Member for ACM Programming Competition (1996 at Drexel,
Activities 1994 and 1995 for TCU)
- IEEE/ACM - member
- Lambda Kappa Kappa Service fraternity - Founder, First President
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon - Secretary (1994)
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