I am a Distinguished Research Engineer at Autodesk and a member of the DMG-Simulation team. I have a PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Texas at Austin and 35 years experience developing high performance finite element applications. I was a researcher for ten years at Sandia National Laboratories and left there to work in the commercial software industry where I developed high-performance, parallel explicit dynamics applications that are widely used. I am also the author of Autodesk’s explicit dynamics software that powers Fusion Event Simulation.