From: pash@ra.cs.umb.edu (Peter F. Ash)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.resumes
Subject: Experienced software developer with math PhD - repost
Summary: Seek job in graphics or mathematical software
Keywords: graphics, mathematics, C, CAD/CAM, NURBS, geometric modeling, PhD
Date: 7 Sep 92 12:57:07 GMT
Followup-To: misc.jobs.misc
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS

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PETER F. ASH, Ph.D.
342 Gray Street
Arlington MA 02174
(617) 646-1632
e-mail: pash@cs.umb.edu

SUMMARY:

Experienced developer of CAD/CAM software. Substantial publishing record in
mathematics, including research, innovative textbook, and computer-aided
instruction. Expert programmer in C under UNIX on Sun workstations; also
knowledgeable in FORTRAN, C++, Pascal, PL/1 and BASIC. Served as chairperson of
major local organization for computer graphics professionals. Seek opportunity
in a research and development organization developing mathematically-based
software for computer graphics, scientific visualization, or geometric 
modeling, preferably in the greater Boston area. 

RECENT EXPERIENCE:

1987-1991  SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Computervision (now a division of Prime
           Computer)

         o Integrated a fast NURBS tessellator into the CADDShade 3-D imaging
           software, Computervision's most profitable product.

         o Served as chief liaison with the tessellator development team at the
           University of Utah.

         o Directed group of two people to implement my design of a polygon
           splitter for the tessellator.

         o Oversaw team of three people to complete the implementation of a
           solid facetizer, based on an algorithm of my design.

         o Developed a major package of enhancements for software that finds
           the intersection of a pair of NURBS surfaces.

         o Fixed bugs throughout a large portion of the Computervision graphics
           system.

         o Prototyped a fast-Phong shader which shaded polygons in less than
           a tenth the time of normal Phong shading.

1982-1987  PROFESSOR of Mathematics and Computer Science, St. Joseph's
           University, Philadelphia

         o Taught over sixty mathematics and computer science classes at
           undergraduate and graduate level.

         o Developed and taught a graduate course in operating systems 1984-
           1985.

         o Initiated a new course in computer graphics 1985-1987.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

o Chairperson of ACM SIGGRAPH/New England (1990 - 1992)

o Published five analysis and geometry papers in refereed mathematics journals.

o Refereed computational geometry papers for Algorithmica and The Mathematical
  Association of America Monthly.

o Co-authored innovative mathematics textbook, published by Addison-Wesley and
  used at Ohio State University.

o Developed remedial mathematics programs at Kennedy-King Community College
  in Chicago, including computer-aided instruction on PLATO.

o Described a working model of a hydrostatic analog computer which appeared
  in the June 1985 "Computer Recreations" column of Scientific American.

o Wrote a computer simulation to help a client win a legal case.

EDUCATION:

o Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
o B.A. Mathematics, Reed College, Portland, OR
o Computer graphics courses at SIGGRAPH90 and SIGGRAPH89
o Course in Euclid-IS programming at Matra Datavision, 1992
o Courses in volume visualization and physically based modeling, SIGGRAPH92
o Numerous other continuing education computer courses

AFFILIATIONS:

Member of Association for Computing Machinery, SIGGRAPH, Toastmasters

PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

Ash, P. F. and Robinson, E. E., Basic College Mathematics: A Calculator 
Approach, Addison-Wesley, 1980

Articles:

Ash, P. F., Bolker, E., Crapo, H., and Whiteley, W., "Convex Polytopes, 
Dirichlet Tessellations, and Spider Webs", Shaping Space: a Polyhedral 
Approach, Senechal, M. and Fleck, G. eds., Birkhauser Boston, 1988

Ash, P. F. and Bolker, E., "Generalized Dirichlet Tessellations", Geometriae
Dedicata 20 (1986)

Ash, P. F. and Bolker, E., "Recognizing Dirichlet Tessellations", Geometriae
Dedicata 19 (1985)

Ash, J. M., Ash, P. F., Fefferman, C. L., and Jones, R. L., "Singular Integrals
with Complex Homogeneity", Studia Mathematica 65.1 (1979)

Ash, P. F., Ash, J. M., and Ogden, R. D., "A Characterization of Isometries",
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 60 (1977)