University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Department of Physics
Advisor: Dr. Tao Pang
Ph. D. in Physics, Recieved May 2001.
Dissertation Project: Density Functional Calculations of Rubidium under Pressure

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M. S. in Physics, Recieved May 1998
Master's Project: Classical Molecular Dynamics of a Polymer in a Solvent

• Current Project: We are currently doing calculations on the high pressure phases of Rubidium at high pressure using Density Functional Theory.

• Parallelization of the fhi98md Density Functional Package using Parallelization Directives and the SGI SCSL Parallel Math Libraries. A summary can be found at http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~skyman/fhi98md_scs.html

• Masters' Project: I wrote a classical molecular dynamics program to study the topological effects on the diffusion of polymers in a solvent. The program was parallelized using MPICH, an implementation of MPI.

• Density Funtional Calculations of Rubidium under Pressure (UNLV Library 2001)

• Molecular-dynamics simulations of polymers in a solvent (UNLV Library 1998)

• Calculations of Phase Stability of Rubidium under Pressure (APS March Meeting 2001)

• Topological Effects on the Diffusion of Polymers in a Solvent (APS March Meeting 1998)

• GREAT Assistantship (Summer 2000)

• Calculation of Material Properties using Total Energy and Force Methods (Trieste, Italy 1999)

• Computer Modeling: Classical Molecular Dynamics, Quantum Molecular Dynamics, Quantum Monte Carlo, Parallelization Techniques, Visualization
• Programming Languages: C, IDL, Fortran 77/90, Unix Shell Scripting
• Computer Systems: x86, DEC Alpha, MIPS, T3E
• Operating Systems: Win9x, Linux, SCO Unix, IRIX
• Parallelization: MPI, SCSL, HP Fortran90
• WWW: HTML, Apache, BBS, Server side maintenence, server side scripting
• Micellaneous: Machining, Optics, Welding, Electronics, Networking, PC building and troubleshooting.

• TSM Los Alamos National Lab MCNP Development Team (April 2005-Current)
  

• Sr. Scientist Bechtel Nevada (Sept 2001 - March 2005)
  

• Post Doc UNLV Physics (May 2001-July 2001)
  

• Teaching Assistant UNLV (1996 - May 2001)
  Taught and coordinated some of the entry level undergraduate physics labs.

• Hardware Technician DPN (1997-1998)
  Provided both hardware and software support for clients.

• RMA Manager Blitz Computer (Summer 1996)
  Managed all warranty and defective returns of products.

• Lab Assistant University of Wyoming (1994-1995)
  Miscellaneous machining, optical, electrical and programming projects.