Jason Modisette's Resume

Jason Modisette
jpmodisette:AT:gmail:DOT:com

Technical skills

experience with various optimization algorithms: simulated annealing, linear programming, dynamic programming

experience with other numerical algorithms: various PDE and ODE solution techniques, including wavelet-basis PDE solution

experience with computational fluid dynamics applied to petroleum and natural gas pipeline networks

Languages: C, 13 years; C++, 6 years; FORTRAN, 8 years; Java, 7 years

Operating systems: UNIX, 13 years (mostly Linux, AIX, SunOS, and Solaris), including 3 years system administration, Various Windows versions

Software packages: Mathematica, Matlab (w/ Simulink)

Oct 2004 - Present: Chief Scientist of ATMOS International, Limited

Jan 2002 - Sept 2004: Technical Director of Energy Solutions International, Inc.

designed and implemented the simulation engine for the PipelineStudio 2.5 offline gas model (Java)
designed an accurate leak location algorithm for the PipelineManager online model (Pascal)
designed and implemented a liquid batched pipeline operational optimizer (C++)

Jan 1998 - Dec 2001: Project Manager/Product Manager/Developer at Energy Solutions International, Inc.

managed a $900,000 software development of improved modelling and optimization features for my pipeline network model. Directing a group of 5 engineers and programmers (including 2 PhDs), using CVS for code management
designed and implemented a fast petroleum pipeline network model (C++)
designed and implemented a system for optimizing the use of breakout tankage in petroleum pipelines (C++)
designed an algorithm (based on linear programming) for automatically optimally tuning a pipeline leak detection system
designed and implemented, as part of a team of two, a multi-user Java graphical user interface (GUI) using the SwingSet package

Oct 1997 - Dec 1997: Physicist at Modisette Associates, Inc.

designed and implemented a dynamic-programming pump & DRA optimization system for an existing pipeline model (FORTRAN 77)

Oct 1992 - Oct 1997: Research Assistant at Rice University

designed and implemented a numerical solution of Schrodinger's equation in a sparse wavelet basis (C)
designed and implemented some aspects of a density functional theory solver for modeling multi-electron molecules in a wavelet basis, which is several orders of magnitude faster than the widely-used Fourier bases (C)
designed and implemented a density functional theory solver for spherically symmetric atoms including statistical ensembles (C)

designed and implemented a prototype for a system to optimize pipeline batch schedules using simulated annealing (C)

wrote a fractal terrain generator with an OpenGL rendering interface

B.S. in Physics w/ Honors from California Institute of Technology, 1992

M.S. in Physics from Rice University, 1995

Ph.D. in Physics from Rice University, 1997

Best Paper Aware, PSIG 2004

Best Paper Award, PSIG 2001

Schlumberger Fellowship, 1994

Robert B. Chuoke Award, June 1994

Robert B. Chuoke Award, June 1993

Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Summer 1991