Cloud CAE Engineer

Matt Lycke

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Professional Summary

Eight years of product management, customer support, and consulting experience with desktop and SaaS CAE applications.

Two years of immersion in the Cloud Based Engineering Simulation space, nurturing a brand new browser based platform

and developing strategic partnerships.

Over four years of management/supervisory experience, including interviewing and hiring.

Domestic and international full time employment and on-site support experience.

Proven hard and efficient work ethic with a results oriented track record for both startups and larger corporations.

Professional Experience

Director of Applications, Ciespace, Inc. (Cloud Based Engineering Simulation Startup)

Santa Clara, CA, September 2012 – Present

Working with strategic partners to implement 3rd party CAE applications on an existing cloud platform.

Gathering product specifications from clients, translating them to development, and testing implementation.

Presenting and demonstrating novel cloud based end-to-end CAE application to potential partners and clients.

Managing off shore engineering group to provide quality assurance of the product.

Sole individual responsible for customer satisfaction, training, and support.

Manager, Engineering Services, CD-adapco

Bellevue, WA, August 2011 – September 2012

Managed a group of eleven engineering consultants in the Washington and California offices.

Created budgets, allocated man-power and computer resources, and invoiced for approximately 30 CFD projects a month.

Developing a market with three new major clients while growing existing business.

Invoiced over $1.7 million in the last six months, a 44% increase over the previous six.

Supervisor, Engineering Services, CD-adapco

Melville, NY, September 2010 – July 2011

Supervised as many as four engineers at a time, each working on separate CFD projects.

Created a Statement of Work and schedule for each project and ensured deadlines were met.

Performed a scalability study to increase the efficiency of simulating engineering problems on a large number of processors

Lead Engineer, Engineering Services, CD-adapco

Melville, NY, September 2008 – August 2010

Lead the addition of a Thermal Comfort Model to flagship code (STAR-CCM+). This involved benchmarking to accepted

results and developing best practices.

Traveled to client (Daimler, Sindelfingen Germany) to meet with the manufacturing group and assisted them in their

transition to STAR-CCM+.

Implemented an Automatic Vehicle Aerodynamic Simulation methodology at Daimler. Trained users on best practices and

adapted standard procedure to meet their needs.

Senior Engineer, Engineering Services, CD-adapco

Melville, NY, October 2006 – September 2008

Created computation meshes for numerical analysis.

Applied initial and boundary conditions specified by the client.

Analyzed and post processed results of CFD simulations.

Education

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2005

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, 2003

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