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Dr. Mahesh Turaga, Technical Lead, Aerospace & Defense Industry, Dassault Systèmes
Mahesh Turaga is the Technical Lead for the Aerospace & Defense Industry sales team for the SIMULIA brand and is responsible for technical sales for SIMULIA's North American aerospace customers. He also manages the SIMULIA on-site consulting team at Boeing. Prior to his current role, Mahesh managed a global on-site team at Procter & Gamble and his team was involved in methodology development, collaborative development and the simulation of various manufacturing processes. Mahesh has been with Dassault Systèmes for the last 11 years and has worked with customers in solving various simulation challenges involving Abaqus, Isight and SLM in the aerospace and consumer products industries. Mahesh holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University and is pursuing an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Steve Partridge, Senior Customer Solutions Specialist, PTC
Steve Partridge is a Senior Customer Solutions Specialist at PTC. In this role he works with clients to understand, design, and implement processes that address the complexities of systems engineering and their supply chain. Previously at MKS he was a Requirements Management Product Manager. Steve studied computer science at Sheridan College in Canada.
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Craig A. Brown, PLM Leader, Global Engineering Systems Development & PLM, General Motors
Craig Brown has 35 years of experience in systems engineering, both in the automotive and aerospace industries. He manages engineering and IT teams developing tools to improve product engineering. These teams have received patents, engineering awards, and ROIs. Craig received GM’s Boss Kettering Award in 2003, using OnStar to monitor and report Vehicle Diagnostics. The acquisition of knowledge applied across product portfolios is key to the next wave of Product Lifecycle Management. Craig was appointed the GM PLM Leader in September 2012.
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Dave Conover has over 30 years of experience in mechanical CAE software development with ANSYS, Inc. During his career at ANSYS, he as been involved in the development of elements, nonlinear material models, solution strategies, and solvers. He also architected the FEA solver code in use today and led the efforts to embrace distributed memory parallelism within it. Dave has also managed the development group and in his current position as Chief Technologist, he leads the R&D initiatives concerning mechanical applications at ANSYS.
Dave has a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Paul Caito, Director of the CAE Center of Excellence, Siemens PLM Software
As Director of the CAE Center of Excellence, Siemens PLM Software, Paul Caito is responsible for the technical support of the Siemens suite of CAE products including NX CAE and Teamcenter for Simulation. Paul has over 30 years of experience in the field of computer-aided engineering across multiple disciplines including aerospace, automotive, heavy equipment, and consumer products. He joined SDRC as Project Engineer in 1983 and has held multiple positions at SDRC, EDS, UGS, and Siemens relating to the development, application, and deployment of CAE tools, workflow development, and process improvement.
Paul graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and holds a master's degree In Structural Engineering. He is active in the promotion of STEM initiatives in education.
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David Long, President, INCOSE
A committed member of the worldwide systems community, David Long is the 2014/2015 President of INCOSE. David has served INCOSE since 1997 including a term as the Washington Metropolitan Area chapter president and international roles including Member Board Chair, Director for Communications, and Director for Strategy. He is a frequent presenter at industry events worldwide delivering keynotes and tutorials spanning introductory systems engineering, the advanced application of model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and the future of systems engineering. In 2006, David received the prestigious INCOSE Founders Award in recognition of his many contributions to the organization.
For over twenty years, David has focused on enabling, applying, and advancing MBSE to help transform the state of the systems engineering practice. David is the founder and president of Vitech Corporation where he developed and commercialized CORE®, a leading systems engineering software environment used around the world. Throughout his career, David has played a key technical and management role in refining and extending systems engineering to expand the analysis and communication toolkit available to systems practitioners. His experiences and efforts led him to co-author the book A Primer for Model-Based Systems Engineering to help spread the fundamental concepts of this key approach to modern challenges. He continues to lead the Vitech team as they deliver innovative, industry-leading solutions to help organizations develop and deploy next-generation systems.
David holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics, as well as a master's degree in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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Ravi S. Desai, Director, CAE & CAD Product Engineering, American Axle & Manufacturing
Ravi S. Desai is the Director for CAE & CAD Product Engineering at American Axle & Manufacturing. He is based in the AAM World Headquarters Detroit office. He is responsible for the implementation and the execution of analysis and design processes in product engineering. He is leading the corporate efforts to integrate new simulation technology in the area of manufacturing and assembly.
Previous to this assignment, Ravi worked at General Motors in various capacities, including CAE Engineer, NVH Technical Lead Engineer, Test & Development Engineer, Planning Manager, and Vehicle Integration CAE Director. He started his career at Engineering Technology Associates in 1984 and later worked at Altair Engineering as a Senior Project Engineer.
Ravi has nearly 30 years of automotive CAE, Product Development, and Program Management experience working with various automotive suppliers. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from I.I.T, Chennai, India and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Wayne State University, USA.
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Greg Gorman, Director, Rational Systems Product Management Product Management & Design, IBM Rational
At IBM Greg Gorman leads both the strategy and development of Rational's product development platform, which is designed to address the needs of Systems Engineers and Embedded Software Developers based on industry best practices and leading products Rational DOORS, Rational Rhapsody, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager. Greg joined IBM through the Telelogic acquisition in 2008, where he served in several positions ranging from field engineer to sales executive to Vice President of Product Management over his 25 year history. Prior to joining Telelogic, Greg was with McDonnell-Douglas and then Honeywell Air Transport, where he led a software and systems team creating crew station displays for fighter aircraft and commercial jetliners. Greg earned a bachelor's of science degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Missouri and is an Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) Certified Product Manager.
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Jon Quigley, Director of Multiphysics, Altair Engineering
Jon Quigley is the director of multiphysics at Altair. Prior to this role, he was responsible for the program direction of HyperWorks® products that apply to modeling complex systems, including MotionView®, MotionSolve®, HyperStudy®, and ScriptView™. His over 25 years of experience in the computer-aided engineering software industry includes time spent at Ford developing custom applications in the vehicle dynamics domain.Jon rejoined Altair in 2000 as the program manager for MotionView, going on to become director of systems modeling. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, both from the University of Michigan.
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Dan Turk, Principal Systems Engineer, Honda R&D North America
Dan Turk is a Principal Systems Engineer at Honda R&D North America. During his 20 year career at Honda Dan has held a variety of positions including; design engineer for the Power Equipment Division and systems engineer for CAE software and hardware. In his current position he is manager of the IT Department for CAE, Computer-Aided Testing, and Model-Based Systems Engineering.
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