Sharp, Tom:
Dr. Sharp is co-founder and a principal of Sheet Dynamics, Ltd. He has 15 years industrial and academic experience in product development, quality control systems, system dynamics and control applications. This experience includes leading R&D efforts to develop commercial instrumentation, medical diagnostic devices, and data terminals. Dr. Sharp has developed state-of-the-art manufacturing quality control systems and linear and non-linear control system designs.
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Shelley, Stuart:
Dr. Shelley is co-founder and a principal of Sheet Dynamics, Ltd. Dr. Shelley has conducted research and consulting in the area of testing, modeling, control and design of dynamic systems for 15 years. This work has encompassed applications in machine tools, paper processing, sheet steel coating and rolling, rotating equipment in many process industries, aircraft, space structures, civil structures, tracked and wheeled vehicles, process instrumentation, and others. Dr. Shelley was involved with the University of Cincinnati, Structural Dynamics Research Laboratory (UC-SDRL) for 14 years as a graduate student, Post Doctoral Researcher, and Research Assistant Professor. He has consulted with 40 national and international companies and government organizations and has conducted sponsored research for numerous corporations and funding agencies.
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Burwinkel, Allan:
Allan joined SDL as a co-op in 2003 and started as a full-time technical associate in 2006. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2006. He has a broad range of experience including software and both electronic and mechanical hardware. He has worked in the development of a high speed research press, distributed parallel processing techniques and DSP programming. Allan's areas of interest include mechatronic systems, control systems, embedded systems, and signal processing.

Liggett, Uriah:
Uriah has been a consultant with SDL since June 2006 and received his B.S. in Computer Science in 2003. His involvement with SDL includes the development of NDE tools for defect detection and tracking. He has also been influential in the development of the radar processing toolset. Uriah has a diverse software development background that includes web application, image processing, and desktop application development. His interests include object oriented design, game development, physics, design patterns, and motorcycles.

Moore, Kenneth:
Dr. Moore joined SDL in March 1999 as a senior engineer, and has a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He recently served as the principal investigator on a Phase I NASA SBIR to develop analysis techniques and software to simulate multiple tether satellite (MTS) systems. Previously he was a NASA Graduate Student Research Fellow in Computational Science, where he developed a unique interdisciplinary background in dynamics, control systems and in fluid mechanics, while performing basic research on a method for developing control-oriented linear models from a one-dimensional, supersonic inlet flow simulation.
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Nolan, Adam:
Dr. Nolan joined SDL in April 2003. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to joining, he was a contractor with SDL, working on optimal scheduling of Simulink algorithms onto distributed architectures. He also spent 3 years developing web based software for LexisNexis. While working at SAIC he was the principal investigator on several research initiatives focusing on electromagnetic simulation of radar signatures and target identification. Dr. Nolan’s areas of technical interest include parallel digital signal processing, target recognition, software design, data mining, and computer vision.
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Rensing, Matthew:
Matthew has been with SDL since 1998, in a co-op and part time position for five years and full time as a technical associate starting in 2003. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2002 with a focus on Systems Engineering. He has a range of experience, most notably in the DSP programming arena. Matthew has participated in the development of DSPdeveloper and in numerous consulting and SBIR contracts.

Roth, Richard:
Richard Roth joined the SDL team in 2002 as a technical associate, and has since gained a masters of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Cincinnati. Richard has led and assisted in a number of projects at SDL including the development of a high speed research press, the design and implementation of a multi-channel high speed analog I/O board (SPCHA) and the development of tools to aid NDE inspections. Richards's interests include embedded systems, algorithm development, controls, and mechatronic systems.

Walrath, Jeffrey:
Dr. Walrath joined SDL in November 2006. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati . He currently works on improving and optimizing image processing algorithms and radar data analysis algorithms. Prior to joining SDL, he worked for Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. developing human-to-human and machine-to-human collaboration tools and techniques for the warfighter utilizing advanced web and java technologies coupled with disadvantaged devices such as PDAs, cell phones and other hand held computers. Prior to that he worked at EDAptive Computing and was principal investigator on several SBIRs including topics for FPGAs and design partitioning across multi-FPGA hardware systems. Dr. Walrath's areas of technical interests included parallel computing, reconfigurable computing, digital hardware design, compiler optimizations, modeling & simulation techniques, and symbolic evaluation of functional programming languages.

Nees, James:
James B. Nees, has over 22 years of active duty USAF service in Department of Defense and Department of Energy research, development and testing of gas turbine engines, munitions, anti-armor weapons, Measurement and Signature Analysis Intelligence (MASINT) and B-2 Stealth performance. His Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering (with emphasis on chemical kinetics, thermal sciences, and 3-D dynamics) facilitate special knowledge of:

• All-source and special-access research, analysis, and reporting
• Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT)
• Maintenance, operation, and stealth attributes of the B-2 Stealth Bomber
• Domestic turbine engine design, development, and production
• Foreign and domestic nuclear weapon R&D, design, and production
• Domestic shaped charge and kinetic energy anti-armor R&D and design

James works to identify and grow good relations with researchers and program managers in the Air Force Research Laboratory and related organizations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Hall, Katie:
Katie Hall joined the SDL team in 2000 as a business associate. She works on financial planning and reporting, accounting, marketing and contract management. Prior to joining SDL, she worked in the financial services industry and the field of education. Katie earned both her Bachelor degree and her Masters degree from Miami University.

Almassalkhi, Mads:
Coming soon!

Direnzi, Chris:
Chris is a coop engineer who joined SDL in the winter of 2007. He is a University of Cincinnati student working on his bachelors in electrical engineering and masters in computer engineering in the ACCEND program. In his free time, Chris enjoys flying airplanes, skiing, and disc jockeying.

Larsen, Chris:
Coming Soon!

Peters, Gavin :
Gavin has been a co-op engineer with SDL since June 2006 and is currently working on his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (Class of 2008). His main involvement has been in image processing for the NDE project as well as tool and software development for the radar SBIR contracts.

Roll, Jim:
Coming soon!