Mihai Pruna’s Resume

Developing software for Engineering, Science and Manufacturing companies:

• Developed software to automatically generate CAD models suitable for manufacturing.
• Automated CAD workflows using scripts.
• Developed Graphical User Interfaces for manipulating CAD models.
• Developed visualization software for Engineering simulation results.
• Developed training materials for software development and for CAD use.
• Developed Project Management software.

Taught graduate courses in Computer Simulation and Modeling

• Developed parametric and iterative CAD automation software based on the CAPRI middleware.
• Developed software that simplifies OpenFOAM® CFD case generation, launching and post processing.
• Developed cloud based distributed simulation solutions using CAPRI for unified CAD access, Amazon Cloud for hosting, PHP and MySQL for scalability management and usage tracking.
• Created pre-sales marketing materials such as web pages, presentations and videos.
•  Wrote and reviewed papers on the Engineering design-simulation-optimization cycle.

• Developed add-on applications for CAD software packages such as AutoCAD and Revit in C# and Visual Basic under Microsoft .NET.
• Automated Engineering spreadsheets, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and Word Documents through Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros.
• Automated the generation of structural and CAD models in CATIA using VBA and computational geometry techniques.
• Integrated between various CAD, fabrication and structural modeling software packages by developing custom translator programs.
• Programmatically data-mined static and dynamic structural analysis results from text and binary files.
• Developed .NET applications to transfer data between databases using Microsoft SQL Server.
• Evaluated CFD software packages for potential use in the AEC industry.

• Reviewed and presented papers in Multi-Phase Flow.
• Wrote numerical methods codes.
• Developed boiling simulation software based on Microsoft Excel and OpenFOAM.

Areas of Concentration: Aerodynamics and Propulsion

• Led a team of peers on an assignment to solve supersonic viscous airflow over a flat plate numerically by developing a CFD code and wrote 2D/3D, steady and unsteady panel codes.
• Led a team of undergraduate students designing a centrifugal turbojet engine.
• Developed genetic algorithms to solve optimization problems.

• Tested airfoils and aircraft models in wind tunnels in the Experimental Aerodynamics Lab course.
• Tested various specimens for yield, failure, cracks and hardness in the Materials and Structures & Instrumentation labs.
• Participated in the preliminary design of a light aircraft and lead a team designing the fuselage of a business jet, using Catia for design and FEA.

Computer Science focused program with four hours of programming theory and four hours of computer lab work every week.

• Developed database management software
• Developed file manager software
• Developed 3D game