BWare's resume
Brent Ware
1027 E. Claremont St.
Pasadena, CA 91104
(818) 486-5973
- Education:
- Ph.D Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, December 1995
- MSEE, The University of Texas at Arlington, December 1988
- BSEE, Texas Tech University, May 1984
- Experience:
- Senior Engineer, Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratories (JPL),
August 2002 - present
- Terrestrial Planet Finder Interferometer Architecture Team
- Modeling Lead, TPF-I
- Observatory Simulation Lead, TPF-I
- Planetary Signal Extraction Science Working Group Lead, TPF-I
- Laser Interferometry Space Antenna, modeling, design, and lab.
- Consultant/Author, Onsight, Inc.
November 2001-continuing
- Author of a well-received open-source web development book
- Web programming
- Scientist, Mission Research Corporation - Los Angeles,
February 2000 - November 2001
- Laser remote sensing.
- Linux system administration.
- Scientist/Engineer, Terabeam Networks,
February 1999 - January 2000
- Gigabit optical and electronic telecommunications systems
research, development, and design.
- Linux system administration.
- Web-based online documentation systems administrator.
- Post-Doctoral Scholar, California Institute of
Technology (Caltech), Laser Interferometer Gravitational
Observatory (LIGO),
July 1996-February 1999
- Design, modeling, simulation, and implementation of the LIGO non-linear
MIMO lock acquisition control system.
- Operation of the Caltech 40m prototype interferometer.
- Implementation of the data acquisition system for the 40m.
- Analysis of 40m data, development of analysis tools.
- Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics,
UT-Austin, January 1991-May 1996
- Experiment E871 at Brookhaven National Laboratory - A search for
rare kaon decays, currently the most sensitive HEP experiment
in the world. Designed and supervised production of 300
dual-output amplified photomultiplier tube bases for the
electromagnetic calorimeter. Analyzed radiation damage in the
calorimeter. Measured and analyzed neutral particle flux from an
integral beam stop. Tested and analyzed muon interactions in the
calorimeter for use as calibration. Assisted in many aspects of
the experimental upgrade from E791 to E871. Advisor - Jack Ritchie (UT)
- BNL E888 - A search for the H dibaryon (thesis topic). Analyzed
data for evidence of the H. Rebuilt damaged multiwire drift
chambers. Modified experimental setup and electronics for H
search. Advisors - Jack Ritchie and Alan Schwartz (Princeton)
- Both experiments involved fast analog and digital electronics,
pattern recognition and statistical analysis, detector physics,
data taking, and data analysis. I was the on-site expert for the
calorimeter and drift chambers and their associated electronics
during data-taking.
- Research Scientist Assistant, Applied Research
Laboratories, UT-Austin, October 1988-January 1991
- Design and development of two analog/digital and digital/analog
(D/A) converter circuits for high resolution sonars (12 bit, 1
MHz), including printed circuit board (PCB) layout and FPGA and
PAL programming.
- Design, test, and purchase of real-time mass storage system for a
high resolution dual sonar system.
- Selection and purchase of computers and software for CAD/CAE and
code development.
- Design and development of low-power interface cards for portable
data gathering systems.
- Electrical Engineer, Corporate Research, Recognition
Equipment, Inc., Dallas, June 1984-August 1988
- Design and development of two high-speed (30 MHz), high-resolution
CCD cameras for imaging and optical character recognition (OCR).
These projects included optical design, mixed analog and digital
circuit design, analog/digital (A/D) conversion, and digital
signal processing (DSP).
- Design and development of a state-of-the-art OCR system for
high-speed automatic postal letter sorting. This included
digital and analog design; programmable logic (PAL), specification
and testing of custom digital/analog integrated circuits; design,
simulation, and testing of analog semi-custom integrated circuits
(ASIC).
- Design of pattern recognition algorithms using DSPs for Federal
Reserve currency verification.
- Design and development of a software neural network simulator.
- Evaluation and purchase of computer aided design and engineering
(CAD/CAE) systems for analog simulation, schematic capture,
digital signal processing, and image processing.
- Wrote SCSI driver for one of the first writeable optical drives.
- Research in neural computing, adaptive signal processing, pattern
recognition, and image processing.
- Software Experience:
- Operating systems: Linux, Unix, X Windows, Solaris, VMS, VM/CMS, others.
- Languages: C, Perl, HTML, FORTRAN, Pascal, assembly, REXX, LaTeX, others.
- Applications: OrCAD, PADS, Zemax, Matlab, VxWorks, EPICS, Cadence,
PAW, Labview, various CAD/CAE programs.
- Systems: Wintel, Sun, IBM RS6000 and 3090, DEC VAXen and
PDP-11, Mac, Apollo, Alliant, Intel, CDC 1604 and 6600, Cray.
Awards:
Dean's List, Texas Tech University
President's List, Texas Tech University
Outstanding Contribution Award, Recognition Equipment
Publications:
- An Analysis of a Nonlinear Neural Network, UT-Arlington Masters
Thesis, August 1988.
- Search for the Presence of H Particles in a Neutral Beam, BNL
E888 Collaboration, M. May, et al., Nucl. Phys. A585 (1995)
97c-102c.
- Search for Diffractive Dissociation of a Long-lived H Dibaryon,
BNL E888 Collaboration, J. Belz, et al.,
Phys. Rev. D53:3487-3491, 1996
- Search for Weak Decays of a Long-Lived H Dibaryon, BNL E888
Collaboration, J. Belz, et al.,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 76:3277-3280, 1996.
hep-ex/9603002
- Addendum to "Search for Weak Decays of a Long-Lived H
Dibaryon", BNL E888 Collaboration, J. Belz, et al.,
Phys. Rev. D 56:1164, 1997.
- All Strange and Terrible Events: A Search for the H Dibaryon,
UT-Austin Ph.D Thesis, December 1995.
Gzipped Postscript
- Search for the Weak Decay of an H Dibaryon, B. Ware for the BNL
E888 Collaboration, presented at DPF 96, Minneapolis, MN, August
10-15, 1996.
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Postscript
- Plans for 40m Data Acquisition and Analysis, B. Ware, presented
at the Second Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Orsay,
France, November 15, 1997.
- A Compact Beam Stop for a Rare Kaon Decay Experiment,
BNL E871 Collaboration, J. Belz, et al.,
submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth.
hep-ex/9808037
- First Observation of the Rare Decay Mode
KL0 --> e+e-,
BNL E871 Collaboration, D. Ambrose, et al.,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81:4309-4312, 1998,
hep-ex/9810007.
"...by far the smallest non-zero branching fraction yet measured in
particle physics."
Internal Memos:
- Advanced Research in Character Recognition, REI report to United
States Postal Service, September 1984.
- Analysis of the Liquid Scintillator Data Taken During E871, S. Worm,
et al., KL-339, August 1991.
- Measurements of Neutron and Photon Flux from the Beam Plug,
G. Hoffmann, et al., KL-337, September 1991.
- Bonner Spheres/BUNKI and He-3 Counter Measurements, B. Ware,
et al., KL-338, September 1991.
- Measurements of Photons from the Beam Plug, J. McDonough, et al.,
KL-340, September 1991.
- Measurements of Charged Particle Flux from the Beam Plug,
J. McDonough, et al., KL-341, September 1991.
- Estimates of E871 Drift Chamber Rates from the Texas Detector
Measurements, G. Hoffmann, et al., KL-345, September 1991.
- Radiation Damage in the Lead Glass and Implications for E871, KL-368,
December 1991.
- E888 H-Decay Pass 1 & 2 Production, KL-452H, August 1994.
- E888 H-Decay Normalization, KL-459H, May 1995.
- Performance of the E871 Lead Glass Electromagnetic Calorimeter,
KL-490, May 1996.
- Effects of Sampling Rate on the Effective Bandwidth of LIGO and the
40m, 1997.
- Lock Acquisition Design, LIGO-T-980066, 1998.
- Length Sensing Control System Final Design Review, LIGO-T-980068,
T-980069, July 1998.
© Brent Ware
Last modified: Wed 26 Aug 2005