PATRICK D. CAVANAGH

pdcavanagh@yahoo.com | www.patrickcavanagh.com | LinkedIn

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Geology
2021, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

B.S. Computer Engineering with Distinction
2012, Purdue University (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN, Minors: Mathematics, Computer Science

EXPERIENCE

The Walt Disney Company / Disney Cruise Line, Celebration, FL

• Lead Software Developer - November 2022–present

• Senior Software Developer (Contract) - May 2022–November 2022

Newfields, Indianapolis, IN

• Software Developer (Contract) - February 2022–May 2022

• Manager of Technology Development and Implementation / Software Developer - April 2017–February 2022

• Software Developer - May 2017–April 2019

  • Lead developer for the DiscoverNewfields.org website (CMS: concrete5, PHP, Javascript, CSS, HTML, MySQL)
  • Creating museum gallery interactives (web stack, C#, openFrameworks, openCV)
  • Linux server maintenance locally and on AWS (OS: Ubuntu LTS)
  • Revision control: Git

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

• Research Assistant and PhD Fellow - August 2013–December 2021

  • Developed linear programming models of Mars samples from the Mars Curiosity rover (MSL)
  • Numerical models written in Python (NumPy, SciPy, and PuLP)
  • Developed Python UI using PyQt 4
  • Participated in Mission Operations on MSL/CheMin team (Sequencing instrument telecommands and telemetry analysis)
  • Revision control: Git

Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX

• Engineer - July 2012–August 2013

  • Developed embedded C builds of spacecraft flight software for the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument for ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission
  • Maintained and extended Real-time operating system (RTOS)
  • Implemented CCSDS packet transfer protocol via SpaceWire
  • Implemented CCSDS standards for lossless/lossy compression
  • Science data processing and mechanism control systems
  • Unit testing and integration
  • Python and Perl software to visualize data products for ground support equipment
  • Revision control: Mercurial

Personal Software Development Projects

• Developed client and server-side software for personal websites, web apps, and volunteer work
• JavaScript (Node.js, React, Angular), CSS3/Sass, HTML5 and various frameworks
• Cloud-computing apps deployed on Heroku
• Knowledgeable of relational databases (SQL) and MongoDB
• Experience consuming REST APIs

Undergraduate Software Development Projects

• Analyzed planetary hyperspectral images using ENVI/IDL software
• Developed MATLAB image compression routines
• 3D medical image segmentation using C++ and parallel programming framework OpenCL