Wilfredo Blanco

Work: (850) 644-7039
310 - 01 Pennell Circle
Tallahassee, FL 32310

blanco@scs.fsu.edu
http://www.scs.fsu.edu/~blanco/

Education

Publications
Wilfredo Blanco and Joaquim Teixeira de Assis,
"System of visualization and analysis of tomography images: Apply on ceramic filters",
CISCI - Conferencia Iberoamericana en Sistemas, Cibernética e Informática, July 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Features: Master degree thesis on implementation of Tomographic System.
- Image processing.
- Segmentation.
- Volume Rendering.

[pdf] David C. Banks and Wilfredo Blanco,
"InvIncrements: Incremental Software to Support Simulation",
Visualization and Data Analysis 2006, SPIE Vol. 6060, 60600I (Jan. 16, 2006) San Jose, California, USA.

[pdf] Marcel Egli, Richard Bertram, Natalia Toporikova, Michael T. Sellix, Wilfredo Blanco, and Marc E. Freeman,
"Prolactin secretory rhythm of mated rats induced by a single injection of oxytocin",
American Jornal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism 290:566-572, 2006. doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00427.2005

Qualifications
- Experience in the design, analysis, development and maintenance for system using Visual C++, Visual Basic and Access
- Expertise with concepts of object-oriented design and development in large-scale software projects.
- Programming experience on Windows and Linux.
- Great ability developing Computer Graphic Systems.
- Work well in team environment as well as autonomously.
- Willing to learn new skills and technologies.

Work Experience

- Analysis, design and development of Morphbank
- UML schema and documentation of the Database
- Developing using CSS, HTML, PHP, MySql, JavaScript and Java
- Batch uploading of the Database
- Images shape analysis

Research Assistant
2002-2004

C++ Programming. 3D Rendering.
- OpenGL and Cg Shading Language (vertex and pixel shading) - link
- GPU for general computing - link
- Open Inventor programmer - link
- Volume Rendering threading - link
- Volume data improvement pipeline - link

Visualization.
Variety of scientific visualizations using Amira, including brain, neurons, fire simulation, wind turbine tower, for use in research papers, posters and a magazine

Versatility.
Managed an undergraduate student assistant and students taking graphics classes.

GUI programmer
2000-2001
Tecgraf (naval project),
PUC-RIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Part-time VC++ and LUA programmer to develop visual interfaces (IUP, CD, IM, MFC) to PREA Software.

Teacher Assistant
1999-2001
IPRJ-UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Tcl-Tk language for undergraduate students.

Software developer
1994-1998
Copextel S.A., Havana, Cuba

- Designer and analyst of Financial Systems (Access 9x and VB)
- Analysis and installation of Real World Corporation Visual Accounting Software.
- Hardware/Software support.
- Built computers.
- Creation/maintenance of Networks.
- Teaching of Microsoft Windows 9x and Microsoft Office 9x.

Teacher Assistant
1989-1994
ISPJAE, Havana, Cuba

- Teaching Assistant of Turbo Pascal 5.5.
- Clipper 5x programmer, System to control sales and services for hotels.
- Clipper 5x programmer, System of tourist auditions for hotels.
- Clipper 5x programmer, System of Production control of vaccines for Finlay Institute.

Conferences
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, CA

Technical Skills
Programming C, VC++, VB, Delphi, Pascal, Tcl-Tk, Camel and Lua
Graphics OpenGL, GLUT, Open Inventor, Cg (C for graphics) GPU language
GUI Programming IUP, QT, Motif and MFC
Web Programming CSS, HTML, ASP, VB-Script, JavaScript, PHP
Installed OS Red Hat Linux 8.0, 9.0 and Windows (3.1/95/98/ME/XP)
Built Systems AMD386/32, Intel Pentium 100@400, Pentium4 2.4GHz
Others
Speaks Spanish and Portuguese

References
Dr. David C. Banks
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Florida State University
(850)644-0183
banks@cs.fsu.edu
Dr. Yousuff Hussaini
TMC Eminent Scholar Chair
Computational Science & Engineering
Florida State University
(850)644-0601
myh@scs.fsu.edu

Dr. Marcelo Gattass
Head of the Computer Graphics Laboratory
Tecgraf/PUC-RIO
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(55)(21) 2512-5984
mgattass@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
Dr. Joaquim Texeira de Assis
Professor
UERJ/IPRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(55)(24) 2522-9052
joaquim@iprj.uerj.br