DMU-50 - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Leadership Team
- Managing Partner, Engineering for Applied
Adrian Jensen, MBA, PE, is Managing Partner, Engineering for Applied CAx and Director of Engineering at Predictive Engineering. With 10+ years of experience, Adrian specializes in all things Simcenter Femap: geometry modeling, meshing, analysis, post-processing, and programming with the Femap API.
Adrian studied mechanical engineering at Oregon State University and puts his background to use at Predictive Engineering as a simulation engineer. His curriculum vitae includes stress, vibration, flow, and heat transfer analysis for a variety of applications such as mining equipment, submersibles, electronics, gearboxes/transmissions, wind turbines, large facility HVAC, offshore structures, and ASME pressure vessels.
With the experience gained and lessons learned in these real-world applications, Adrian leads the Simcenter Femap and Simcenter Nastran training and tech support team. Working in collaboration with George Laird, Adrian develops and presents training workshops, online seminars, video tutorials, and productivity enhancing automation programs for Femap. If you call in for help with your FEA problems, you will most likely be talking to Adrian.
Job Titles:
- Senior Account Executive for Applied
Bill Zanke is a Senior Account Executive for Applied. He can help coordinate your support, onboarding information, and software to help you get the best out of your engineering tools.
George Laird, Phd, PE, is the author of over 40 publications on wear, fracture mechanics, and finite element analysis, and the "Abrasion-Resistant Cast Iron Handbook."
Dr. Laird has 16+ years of industrial LS-DYNA / Femap / CFD experience, with his doctorate in engineering mechanics (fracture and fatigue). His scientific research focused on structure property relationships for composite materials, ceramics and ferrous/non-ferrous materials.
Other FEA specialization include: seismic analysis of large vessels per ASCE 4-98 and ASME Section VIII, Div. 2 requirements, turbine burst containment, drop-test analysis, composite analysis (stress and thermal) and transient-dynamic stress analysis, elastic-plastic analysis of plastics, elastomers, and foam materials and general analysis of a wide range of consumer, automotive, aviation and medical products. His expertise in LS-DYNA has led to several publications and his short course "LS-DYNA Analysis for Structural Mechanics" is given every year. Case studies on LS-DYNA, FEA, and CFD service can be found at PredictiveEngineering.com.
Since the acquisition of CD-adapco by Siemens PLM Software in early 2016, Dr. Laird has added STAR-CCM to his arsenal of CFD tools.
His team of engineers at Predictive Engineering bring together expertise on materials, mechanics, and a deep understanding of structures whether under fluid or thermal loading (CFD consulting services) or due to impact or crash (LS-DYNA consulting services) or general FEA for vibration, seismic or stress (FEA consulting services) to help their clients build better structures.
Jamie Griffis is a seasoned Teamcenter Architect with a history of working in the mechanical and industrial engineering and aerospace industry. Her speciality is Teamcenter implementations and upgrades, data migrations, and CAD Integrations (mainly SolidEdge but also SolidWorks). She is deeply familiar with infrastructure architecture for new Teamcenter implementations and CAD integrations. She was CAD manager for 8+ years implementing and managing 2D/3D CAD and Teamcenter in multiple international sites and migrating all legacy engineering data to a Teamcenter database.
In addition, she has implemented upgrades and updates of Teamcenter, Solid Edge, and AutoCAD Mechanical while providing user support and troubleshooting, writing procedures, establishing workflows, as well as process and conventions for design, drafting, and data management. She oversaw the training of engineering, document control, project management, and production control departments on Teamcenter and Solid Edge; control of standard part creation and documentation; and control of CAD operation manuals and documentation.
Job Titles:
- Director of Sales
- Managing Partner
- Leadership Team
Taylor Saul is our Managing Partner, Sales. His primary focus is on PLM development & implementation with our Teamcenter customers. Taylor has worked with multiple Aerospace and Defense companies to align Teamcenter with their program needs. Taylor has also worked with Tier-1 international automotive suppliers as well as international engineer-to-order manufacturers.
In addition to Teamcenter, Taylor has participated in and led multiple onsite audits of manufacturing processes to improve workflows, best practices, standardization, and modern use of NX.
A native Portlander, in his free time Taylor enjoys surfing, skiing and mountain biking.