Martin Cuma's Resume

	MARTIN CUMA Center for High Performance Computing University of Utah Salt Lake City, Ut. 84112 USA WWW: http://www.chpc.utah.edu/~mcuma/index.html
Date and place of birth	November 3, 1970, Boskovice, Czech Republic
EDUCATION
1989 - 1994	Technical University of Mining and Metallurgy *Ostrava, Czech Republic* MSc., Process Control in Metallurgy, June 1994
1994 - 1996	Southern Illinois University at Carbondale *Carbondale, Illinois* MSc. Equivalency, Physical Chemistry, August 1996
1996 - 1998	Southern Illinois University at Carbondale *Carbondale, Illinois* PhD., Physical Chemistry, August 1998
EXPERIENCE
May 1987	Chema Rajec, a.s. *Rajec-Jestrebi, Czech Republic* Part of the Professional Training at the High School Quality testing of the products, working in the packaging line.
May 1988	Lachema Blansko, a.s. *Blansko, Czech Republic* Part of the Professional Training at the High School Quality testing of the products, working in the packaging line.
July 1988 August 1989 August 1990	CKD Blansko, a.s. *Blansko, Czech Republic* Summer Vacation job Manual work in the foundry.
February 1990 to June 1990	Technical University of Mining and Metallurgy *Ostrava, Czech Republic* Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at the Dept. of Foreign Languages (English) Helping Canadian lectors to run English courses.
July 1992 to September 1992	Rustenburg Platinum Mines Pty. Ltd., Platinum Ore Concentrator Amandelbult *Rustenburg, South Africa* Summer Internship Optimization of the platinum ore enrichment process.
October 1992 to June 1993 October 1993 to December 1993	Technical University of Mining and Metallurgy *Ostrava, Czech Republic* Undergraduate Researcher at the Dept. of Ironmaking Use of Artificial Neural Networks for prediction of the cokemaking and blast furnace processes.
April 1993 to July 1994	Alfa Mikrosystemy s.r.o. *Ostrava, Czech Republic* System Developer Development of two software simulation packages in C++ language under MS Windows.
January 1995 to August 1998	Southern Illinois University at Carbondale *Carbondale, Illinois* Graduate Research Assistant Ab-initio calculations of excited state proton transfers and stability, structure,... of small B/N/C/Si clusters.
August 1998 to August 2000	University of Utah, Department of Chemistry *Salt Lake City, Utah* Postdoctoral fellow Molecular dynamics simulations of weak acid - water solutions and proton transfer in biochemical systems.
August 2000 to present	University of Utah, Center for High Performance Computing *Salt Lake City, Utah* Scientific applications programmer User programming support for the CHPC's supercomputers, development and parallelization of codes from various areas of science.
PUBLICATIONS
	1. S. Scheiner, M. Cuma - On the Relative of Hydrogen and Deuterium Bonds, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 1511-1521 2. S. Scheiner, M. Cuma - Influence of Isotopic Substitution on Strength of Hydrogen Bond, J. Phys. Org. Chem., 1997, 10, 383-395 3. M. Cuma, T. Kar, S. Scheiner - Excited State Intramolacular Proton Transfer in Anionic Analogues of Malonaldehyde, J. Phys. Chem. A, 1997, 101, 5901-5909 4. M. Cuma, C. Thompson, S. Scheiner - Effect of Nonproximate Atomic Substitution on Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer, J. Comp. Chem., 1998, 19, 129-138 5. T. Kar, M. Cuma, S. Scheiner - Structure, Stability and Bonding of BC₂N: Ab-initio Study, J. Phys. Chem. A, 1998, 102, 10134-10141 6. M. Cuma, S. Scheiner, T. Kar - Effect of Adjoining Aromatic Ring upon Excited State Proton Transfer. o-hydroxybenzaldehyde, Theochem, 1999, 467, 37-49 7. M. Cuma, S. Scheiner, T. Kar - Competition between Rotamerization and Proton Transfer in o-hydroxybenzaldehyde, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1998, 120, 10497-10503 8. T. Kar, S. Scheiner , M. Cuma - Comparison of Methods for Calculating the Properties of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds. Excited State Proton Transfer, J. Chem. Phys., 1999, 111, 849-857 9. M. Cuma , U. W. Schmitt, G. A. Voth - A Multi-State Empirical Valence Bond Model for Acid-Base Chemistry in Aqueous Solution , Chem. Phys., 2000, 258, 187-199 10. T. Kar, M. Cuma, S. Scheiner - Structure, Stability and Bonding of (BC2N)_n, n=2,3: Ab-initio Study, Theochem, 2000, 556, 275-281 11. M. Cuma , U. W. Schmitt, G. A. Voth - A Multi-State Empirical Valence Bond Model for Weak Acid Dissociation in Aqueous Solution , J. Phys. Chem. A, 2001, 105, 2814-2823 12. T. J. F. Day, A. V. Soudackov, M. Cuma , U. W. Schmitt, G. A. Voth - A Second Generation Multi-State Empirical Valence Bond Model for Proton Transport in Aqueous Systems, J. Chem. Phys, 2002, 107, 5839-5849 13. M. Huang, M. Cuma , F. Liu - Seeing the Atomic Orbital: First-Principles Study of the Effect of Tip Termination on Atomic Force Microscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2003, 90, 256101 13. M. Huang, M. Cuma, M. G. Lagally, F. Liu - Bending of nanoscale thin Si film by growth of Ge islands: Hut vs. Dome, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 2004, 791, Q6.4.1
AWARDS
June 1993	Best English Speaker Award, Technical University of Mining and Metallurgy Ostrava, Czech Republic
June 1994	Graduated with Honors, Technical University of Mining and Metallurgy Ostrava, Czech Republic
June 1997 - December 1997	Dissertation Research Award, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, Illinois
LANGUAGE SKILLS
	Czech - native speaker English - active, State Examination (1991, with honors), TOEFL (1992, score 610) Russian - active, High School Leaving Examination (1989, with honors) German - active
OTHER SKILLS
	Computer Platforms on user level: MS-DOS, MS Windows, Mac-OS, various UNIXes Computer Platforms on administrator level: MS Windows, Linux Programming Languages: C/C++ (DOS, Windows SDK, UNIX), Fortran, Pascal, xBase (FoxPro); deep knowledge of MPI and OpenMP standards and C/C++ and Fortran compilers Software: Microsoft products, FoxPro, dBase; active usage of software development tools such as debuggers and profilers

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