Dave McDaniel

Dave concentrates on operational and technology platform development for BrightSpec, including algorithm development, information architecture, and mechanical engineering and design. Before co-founding BrightSpec, Dave spent nearly a decade in key roles at early stage companies in medical devices, distributed power generation, finance, and web applications development. Dave has extensive experience in virtual product design and optimization through computer-aided-engineering utilizing CAD, finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). He has also served in experiment design and manufacturing roles for viscoelastic material characterizations used in vehicle crash worthiness design, precision manufacturing and metrology work in a clean room environment for assembly of metal-ceramic alloys. Dave was introduced to large data sets and numerical methods as part of the Computational Group at UVa’s Center for Applied Biomechanics. BS in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia.