Dr. Paul Zarda is an Orlando based professional serving as the Manager of the Engineering Methods Group at Lockheed Martin Group. In 1980, he acquired MSC/NASTRAN for structural analysis on the IBM 3084 system. Until this time, Martin Orlando was using in-house structural analysis codes that were 10-15 years old, unsupported and poorly documented. This significantly changed the way structural analysis was to be performed over the next 19 years. In direct contrast to this until 1990, Lockheed Martin Denver had continued their use of in-house codes at a significant reduction in productivity and capability.
Thereafter, in the year 1982, Dr. Zarda acquired SUPERTAB, a pre- and post- processor, on the IBM 3084. This significantly increased the productivity of all analysts at Martin. This software has been the workhorse for all analysis software that is geometry driven, and its longevity (Master Series, now available on the workstations) has proven its worth.
In addition, Dr. Paul Zarda participated in the solicitation and acquisition of the 1st VAX 11/780 that was acquired by Martin. He was instrumental in moving the engineering analyst from IBM TSO to this system. He was responsible for the acquisition of MSC/NASTRAN, SDRC's SUPERTAB, and the solid modeler GEOMOD for the VAX system. It is estimated that this move probably affected engineering analysis productivity by a factor of 10. Today the CAE analysis software, I-DEAS, NASTRAN, PATRAN, FEM/SINDA, etc., represent over 50 percent of the TCC's usage.
Dr. Paul Zarda solicited and helped in acquiring a suitable communication link between our IBM 3090 systems and VAX systems so the analyst could have some alternatives in performing his job. This resulted in the acquisition of INTERLINK, a software/ hardware communication package that finally coupled our IBM and VAX worlds. This took place despite significant resistance by Martin Marietta Data Systems. This software/hardware is the foundation today between our IBM and DEC mainframes and our
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