Obituary for David F. Fellinger
David F. Fellinger, aged 75, passed away on June 3, 2023, after suffering a traumatic cardiac arrest. David is survived by his wife Christine Winschel Fellinger and his mother, aged 99, Caroline Fellinger.
David was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Carnegie Mellon University. David and Christine were married in 1972 and immediately headed for California, arriving in Woodland Hills to begin a long career.
Dave had over three decades of engineering and research experience including film systems, video processing devices, ASIC design and development, GaAs semiconductor manufacture, RAID and storage systems, and file systems.He has been awarded patents in video processing, pattern recognition, motion control, data manipulation, and file systems.
Dave worked as Chief Scientist of DataDirect Networks, Inc., where he focused on building an intellectual property portfolio and represented the company to conferences with a storage focus worldwide. Dave was a Data Scientist with the iRODS Consortium. In this role he worked with users in research sites to assure that the functions and features of iRODS enable fully automated data management through data ingestion, security, maintenance, and distribution. Dave also served on the External Advisory Board of the DataNet Federation Consortium and was a member of the founding board of the iRODS Consortium.
In his retirement Dave enjoyed cooking and worldwide travel. He never gave up his love of technology.
Services will be held at Church of the Epiphany, 5450 Churchwood Drive, Oak Park, CA 91377, on June 8, 2023, 11:00 a.m.
If you would like to honor David’s memory, donations can be made to: American Heart Association, 800-242-8721, https://www.heart.org or The Church of the Epiphany, www.tcote.org
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