General
Stephen Mardson McQuay
www.mardson.com
stephen a_t mardson d-o_t com
work Phone: tbd
updated: January 6, 2009
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Skills
Mechanical Engineering-specific Skills:
  • Fluent/Gambit - Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • UGS/Siemens NX - Computer Aided Design
  • Matlab/Scilab - Mathematics packages
  • Emphasis in Thermal/Fluids - passion for heat management and designing systems for efficiency
Programing:
  • C/C++
  • Java
  • Fortran
  • MPI(C++/Fortran)
Scripting:
  • Perl
  • Python
  • bash
Personal Site:
  • www.mardson.com
  • HTML, PHP, mySQL - all original code (except the WordPress part)
Other:
  • Linux - over 2 years of administration and configuration.
  • Vim - Favorite IDE = Vim + make + gdb
  • Mac OSX - They're UNIX now
  • LaTeX - most written work in school in the past year has been done in LaTeX. Using LaTeX for Master's Thesis.
  • Windows - I suppose I should mention this too. I have used .net
Spoken Languages:
  • French - spoken with near-native proficiency
  • German - conversational
  • Portuguese - conversational
Professional Experience
Internship
Dec 2007 - Present. Going full-time end of April
Cluster Resources Inc., Provo UT
  • Professional Services - Perl and Python application development
Internship
May 2007 - Aug 2007
Pratt & Whitney East Hartford
  • Integrated in-house Fortran code into API
  • Worked with MPI-based API for large-scale multi-physics simulation
Research Assistant
Jan 2006 - Present
BYU Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Developing application: CFD integration and automation
  • Multi-physics Computational Fluid Dynamics integration
Co-op
Jan 2005 - Dec 2005
Pratt & Whitney East Hartford
  • Collaborated design changes on preliminary engines
  • Received Appreciation Awards from two different groups
  • Modeled parametric parts for a parametric jet engine
Pace Research Group
April 2004 - Dec 2004
BYU Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Experience with Fluent, Gambit and Altair HyperMesh
  • Created documentation that is currently used to train students
Teaching Assistant
Sept 2002 - Dec 2004
BYU Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Taught in-class presentations to over 50 students
  • Over 1000 hours of Parametric CAD Modeling
Teaching Assistant
Sept 2001 - Sept 2002
BYU Math and French Departments
  • Graded Assignments for Calculus
  • Graded Assignments for French
Volunteer Experience
Full-Time Volunteer
Sept 1999 - Sept 2001
Paris, France Mission
  • Appointed to acquire, maintain, and remit over 100 apartments in the Parisian area (Jan - June '01)
  • Designed and implemented a program to improve health and safety in volunteer apartments
  • Organized and Taught English Courses to French natives
Education
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
April 2008
Brigham Young University
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Dec 2006
Brigham Young University
  • Member of Tau Beta Pi - Engineering Honors Society
  • Tuition Scholastic Scholarship Fall 1998-Winter 2003
references available upon request