General
Stephen Mardson McQuay
mail: stephen at this domain
personal sites: mcquay.me / mardson.com
Google Voice Number: 801.609.8665
last updated: May 2011
Education
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2006 - Passed Defense July 5th, 2011; walking in December
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
Skills
Programming:
Open source
  • Projects started by me:
    • masters research -- implementation of an N-th-order approximate, general, 2- and 3-D, distributed interpolation scheme.
    • smbezier -- a python implementation of Bezier and NURBS code.
  • Other projects:
    • blender -- I am currently (early 2011) researching the feasibility and utility of adding Dyn/Zorin Butterfly interpolation as an alternative option for surface subdivision
Mechanical Engineering-specific Skills:
  • OpenFOAM - Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluent/Gambit - Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • UGS/Siemens NX - Computer Aided Design
  • Octave, Scilab, and Matlab - Mathematics packages
  • Emphasis in Thermal/Fluids - passion for heat management and designing systems for efficiency
Other:
  • Linux - administration, configuration, and general hacking since early 2006
  • Vim - Favorite IDE = Vim + scons + gdb
  • LaTeX - most written work in school in the past few years has been done in LaTeX. Using LaTeX for Master's Thesis.
  • blender -- 3D modeling, rendering, and simple animation. Familiar with Blender's python API
Spoken Languages:
  • French - spoken with near-native proficiency
  • German - conversational
  • Portuguese - conversational
Professional Experience
Software Engineer
June 2011 - Present
Fusion-io, SLC UT
  • Django/Python development
Professional Services Engineer
Dec 2007 - May 2011
Adaptive Computing Enterprises (formerly Cluster Resources), Provo UT
  • Professional Services - Python application development
  • Presales - assisting sales team in answering and explaining technical aspects of our products.
  • System Integration
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
  • Application Development: 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 for students, used in ME 412
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
references available upon request