Software Engineer

Derek McQuay

*** * *** * *** *** • Provo, Utah **606

801-***-**** cell • ***********@*****.***

Education: Major: Computer Engineering; Minor: Computer Science

Brigham Young University

Expected April 2015

Skills: C, Assembly, C++, Java, Python, Go, VHDL, Verilog, Patent

Prosecution

Job-Specific Skills: • C/C++

º Machine-level representations of programs and data,

processor architecture, program performance optimization,

memory hierarchies, virtual memory, linking, and

exceptions

• Java

º Advanced software development with an object-oriented

focus. Development and testing of several 1500 to 2000

line modules from formal specifications.

• Python

º BYU CS course work and personal projects

• Linux

º Linux personal OS for over 8 years

• SQL

º Experience with MySQL and SQLite

• Operating Systems

º BYU ECEn 425 Real Time and Embedded Systems:

Designed and implemented a kernel in C

• Multi-threaded programming

º BYU CS 484 Parallel Processing using OMP, Pthreads,

MPI, and CUDA

• Computer Security

º BYU CS 465 Computer Security

• Image Processing

º BYU ECEn 490 Robot Soccer vision and state estimation

using OpenCV

• Version Control

º Experience with both Git and Mercurial

Please visit derek.mcquay.me/resume for a more complete list of

experience and projects

Experience: Fulton Supercomputing Laboratory 08/13 to present

• Applications Specialist

º Work with faculty and research students to configure,

install, and optimize software

º Comfortable in Linux development environment (bash,

vi, etc.)

º Comfortable building software from source (configure,

makefile, compiler optimizations, etc.)

Patent Portfolio Builders, PLLC 05/13 to 08/13, 05/14 to 08/14

• Intern

º Worked on patent prosecution

º Drafted and filed 2 patent applications

º Worked closely with and interviewed inventors for patent

applications

º Phone interviews with PTO patent examiners

º Worked on and filed over 20 Office Action responses

(Amendments) to the PTO

Languages: Portuguese - native proficiency

French - full professional proficiency

German - professional working proficiency

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