Stephen West Resume

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo UT, April 2008

Experience

Bluehost, technical support 4/2011 - present

BYU Mars Rover Team 9/2007 - 6/2010

Designed and built a remote operated simulation rover with multi-discipline engineering team
Programed embedded Linux devices to interface with a variety of sensors and actuators
Competed in three University Rover Challenges

BYU ECEn Department Research Assistant 1/2008 - 12/2009

Programmed applications on the Ambric device (a 336 core parallel processor) to show comparisons between Ambric and existing FPGA designs

BYU EE Senior Project 1/2008 - 4/2008

Programmed a quadroter to achieve stable flight over a target by using a camera to detect positions of LEDs
Programed a Kalman filter based on a Linux platform that combined measurements from different processors in order to calculate the positional data of the quadroter

BYU Teaching Assistant 9/2007 - 12/2007

Instructed students in FPGA circuit design written in VHDL for the Advanced Digital Design class

BYU Broadcasting, web development 8/2004 - 12/2007

Maintained a dynamic corporate intranet to support HR, underwriting, finance, TV and Radio Programming
Developed external programming supported websites using HTML, ASP, SQL and JavaScript
Shepherded the computer hardware resources and provided IT support for the company

Skills

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Interests

Robotics, Strategy Games, Model Airplanes, Photography

Publications

B. Hutchings, B. Nelson, S. West, and R. Curtis. Optical Flow on the Ambric Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA). FCCM. April 2009

B. Hutchings, B. Nelson, S. West, and R. Curtis. Comparing Fine-Grained Performance on the Ambric MPPA against an FPGA. FPL. August 2009