Nathaniel P. Wilkerson

Quillen 10D Escondido Village
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 497-5161
 

OBJECTIVE:          To obtain permanent or part time employment in a mechanical engineering related field that
                                  will provide practical insight and compliment my graduate research at Stanford University.

EDUCATION:     ¨ B.S. from Brigham Young University, 1990-1991, 1993-1998
                                  Major: Mechanical Engineering
                                  Minors: Math, Japanese
                                  (GPA=3.77)

                              ¨ High School Diploma, 1990
                                  Caledonia Senior Secondary, Terrace B.C. Canada
                                  (GPA=3.97)

WORK                 ¨ Construction Laborer, August 1995-January 1997
EXPERIENCE:        Part time employment with Boswell and Elder Construction.

                              ¨ Assistant Engineer, July 1996-January 1997
                                 Designing and troubleshooting of production lines for the
                                  manufacturing of cabinets and showcases at Jahabow Industries.

                       ¨ Linguist and Culture Specialist, December 1995-Present
                                   One weekend a month commitment with the Utah National
                                   Guard as Japanese interpreter and translator (97L)

                       ¨ Engineer's Assistant, October 1994-February 1995
                                   Temporary position at US Synthetic streamlining new and
                                   existing production machines and their related processes.

SKILLS:              ¨ Speak fluent Japanese, read and write over 75% of the Joyo Kanji
                       ¨ Extensive training in translation of written documents as well as
                                  the spoken word in Japanese through the Utah National Guard
                       ¨ Experience in programming both Turbo Pascal and C++
                       ¨ Familiar with MSDOS, UNIX, and Windows based systems
                       ¨ Experience with AutoCad 13 and AutoCad 14 and other large
                                  CAD/CAM applications (i.e.  Working Model , ProE, LabView ...)

ACHIEVEMENTS:   ¨ Dean’s Doctoral Diversity Fellowship-Stanford, 1998-2000
                                    ¨ Academic Scholarship-BYU, 1993-1995, 1996-1998
                                    ¨ Army Commendation Award for academic excellence, April 1996
                                    ¨ Served a two year mission for the LDS church in Japan, 1991-1993
                                    ¨ National Dean's List, 1990-1991
                                    ¨ Freshman Physics Award-BYU, 1990-1991

PERSONAL:         ¨ Participation in the ASME Student Chapters at BYU
                                ¨ Enjoy gymnastics, mountain climbing, and  weightlifting
                                ¨ Married September 2, 1995 to Cynthia J. Adams

REFERENCES:     ¨ Clayborne Elder, Springville, Utah 84663 (801)-489-9279
                                 ¨ Walter L. Ames, Provo, Utah 84604 (801)-375-0401
                                 ¨ Carl O. Ekman, Terrace, B.C. Canada (604)-378-1001