Stephen McFadden
Software Engineer and advocate in Maryland, Texas, California, Washington State
Stephen Andrew McFadden was born "a child of the Manhattan Project" in Southeastern Washington State near the AEC/DOE Hanford nuclear fuels reservation.
Stephen A. McFadden won science awards including first in Washington State and top 40 nationally in the Westinghouse / Intel / Regeneron Science Talent Search and attending twice the International Science and Engineering Fair.
After High School, Stephen A. McFadden worked as a summer student at Westinghouse Hanford in a nondestructive testing group for Hanford's Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) nuclear reactor, and on the High Performance Fuels Laboratory (HPFL) group doing preliminary design of a Mixed Oxide (MOX) nuclear fuel fabrication line.
Stephen A. McFadden earned a BS degree in Physics from Seattle University with nationally competitive internships as a Northwest College and University Association for Science (NORCUS) student at Westinghouse Hanford and as an Undergraduate Research Participation Program (URPP) participant at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
Stephen A. McFadden earned a MS degree in Computer Science through the University of California, Davis Department of Applied Science (DAS) in Livermore, CA, known to its students as "Teller Tech" after the department's founder, Dr. Edward Teller--better known as the "Father of the H-Bomb", then the principal architect of the Reagan Administration's "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). At the time, Stephen A. McFadden was a Student Employee in the Biomedical Division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) working on computers running the Unix operating system. He later completed a year of graduate business courses at Seattle University.
Stephen A. McFadden's technical interests include open source software, the Linux/Unix operating system, and virtualization.
Stephen A. McFadden is author of a peer reviewed scientific paper on sensitive human subpopulations, cited as: McFadden SA.: Phenotypic variation in xenobiotic metabolism and adverse environmental response: focus on sulfur-dependent detoxification pathways. Toxicology 1996 Jul 17;111(1-3):43-65. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8711748
During the nearly three decades since the Cold War, Stephen A. McFadden has been a public interest advocate on numerous health, safety, and environmental issues of national significance, including on pesticide policy, indoor air quality, chemical weapons incinerator safety, Gulf War health effects, and other toxics issues.