It's Brent

EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Computer Systems Technology — December 2008

Louisiana State University In Shreveport

Bachelors of Science – Computer Science — May 2007

Louisiana State University In Shreveport

AWARDS

Apple Computer WWDC Student Scholarship Recipient

2007, 2008

Distinguished Achievement in Scientific Research

Annual Student Research Symposium
2005, 2006, 2007

Northwest LA PC Users Group Scholarship

2006

Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship

2004, 2005

WORK EXPERIENCE

Metro Aviation

(merged from Cyber Technology Group)
August 2014 – Present
Software Developer

Continued work developing applications to read and analyze flight data. Developed algorithms to process flight data to determine phase of flight and discover flight events related to pilot or mechanical errors.

Lead continued development on a mobile application for first responders in the field to communicate with their dispatch center in order to reduce flight response times by sending detailed location reports. Created custom SSL backed messaging system to handle text messages, GPS updates, and pictures. Developed SMS backend to handle new messages in situations where first responders are found in areas with low cell receiption where data is limited or non-existent.


Cyber Technology Group

(now part of Metro Aviation)
December 2009 – August 2014
Software Consultant

Worked with a variety of clients ranging from companies with single digit employees into the hundreds. Developed and designed a wide range of products: web apps to replace manual labor tasks, iPad apps to replace paper forms, an iPad app to serve as an interactive manual complete with photo galleries and videos.

Developed an application suite that reads in proprietary flight data to graph and analyze the data in a meaningful manner. Created a data conversion utility to convert proprietary data to ARINC 717 and ARINC 767, along with ARINC 647 definition documents. Helped in the process of getting Supplemental Type Certificates (STC) from the FAA for Eurocopter EC-130, EC-135, EC-145, EC-155, AS350, and Bell 407 aircraft.


Louisiana State University in Shreveport

January 2011 - May 2012
Adjunct Professor

See below for list of classes taught.


Bowman Systems

December 2008 – November 2009
Software Engineer

A software engineer on the latest generation of their flagship product ServicePoint. Developed and designed database tables, database functions, and front-end development. Worked closely with design department to integrate mockups and to implement full site redesign in the middle of the development cycle.


Laboratory for Advanced Biomedical Informations

August 2004 – August 2008
Software Engineer

Worked as an all around developer with many projects in the Biomedical industry. Created a MIAME compliant web app for the storage of Microarray information using PHP and MySQL. Developed a web app for researchers to easily build regular expressions to search mRNA data samples for patterns with graphing output using gnuplot.

Designed and developed an interactive cross platform visualization suite, created both 2D and 3D visualizations with functionality to help discover patterns. Developed and integrated several custom UI widgets such as range sliders and scroll wheels.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Louisiana State University in Shreveport

  • CSC 490 / 690 - Mobile Development for Android (Spring 2012)
  • CSC 450 / 650 – Computer Graphics (Fall 2011)
  • CSC 490 / 690 – Mobile Development for iOS and Android (Summer 2011)
  • CSC 468 / 668 – Data Mining (Spring 2011)

PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, POSTERS

Neural Network Enhanced Visualization of High Dimensional Gene Expression Data

2009 Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Annual Meeting
Mentee: Marjan Trutschl
Co-Authors: Evan Boswell, Brent Nycum and John Cannon

Microsuite: Microarray Warehousing and Analysis System

2009 Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Annual Meeting
Phillip Kilgore, Paula Polk, Rona Scott, Brent Nycum and William Cannon

Neural Network Enhanced Visualization of High-Dimensional Data

National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) 2008

Introduction to Platform Independent Information Visualisation Programming

IEEE Visualization Conference 2008
Marjan Trutschl, Urska Cvek, John Cannon, and Brent Nycum

Neural Network Enhanced Visualization of High­ Dimensional Biomedical Data

Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 2008
Marjan Trutschl, Urska Cvek, John Cannon, Brent Nycum, Rona Scott, Z. Syed, John Clifford, Randolph Stone

Neural Network Enhanced Visualization of High­ Dimensional Data in a Discovery Platform

2008 Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Annual Meeting
John Cannon, Brent Nycum, Marjan Trutschl, Urska Cvek

μSafe Microarray Warehousing and Data Mining System

2006 Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Annual Meeting
William Cannon, Brent Nycum, Phillip Kilgore, Marjan Trutschl, Urska Cvek, Rona Scott, Paula Polk