CV

Education

• BS in Computer Science, Texas State University, 2006
• MS in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2008
• PhD in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2010

Work experience

• 2015 - Present: First Principle Innovators
  • Chief Architect
• 2018 - 2022: The University of West Florida
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• 1996 - 2017: US Navy/Navy Reserve
  • Submarine warfare, Navy diver (SCUBA), and Information Dominance Warfare Officer qualified
  • Retired LT

Publications

Minimum-sum Dipolar Spanning Tree for Points in R³

Finding segments and triangles spanned by points in R³

Finding a Minimum-Sum Dipolar Spanning Tree in R³

Finding segments and triangles spanned by points in R³

Visiting a Sequence of Points with a Bevel-Tip Needle

Minimum Separating Circle for Bichromatic Points in the Plane

Minimum-sum Dipolar Spanning Tree in R³

Nifty Assignments

Nick Parlante, Julie Zelenski, Adrian A. de Freitas, Troy B. Weingart, Keith Schwarz, Ben Stephenson, Steven Bitner: Nifty Assignments. SIGCSE 2021: 1240-1241

Utilizing Test Driven Development in a Data Structures Course

The Efficacy of Mask Mandates in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Student Persistence in the Use of Test Driven Development

Talks

Fighting Organizational Inertia

March 20, 2020

Conference presentation at SICSE Technical Symposium 2020, Portland, OR

Utilizing Test-Driven Development in a Data Structures Course

July 23, 2021

Conference presentation at FECC 2021, Las Vegas, NV

Git and GitHub

September 14, 2021

Lecture and Workshop at The University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida

Teaching

Advanced Database Systems

Capstone Systems Project

Intermediate Computer Programming - Java

Computer Science Project

Software Engineering Foundations - Java Programming

Data Structures and Algorithms I

Advanced Algorithms