Associate Professor of Instruction
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Education
- DSc - Information Systems and Communications - Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA
- Dissertation: How Music by Humming, a Music Information Retrieval System, is being used in the music education classroom.
- Extra concentration in educational pedagogy.
- M.S. - Higher Education Administration - Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA
- Concentration: Governance and Accreditation
- M.S. - Communications/CIS - Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA
- Thesis: Multicultural learning Perception within the Information Systems classroom
- Concentration: Multimedia Systems; Multicultural Communications
- B.S. - Music - Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion PA
- Concentration: Saxophone, with a minor in Voice and Clarinet
- B.A. - Computer & Information Science (CIS)- Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
Professional and Continuing Educational Background
- Extra Graduate work completed at NYU in Media Ecology with Neil Postman
- CISCO CyberOps Associate
- Certification in Mobile Forensics & Security, Completed 15 July, 2016 through an NSF grant
- AS 400 Systems Training
- CISCO CCNA Routing and Switching training.
- Cryptocurrency
Research Interests
- Cybersecurity
- cyberwarfare and espionage
- cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies
- financial data systems
- veteran education
- the use of technologies in music education and healthcare technologies
Bio
Brian is an active speaker throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania in cybersecurity, cyberwarfare/espionage and veteran education.