Dave Eargle Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

I am the creator and director of a Security Analytics track within the business school’s Masters of Business Analytics program. This track is a pioneering collaboration between the business and engineering schools.I teach upper-division undergraduate courses (including honors students), and graduate courses (including MBAs):# Information Security Management (undergraduate)- Exploration of human, organizational, and technical domains of information security management.- Self-created hands-on Google Cloud virtual machine labs to teach students to “think like attackers”# Information Security Management (graduate)- Compared to the undergraduate offering, this course’s lectures have a stronger focus on specific security behaviors that generate data amenable to machine learning – e.g., post mortem reports from Mandiant and the House Oversight Committee (Equifax, OPM)# Security Analytics- A projects-based class focused on applying machine learning to security-related data. Topics include malware classification (binomial and multinomial), modeling using mobile sensor data, network traffic parsing (PCAPS => netflows) and malicious IP, domain classification- A focus on using python-sklearn – on reading documentation and source code- Also a focus on “open data science” – on hosted Jupyter notebooks, on using Git and Github to store and share code projects. Also on sharing and programmatically consuming shared data.- Labs have students host models behind API endpoints (Flask app). Models are also deployed to AWS and GCP’s machine learning platforms.# Business Analytics- Descriptive: querying, and ETL/wrangling data with Alteryx- Predictive: supervised vs unsupervised machine learning algorithms- Used Alteryx and DataRobot AutoML- Covering topics such as association rules, k-means clusters, regressions, correlations, and text mining

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

While there, I taught classes on database management and information systems, and workshops on Excel.Database Management:- Taught relational database structures and data querying in MySQL and R to Juniors and Seniors from various departmentsIntroduction to Information Systems Management:- Full responsibility for a class of 60 undergraduate students from various departments of the University of Pittsburgh’s College of Business Administration.- Complete direction over course curriculum, policies, and syllabus.Microsoft Excel workshops for Katz Graduate students:- Taught four beginner-to-advanced-level Microsoft Excel workshops to part-time Katz MBA students

Wrote key parts of the introduction and theory sections for a research grant proposal entitled “Accountability through Justification: A New Approach to the Problem of Unauthorized Access of Information Systems,” which received an award of $19,704 in 2011. Member of the research team working on this project.Researched key theory behind and developed back-end web services for a field experiment studying entitled “Enhancing Password Security through Interactive Fear Appeals.” An extended version of this paper was published in Management Information Systems Quarterly.Reviewed various conference and peer reviewed journal paper submissions.Contributing member to a foundational study on gender differences in NeuroIS entitled “Neural Correlates of Gender Differences in Distinguishing Malware Warnings and Legitimate Websites: A NeuroIS Study”

Developed instructor interface portions of the BYU Learning Suite, a Learning Management System that has replaced Blackboard at Brigham Young University.Involved in front-end and back-end programming on two major projects used by faculty and students at BYU. One is an online syllabus builder, and the other is a university forum where teachers can conduct discussions with their students via text, video, or audio.

Ashburn, Virginia

Learned and practiced Digital Forensics using Paraben's state-of-the-art digital mobile forensics platform.Built a management console for a local law enforcement client, using .NET to capture login credentials for Mobile Device Seizure, one of Paraben's flagship products.Architected, designed, built, and managed the entirety of a new perpetual registration website for PFIC, the company’s annual forensics conference. Built backend using CakePHP and MySQL.Wrote programming scripts to improve forensic investigation and product manufacturing quality assurance, using Powershell and PHP.

Orem, Ut

Researched, proposed, and implemented a backup solution for the company’s office data.Installed and maintained VMware vSphere ESXi bare-metal virtualization system.Established Windows Active Directory domain also with integrated Linux AD clients.Configured parts of networking in the company’s new office location.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Information Systems And Technology Management

Dissertation: “Security Messages: Or, How I Learned to Stop Disregarding and Heed the Warning” - Two papers exploring whether integrating.

Master'S Degree, Management Information Systems, General

Activities and Societies: BYU Honors Program, Association of Information Systems - BYU ChapterMagna Cum Laude with University Honors