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P. Nigel BrownTechnical Skills

Projects

Employment

Transfer-to-Excellence Research Experience for Undergraduates Intern at the University of California, Berkeley - Completed Electrical Engineering research in the field of nanoelectronics measuring the anomalous Hall effect in Gadolinium Cobalt nanomagnetic dots for use in computer memory systems. Presented research at SACNAS 2017 - The National Diversity in STEM Conference.

Media Assistant and Advisor - Assisted with day-to-day operation of client social media accounts and technical support. Provided in-person or remote assistance with client events & industry trade shows. Created overview documents for new process implementation. Helped create press releases and manage client data for their website development.

Record and mix talent in studios, in live venues, on film sets, and in Post Production. Highlights include graduating valedictorian of Sound Arts program at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. Contributed to a Grammy winning album as a recording and editing engineer. Touring with bands and working in live sound from local shows to international tours. Second engineer for Converse Fader Fort 2016 live stream whose artists included Drake, Anderson .Paak, and Kasey Musgraves.

Contact Info and Work Sampleswww.pnigelbrown.com/github

www.pnigelbrown.com/linkedin

Data Labeling Summer Intern - Helped train a deep neural network for autonomous vehicles in NVIDIA’s automated driver assistance system (ADAS) project.

Languages: Python, C++, LaTeX, Node.jsLibraries | SDKs | Technologies: PyQt, pandas, Watson Developer Cloud, SDL2, Boost, Anaconda, Jupyter

Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Windows 10, Ubuntu Linux 16.04

•Designed a tool for streaming sites to use to help prevent people from committing suicide on a live stream•Utilized IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence to turn speech to text and analyze the text for emotions•App flags content and sends the streamer crisis resources when server-side mood conditions are met•Awarded Best Use of IBM Watson at SiliconHacks 2017 by IBM

SafetyNet:[Node.js]

•Prototyped a proof of concept for an app that gives a user custom encouragement from friends when needed•Used a Typeform survey to collect responses and retrieved them at runtime via Typeform API•Integrated a custom GUI with PyQt

Positivity Box:[Python]

•Built a game to efficiently guess a user’s number•Gathered a dataset by posting an online survey to choose an integer from 1-100 •Achieved efficiency by performing a binary search on number’s probability to be chosen•Final Project for Data Structures and Algorithms class

Number Guesser:[C++]

http://bit.ly/2x14EmQ

•Organized and ran the first student-led hackathon at Laney College in conjunction with Major League Hacking•Selected altruism as hackathon theme and inspired numerous projects dedicated to its ideals•Taught workshops for first-time hackers•Secured sponsorship to provide snacks and prizes to encourage attendees to keep hacking after the event

Local Hack Day:

Education

Mathematics and Computer Science Associate of Science in progress. Estimated completion Spring 2018. Preparing to transfer to Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Bachelor of Science. Estimated completion 2020.

Laney College

Publications and Presentations

P. Nigel Brown, Amal El-Ghazaly, Ph.D., Daisy O’Mahoney, Jeffrey Bokor, Ph.D. Poster Presentation at 2017 SACNAS – The National Diversity in STEM Conference http://bit.ly/2yCupNK

P. Nigel Brown 135th Audio Engineering Society Convention Paperhttp://bit.ly/2n3pGQK

“Measuring the anomalous Hall effect on GdCo Nanodots”

“Perception Testing - Spatial Acuity”

University of California, Berkeley | Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science June 2017 - August 2017

Duration Consulting December 2015 - September 2017

Freelance Sound Engineer January 2011 - Present

NVIDIA June 2016 - August 2016